New EU diplomat vows tough stance on China, strong alliance with US
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FILE - Estonia's Kaja Kallas, nominee for European Union High Representative and Vice President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaks during her hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels on Nov. 12, 2024.
Kaja Kallas, the European Union's next foreign policy chief, is already sending signals that she will take a tough stance on Russia and China and be an advocate for a strong alliance between Europe and America.
FILE - Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean-Swedish journalist and advocate for human rights, center, poses with his children, who include his daughter, Betlehem Isaak, right, who continues to fight for the release of her father, who has been imprisoned without trial in Eritrea since 2001. Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean-Swedish journalist and advocate for human rights, in an undated photo at an unspecified location. Dawit Isaak, an Eritrean-Swedish journalist and advocate for human rights, in an undated photo at an unspecified location.
FILE - India's Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani addresses the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, India, Jan.10, 2024. He has since been indicted in the U.S. on charges he duped investors.
FILE - The C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable is being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea by cable ship Ile de Brehat on the shore of Helsinki, Finland on October 12, 2015.
FILE - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai pauses during an interview in Hong Kong, July 1, 2020. Lai's court appearance on Wednesday marked the first time the former publisher provided testimony in a high-profile trial that started nearly one year ago. Jimmy Lai's wife, Teresa Lai, and retired Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts to attend Hong Kong activist publisher Lai's national security trial in Hong Kong, Nov. 20, 2024.
FILE - A handmade version of the Islamic State group's flag is seen on Sept. 17, 2020. (U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York via AP)
FILE - A steelworker moves an artillery projectile during the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on April 13, 2023. The U.S. Defense Department said last week that some weapons deliveries to Ukraine will take months to complete.
FILE - A police patrol car provided with aid from the Chinese government is seen in Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands, April 18, 2024.
FILE - A truck is packed with crushed granite at a mining plant in Zamfara, Nigeria, April 21, 2016.
FILE - Tourists visit Roman ruins in Palmyra, Syria, on May 11, 2023. Syrian state-run media reported on Nov. 20, 2024, that a strike on the historic town killed 36 people. Syrian leaders blamed Israel.
Bannu, Pakistan
FILE - Migrants disembark at the port in Valverde at the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on Aug. 26, 2024, after they arrived by boat from a 13-day voyage from the coast of Senegal.