Yemeni militiamen stand guard at the port in Mukalla, on the southern coast of Yemen. Many factions are involved in Yemen's civil war. The U.S. has supported Saudi Arabia, which has waged a bombing campaign against Houthi rebels. But the U.S. Congress is putting pressure on the Trump administration to end its support of a war that's widely seen as a stalemate and a humanitarian disaster. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption
French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a special address to the nation on Monday, his first public comments after four weeks of nationwide "yellow vest" (gilet jaune) protests. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Maria Butina has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors after she was charged with being an unregistered foreign agent. Her onetime mentor, Alexander Torshin (right), is reportedly retiring. Pavel Ptitsin/AP hide caption
A refugee transit center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, in a photo taken last year. Two class action lawsuits are seeking injunctions to transfer refugees held there to Australia and award damages to them. Aziz Abdul/AP hide caption
Roger the kangaroo gained fame for his muscular build. He died at 12 years old. Courtesy of The Kangaroo Sanctuary hide caption
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the new mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, speaks at the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. "For decades, there had been no structure, no focused thinking of a strategy for the city," she says. "The way my brain works is with plans. I have to have a to-do list." Riccardo Savi/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters disrupted a U.S. side event on the future importance of fossil fuels at the COP24 conference in Katowice, Poland, on Monday. Separately, U.S. negotiators are helping to write a rule book that will help countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Frank Jordans/AP hide caption
Pedestrians walk in front of a monitor showing an image of former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Monday in Tokyo, Japan. Ghosn, a veteran of the auto industry, was charged on Monday for financial misconduct after he was arrested in Tokyo last month on accusations he underreported his compensation to authorities. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images hide caption
The Union Jack flies above the Palace of Westminster, the seat of Parliament in London. U.K. lawmakers are expected to decide soon the fate of a draft Brexit deal negotiated between Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Yellow vest protesters face off against police in Paris on Saturday. Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
In this Sept. 1, 2015, file photo, a child waits in line at a migrant reception center in Brussels. Belgian migration minister Theo Francken said on Thursday he wants no part of a United Nations pact on safe and orderly migration, an international deal that has pushed Belgium's government to the brink of collapse. Virginia Mayo/AP hide caption
Eleanor Roosevelt holds up a copy of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in December 1948. Fotosearch/Getty Images hide caption
The chief financial officer of China's biggest telecom equipment maker has been detained in Canada. She faces extradition to the U.S. Huawei via AP hide caption
A Long March 3B rocket lifts off from China's Sichuan province early on Dec. 8, carrying a rover destined to land on the far side of the moon. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Susie Goodall on her boat DHL Starlight on July 1 at the start of the solo around-the-world Golden Globe Race. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Tear gas was hurled as protesters, known as yellow vests, took part in a fourth demonstration in Paris on Saturday. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
A stampede at an Italian nightclub killed several people, and injured dozens. Italian officials say they are investigating what triggered the stampede. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption
A man holds national flags of Eritrea (left) and Ethiopia as he waits for the arrival of Eritrea's president at the airport in Gondar, nothern Ethiopia, in November. Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Anne-Marie Brady says she is the victim of a year-long campaign of intimidation in her home country after publishing research critical of China. Anne-Marie Brady hide caption
In front of Japan's parliament on Friday, people stage a rally against the bill to allow more foreign workers into the country. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats Angela Merkel waves after her last speech as party leader on Friday in Hamburg, Germany. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images hide caption
Engraving from 1885 featuring Mary Queen of Scots who was the Queen of Scotland. She lived from 1542 until 1587. traveler1116/Getty Images hide caption