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  • U.S. President Joe Biden, disembarks from Air Force One on his arrival at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, in Fussa on the outskirts of Tokyo, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

    Biden says monkeypox cases something to 'be concerned about'

  • In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday, May 21, 2022, Ukrainian servicemen line up to be checked as they leave the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

    Fate of 2,500 Ukrainian POWs from steel plant stirs concern

  • Khatereh Ahmadi a TV anchor wears a face covering as she reads the news on TOLO NEWS, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move Sunday is part of a hard-line shift drawing condemnation from rights activists. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

    Taliban enforcing face-cover order for female TV anchors

  • In this photo provided by Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, family members of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei weep over his body at his car after being shot by two assailants in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a senior member of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike, state TV reported. (IRNA via AP)

    Iran Quds Force colonel is shot dead in Tehran

  • Residents flee their home on a motorbike to avoid clashes between armed gangs in La Plaine neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, May 6, 2022. Fighting rages in four districts on the northern side of Port-au-Prince that has surged as increasingly powerful gangs try to control more territory during the political power vacuum left by the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moise. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

    Gangs strangle Haiti's capital as deaths, kidnappings soar

  • Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese speaks to supporters at a Labor Party event in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, May 22, 2022, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceding defeat to Albanese in a federal election. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

    Australian Labor topples conservatives, PM faces early tests

  • Theresa Haske sorts through debris from what was her garage after a tornado tore through Gaylord, Mich., Friday, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo/John Russell)

    Police report 2nd death from tornado in northern Michigan

  • FILE - Adam Almonte holds a photo of him with his older brother, Fernando Morales, on a bench where they used to sit and eat tuna sandwiches after playing catch in Fort Tryon Park in New York, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Morales died April 7, 2020 from COVID-19 at age 43. After a weekend of gun violence in America, Saturday, May 14, 2022, when shootings killed and wounded people grocery shopping, going to church and simply living their lives, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19. The number, once unthinkable, is now a pedestrian reality in the United States, just as is the reality of the continuing epidemic of gun violence that kills tens of thousands of people a year. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

    COVID-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?

  • U.S. President Joe Biden, back left, shares a light moment with people at a table with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, back right, at a state dinner at the National Museum of Korea, Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Seoul. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    US, SKorea open to expanded military drills to deter North

  • Jessica Pflumm of Olathe, Kansas, poses with Maks, a Ukrainian boy she and her family are working to adopt. The Pflumms are among dozens of families whose adoptions are on hold because of the war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has halted the process of international adoption. Ukraine has stopped all international adoptions as the country copes with the turmoil unleashed on its courts by the war. (Photo Courtesy of Jessica Pflumm via AP)

    Adoptions another facet of life halted by war in Ukraine

  • A Ukrainian serviceman inspects a school damaged during a battle between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the village of Vilkhivka, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

    Russia claims to have taken full control of Mariupol

  • This image from NASA TV shows the Boeing Starliner docking at the International Space Station, Friday, May 20, 2022. Boeing's astronaut capsule has arrived at the International Space Station in a critical repeat test flight. Only a test dummy was aboard the capsule for Friday's docking, a huge achievement for Boeing after years of false starts. (NASA via AP)

    Boeing docks crew capsule to space station in test do-over