RSF director general calls China's repression of journalists 'totally insane'
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FILE - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) director general Thibaut Bruttin delivers a speech in Paris on Sept. 26, 2024.
It has been seven years since the Paris-based press freedom advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) established an Asia-Pacific office in Taipei. The organization’s new Director General Thibaut Bruttin led a delegation to Taiwan this week and met with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday.
FILE - Hippos are known to be territorial and aggressive at times. This photo provided by Craig Manders shows his wife, Lisa, in Zambia in mid-2024. Lisa Manders was killed in a hippopotamus attack during this trip while on a safari with her husband and died on June 5.
Tires burn as supporters of Lebanese Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah stand before Lebanese Army soldiers during a Hezbollah-organized rally to block the road to Beirut International Airport over a decision to bar two Iranian flights from landing there, Feb. 15, 2025.
FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2021, file photo, Pope Francis, left, shakes hands with Sister Raffaella Petrini at the Vatican. On Saturday, she was named president of the Vatican City State.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards a plane to the Munich Security Conference in Germany from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Feb. 13, 2025.
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FILE - Sebastian Gorka, left, speaks during a press conference outside Manhattan criminal court on May 21, 2024, in New York. Gorka, now a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, said on Feb. 11, 2025, that the threat from jihadists is growing.
Pope Francis is hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, shown here on Feb. 15, 2025.
A screen displays Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Feb. 15, 2025.
Firefighters extinguish a burning UNIFIL vehicle, set ablaze by protesters, on the road leading to Beirut's international airport on Feb. 14, 2025.
FILE - A USAID flag flutters outside as the USAID building sits closed to employees after a memo was issued freezing funding, in Washington, Feb. 3, 2025.
FILE - Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 UN Climate Summit, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A view of a selection of the mummified bodies in the exhibition area of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (Emma Paolin via AP) Emma Paolin, a researcher at University of Ljubljana, background, and Dr. Cecilia Bembibre, lecturer at University College London, take swab samples for microbiological analysis at the Krakow University of Economics. (Abdelrazek Elnaggar via AP)