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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.

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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.

A child reacts to an Unitree Go2 intelligent side-follow robot during a performance at a popular shopping district in Beijing, Nov. 17, 2024.

FILE - A convoy of army vehicles patrol the streets in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.

Major General Kenneth Chigbu, deputy theatre commander of Operation Hadin Kai is shown with poses for a group photograph with Alice Loksha, left, and Fayina Ali at Army Barrack Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on November 15, 2024.

FILE - A Pakistani waits to open an internet page on a desktop in Lahore, Pakistan, Aug. 19, 2024. Pakistan's top cleric has declared that virtual private networks, or VPNs, are unlawful.

A Finnish soldier of the Karelia Brigade, one of the three Finnish Army readiness brigades, operates the K9 artillery, a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer during the NATO Exercise Dynamic Front, on November 17, 2024 near Rovaniemi, Finland.

This photo taken on November 18, 2024 shows Myanmar farmer Hla Han, 52, who lost his leg after stepping on a mine, peeling garlic outside his house in Demoso township, eastern Kayah state.

FILE - A student looks at Iran's domestically built centrifuges in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 8, 2023. Iran has increased its supply of uranium that has been enriched to 60% purity, according to IAEA reports seen by news agencies.  

Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visit the flood damaged town of Utiel, in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain, in the aftermath of catastrophic deadly floods, on November 19, 2024.

World leaders attending the G20 Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 19, 2024.

China's President Xi Jinping, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend the G20 summit at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 18, 2024. The two also met Tuesday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Scores of people march amid concerns about corruption in state enterprises, in Gaborone, Botswana, Nov 18, 2024. Protest organizer Setlhomo Tshwanelang, left, presents a petition to Minister of Trade Tiroeaone Ntsima, in Gaborone, Botswana, Nov. 18, 2024.

U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein speaks to the media after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Nov. 19, 2024.

FILE - The sun rises near the Kariba Dam in Siavonga, Zambia, on Sept. 19, 2024. Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga speaks at the Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on Nov. 18, 2024. Delegates to the Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, take notes on Nov. 19, 2024.

Pakistani policemen stand guard outside a factory where two Chinese nationals were allegedly shot, in Karachi, Nov. 5, 2024. China said on Nov. 19, 2024, it will send troops to Pakistan for the first joint counterterrorism exercise in five years to enhance security cooperation. FILE - Police officers examine the site of suicide bombing at a highway in Shangla, district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, March 26, 2024. The attack killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said.

This frame grab taken from video footage circulating on Chinese social media on Nov. 19, 2024 shows the scene where a car crashed outside the Yong'an primary school in Changde. (AFP photo / Chinese social media)

FILE - Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, center, casts his vote inside a polling station during the presidential election in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Wednesday, Nov. 13,2024.

A serviceman of 24th Mechanized brigade enters an adjustment as he fires a self-propelled howitzer, near Chasiv Yar, Nov. 18, 2024. (Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters) Rescuers work at a residential building hit by a Russian drone strike in the town of Hlukhiv, Sumy region, in this handout picture released Nov. 19, 2024. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Sumy region/Handout via Reuters)

Thousands of people gather outside New Zealand's parliament to protest a proposed law that would redefine the country's founding agreement between Indigenous Maori and the British Crown, in Wellington November 19, 2024.

FILE - Arthur Frommer and his daughter, Pauline Frommer, pose among tourists in the Wall Street area in New York, May 20, 2012.

A man breaks a car's window following a vehicle collision outside a primary school in Changde, Hunan province, China in this screengrab obtained from social media video released November 19, 2024. Local authorities have not released details. Social Media/via REUTERS

FILE - Ruth Kavere, 65, demonstrates how to use a mosquito net with her granddaughter Faith, 3, in Mukuli, Kenya, on March 7, 2023. Bed nets are less effective against an invasive urban mosquito that is thriving in East Africa and bites earlier in the evening.

Russia's Permanent Representative speaks during a meeting of the UN Security Council addressing the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine at U.N. headquarters in New York City, November 18, 2024.

FILE - Moroccan peacekeepers from the U.N. Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) patrol in Bangassou, Feb. 3, 2021. The force's mandate has been extended until November 2025.

Protesters' tents are seen in a street during a rally against the results of the parliamentary elections amid allegations that the vote was rigged in Tbilisi, Georgia, Nov. 18, 2024.

China's President Xi Jinping attends the second session of the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 18, 2024.

FILE - An Airbus A321 airliner arrives at the Mehrabad international airport during the delivery of the first batch of planes to the Iranian state airline Iran Air in Tehran, Jan. 12, 2017. Britain on Monday imposed sanctions against Iran Air.

A man walks wearing a face mask amidst a thick layer of smog as air pollution shoots up in New Delhi, Nov. 18, 2024. Residents woke up to thick, toxic smog enveloping the city of some 33 million as the air quality became increasingly hazardous. Commuters drive through a thick layer of smog as air pollution shoots up in New Delhi, Nov. 18, 2024.

FILE - A farmer sprinkles fertilizer onto crops at a field on Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 12, 2020. The island in the middle of the Nile serves as a microcosm for the devastation unleashed by a war that began in April 2023. FILE - Director of the Toxic Organism Research Center Dr. Rania Mohamed, and Dr. Manal Siyam search for snakes and scorpions on Tuti Island in Khartoum, Sudan, Sept. 12, 2022. FILE - A brick maker from Ad-Damazin carries a mould of mud bricks to be dried at an open-air factory on Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 14, 2020.

A view shows a residential building, which was damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Sumy, Ukraine, November 18, 2024.

This handout taken and released on November 18, 2024 by the Philippine Department of National Defense shows US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro posing after signing a military intelligence agreement.

FILE - A view shows water collected at the dam within the Ruzizi I hydroelectric plant in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo March 31, 2022.

A Sudanese army soldier controls a machine gun outside a hospital in Omdurman on November 2, 2024. The UN Security Council on November 18, 2024, will take up a draft resolution calling for an immediate end to hostilities in Sudan.

An election official burns ballots after the counting has finished at a voting station in Libreville on November 16, 2024. Gabon on Saturday held a referendum on a new constitution after a coup ended 55 years of rule by the Bongo dynasty in the oil-rich nation.

Protesters rally outside the parliament building in Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, Nov. 15, 2024. (DNA News Abkhazia/Handout via Reuters)

FILE - Starlink satellite antennas are seen at the Internationale Funkausstellung, the international trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, Aug. 31, 2023, in Berlin, Germany. Across Myanmar, rebel commanders and aid workers are turning to Starlink satellites. FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload of Starlink satellites for a high-speed low earth orbit internet constellation, lifts off from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 17, 2022.

Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stand on the podium before a meeting, at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, Nigeria, Nov. 17, 2024.

FILE - Military personnel stand guard in front of a large cutout portrait of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 30, 2024. Interim leader Muhammad Yunus said, Nov. 17, 2024, that his administration will seek the extradition of ousted prime minister from India.

Germany Russia Ukraine Protest Yulia Navalnaya, with Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin demonstrate in Berlin, Nov. 17, 2024.

Voters wait in line outside a voting station in the fishing village of Ndayane on Nov. 17, 2024, during Senegal's parliamentary elections, with the country's new leaders aiming for a clear majority to see through their ambitious reform agenda. A voter casts his ballot at a voting station in the fishing village of Ndayane on Nov. 17, 2024.