A woman prepares traditional Mexican piñatas for sale at a market in Acolman, Mexico state in 2017. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Employees of Nomi Health check in a long line of people seeking COVID-19 tests Tuesday in North Miami, Fla. The omicron variant has unleashed a fresh round of fear and uncertainty for travelers, shoppers and partygoers across the U.S. Marta Lavandier/AP hide caption
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President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations on Tuesday in the State Dining Room of the White House. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
Syrian Kurd Bushra, who only gave her first name, poses for a photograph in Minsk, Belarus, in September. Bushra fled Syria when she saw no end to the risks of staying home. After a harrowing journey, she has made it to Germany. AP file photo hide caption
Mexican Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval, left, said there has been a huge shift by Mexican cartels away from naturally grown drugs like opium and marijuana, where seizures and crop eradication has fallen. Marco Ugarte/AP file photo hide caption
Residents stand amid damaged homes following Typhoon Rai in Talisay, Cebu province, central Philippines on Saturday. The strong typhoon engulfed villages in floods that trapped residents on roofs, toppled trees and knocked out power in southern and central island provinces, where more than 300,000 villagers had fled to safety before the onslaught, officials said. Jay Labra/AP hide caption
Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas cruise ship, seen docked in Miami in March 2020, saw 48 cases of COVID-19 on its most recent seven-day sailing. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
People queue outside the newly set up vaccination center at London's Wembley Stadium to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or booster on Sunday, as the booster rollout accelerates in England and case numbers spike. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A truck carrying Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin and Residente joins with thousands of other people as they call on Puerto Rican Gov. Rosselló to step down. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Afghan music students, teachers and their families disembark from their flight to Lisbon on Dec. 13. The group of more than 270 evacuees had been staying in Doha, awaiting resettlement in Portugal. Armando Franca/AP hide caption
Afghan music students escaped the Taliban and are beginning their new lives abroad
This combination of file photos shows tennis player Peng Shuai of China (L) during her women's singles first round match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne in January 2017; and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli (R) during a visit to Russia at the Saint Petersburg International Investment Forum in Saint Petersburg in 2015. Paul Crock/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In the third part of our series exploring crossover in pop music, we reexamine the so-called "Latin explosion" of the '90s: what it was supposed to be for audiences across the U.S., and what it actually came to represent. Blake Cale for NPR hide caption
People wait in line at a coronavirus testing site in Times Square in New York on Dec. 13. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi speaks at a news conference following the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Islamabad on Sunday. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Islamic countries are pledging to launch a humanitarian trust fund for Afghanistan
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam listens to reporters' questions during a news conference in Hong Kong on Monday. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption
Pilots from the American Volunteer Group sit in front of a P-40 airplane in Kunming, China, on March 27, 1942. The group was notable for its unusual mission: Its members were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. AP hide caption
Left to right: An illustration of the coronavirus, an illustration of the delta variant and a mural in India. Hanna Barczyk for NPR / Juan Gaertner/Science Source / Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption
Haitian migrants boarding buses in Tapachula. Their encampment has been plagued with a lack of water, food and sanitation. Richard Tsong-Taatarii for NPR hide caption
Indonesian villagers stand with Mount Semeru in the background on Saturday. Indonesian authorities raised the alert level for the highest volcano on Java island, saying it could blow up again after a sudden eruption earlier this month that killed dozens of people and left thousands homeless in villages that were buried in layers of mud. Hendra Permana/AP hide caption
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov outlined Moscow's demands for security guarantees excluding NATO's membership for Ukraine and other Russian neighbors and the deployments of weapons there. Thomas Peter/AP file photo hide caption