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FILE – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks in a news briefing at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, on June 11, 2022. Iran said Tuesday, Aug. 16, it submitted a “written response” to what has been described as a final roadmap to restore its tattered nuclear deal with world powers. Raisi has repeatedly tried to blame Washington for the delay in reaching an accord. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran submits a ‘written response’ in nuclear deal talks

16th August 2022

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China announces new drills as US delegation visits Taiwan

16th August 2022

‘Horse Whisperer’ author Nicholas Evans dies at 72

16th August 2022

Akpabio urges Global South unity at Rabat Parliamentary Forum

Kenya’s Odinga says he’ll challenge his close election loss

16th August 2022

Estonia removes Soviet monument, citing public order

Estonia removes Soviet monument, citing public order

16th August 2022

Mine workers sing as they wait for the start of commemoration ceremonies near Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. South Africa marks on Tuesday 10 years since the Marikana massacre, where 44 people were killed during a mine strike at a platinum mine near Rustenburg, North West province in August 2012. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South African miners mark 10th anniversary of killings

16th August 2022

Sri Lankan port workers hold a Chinese national flag to welcome Chinese research ship Yuan Wang 5 as it arrives in Hambantota International Port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. The ship was originally set to arrive Aug. 11 but the port call was deferred due to apparent security concerns raised by India. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Chinese navy ship docks in Sri Lanka, stokes worry in India

16th August 2022

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrive to attend the opening of the Army 2022 International Military and Technical Forum in the Patriot Park outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Putin vowed to strengthen Russia’s military cooperation with its allies. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin blasts US ‘hegemony,’ predicts end to ‘unipolar’ world

16th August 2022

A barge passes exposed rocks and sandbanks on the river Rhine in Bacharach, Germany, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. After weeks of drought, the water levels of the Rhine have reached historic lows. If the water levels continue to fall, shipping is in danger of coming to a standstill. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

Europe drought: German industry at risk as Rhine falls

16th August 2022

FILE – In this photo released by the Taiwan Legislative Yuan, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, right, and Legislative Yuan Deputy Speaker Tsai Chi-chang arrive for a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. China announced Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, is imposing visa bans and other sanctions on a number of Taiwanese political figures including Tsai over their promotion of the self-governing island democracy’s independence from Beijing. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP, File)

China sets sanctions on Taiwan figures to punish US, island

16th August 2022

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FILE — Giorgia Meloni talks with reporters in Rome’s Pantheon Square, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. With God, homeland and “natural” family prominent in her political manifesto, Giorgia Meloni, whose Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party with neo-fascist roots has been fast rising in popularity in view of the upcoming Sept. 25 elections for Parliament, is positioning herself to become Italy’s first far-right premier and the first woman to hold that office. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Far-right Italian leader Meloni rides popular wave in polls

16th August 2022

Supporters of Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto celebrate at his party headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga, a triumph for the man who shook up politics by appealing to struggling Kenyans on economic terms and not on traditional ethnic ones. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

Kenya calm a day after chaotic presidential declaration

16th August 2022

The Brave Commander bulk carrier makes its way from the Pivdennyi Seaport near Odesa, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure, the ship under Lebanon’ flag is carrying 23 thousands tons of Ukrainian wheat. (AP Photo/Nina Lyashonok)

Explosions refocus war in Ukraine on Russian-annexed Crimea

16th August 2022

FILE – A Russian military boat guards an area with the grain storage in the background at the Mariupol Sea Port which has recently started its work after heavy fighting in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People’s Republic control, eastern Ukraine, June 12, 2022. Ukraine is steadily exporting grains from its Black Sea ports under a wartime deal brokered last month, but the agreement has also proven helpful to Russian farmers and the country’s cornerstone agriculture industry. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)

Ukraine’s Black Sea deal also helps Russian farmers, economy

16th August 2022

Kenya’s election results are announced

Buhari congratulates Kenya’s President-elect William Ruto

15th August 2022

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako bow as they attend a memorial service marking the 77th anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat, at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan marks WWII’s end, Kishida doesn’t mention aggression

15th August 2022

Volunteers with Zaka rescue service clean blood from the scene of a shooting attack that wounded several Israelis near the Old City of Jerusalem, early Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. Israeli police and medics say a gunman opened fire at a bus in a suspected Palestinian attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli police kill Palestinian in east Jerusalem raid

15th August 2022

FILE – A teacher holds a sign that reads in Spanish: “Living wage now!” during a pro-government protest by public workers demanding the government pay their full benefits and respect collective bargaining agreements in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Pay pushes Venezuelan teachers to protest, consider quitting

15th August 2022

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, greets artists performing at the 17th-century Mughal-era Red Fort on Independence Day in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug.15, 2022. The country is marking the 75th anniversary of its independence from British rule. (AP Photo/Pankaj Nangia)

PM Modi pledges to make India developed country in 25 years

15th August 2022

A view of a bridge that has collapsed over the River Laagen, in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. A wooden bridge over a river in southern Norway has collapsed with a car plunging into the water and a truck getting stuck on a collapsed section. Police said the drivers of both vehicles were rescued and doing well. (Geir Olsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Norway bridge collapses, drivers of 2 vehicles rescued

15th August 2022

FILE – Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Dec. 11, 2019. A Myanmar court convicted Suu Kyi in more corruption cases Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, adding six years to prison sentence. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Myanmar court convicts Suu Kyi on more corruption charges

15th August 2022

Volunteers recover dead fish from the water of the German-Polish border river Oder in Lebus, eastern Germanny, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Poland’s environment minister says laboratory tests following a mass dying off of fish detected high levels of salinity but no mercury in waters of Central Europe’s Oder River. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP)

Oil barriers to rein in spread of dead fish from Oder River

15th August 2022

Ruto

Kenya election result: William Ruto wins presidential poll

15th August 2022

Facebook misses election misinfo in Brazil ads

Facebook misses election misinfo in Brazil ads

15th August 2022

FILE – US Basketball player Brittney Griner looks through bars as she listens to the verdict standing in a cage in a courtroom in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022 filed an appeal of her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drugs possession. Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted on Aug. 4. She was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP, File)

WNBA’s Brittney Griner appeals her Russian prison sentence

15th August 2022

Russian rockets launch against Ukraine from Russia’s Belgorod region are seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Belikov)

Russian shells slam into eastern Ukraine; 3 dead, 20 hurt

15th August 2022

Anastasiia Aleksandrova, 12, looks at her phone in her bedroom in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Anastasiia’s retreat into digital technology to cope with the isolation and stress of the war that rages on the front line only 7 miles (12 kilometers) away is an increasingly common phenomenon among young people in Ukraine’s embattled Donetsk region. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near front line

15th August 2022

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen pose for photos with U.S. Congress members and other Taiwan officials during a meeting at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The delegation of U.S. Congress members visited Taiwan parliament on Monday in a further sign of support among American lawmakers for the self-governing island. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

China announces new drills as US delegation visits Taiwan

15th August 2022

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