Residents look at their belongings in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi in Manila on July 25, 2024. In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, rescue workers distribute supplies to residents trapped by flood waters in the aftermath of Typhoon Gaemi in Chiayi county in southwestern Taiwan, July 26, 2024.
File - Security personnel inspect the site of a suicide attack near Besham city, Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, March 26, 2024. Five Chinese nationals working on a dam construction site were killed when a suicide bomber targeted their vehicle. file - Ahsan Iqbal, left, Pakistan's Minister of Planning and Development and Yao Jing, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan attend the launching ceremony of CPEC long-term cooperation plan in Islamabad, Pakistan, Dec. 18, 2017.
Travelers wait inside the Gare du Nord train station at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 26, 2024, in Paris. Passengers walk on train platform at the Bordeaux-Saint-Jean train station in Bordeaux, western France on July 26, 2024, as France's high-speed rail network was hit by an attack disrupting the transport system. Passengers gather around the departure and arrival boards at the Gare Montparnasse train station in Paris on July 26, 2024 as France's high-speed rail network was hit by malicious acts disrupting the transport system. Passengers wait for their train departures at the Gare Montparnasse in Paris, July 26, 2024, as France's high-speed rail network was hit by malicious acts disrupting the transport system hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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.
This picture taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on July 25, 2024 shows Vietnamese President To Lam paying his respects for the late general secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi. FILE - Vietnam's General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivers remarks at the Communist Party of Vietnam Headquarters, in Hanoi, Sept. 10, 2023.
FILE - Parliamentarians of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party carry posters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, during a protest outside the Parliament house in Islamabad on July 18, 2024. FILE - Donald Blome, then-U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, speaks in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, on Oct. 10, 2017. FILE - Police officers take arrested female workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from the party's headquarters into a police van after a security raid in Islamabad on July 22, 2024. FILE - Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman speaks to VOA’s Persian Service in Washington, Jan. 24, 2017.
France's President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech next to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and others during a reception for international journalists accredited for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, July 22, 2024. AFP Lebanese photographer Christina Assi (C) helped by AFP video journalist Dylan Collins (L), waves after receiving the Olympic flame during the Olympic Torch Relay in Vincennes, near Paris, July 21, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Smoke rises following Israeli bombardments in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. A man squats next to a fire, as Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Khan Younis, were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024.
FILE - An Afghan security personnel destroys a poppy field in Argo district, May 13, 2024. Afghan farmers harvest opium sap from a poppy field in Argo district of Badakhshan province, June 30, 2024. FILE - Afghan women receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 28, 2023.
Demonstrators carry a Kenyan flag during a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, July 23, 2024. Anti-government protesters in Kenya’s capital clashed with a pro-government group on Tuesday. Demonstrators block a road in front of a police vehicle during a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, July 23, 2024. Anti-government demonstrators run after riot police officers fired a tear gas to disperse them during a peaceful protest along the streets of Mombasa, Kenya, July 23, 2024. Police officers clear a bonfire blocking a road during a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, July 23, 2024.
Art teacher Prithvi Raj Kambli paints portraits of U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as passers-by look on, in Mumbai, India, July 22, 2024. FILE- Ahead of Kamala Harris' inauguration as U.S. vice president, children hold portraits of her at a Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Harris' maternal grandfather, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Jan. 20, 2021. FILE - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris offers a toast to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Indian leader's state visit to Washington, June 23, 2023.