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Rescue workers carried a body from the rubble of a house in Bogo City in Cebu Province, in the central Philippines, on Wednesday. A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the province late Tuesday.

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High schoolers in Toyoake, Japan, said they use their phones for longer than the two hours that authorities want to restrict them to.

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Sudanese residents gathered to receive food in El Fasher, a city in Darfur that has been under a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2024.

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Rescuers searching for victims trapped under the rubble on Wednesday, two days after a boarding school collapsed in Sidoarjo, East Java.

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Pope Leo spoke at a conference on fighting climate change in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Wednesday.

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Rochdale, England, was among the first British towns to be revealed as a hub of activity by sexual grooming gangs.

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Smoke rising after an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.

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President Vladimir V. Putin in a photograph released by Russian state media. Mr. Putin said any Western “theft” of reserves would accelerate the development of alternative payment systems.

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Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has been focused for months on a post-conflict plan for Gaza.

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A German soldier demonstrating a drone jammer on Friday. If Europe builds a “drone wall,” it will be not a physical barrier but a network of trackers.

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A building in Doha, Qatar, that was damaged during an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders last month.

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Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, left, the former Qatari emir, and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, the former prime minister, in Doha in 2013.

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Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, addressed supporters at a rally in South Africa in 2023.

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Commissioner Mark Rowley of the Metropolitan Police speaking to the news media at New Scotland Yard in London in February.

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A Galápagos shark off the coast of the Revillagigedo Islands in Mexico in 2016.

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Outside Brazil’s Supreme Court, last month.

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One of the Global Sumud Flotilla’s boats in waters off Greece last week.

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A boat in the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Greece on Friday.

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Heightened security in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of people are in the city for the 190th iteration of Oktoberfest.

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South Korean workers arriving at Incheon International Airport in September after their detention in a U.S. immigration raid.

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Robots boxing at the Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, China, on Friday.

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Some grocery store operators had been pushing for changes to the Biden-era rule.

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Clockwise from top left: Protests in Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines and Madagascar.

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A passenger on the Nightjet, an overnight train operating between Paris and Berlin, last year.

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United Nations peacekeepers from Argentina attempting to clear the streets of armed gang members in Gonaïves, Haiti, in 2004.

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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco, Texas, in May.

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Palestinians fleeing Gaza City last week.

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Joseph Kabila, the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Goma, Congo, in May.

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In a photo released by the Qatari government, Amir Amiry, second from left, after his release from an Afghan prison on Sunday. He was escorted out of Afghanistan by American and Qatari officials.

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Student protesters set up encampments at Columbia University on April 30, 2024, in New York City to protest the war in Gaza. The tents were removed following a university crackdown and no others have been created since.

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Clockwise from top left: Protesters during the “Unite the Kingdom” rally in London on Sept. 13. A protest in Paris on Sept. 18 during a day of nationwide strikes and protests over the national budget. Members of the Togolese Gendarmerie operating in the Togolese capital of Lome on June 6. Dozens of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters were arrested after refusing to leave the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on Sept. 18 in New York City.

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Leo’s speech this week may show whether he is inheriting his predecessor’s language on climate, or taking a different path.

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The Kremlin last month. State spending on national defense is projected to go down next year to around $155 billion from more than $160 billion.

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Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa in Cape Town in 2023. He took up the post in Paris the next year.

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Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, in Jerusalem last month.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and his wife Victoria Starmer at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool, England, on Tuesday.

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Damaged vehicles and debris in Quetta, Pakistan, after a car bomb exploded on Tuesday.

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President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel outside the White House in Washington on Monday.

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Green Berets training support staff at Camp Mackall in North Carolina in May.

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A Ukrainian soldier near Pokrovsk, Ukraine, last year. The country depends heavily on Western military support to fight the Russian invasion.

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Green Berets with the Third Special Forces Group at a training exercise in North Carolina in May.

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Neamatullah, 45, the brother of two men who were detained and executed by US Special Forces and their proxies in 2012, visits the site where his brothers were found outside the walls of their base in Nerkh District, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on Friday, November 4, 2022. RESEARCH TK/COPY TK

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Mathew Golsteyn, a former Special Forces officer, at his home in Bristow, Va.

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An Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, collapsed on Monday, killing at least three children.

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Addressing the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Trump insisted that the United States would double down on efforts to deport masses of migrants.

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A Y-20 transport aircraft, the type used to send arms to Cambodia, at an air show in Zhuhai, China, last year.

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Trump administration officials assert Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, sits atop a cartel network. He has insisted the country does not export drugs.

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Riot police officers using tear gas to disperse protesters during a demonstration against power outages and water shortages near the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Monday.

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