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Amin Nasser, president and chief executive officer of Saudi Aramco, speaks during the fourth edition of the Future Investment Initiative conference at the Ritz-Carlton hotel on Jan. 27, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Lloyd Austin, U.S. secretary of defense, visits the National Cemetery in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday. On his Asia tour, the defense chief made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Sunday. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
Health workers from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, share an emotional embrace with their peers from a hospital in Jilin province at the Tianhe Airport. Colleagues who worked on the front lines together bid farewell as Wuhan lifted its coronavirus lockdown in April. Amy Cheng/NPR hide caption
Wednesday
Pope Francis attends a interreligious ceremony for peace Tuesday in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
Pope Francis Calls For Same-Sex Civil Union Law In New Documentary
Friday
Then-Mexican Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos (right) with then-U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon in 2017. Cienfuegos was arrested Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Wednesday
Habeb al-Hamad Azab, a Syrian refugee, stands in front of his destroyed home in Beirut's Mar Mikhael neighborhood. Yasmina Hilal for NPR hide caption
Thursday
Fausto Russo, 38, has been in a hospital bed in Latina, Italy, for more than two weeks with COVID-19. Courtesy of Fausto Russo hide caption
Italian Fitness Coach With COVID-19: 'Feels Like Your Head Is Being Held Underwater'
Wednesday
Two privates walk on the mountain just outside the border post. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Thursday
People gather in support of pro-democracy protesters during a lunch break rally in the Kwun Tong area in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Hong Kong has been battered by months of mass rallies and violent clashes between police and protesters who are demanding direct popular elections of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory's government, as well as an investigation into alleged police brutality. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Iraqi youth watch the news about ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death, in Najaf, Iraq, on Sunday. Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters hide caption
Monday
Muguntuul Oyutan, 11, walks to school with her sister and friends in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Mongolia is the world's most sparsely populated nation, and an increasing proportion of its citizens reside in the capital. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Friday
U.S. soldiers direct traffic outside the residence of the Peruvian ambassador to Panama, right rear, in Panama City on Jan. 9, 1990. In December 1989, U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent thousands of troops to Panama to arrest the country's leader, Manuel Noriega. John Gaps/AP hide caption
Monday
Davi de Oliveira Moreira, known as "Sereio" (merman in Portuguese), poses in costume at Arpoador Rock on Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro last May. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Protesters demonstrate in Tehran on June 25. Iranian Labor News Agency via AP hide caption