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  • Sudanese demonstrators take to the streets of the capital Khartoum to demand the government's transition to civilian rule in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. The relationship between military generals and Sudanese pro-democracy groups has deteriorated in recent weeks over the country's future. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

    Sudan's military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister

  • A plane is silhouetted as it takes off from Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., Monday, May 13, 2019. Families who have endured anxiety-inducing airport delays over no-fly list mismatches will be among the first to test a new system intended to solve the problem. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

    U.S. details new international COVID-19 travel requirements

  • People carry their child wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus head to a kindergarten in Beijing on June 9, 2021. If China is to meet its tentative goal of vaccinating 80% of its population against the coronavirus by the end of the year, tens of millions of children may have to start rolling up their sleeves. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

    China to start vaccinating children to age 3 as cases spread

  • A man walks past the logo of the Amnesty International at its office in Hong Kong Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Amnesty International said Monday it would close its two offices in Hong Kong this year, becoming the latest non-governmental organization to cease its operations amid a crackdown on political dissent in the city. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

    Amnesty International to close Hong Kong offices this year

  • FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, April 23, 2021, the Facebook app is shown on a smart phone, in Surfside, USA. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, FILE)

    Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maid abuse

  • FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Cook County Sheriff's Office, authorities exhume a box with the remains of unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the Chicago area in the 1970s. Authorities announced Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, that they have identified the remains of one more of Gacy's victims. (AP Photo/Cook County Sheriff's Office, File)

    North Carolina man identified as victim of John Wayne Gacy

  • Defendant Jennifer W. arrives in a courtroom for her trial in Munich, Germany, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. The woman from Lohne in Lower Saxony is charged with murder and war crimes. As an IS supporter in Iraq, she is said to have stood idly by while a small Yazidi girl was chained in a courtyard and died of thirst. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

    German court sentences IS woman to 10 years in prison

  • Ramilya Shigalturina stands in the courtyard of a morgue at Infectious Hospital No. 5 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Wednesday, on Oct. 20, 2021, as a worker moves a coffin containing the body of her grandmother, who died of COVID-19. Shigalturina said the disease was “really dreadful and dangerous,” and she begged Russians to get vaccinated. The resident of Nizhny Novgorod, the country's fifth-largest city, said her 83-year-old grandmother, who was unvaccinated, “died right away after catching it.” (AP Photo/Roman Yarovitcyn)

    Russia marks another record number of daily COVID-19 cases

  • FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2021, file photo, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a promotional event for Tibet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Wang will meet with Taliban representatives during a trip this week to the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, an official said Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

    Chinese, Taliban representatives to meet in Qatar

  • In this Oct. 5, 2021 file photo, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen speaks during a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower Haugen plans to answer questions from lawmakers in the United Kingdom who are working on legislation to rein in the power of social media companies. Haugen is set to appear Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, before a parliamentary committee scrutinizing the British government’s draft legislation to crack down on harmful online content. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

    Whistleblower Haugen to testify as UK scrutinizes Facebook

  • FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2021 file photo, smoke rises from the Feyzin Total refinery chimneys, outside Lyon, central France. The World Meteorological Organization says greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and continued to increase at a faster clip than the average rate in the last decade, despite a temporary blip downward amid coronavirus-linked lockdowns. The U.N. weather agency, releasing its flagship annual report on heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere on Monday Oct. 25, 2021, said concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are all above levels in the pre-industrial era pegged to before 1750, when human activities “started disrupting Earth’s natural equilibrium.”(AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, file)

    UN: Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020

  • Santa Rosa firefighters check for residents trapped by floodwaters on Brookhaven Drive in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

    Drought-stricken California doused by major storm

  • A custom sign stands outside Christian Aid Ministries in Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

    Michigan vigil prays for missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

  • President Joe Biden speaks during an event marking the 10th anniversary of the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest on record but an improvement from the all-tine high of $3.13 trillion in 2020. The deficits in both years reflected trillions of dollars in government spending to counter-act the devastating effects of a global pandemic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

    Biden, Manchin and Schumer huddle, but still no budget deal

  • Forensics officers search near the scene of an explosion in the Komamboga suburb of the capital Kampala, Uganda Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The explosion at an eatery in Uganda's capital late Saturday was an apparent terrorist act, President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday. (AP Photo/Nicholas Bamulanzeki)

    Uganda's president says deadly blast likely a terrorist act