North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives at the railway station in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 24. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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"I want a boat prepared" to take tons of trash back to Canada, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday. In this 2015 photo, Filipino activists wear shipping container costumes to call on Canada to remove the garbage from a port in Manila. Aaron Favila/AP hide caption
Young women walk past a mural showing the Iranian flag in Tehran on April 23. The White House announced Monday it was ending waivers exempting several countries from U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A woman is overcome with emotion as she attends the funeral of a person killed in the Easter Sunday attack on St. Sebastian's Church, on Wednesday in Negombo, Sri Lanka. Carl Court/Getty Images hide caption
José Alberto "Chepe" Idiáquez, a Catholic priest and rector at a private Jesuit university in Nicaragua, has become an outspoken critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Carlos Herrera hide caption
'Pray For Me': Nicaraguan Priest Threatened With Death Reaches Out To Niece In U.S.
Sociology professor Chan Kin-man (left), law professor Benny Tai (center), and Baptist minister Chu Yiu-ming (right) chant slogans before entering the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong on Wednesday to receive their sentences after being convicted on "public nuisance" charges for their role in organizing mass pro-democracy protests in 2014. Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
An Egyptian soldier and a policeman stand guard at a Cairo polling station on Monday, the third day of a referendum on constitutional amendments. Khaled Desouki /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Mourners gather during a mass funeral at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo on Tuesday, following a series of coordinated bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Carl Court/Getty Images hide caption
The name of India's Mughalsarai railway station, near Varanasi, was changed last year to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, for a right-wing Hindu leader who died there in 1968. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
India Is Changing Some Cities' Names, And Muslims Fear Their Heritage Is Being Erased
A resident looks at the rubble of St. Catherine church on Tuesday, including the toppled head of a statue, following a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Pampanga province northwest of Manila the previous day. Bullit Marquez/AP hide caption
President Trump has accepted an invitation for a state visit from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, setting up a trip in early June. The two are seen here during Trump's visit to the U.K. last June. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Relatives place flowers after the burial of three family members who died in an Easter Sunday bomb blast at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Monday. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP hide caption
Detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, in August. Myanmar's top court rejected their appeal Tuesday, letting their seven-year prison term stand. Ann Wang/Reuters hide caption
A Sri Lankan soldier stands guard near the site of a car explosion after police tried to defuse a bomb near St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on Monday, the day after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings Bring Renewed Violence To A Long-Troubled Country
Sri Lankan security personnel inspect the debris of a van after it exploded on Monday near St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo. More than 300 people died and more than 500 were wounded after Sunday's attacks on churches and hotels. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption