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Sunday

QUSRA, WEST BANK — Sisters, wives, mothers, and cousins of the village of Qusra gather to mourn their Palestinian loved ones killed by armed Israeli settlers just days after the Oct. 7th Hamas attack. Click here for the full story. Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR for NPR hide caption

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Friday

French Ambassador to the United Nations Nicolas de Rivière (center) and other representatives raise their hands in favor of a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza during a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Friday. The U.S. vetoed it. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

Monday

A harvester collects wheat in Ukraine, on Aug. 9, 2022. On Monday, Russia suspended its participation in a wartime deal brokered by the U.N. and Turkey that was designed to move food from Ukraine to parts of the world where millions are going hungry. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption

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Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Monday

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands in front of NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg prior to their meeting, on the eve of a NATO summit, in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday. Yves Herman/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a news conference ahead of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday. Russia's war in Ukraine will top the agenda when NATO leaders meet in the Lithuanian capital on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mindaugas Kulbis/AP hide caption

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Mindaugas Kulbis/AP

Monday

Monday

Members of the Wagner Group sit atop of a tank in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday. President Vladimir Putin said an armed mutiny by Wagner mercenaries was a "stab in the back" and that the group's chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had betrayed Russia. Prigozhin later called off his group's action and the Kremlin said he would go to Belarus. AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

Monday

In this image made from video provided by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on Sunday, a Ukrainian soldier poses for the camera with his finger to his lips. The video shows troops gesturing for silence suggesting that no formal announcement of a possible counteroffensive against Russia will be made. Text appears in the video saying: "Plans love silence. There will be no announcement of the start." Ukrainian Defense Ministry via AP hide caption

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Ukrainian Defense Ministry via AP

Friday

At Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, the royal family pose at Westminster Abbey in London on June 2, 1953. Universal History Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to a regional governor via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 21, 2022. The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Putin and his children's rights commissioner for possible war crimes. Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption

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Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Putin

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Monday

Brazil's Supreme Court building is seen through a broken window of the Planalto presidential building in Brasília on Monday, a day after supporters of Brazil's far-right ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro, invaded the Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court. Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Bolsonaro lays low in Florida as Brazil cracks down on riots by his supporters

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Wednesday

A street sign reads "Donetsk People Republic's Square" in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, after authorities renamed the address after a pro-Russian separatist region in Ukraine in June. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Russia and the U.S. engage in name-calling — over the U.S. Embassy's Moscow address

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Wednesday