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  • Pope Francis arrives at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci International airport in Fiumicino, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Pope Francis opened a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has called a lingering "colonialist mentality" that still considers Africa ripe for exploitation. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

    Pope's Africa trip spotlights conflict, and church's future

  • Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, and Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu hold a joint press conference following their meeting in the former's office in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP)

    Hungary FM: Sweden should 'act differently' to join NATO

  • In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks by phone with the Czech Republic's President elect Petr Pavel in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. China on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, accused Czech President-elect Petr Pavel of challenging its hard line on national sovereignty by affirming ties with self-ruled Taiwan in a phone with the island’s leader. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

    China scoffs at new Czech president's phone call with Taiwan

  • Demonstrator of the CGT union wearing a railway worker jacket holds a flare during a protest march, in Bayonne, southwestern France, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. French labor leaders hope to bring more than 1 million demonstrators into the streets again in the latest clash of wills with the government over plans to push back France's retirement age. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

    Strikes, protests hit France in round 2 of pension battle

  • FILE - An anti-coup protester displays defaced images of Commander in chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. As Feb. 1, 2023, marks two years after Myanmar’s generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, thousands of people have died in civil conflict and many more have been forced from their homes in a dire humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo, File)

    How Myanmar is faring 2 years after army ousted Suu Kyi

  • FILE - Protesters march Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop. As Memphis police officers attacked Nichols, others held him down or milled about, even as he cried out in pain before his body went limp. Just like the attack on George Floyd in Minneapolis nearly three years ago, a simple intervention could have saved a life. Memphis and Minneapolis police departments are among many with “duty to intervene” policies. It’s also the law. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

    Tyre Nichols case shows officers still fail to intervene

  • FILE - In this photo provided by the Free Burma Rangers, a wounded woman rests in Lay Wah, one of the villages in Karen state's Mutraw district, Myanmar, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. Two years after seizing power, Myanmar's military continues to face stiff armed resistance on the ground, and is responding increasingly with air strikes that resistance forces have little defense against, says a report released Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, by a human rights monitoring group. (Free Burma Rangers via AP, File)

    Rights groups say Myanmar military is increasing air attacks

  • FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Tesla has received requests from the Justice Department for documents related to its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” features, according to a regulatory filing. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

    Tesla gets Justice Department subpoena for self-driving cars

  • Case work supervisor Jessie Schemm looks over the first screen of software used by workers who field calls at an intake call screening center for the Allegheny County Children and Youth Services, in Penn Hills, Pa. The Justice Department is scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that it could result in discrimination against families with disabilities, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

    Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny

  • FILE - A street sign is seen in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

    US futures slide as corporate earnings pour in

  • Utility company workers push the waste to the shore of Lim river near Priboj, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Plastic bottles, wooden planks, rusty barrels and other garbage dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the rivers accumulated during high water season, behind a trash barrier in the Lim river in southwestern Serbia. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

    Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia do little to solve waste problem

  • FILE - A cargo ship passes the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 14, 2022. Europe’s economy has scraped out meager gains at the end of last year as galloping inflation fed by high energy prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine deterred people from spending in shops and restaurants. The European Union statistics agency Eurostat reported Tuesday Jan. 31, 2023, that economic output crept 0.1% higher in the last three months of 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

    Europe scrapes out economic growth by dodging gas disaster

  • FILE- Dried branches of a tree stand outside Adani Corporate House in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. The closely watched $2.5 billion share sale launched by Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, was fully subscribed on Tuesday. The share sale and its success were seen as a crucial test of investor confidence in Adani, whose sprawling empire shed tens of billions of dollars within a week after Hindenburg Research accused the conglomerate of stock market manipulation and fraud. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

    Adani $2.5B share sale pushes through amid fraud claims

  • President Joe Biden talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, after returning from an event in Baltimore on infrastructure. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

    President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

  • A group of demonstrators protest outside a police precinct in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    6th Memphis officer relieved of duty in Tyre Nichols arrest

  • Security officials and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Zubair Khan)

    Pakistan mosque suicide bomber kills 59, wounds over 150

  • Volunteers carry a coffin of a man, killed in the suicide bombing inside a mosque, at a hospital, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

    What's behind the Pakistani Taliban's insurgency?

  • In this image made from video footage run by China's CCTV, passengers evacuate at an unspecified location following a strong earthquake rocked a remote part of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Residents and travelers have sought shelter after a strong earthquake rocked a remote part of northwestern China. No injuries or major damage have been reported following the temblor that struck the Xinjiang region on Monday morning. (CCTV via AP)

    Earthquake rocks China's northwestern Xinjiang region

  • Construction workers lay concrete outside the Cathedral Notre Dame du Congo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Saturday Jan. 28, 2023. Pope Francis will be in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip starting Jan, 31, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a "colonialist mentality" that has exploited Africa for centuries. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

    Survivors of conflict to meet Pope Francis in Congo

  • A supporter waves the Indian flag as India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and other leaders, walk during a 5-month-long "Unite India March," in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. The countrywide trek, that began from the southernmost tip of India, on Sept. 7., is expected to traverse 3,570 kilometers (2,218 miles) and cross 12 states before finishing in Indian-controlled Kashmir. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

    Indian opposition's 'unity march' ends in disputed Kashmir