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
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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'
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Two privates walk on the mountain just outside the border post. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of sexual abuse by a Chilean predator priest, met with Pope Francis recently at the Vatican. Andres Kudacki/AP hide caption
'Pope Cannot Claim He Was Misinformed': Chilean Abuse Survivor After Vatican Meeting
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Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, left, and Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake confer as the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere examines attacks on American diplomats in Havana, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption