Farmers sort out climate-smart beans in Machakos, Kenya, March 18, 2024. From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers are looking both to the past and future to respond to climate change. James Tshuma, a small scale farmer, shows some of his vegetables he planted in a small garden at his home, in Mangwe district in Zimbabwe, March 22, 2024. Plant pathologist Sila Nzioki looks at dried climate-smart beans using a microscope at a plant pathology laboratory at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) Katumani Research Centre, in Machakos, Kenya,, March 18, 2024.
Pope Francis delivers his message as he meets with young people in front of the Church of the Salute in Venice, April 28, 2024. Pope Francis enters St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy, Sunday, April 28, 2024. The Pontiff arrived for his first-ever visit to the lagoon town including the Vatican pavilion at the 60th Biennal of Arts. Pope Francis is greeted by gondoliers upon his arrival in Venice, April 28, 2024.
People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 27, 2024. People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 27, 2024.
FILE - Afghan refugee children warm themselves near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2023, after their repatriation from Pakistan. More than 800,000 Afghans are expected to return to Afghanistan this year; about half are children. FILE - Alexander Matheou, regional director, Asia Pacific Region for the International Federation of the Red Cross, speaks to the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec, 2, 2021.
Internally displaced people from Myanmar take aid supplies from Thailand across the border in Mae Sot, Thailand, April 24, 2024. (Tommy Walker/VOA) Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara visits the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot, Thailand, on April 23, 2024. (Tommy Walker/VOA) Members of the Thai military monitor the border in Mae Sot, Thailand, on April 24, 2024, after fighting erupted in nearby Myawaddy, Myanmar. (Tommy Walker/VOA) The halls of Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand, overflow with patients who have been injured from the conflict in Myanmar, April 26, 2024. (Tommy Walker/VOA)
FILE - Participants carry a giant European Union flag during a procession in support of Georgia's membership in the EU in Tbilisi, Dec. 9, 2023. Tbilisi will be the host of an Asian Development Bank annual meeting beginning May 2, 2024. Rickshaw pullers rest amid a severe heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 25, 2024. Millions of pupils were told to stay home this week as the South Asian nation swelters through one of its worst heatwaves on record. FILE - Wicker and seagrass coffins are displayed at the Asia Funeral and Cemetery Expo and Conference in Hong Kong, May 18, 2017. The expo underscores how Asia's rapidly aging population makes its death industry a potentially lucrative market.
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire in Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine, April 27, 2024, following Russian night attacks. Police walk in front of a crater after a Russian rocket attack on a mental hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 27, 2024.
Frank Guridy, a Columbia University history professor who teaches a course called "Columbia 1968," speaks to students at the protest encampment on campus, maintained by student protesters of the Israel-Hamas war, in New York on April 25, 2024. FILE - FILE - Columbia University President Minouche Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on "Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. Demonstration leader Khymani James, center, and other protesters address the media on the Columbia University campus in New York on April 24, 2024. James was been banned from campus Friday for comments she made on a video in January that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
Kuandyk Bishimbayev, accused of killing his wife, is seen at his trial in Astana, Kazakhstan, April 12, 2024. The case has hit a nerve in the nation, with petitioners urging harsher penalties for domestic violence. (Kazakhstan Supreme Court Press Office) This June 2017 photo provided by Aitbek Amangeldy shows a selfie taken by his sister, Saltanat Nukenova, in Astana, Kazakhstan. Her husband, former economy minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev, is on trial in her November 2023 death. (Aitbek Amangeldy via AP) Two women buy flowers in Astana, Kazakhstan, April 21, 2024. A high-profile trial involving the killing of Saltanat Nukenova has raised awareness of spousal abuse in the Central Asian country. Businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, the country's former economy minister, sits in a defendant's cage in court in Astana, Kazakhstan, April 19, 2024. (Kazakhstan Supreme Court Press Office)
FILE - The interior of the Hope Hostel is seen in the capital Kigali, Rwanda on June 10, 2022. Rwanda government's deputy spokesperson Alain Mukuralinda said April 23, 2024, it's ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom. A view of Hope Hostel, one of the locations where the asylum seekers from the U.K. are expected to arrive in the next 10-12 weeks in Kigali, Rwanda, April 24, 2024. The management of the hostel says the facility is ready to accommodate 100 migrants.
FILE - A woman and baby wait in line at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. The United Nations on April 26, 2024, is warning of renewed and escalating violence in the area. (MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via Reuters) FILE - Destruction is seen across a livestock market area in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, Sept. 1, 2023.
Michel Patrick Boisvert, who was named interim prime minister by the cabinet of outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry, toasts the transitional council that will select Haiti's new prime minister and cabinet in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024. Michel Patrick Boisvert, center, who was named interim Prime Minister by the remaining cabinet of outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry, attends the swearing-in ceremony of the transitional council in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024. Police patrol in an armored vehicle in the Champ de Mars area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 24, 2024. Smith Augustin, center, a member of the new transitional council, speaks to the press after the swearing in of the council in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024.
FILE - US M1A1 Abrams tanks block a path at a training range in Paju, near Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 50 kilometer north of Seoul, on June 9, 2003. FILE - Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth looks over the latest version of the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank as she tours the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center, Feb. 16, 2023, in Lima, Ohio.
George Washington University students set tents in the campus during a pro-Palestinian protest against the Israel-Hamas war, April 25, 2024, in Washington. A sign calling attention to the conflict in Gaza rests against a tent, April 25, 2024, at an encampment on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, in Cambridge, Mass.
FILE - Move Forward party leader Chaithawat Tulathon, right, flanked by its former leader Pita Limjaroenrat, talks to reporters during a news conference at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 31, 2024. FILE - Supporters of the Move Forward party gather at Democracy Monument during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, July 19, 2023.
Myanmar's nationals who crossed the border to seek shelter in Bangladesh are escorted back to their country by ships at Cox's Bazar on April 25, 2024. Bangladesh on April 25 sent home nearly 300 Myanmar soldiers and civil servants who fled to escape rebel attacks. FILE - Members of Myanmar Border Guard Police, in civilian clothing, sit under the shade of trees after abandoning their posts following fighting between Myanmar security forces and Arakan Army as Bangladesh border guards stand guard in Bangladesh, Feb. 5, 2024.