Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld watches as then-President George W. Bush talks about the devastation at the Pentagon on Sept. 12, 2001. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
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With A New Digital Certificate, People Can Travel Within Europe Without Quarantining
Ethiopia Is Facing Humanitarian Crisis Amid A Ceasefire Declaration
A man assists a patient with difficulty breathing at the Medical College Hospital in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, on June 16, as the delta variant of the coronavirus quickly spread. Kabir Tuhin/AP hide caption
A memorial is seen outside the Residential School last month in Kamloops, British Columbia. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption
The airfield has a long runway which is believed to have been used to land China's space plane in 2020. Maxar Technologies hide caption
Satellite Photos Show China Expanding Its Mysterious Desert Airfield
The British Columbia Wildfire Service is responding to multiple fires in the province this week. Two wildfires pictured here, the Long Loch wildfire and the Derickson Lake wildfire, are in close proximity and estimated to be 740 acres combined in size. The British Columbia Wildfire Service hide caption
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech Thursday during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
China Celebrates Its Communist Party's Centennial With Spectacle, Saber Rattling
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Lots Of Goals, Upsets And A Penalty Shootout: Euro 2020 Is Just Heating Up
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, pictured in February 2011, has died, his family announced on Wednesday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Covishield is the brand name used for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India's Serum Institute, administered to millions of people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. It's not on the list of approved vaccines for the European Union — although the AstraZeneca version made in the United Kingdom and at European sites is. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Moises Soffer, a volunteer member of Cadena International's search-and-rescue team working at the site of the condo building collapse, holds a trained search dog named Oreo in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday. Gianrigo Marletta/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Moderna says recently completed studies have found its vaccine to have a neutralizing effect against all COVID-19 variants tested, including the delta variant. Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks Tuesday during a Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP hide caption
Hong Kong police show their new goose step marching style on National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong on April 15. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption