Britain's King Charles and Samoan Prime Minister Afioga Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, left, talk during the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Apia, Samoa, Friday. Rick Rycroft/AP hide caption
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference at BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024 Maxim Shipenkov/Pool EPA hide caption
Taiwanese soldiers stand guard during the 'Chen-Chiang" night time exercise, in Penghu, Taiwan, on Thursday. Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
A participant walks past waterfall poster at the Palais des congres during the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Quebec, on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Lars Hagberg / AFP) (Photo by LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images) LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a joint press conference with Poland's President Andrzej Duda (not seen in the photo) at the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool photo/AP hide caption
U.S. officials say North Korea has sent troops to Russia for training
A TV screen shows an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea stand in line to receive supplies from Russia during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption
Gisele Pelicot, who was allegedly drugged by her now former husband so that he and others could assault her, arrived at a courthouse, in Avignon, southern France, Oct. 16. Lewis Joly/AP hide caption
Smoke rises as emergency rescue teams and police officers attend to the scene of an attack outside Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. on the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday. IHA/AP hide caption
Garment workers in Bangladesh protest for better working conditions. Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in Ottawa, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Adrian Wyld/AP/The Canadian Press hide caption
The Navalny Family during rehab courtesy of Navalny Family Archive hide caption
Even in death, Alexei Navalny hasn't given up the fight against corruption in Russia
People watch a building collapse after being hit by an Israeli airstrike in Ghobeiri, Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption
Beirut's Sky Bar, once a bustling nightclub, now serves as a refuge for the displaced. On October 15, 2024, it sheltered 400 people, mostly women and children, in Beirut, Lebanon. Fadel Itani/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An aerial photograph from 2023 of the Rusayo camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of Congolese have found refuge around Goma after fleeing fighting further north. Two new reports document a 'staggering' increase in rapes over the past year. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A general view to the Kremlin towers and Ivan the Great cathedral in May 2024. U.S. intelligence officials say Russia was behind an attempt to spread baseless claims about Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Lee Hsien Yang (right) receives friends and family members paying their respects to the late Lee Kuan Yew during a private family wake at the Istana or Presidential Palace in Singapore, March 24, 2015. Wong Maye-E/AP hide caption
Dr. Stefan Khmil performs artificial insemination on a patient in his Clinic of Prof. Stefan Khmil in Ternopil, Ukraine, on July 12. Yurko Dyachyshyn for NPR hide caption
Ukrainians hold off on having babies during the war — some families buck the trend
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo attends a court session in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. Guadalupe Pardo/AP hide caption
People gather around the coffin of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez during a mass at the main plaza in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Monday. Isabel Mateos/AP hide caption
A Latvian choir, celebrating their victory in an international competition in Moldova, cheers in support of the European referendum near the Moldovan Parliament on Monday in Chișinău, Moldova. Pierre Crom/Getty Images hide caption
Moldova election is over shadowed by accusations of interference by Russia
An Air India airlines jet is pictured in September 2023 in Lido Beach, N.Y. The airline was one of many affected by hoax bomb threats over the past week. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images hide caption
People inspect the damage at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted a branch of the Al-Qard Al-Hassan finance group in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday. -/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Assessing the damage after Israel strikes Lebanese bank branches linked to Hezbollah
Flames and smoke rise form an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
Israel Targets Hezbollah Bank, DOJ Under Trump, Pennsylvania Voters
Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pa., in July 2016. Chris Post/AP hide caption