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  • FILE - Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-born Canadian billionaire talks to reporters outside the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong in Dec., 2013. Xiao is being put on trial in China, Canada's government said Monday, July 4, 2022, five years after he vanished from Hong Kong during an anti-corruption crackdown. (Next Magazine via AP, File)

    China jails Canadian tycoon for 13 years for finance crimes

  • FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions from a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, June 18, 2022. The deliveries of Western weapons have been crucial for Ukraine's efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the country's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. The Western howitzers have some advantages compared to older Soviet-designed systems in the Russian and Ukrainian arsenals, but they require time for the Ukrainian crews to train how to operate them and their wide assortment poses obvious logistical challenges. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

    U.S. announces new military aid, drones for Ukraine

  • This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Russian occupied Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Kyiv and Moscow continued to accuse each other of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, stoking international fears of a catastrophe on the continent. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

    Russia, Ukraine spar over fighting near nuclear facility

  • A forest burns during a wildfire near Altura, eastern Spain, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Up to early August, 43 large wildfires — those affecting at least 500 hectares (1,235 acres) — were recorded in the Mediterranean country by the Ministry for Ecological transition, while the average in previous years was 11. The European Forest Fire Information System estimates a burned surface of 284,764 hectares (704,000 acres) in Spain this year. That's four times higher than the average since records began in 2006. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

    Winds drive major wildfire in Spain; Portugal goes on alert

  • FILE Morning light lights the landfall facility of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, in Lubmin, Germany, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

    Russia's Gazprom to shut gas pipeline to Europe for 3 days

  • This image provided by Boston-based RR Auction, shows an authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s that a Bay Area collector, who wishes to remain anonymous, made the winning $677,196 bid on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, the auctioneer said. The prototype was used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1976 to demonstrate the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal computer stores in the world, Boston-based RR Auction said in a statement. (RR Auction via AP)

    Steve Jobs' Apple-1 computer prototype auctioned for nearly $700K

  • FILE - Lawmakers listen as parents speak about the prospect of their children competing against transgender girls in school sports at the Utah State Capitol on March 25, 2022, in Salt Lake City. A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete, without telling her or her parents, after receiving complaints from the parents of two girls she had defeated in competition questioning whether the girl was transgender. (AP Photo/Samuel Metz, File)

    Transgender kids can play girls sports in Utah after ruling

  • This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers, center, gather with civilians at the rocket attacked scene, at al-Bab town, north Syria, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. A rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria Friday killed several people and wounded dozens, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group reported. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

    Market blast in north Syria kills 15 people, wounds dozens

  • FILE - In this photo provided by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office is El Shafee Elsheikh who is in custody at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center, Oct. 7, 2020, in Alexandria, Va. Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State. Prosecutors say El Shafee Elsheikh is the most notorious member of the Islamic State ever to be convicted at trial in a U.S. court. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

    Islamic State 'Beatle' gets life term for US hostage deaths

  • In this photo provided by the Polish National Fiscal Administration, a customs officer shows packages of heroin that were discovered in the luggage of a woman as she was transiting at Frederic Chopin airport in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday Aug. 14, 2022. A 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada was arrested at Warsaw airport on suspicion of illegal possession of heroin worth over $515,000, officials in Poland said Friday. (Polish National Fiscal Administration via AP)

    Poland nabs octogenarian with 5 kilos of heroin in suitcase travelling to Canada

  • The gates at Northfields tube station are closed as members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) continue nationwide strikes in a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions in London, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

    No Tube: London subway hit by strike, day after rail walkout

  • Dr. Ilona Butova stands in front of the therapy department which was destroyed after a Russia attack on the hospital in Zolochiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, July 31, 2022. Ukraine's health care system already was struggling due to corruption, mismanagement and the COVID-19 pandemic. But the war with Russia has only made things worse, with facilities damaged or destroyed, medical staff relocating to safer places and many drugs unavailable or in short supply. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

    Doctors stay in Ukraine's war-hit towns: 'People need us'

  • In this image made from SCTV video shot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, convicted Muslim militant Umar Patek talks to the media after receiving his sentence reduction letter during a ceremony at Porong Prison in Sidoarjo, Central Java, Indonesia. Australia's leader said Friday that it's upsetting Indonesia has further reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali terror attack that killed 202 people, which could free him within days if he's granted parole. (AP Photo)

    Australia upset at Indonesia reducing Bali bomber's sentence

  • FILE - A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Scammer, thief, killer, Pfizer" during a protest against the vaccine pass and vaccinations to protect against COVID-19 in front of the Pfizer headquarters, in Paris, on Jan. 29, 2022. An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on platforms like Facebook despite efforts to rein in their abuse and misinformation. The organization, known as V_V, bombards its victims with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of abusive posts. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

    Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort

  • Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, John Mangudya holds a sample of a gold coin at the launch in Harare, Monday, July, 25, 2022. Zimbabwe has launched gold coins to be sold to the public in a bid to to tame runaway inflation that that has further eroded the country's unstable currency. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

    Zimbabweans hit by 257% inflation: Will gold coins help?

  • A man walks along the lower than normal bank of the Jialing River in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after the driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers shrunk to barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

    Yangtze shrinks as China's drought disrupts industry