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A message reading "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now" is displayed from the TikTok app on a cell phone screen, Jan. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles.

This image released by Sony Pictures shows Keke Palmer, left, and SZA in a scene from "One of them Days."

A man sits on a lounge chair atop a heavily-damaged building along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Jan. 20, 2025 a day after a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas went into effect. Palestinian prisoners (back) wait to disembark from a Red Cross bus upon their arrival in the occupied West Bank town of Beitunia, on the outskirts of Ramallah, following their release by Israel in the early hours of Jan. 20, 2025. Trucks loaded with aid wait to cross into Gaza from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Jan. 19, 2025.

FILE - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gestures during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 12, 2024.

FILE - Rescuers cross the caution tape near a Metalliferous Mobile Rescue Winder during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on Jan. 13, 2025.

FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023.

FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman collects evidence following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 18, 2025.

FILE - A Taiwan national flag flutters near the Taipei 101 building at the National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, May 7, 2023.

Debra Tice, mother of journalist Austin Tice who disappeared while reporting in Syria in 2012, speaks after an interview with Reuters in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 18, 2025.

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Jan. 19, 2025.

A woman and child look on at volcanic ash rising into the air during the eruption of Mount Ibu, as seen from Duono village, North Maluku province, Jan. 15, 2025.

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Palestinian Hamas militants hand over hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in Gaza City, Jan. 19, 2025 in this screen grab from a video.

FILE - A vendor selling lottery tickets checks her mobile phone while waiting for customers in Bangkok on March 25, 2019.

FILE - A classroom that previously was used for girls sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 22, 2022. Taliban Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Abbas Stanikzai called for lifting the education ban on Afghan girls and women. (Screengrab courtesy Tolo news)

FILE - Bad Bunny performs at the Latin Billboard Awards in Coral Gables, Florida, on Oct. 5, 2023.

FILE - The TikTok logo is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying a TikTok home page on March 18, 2023, in Boston.

FILE - South Vietnamese forces follow children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places, June 8, 1972. FILE - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut, center, flanked by Kim Phuc, left, holds his Pulitzer Prize winning photo, as they wait to meet with Pope Francis during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, May 11, 2022.

Displaced Palestinians leave parts of Khan Younis as they go back to their homes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 19, 2025. Demonstrators hold portraits of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 18, 2025.

Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamad Hasan speaks at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat in Langkawi Island, Malaysia, Jan. 19, 2025.

Chahida Boufaied, owner of Dar Chahida Lel Oula, prepares the Harissa in her house in Nabeul, Tunisia, Jan. 7, 2025. Chahida Boufaied, owner of Dar Chahida Lel Oula, prepares the Harissa in her house in Nabeul, Tunisia, Jan. 7, 2025. Chahida Boufaied, owner of Dar Chahida Lel Oula, prepares the Harissa in her house in Nabeul, Tunisia, Jan. 7, 2025.

FILE - A survivor of Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, Natalie Sanandaji, left, accepts the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Medal of Valor and another award in New York, Sept. 12, 2024. She participated in a video made to demonstrate solidarity with Iranian women resisting oppression.

FILE - Genevieve Callerot, 102, sits in the garden of her farm, on Aug. 25, 2018, in Saint-Aulaye, southwestern France.

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Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid wait on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Jan. 18, 2025, following the Israeli Cabinet's approval of a ceasefire deal amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Two women talk next to a mural demanding the return of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Jan. 18, 2025.

FILE - Delegates meet for a round of peace talks between Colombia's government and the National Liberation Army in Mexico City, Mexico, on Dec. 17, 2023. The government announced on Jan. 17, 2025, that it was suspending peace negotiations after violence that killed 30 people.

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Jan. 16, 2025.

A map of Australia showing the territory names, with the Northern Territory highlighted.

First responders work the scene following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 18, 2025.

Police officers stand guard as pro-Yoon supporters, back, try to enter the compound of the Seoul Western District Court in Seoul on Jan. 18, 2025, as the court weighs whether to extend the detention of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol.

FILE - The main entrance of Tatu City, a startup city that tries to tackle Africa's problem of urbanizing, is seen in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 25, 2024. FILE - Waiters serve in a restaurant at Tatu City, a startup city that tries to tackle Africa's problem of urbanizing, in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 25, 2024. FILE - A privately owned townhouse is seen at Tatu City, a startup city that tries to tackle Africa's problem of urbanizing, in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 25, 2024.

FILE - Bottles freshly filled with beer move on a conveyor belt at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, Jan. 14, 2019.

Two pigeons play in their loft in Ranst, Belgium, Jan. 13, 2025. Pigeon breeder champion Frans Bungeneers holds one of his pigeons in Ranst, Belgium, Jan. 13, 2025 Belgium Grand Theft Pigeon Pigeon breeder champion Frans Bungeneers holds one of his pigeons in Ranst, Belgium, Jan. 13, 2025.

FILE - This image shows Asif William Rahman, who was arrested last year by the FBI in Cambodia and charged with leaking classified information. He pleaded guilty Jan. 17, 2025, in federal court in Virginia. (Guam Department of Corrections via AP)

Health workers treat cholera patients at the Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, on Jan. 11, 2023.

FILE - Ksenia Turkova sits in a VOA studio in an undated photo. Turkova is one of several journalists whom Russia's Justice Ministry added on Friday to its list of people it calls foreign agents.

FILE - A man reads a newspaper near a kiosk in Baku, Azerbaijan, June 15, 2015. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported in early January 2025 that Azerbaijan was detaining at least 18 journalists for their work.

FILE - A woman sits on the bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai and looks out at the Pudong financial district, Sept. 27, 2024.

A man with a Sudanese flag gestures following reports that Sudan's army had entered the central city of Wad Madani and pushed out its paramilitary rivals, the Rapid Support Forces, in Merowe, Sudan, Jan.11, 2025. People queue for water in Omdurman, Sudan, during battles between the Sudanese military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Jan. 16, 2025. Most of Omdurman is under army control; the RSF holds Khartoum North and some other areas of the capital.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' report on jailed journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa, on its website, Jan. 16, 2025.

FILE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, with his wife, Bushra Bibi, speaks to the media at an office of Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 17, 2023.

Masked customers are seen shopping at a supermarket in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, on Jan. 17, 2025.

FILE - A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance's app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Oct. 18, 2019.

FILE - David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles, Oct. 27, 2019.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia on Jan. 17, 2025.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sits in a car as he heads to a detention center in Uiwang, South Korea, Jan. 15, 2025.

In this screen grab taken from the SpaceX broadcast the Starship's Super Heavy Booster returns to the launch pad at Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2025.