Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a meeting in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2023. Sergei Guneyev/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Palestinian detainees after they were released by the Israeli army, in Deir Al Balah, Gaza Strip, on June 20. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Hundreds of people gather at the site of a mudslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, Gofa Zone, southern Ethiopia, on Monday. At least 157 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, according to local authorities. Isayas Churga/Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department/AP hide caption
Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir service, attends a court hearing in Kazan, Russia, in May. A Russian court has convicted Kurmasheva of spreading false information about the Russian army and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison after a secret trial, court records and officials said on Monday. /AP hide caption
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar celebrates Sunday as he crosses the finish line to win the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial over 33.7 kilometers (20.9 miles) that started in Monaco and finished in Nice, France. Daniel Cole/AP hide caption
A worker drives a golf cart inside the competition venue for BMX freestyle ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/David Goldman) David Goldman/AP/AP hide caption
France has banned its own athletes from wearing head scarves during the Olympics
Russian President Vladimir Putin was once a major player in the Olympic movement, spending tens of billions of dollars to host the Sochi Winter Games in 2014. Now his nation is barely participating in this year's Paris Summer Games. Pavel Golovkin/AP hide caption
Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration against the Costa Rican government near Germany's presidential residence during a visit of Costa Rica's president in Berlin in May 2012. Greenland police said they arrested Watson on Sunday on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
President Biden (left) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talk during a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2022. Michael Kappeler/Pool DPA/AP hide caption
In this photo taken from video released by Khamovnichesky District Court press service on Thursday, U.S. citizen Michael Travis Leake stands in a cage in a Moscow courtroom before being convicted of drug trafficking charges and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Khamovnichesky District Court press service/AP hide caption
An Israeli airstrike ignited a huge fire at an oil storage facility at Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeidah on Saturday. Israel said the attack was in response to a drone strike by the Houthi militia that killed an Israeli man in Tel Aviv on Friday. /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Sun Kai, the co-founder of Silicon Intelligence, speaks with an AI avatar of his late mother whenever he feels stressed at work. Aowen Cao/NPR hide caption
Chinese companies offer to 'resurrect' dead loved ones. It raises questions
Students clash with riot police during a protest against a quota system for government jobs, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Rajib Dhar/AP hide caption
Passengers line up at London's Gatwick Airport amid a global IT outage on Friday. Jack Taylor/Getty Images hide caption
A handout picture obtained from Yemen's Huthi Ansarullah Media Center show a huge column of fire erupting following reported strikes by Israeli fighter jets in the Yemeni rebel-held port city of Hodeidah on Saturday. Ansarullah Media Center/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Oleksii Kharkivskyi, the chief of the patrol police of Vovchansk, in his police car in an undisclosed location in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, on May 26. Laurel Chor for NPR hide caption
Ukraine stalled a strong Russian offensive, with help from Western allies
A group of novachky, female campers ages 6-11, stand at attention for a photograph, along with their two sestrichky, or "sisters" who serve as female counselors. Marching drills are a daily activity at camp. Andrea Wenglowskyj hide caption
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, stands inside a glass defendants' cage during the verdict announcement at the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg on July 19, 2024. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images) Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Flares fired by the Israeli military north of Nuseirat are pictured from Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on July 1. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Secretary of State Blinken on Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal and Russia's war in Ukraine
Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles near the West Bank town of Beita Wahaj Bani Moufleh/AFP hide caption
Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants' cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP hide caption
Israeli police investigate the scene of a drone attack in Tel Aviv, Israel on Friday. Yemen's Houthi militia claimed responsibility for the blast that left one dead and several injured. Maya Levin for NPR hide caption