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EU Visa-Free Travel for Kosovo in Force
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FILE - A vehicle passes through a visa-free border crossing in the EU's Schengen zone, in Bregana, Croatia, Jan. 1, 2023. Kosovo is joining the zone on Jan. 1, 2024.
A long-awaited European Union's visa liberalization scheme allowing Kosovo nationals to travel to Europe's borderless zone without a visa came into force Monday.
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People line up to visit the national funeral house to pay respects to Vietnam's General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 26, 2024. People line up to pay respects to Vietnam's General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 26, 2024.
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FILE - Turkish police stand next to a woman protesting China's crackdown on ethnic Uyghurs, at the Chinese Consulate in Istanbul, Nov. 30, 2022. Uyghur refugees in Turkey reportedly have been interrogated and detained in recent weeks. Shirali Abdurehim is seen in Istanbul in 2022. (Photo courtesy of Abdurehim’s wife) Shirali Abdurehim’s nine children are seen in Istanbul in April 2024. (Photo courtesy of Abdurehim’s wife)
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FILE - Kenyan runners Mary Moraa, right, Sarah Moraa, second from right, and Lilian Odira, center, fight for the lead in the women's 800-meter final during the Kenya Athletics Olympic Trials at Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, June 14, 2024. Azenaide Carlos, left, and Eliane Paulo of Angola celebrate a goal during a women's handball match between Angola and Netherlands, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 25, 2024, in Paris. Netherlands won 34-31.
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FILE - Journalists visit the destroyed barracks at the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison holding Ukrainian POWs in eastern Ukraine, Aug. 10, 2022. Russia blamed Ukraine at the time but interviews with survivors and an internal U.N. analysis point to Russia as the culprit. FILE - Tetiana Poltorak, left, and Tetiana Artemenko place flags to honor Ukrainian prisoners of war killed in the Olenivka region at a memorial site near the Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 5, 2023. FILE - This image from video shows the damaged barracks at the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison in Olenivka, eastern Ukraine, on July 29, 2022. FILE - Soldiers lower the coffin of Andrii Konyaev during his funeral in Fastiv, Ukraine, on May 23, 2023. He and more than 50 Ukrainians died in the July 29, 2022, explosions at Olenivka, a Russia-controlled prison camp in eastern Ukraine. FILE - People hold signs outside the Russian embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 29, 2023, to mark the anniversary of the explosions at the Russian-controlled prison barracks in Olenivka, eastern Ukraine, which killed dozens of Ukrainian POWs.
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FILE - A Phantom 4, developed by Chinese consumer drone maker DJI, is pictured during a demonstration flight in Tokyo, March 3, 2016. Washington, Beijing and Taipei are working to improve the sophistication, adaptability and cost of drone technology. FILE - An FPV (first person view) drone and additional equipment are seen at a training facility for military FPV drone pilots, at an undisclosed location in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sept. 14, 2023. FILE - British soldiers launch a drone during exercises at Fort Irwin, Calif., Nov. 4, 2022. Taiwan, U.S. and Chinese planners are readying themselves for combat featuring air and sea drones. (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service via AP)
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Residents and volunteers dig in the mud in search for bodies at the scene of a landslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district of southern Ethiopia, July 25, 2024. Relatives and residents mourn the death of their loved ones in a collective ceremony close to the scene of a landslide in Kencho Shacha Gozdi district in southern Ethiopia on July 25, 2024.