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  • Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkiye, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful earthquake that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria has killed more than 640 people with hundreds injured. The toll is expected to rise as rescuers search for dead and survivors in dozens of collapsed buildings across the region. (AP Photo/Mahmut Bozarsan)

    Rescuers scramble in Turkiye, Syria after quake kills 4,000

  • President Joe Biden walks off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, after returning from a weekend at Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

    White House says improved surveillance caught Chinese balloon

  • People carry a man injured in an earthquake into the al-Rahma Hospital in the town of Darkush, Idlib province, northern Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful earthquake has caused significant damage in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. Damage was reported across several Turkish provinces, and rescue teams were being sent from around the country. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

    Deadly earthquake exacerbates suffering of displaced Syrians

  • In this undated photo provided by her family and lawyers, Abigail Zwerner, a first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., is shown inside her classroom. The school is set to reopen Monday, Jan. 30, more than three weeks after a Jan. 6 shooting. Police have a the boy brought a 9mm handgun to school and intentionally shot his teacher Zwerner, as she was teaching her first-grade class. (Family of Abigail Zwerner via AP, File)

    6-year-old Virginia boy who shot teacher allegedly tried to choke another

  • Spanish firefighters with their equipment at Barajas international airport, in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, before boarding a flight to help with a rescue mission in Turkey. A powerful quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared.(AP Photo/Paul White)

    Aid, rescuers rushed to Turkiye, Syria after deadly quake

  • A woman prays in front of a religious icon in the catacombs of the Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

    Russian forces keep up pressure as Ukraine anniversary nears

  • Aiden Fucci enters the courtroom Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in the Saint Johns County Courtroom of Judge R. Lee Smith, St. Augustine, Fla. The Florida teenager has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 13-year-old classmate 114 times in 2021. Fucci entered the plea just before jury selection was scheduled to begin in his first-degree murder trial. Fucci was 14 at the time of the slaying. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)

    Florida teen pleads guilty to fatally stabbing classmate

  • A trader looks over his cell phone outside the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, in the financial district of Manhattan in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

    Stocks slip as worries about high rates weigh on Wall Street

  • FILE - Ven. Master Hsing Yun, founder of Taiwanese Fo Guang Shan, delivers a speech at the opening of the World Buddhist Forum on April 13, 2006 in Hangzhou, China. Hsing Yun, a Buddhist abbot who established a thriving religious community in southern Taiwan, maintained strong political connections and built universities overseas, has died. He was 95. Hsing Yun had largely withdrawn from public life for years following declining health and a series of strokes. He died peacefully Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, Fo Guang Shan said. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

    Hsing Yun, Buddhist abbot who built universities, dies at 95

  • NATO's Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana, left, and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, speak at the Leangkollen Security Conference 2023 in the university hall in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

    Norway looks to donate $7.3 billion in aid to Ukraine

  • Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in capital Pristina, Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. Kurti said Sunday that Serbia should face the past and show "willingness and interest for EU and NATO and not for Russian Federation." (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)

    Kosovo PM calls on West not to put pressure over Serb entity

  • Patriot missile launchers acquired from the U.S. last year are seen deployed in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

    Poland redeploys Patriot missiles to capital city for drills

  • A protestor with a megaphone shouts slogans in front of Big Ben as nurses of the nearby St. Thomas' Hospital protest in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff are walking off the job in the U.K. in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

    UK nurses, ambulance crews strike, straining health system

  • Political activists Orawan Phuphong, left, and Tatawan Tuatulanon raise a three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance, in protest outside at Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Concerns about the condition of two hunger strikers seeking political and judicial reforms heightened Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, after the hospital where the two women are being kept urgently summoned their parents. (Ratsadon News via AP)

    Concern rises for lives of 2 Thai activists on hunger strike

  • Transgender activist Henry Edward Tse speaks to reporters outside of Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, Monday Feb. 6, 2023. Hong Kong's top court ruled Monday that full sex reassignment surgery should not be a prerequisite for transgender people to have their gender changed on their official identity cards, in a move that is likely to have a far-reaching impact on the transgender community. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)

    Hong Kong transgender men win appeal over status change

  • Pro-democracy activist Emily Lau Wai-hing gestures as she arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Some of Hong Kong's best-known pro-democracy activists went on trial Monday in the biggest prosecution yet under a law imposed by China's ruling Communist Party to crush dissent. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)

    Subversion trial for Hong Kong political activists opens

  • This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)

    Israeli troops kill 5 Palestinian gunmen in West Bank raid

  • Business owner "Annie" weights down copies of the Chinese Daily News newspaper showcasing pictures of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. The balloon's presence in the sky above the United States before a military jet shot it down over the Atlantic Ocean with a missile Saturday has further strained U.S.- China ties. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

    China accuses U.S. of indiscriminate use of force over balloon

  • Women from the town of Paucartambo wait for tourists to take a photo with them in exchange for money, in downtown Cusco, Peru, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

    Turmoil risks financial stability Peru long took for granted

  • This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk and Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio are still on fire at mid-day Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

    Safety Board: Mechanical defect caused Ohio train wreck