UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An independent U.N. investigator again took world nations to task Tuesday for not standing up to the U.S. over sanctions it imposed on her — penalties that complicated her ability to deliver in person her latest assessment of Israeli human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. Calling the sanctions “unlawful and spiteful,” Francesca Albanese told the General Assembly via video from South Africa that it “should already have confronted this dangerous precedent.” “