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FILE - Sean "Diddy" Combs participates in a panel discussion in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 4, 2018. Authorities arrested Combs on Sept. 16, 2024, on an indictment of undisclosed charges.

FILE - An employee displays MRSA bacteria strain - a drug-resistant 'superbug' - inside a petri dish containing agar jelly for bacterial culture in a microbiological laboratory in Berlin, March 1, 2008.

FILE - A general view of the city of Bamako pictured from the point G in Bamako, Mali Aug. 9, 2018. Mali is one of several West African countries fighting an Islamist insurgency that took roots in Mali's arid north in 2012 and has since spread across the Sahel.

FILE - European Union's Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of Spain, Teresa Ribera delivers a statement during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, Dec. 9, 2023.

A picture taken from northern Israel shows flares launched by the Israeli army over the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on Sept 16, 2024. Israel's opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid delivers a statement to the press following his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 16, 2024. Trucks carrying aid line up near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, Sept. 9, 2024.

FILE - COP 29 President, Mukhtar Babayev, delivers remarks at the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial, in Helsingor, Denmark, March 21, 2024

FILE - Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov delivers a keynote speech during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain Feb. 23, 2016.

FILE - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27, 2024. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)

FILE - International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach addresses the audience during the 142nd IOC session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, Aug. 10, 2024. FILE - World Athletics President Sebastian Coe of Britain, shown in 2022, is among seven candidates to become president of the International Olympic Committee. He was a 1980 and 1984 Olympic champion in the 1,500 meters. FILE - International Olympic Committee member Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, shown in 2020, is a candidate to be IOC president and would be the first woman to hold the position. She was a two-time Olympic swimming champion.

A computer shows an AI-generated video of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris singing together posted on Douyin on Sept. 17, 2024.

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French citizen Laurent Vinatier sits in a cage behind his lawyers at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 16, 2024.

Residents leave the flooded areas with their belongings in Maiduguri, northern Borno state, Nigeria, Sept. 15, 2024. A view of the prison where nearly 300 prisoners escaped after floods in Maiduguri, northern Borno state, Nigeria, Sept. 15, 2024.

FILE - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi addresses the media during their Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, Sept. 9, 2024.

Homes and other buildings are partially submerged following a dam collapse, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sept 10, 2024.

Faithful from various religions participate in the Defense of Religious Freedom march at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 15, 2024. The march seeks to bring attention to religious intolerance in the country.

FILE - International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach addresses the audience during the 142nd IOC session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, Aug. 10, 2024.

FILE - Workers of a Samsung facility attend a strike to demand higher wages at its Sriperumbudur plant near the city of Chennai, India, Sept. 12, 2024.

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada (C), alongside cast and crew, winners of Outstanding Drama Series for "Shogun" pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Sept. 15, 2024.

FILE - People use ropes to remove fallen trees following the impact of Typhoon Yagi, Hai Phong, Vietnam, Sept. 8, 2024.

This photo taken on Sept. 15, 2024 in Prague shows the Vltava river as floods hit the Czech Republic. This photo taken on Sept. 16, 2024 in Krnov, Czech Republic, shows the city's main square covered in mud after it was flooded by the Opava river. A woman cleans the floor of a church after the flood water withdrew from the village of Pechea, Romania, on Sept. 15, 2024. This aerial photograph taken on Sept. 15, 2024 shows a view of the flooded streets in Glucholazy, southern Poland.

FILE - Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks during a news conference at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Aug. 6, 2024.

FILE - Journalists take part in a demonstration on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, also condemning the killing of a journalist in a bomb explosion, in Lahore, Pakistan, May 3, 2024.

This photo released by Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov's Telegram channel on Sept. 16, 2024, shows burnt cars in the courtyard of an apartment building after a missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the city of Belgorod, Russia.

raq Iran FILE - Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian delivers a speech, wearing the traditional Arab dress, during his visit in Basra, Iraq, Sept. 13, 2024. Pezeshkian will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Russia.

A hoiho or yellow-eyed penguin pictured on April 2, 2023, has won New Zealand's annual Bird of the Year vote, Sept. 16, 2024, after a fierce contest absent the foreign interference and controversies that have upset the country's avian elections before.

FILE - Interim President of the Republic of Mali, Assimi Goita, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport ahead of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, China, Sep. 1, 2024.

Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze in a residential apartment building following a Russian strike, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2024.

FILE - A Chinese national flag is displayed in a traditional alleyway in Beijing, China, July 7, 2024.

This handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace on September 15, 2024 shows Jordan's new Prime Minister Jaafar Hassan. Jordan's King Abdullah II on September 15 nominated his chief of staff to be the new prime minister.

This photo handed out provided by Bangladesh Press Information Department (PID) shows Brent Neiman, US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Finance and Development, left, speaking with Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka, Sep. 15, 2024.

A drone view shows some of the buildings in the Zacamil neighborhood that is being worked on by the Zacamil Project, an initiative led by a Salvadoran foundation that seeks to decorate humble and once violent communities with art, in Mejicanos, El Salvador, July 18, 2024. Italian artist Beatrice Vigoni paints a building as part of the Zacamil Project in Mejicanos, El Salvador, Aug. 13, 2024. A drone view shows members of the Fullpaint 360 collective installing cords in a mural titled "Constelacion de Zacamil" by Italian artist Adriano Lombardo in Mejicanos, El Salvador, July 30, 2024. A woman stands by a mural titled "Outside" in Mejicanos, El Salvador, July 11, 2024. A drone view shows a boy watching outside his apartment next to a mural titled "Outside," in Mejicanos, El Salvador, July 18, 2024. Members of the Fullpaint 360 collective paint a mural titled "Outside" designed by Salvadoran artist Fernando Orellana, in Mejicanos, El Salvador, July 2, 2024. A drone view shows members of the Fullpaint 360 collective painting clouds on a building in Mejicanos, El Salvador, Aug. 13, 2024.

FILE - The Federal Reserve building is seen before the Federal Reserve board is expected to signal plans to raise interest rates in March as it focuses on fighting inflation in Washington, Jan. 26, 2022.

Part of a Mexican dance troupe perform on the field pregame before a baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles, Michigan, Sept. 14, 2024, in Detroit. The Tigers organization held many activities as part of recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month.

Pope Francis leaves after leading a holy mass at Tasitolu park in Dili, East Timor, Sept. 10, 2024. Pope Francis holds a news conference aboard the papal plane on his flight back after his 12-day journey across Southeast Asia and Oceania, Sept. 13, 2024. Pope Francis, left, meets with indigenous people at the Holy Trinity Humanistic School in Baro, near Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 8, 2024. Pope Francis receives a gift from the Archbishop of Dili Cardinal Virgilio do Carmo da Silva at the end of a votive mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen he presided over in Tasitolu, some 8 kilometers west of Dili, East Timor, Sept. 10, 2024. In this handout photograph taken on Sept. 13, 2024 and released by Vatican Media, Pope Francis (C) takes part in an interreligious meeting with young people at the Catholic Junior College in Singapore.

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. secretary of state and Ukrainian foreign minister following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 11, 2024.

A police officer inspects the area around a fire after the military said it fired interceptors at a missile launched from Yemen that landed in central Israel, Sept. 15, 2024. A crater is seen after the military fired interceptors at what the Israeli army says is a missile launched from Yemen that landed in central Israel, Sept. 15, 2024.

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Texas Kadri Moro, the executive director of Arise for Justice International, protests with placards nailed on a cross on the street of Accra, Ghana, Sept. 12, 2024.

This image made from SpaceX video shows its capsule, center, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman with his crew after it reached the Gulf of Mexico near Florida's Dry Tortugas, Sept. 15, 2024.

FILE - People try out iPhone products at an Apple Store in Beijing, Sept. 28, 2021. Apple's release this month of its iPhone 16, new Apple Watch, and AirPods, is creating a buzz.

FILE - A man walks past a sign warning against the sale of illegal publications, underneath which secondhand books, images and statues of Chinese leaders are displayed for sale at the Panjiayuan antique market in Beijing, Aug. 3, 2024. FILE - Busts and statues portraying late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong are seen at the Panjiayuan flea market in Beijing, May 19, 2019.

Iraqis sit at a popular café in the old city of Mosul on Sept. 2, 2024, seven years after the Islamist State (IS) group was ousted from the northern Iraqi city. Iraqis sit at a popular café in the old city of Mosul on Sept. 2, 2024, seven years after the Islamist State (IS) group was ousted from the northern Iraqi city.

FILE - Red Cross officials create awareness of mpox in the Don Bosco refugee camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Aug. 22, 2023.

FILE - The League party leader Matteo Salvini leaves the voting booth before casting his ballot at a polling station in Milan, June 8, 2024.

Workers load and pack gift boxes for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, outside a supermarket in Beijing on Sept. 11, 2024.

Tunisians protest against President Kais Saied ahead of the upcoming presidential elections, Sept. 13, 2024, in the capital of Tunis. Tunisians protest against President Kais Saied ahead of the upcoming presidential elections, Sept. 13, 2024, in the capital of Tunis.

U.S. President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn as he returns to the White House in Washington, Sept., 2024.

Japan's former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a candidate in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's prime minister election, speaks during a debate in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2024, where he urged the U.S. and Japan to cooperate to compete against Chinese steel.