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  • Taiwan's military conducts artillery live-fire drills at Fangshan township in Pingtung, southern Taiwan, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported that Taiwan's army will conduct live-fire artillery drills in southern Pingtung county on Tuesday and Thursday, in response to the Chinese exercises. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

    Taiwan holds live fire drills of its own as China continues surrounding island

  • A Ukrainian serviceman of "Fireflies" reconnaissance team operates a drone at his position at the frontline in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

    Ukraine: Shelling hits town near Russian-held nuclear plant

  • Trade union and civil society activists led by leftists' People Liberation Front shout slogans denouncing president Ranil Wickremesinghe as they march in streets in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Hundreds of Sri Lankans Tuesday rallied against a government crackdown and the use of emergency laws against those who protested peacefully against the country’s worst economic crisis in recent memory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

    Sri Lankans rally against crackdown on protesters

  • FLE - Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, left, speaks with Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas during a round table meeting at an Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels, on Dec. 15, 2021. Estonia and Finland want European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians amid the war in Ukraine. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Tuesday that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right.” Her Finnish counterpart, Sanna Marin, says Russians traveling in Europe is "not right.” (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)

    Estonia, Finland want Europe to end Russian tourist visas

  • In this early 2022 photo provided by Global Witness, a new rare earth mine is dug into the side of a mountain in Pangwa, Kachin, Myanmar. The region is close to the Chinese border and the home of hundreds of rare earth mining sites. Bleaching agents used in extracting rare earth elements have tainted tributaries of Myanmar's main river, prompted landslides and poisoned the earth, according to witnesses, miners and local activists. (Global Witness via AP)

    'The Sacrifice Zone': Myanmar bears cost of green energy

  • People line up to cast their vote in Kenya's general election in Eldoret, Kenya, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2022. Kenyans are voting to choose between opposition leader Raila Odinga Deputy President William Ruto to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta after a decade in power. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga))

    Kenya in close presidential election amid prayers for peace

  • This photo shows Issey Miyake at the National Art Center in Tokyo on March 15, 2016. Miyake, who built one of Japan’s biggest fashion brands and was known for his boldly sculpted, signature pleated pieces, has died. He was 84. Miyake died Aug. 5 of liver cancer, Miyake Design Office said Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (Kyodo News via AP)

    Famed Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

  • A part of a main road near the Han River is flooded due to heavy rain in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea's capital region, turning Seoul's streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations. (Park Dong-ju/Yonhap via AP)

    Mass flooding in S. Korea blamed for 9 deaths

  • Flames and smoke rise from the Matanzas Supertanker Base as firefighters work to quell the blaze which began during a thunderstorm in Matanzas, Cuba, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Cuban authorities say lightning struck a crude oil storage tank at the base, sparking a fire that sparked four explosions. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

    Oil facility fire jeopardizes Cuba's frail electric system

  • This photo combo shows, from left to right, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Months after they were sentenced to life in prison for murder, the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood faced a second round of criminal penalties Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, for federal hate crimes committed in the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man. (Pool via AP, File)

    Father, son get life for hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery's death

  • The Mar-a-Lago estate is pictured on July 10, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

    Trump says FBI conducting search of Mar-a-Lago estate

  • Nuclear weapons

    Russia halts U.S. inspections of its nuclear arsenals

  • In this image taken from police body camera video provided by The Moab Police Department, Gabrielle 'Gabby' Petito talks to a police officer after police pulled over the van she was traveling in with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, near the entrance to Arches National Park on Aug. 12, 2021. (The Moab Police Department via AP, File)

    Gabby Petito's family files claim alleging police failed her

  • Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system fires to intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel just before a cease-fire between Palestinians and Israel takes effect, in Ashkelon southern Israel, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. A cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants has taken effect in a bid to end nearly three days of violence that has killed dozens of Palestinians. Egyptian officials had worked to bring the sides to an agreement after the flare-up of fighting that saw Israeli aircraft pound targets in Gaza and militants fire hundreds of rockets that reached deep into Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

    Fragile cease-fire between Israel, Gaza militants holding