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  • Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    US orders 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid Russia worry

  • Melbourne, Australia is indicated on this map. (Google)

    Australian reportedly killed when explosive vest detonates

  • President Joe Biden listens to reporter's questions during a meeting on efforts to lower prices for working families, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

    Biden caught on hot mic using vulgarity in response to question from Fox reporter

  • A pedestrian walks past the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, in New York. Stocks have fallen sharply so far this year as the market readies for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to try to tame inflation, which is at its highest level in nearly four decades. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    Stocks climb back after steep slide on Fed, Ukraine jitters

  • Julian Assange's partner Stella Moris, speaks outside the High Court, in London, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has won the first stage of his effort to appeal a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges. The High Court in London gave Assange permission appeal the case to the U.K. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

    Assange wins first stage in effort to appeal U.S. extradition

  • Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces fighters, take their positions at an alley near Gweiran Prison, in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. Clashes between U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants continued for a fourth day Sunday near a prison in northeastern Syria that houses thousands of members of the Islamic State group, the Kurdish force said. (AP Photo/Hogir Al Abdo)

    U.S.-backed forced corner final ISIS holdouts in northern Syria prison break

  • FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, photo, the night view of the city skyline is seen in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

    UAE says it intercepted 2 ballistic missilles over Abu Dhabi

  • People begin to gather spontaneously Place de la Nation in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou Sunday Jan. 23, 2022. Witnesses are reporting heavy gunfire at a military base raising fears that a coup attempt is underway. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)

    Soldiers capture Burkina Faso's president, declare they now control country

  • Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference in Sydney, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP Image via AP)

    Australia PM Morrison loses access to Chinese WeChat account ahead of election

  • A man distributes bread to Burka-wearing Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. UN World Food Program top official Mary-Ellen McGroarty says Afghanistan is facing a "tsunami of hunger," with the country on the verge of economic collapse and more than half of the population struggling to eat this winter. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 the WFP leader in Afghanistan urged the international community to separate political discussions from the humanitarian imperative by making sure the billions in aid that are required to avoid a disaster keep reaching the country, which is being run by the Taliban. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

    EXPLAINER: Why effort to help Afghanistan is falling short

  • Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI waves prior of his departure at Munich Airport in Freising, Germany, June 22, 2020. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is returning to the Vatican after a four-day visit to Germany to visit his ailing elder brother. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

    Benedict XVI admits being at 1980 meeting to discuss abusive priest in Munich

  • FILE - A convoy of Russian armored vehicles moves along a highway in Crimea, on Jan. 18, 2022. Russia's present demands are based on Putin's purported long sense of grievance and his rejection of Ukraine and Belarus as truly separate, sovereign countries but rather as part of a Russian linguistic and Orthodox motherland. (AP Photo, File)

    Russia rejects UK claim of trying to replace Ukraine leader