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Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her Vancouver home with a security detail to appear in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver in March. Don Mackinnon/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Jagmeet Singh, who heads the left-leaning New Democratic Party, was booted from the House of Commons for the day after calling Bloc Québécois politician Alain Therrien a racist on Wednesday. Therrien had opposed a motion to acknowledge systemic racism in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Don Mackinnon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Medical professionals escort a patient into the the COVID-19 ward at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital in New Delhi on June 15. Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption
Lloyd's of London and pub-chain Greene King said they'd donate to charities helping black and ethnic minorities. Research conducted by The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership highlighted compensation linked to slavery that founders of both companies received. Alastair Grant/AP hide caption
A Palestinian flag waves at the northern entrance to the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank as construction works take place in the Israeli settlement of Beit El in the background. Israel intends to annex West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley, as proposed by President Trump, with initial steps slated to begin July 1. Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Netanyahu Plans To Annex Parts Of The West Bank. Many Israeli Settlers Want It All
The Voice of America building, shown Monday, in Washington, D.C. VOA has increasingly been a target of the Trump administration. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Trump's New Foreign Broadcasting CEO Fires News Chiefs, Raising Fears Of Meddling
Philonise Floyd speaks via video to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, weeks after the killing of his brother George incited widespread protests against police brutality. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet looks on behind her face mask. Martial Trezzini/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Two children watch a national address by Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on Tuesday, during which he confirmed he tested positive for the coronavirus. Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A government employee in the Honduras unpacks some of the 8,000 COVID-19 diagnostic testing kits donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Organization for Migration. Orlando Sierra /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man watches a television screen showing a news program with video of the demolition of the inter-Korean liaison office building in Kaesong, North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station on Wednesday. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption
Several COVID-19 burials are performed in the Vila Formosa Cemetery on the east side of São Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. Brazil, which reported a large spike in cases on Monday, now ranks second after the U.S. for total infections and deaths. Fotoarena/Sipa USA via AP hide caption
Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand's director-general of health, pictured last week, said Tuesday that two women flying in from the U.K. via Australia had tested positive for the coronavirus and had been in isolation since their arrival. Marty Melville/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An image from a thermal observation device shows the explosion of an inter-Korean liaison office building in North Korea's Kaesong as seen from Paju, South Korea, on Tuesday. South Korea Defense Ministry/Yonhap via AP hide caption
An Indian army convoy moves along Srinagar-Leh national highway Monday at Gagangeer, in east Kashmir's Ganderbal district. Danish Ismail/Reuters hide caption
Travelers arrive Monday at the Athens Airport after Greece reopened for some international flights. Socrates Baltagiannis/picture alliance via Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, draped a Black Lives Matter banner on its building over the weekend "in solidarity with fellow Americans grieving and peacefully protesting to demand positive change." Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption
U.S. citizen Paul Whelan attends a sentencing hearing on Monday at the Moscow City Court on charges of espionage against Russia. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS via Getty Images hide caption
French President Emmanuel Macron, wearing a protective face mask, visits a Valeo auto parts factory in Etaples, in the north of France, late last month. Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa (left) talks with former Rappler reporter Reynaldo Santos Jr. during a news conference in Manila on Monday. Aaron Favila/AP hide caption