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  • FILE- A student receives a doze of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from a health worker at a school in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

    White House details plans to vaccinate 28M children age 5-11

  • FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers standing in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. A Moscow court is considering a request by prosecutors to outlaw the organizations founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. That's part of authorities’ efforts to muzzle critics ahead of a crucial parliamentary election in September. The Moscow City Court on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 is expected to grant prosecutors’ request to designate Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption and his sprawling network of regional offices across Russia as extremist organizations. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

    Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny wins top EU human rights prize

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    Police: Shooting at Kenosha home leaves 3 dead, 2 wounded

  • Medics wearing special suits to protect against coronavirus prepare to move a patient with coronavirus at an ICU at the Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Russia hit another daily record of coronavirus deaths Tuesday as rapidly surging infection rates raised pressure on the country's health care system and prompted the government to suggest declaring a nonworking week.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Putin keeps Russian workers home for a week as deaths soar

  • In this image made from video, people look on as a car factory burns in Mekele, Ethiopia, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Residents say new airstrikes have hit the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region as exclusive video shows injured people with bloodied faces being carried into ambulances. Ethiopia's government says it targeted facilities for making and repairing weapons, while a Tigray spokesman denies it. (AP Photo)

    New airstrikes hit capital of Ethopia's breakaway Tigray region

  • In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian firefighters and security officer check a burned bus at the site of a deadly explosion, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Two roadside bombs exploded near a bus carrying troops during the morning rush hour in the Syrian capital early Wednesday, killing and wounding several people, state TV reported. (SANA via AP)

    Bus bombs kill 14 in Syria capital; shells elsewhere kill 10

  • In this Sept. 26, 2021, photo Royal Smart, left, poses with his siblings and mother in a Chicago park. Smart still has nightmares about being handcuffed for nearly 30 minutes two years ago, alongside his mother and other adults. Neither he nor anyone else was arrested when police wielding a warrant came looking for illegal weapons and found none in the family's home on Chicago's South Side. From left are Royal, Roy and Royalty, and their mother, Domonique Wilson. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

    Tiny wrists in handcuffs; how U.S. police use force against children

  • Supporters of the Shiite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during yesterday clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Dozens of gunmen opened fire in the air Friday south of Beirut during the funeral of persons killed in hours of gun battles between heavily armed gunmen the day before that left several people dead and terrorized the residents of Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

    Beirut clash fires up sectarian anger in echo of Lebanon's civil war

  • Climate activists including Vanessa Nakate from Uganda and Leonie Bremer of the German Fridays for Future movement, visit the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine in Luetzerath, western Germany, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. Garzweiler, operated by utility giant RWE, has become a focus of protests by people who want Germany to stop extracting and burning coal as soon as possible. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

    Global fossil fuel output needs to drop by more than half by 2030 to avoid climate disaster: UNEP

  • Youths play soccer next to businesses that are closed due to a general strike in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Workers angry about the nation's lack of security went on strike in protest two days after 17 members of a US-based missionary group were abducted by a violent gang. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

    Haiti gang seeks $1M each for kidnapped US and Canadian missionaries

  • This combination of four photos provided by the North Korean government shows a ballistic missile launched from a submarine Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in North Korea. North Korea announced Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 that it had tested a newly developed missile designed to be launched from a submarine, the first such weapons test in two years and one it says will bolster its military’s underwater operational capability. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

    North Korea confirms missile test designed for submarine launch

  • In this file photo from Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, talks about the approaching midterm election during an interview with The Associated Press, in Washington. The special congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has set a vote for Tuesday to recommend criminal contempt charges against Bannon after he defied the panel's subpoena. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

    Jan. 6 panel votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt

  • In this Sept. 24, 2021, file photo, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

    US Homeland Security secretary tests positive for COVID-19

  • Medical workers carry a patient suspected of having coronavirus on a stretcher at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Russia's daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    As COVID-19 deaths rise, Russian doctors despair at low vaccine rate

  • FILE - In this Friday, April 9, 2021 file photo, vials containing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 are seen at the San Marino State Hospital, in San Marino. The South African drug regulator has rejected the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, citing some safety concerns the manufacturer wasn't able to answer. In a statement on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 the country's regulator, also known as SAHPRA, said the request for Sputnik V to be authorized could “not be approved at this time,” referring to past failed HIV vaccines that used a similar technology. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

    South African regulator rejects Russia's COVID-19 vaccine

  • A man wears a face mask as he walks in Piccadilly Circus, in London, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Many scientists are pressing the British government to re-impose social restrictions and speed up booster vaccinations as coronavirus infection rates, already Europe's highest, rise once more. The U.K. recorded 49,156 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, Oct. 18, the largest number since mid-July. New infections averaged 43,000 a day over the past week, a 15% increase on the week before.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

    UK faces calls for 'Plan B' with virus cases high and rising

  • FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2021 photo, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Japan's new prime minister interrupted his first day of campaigning on Tuesday, as he returned to the capital of Tokyo to deal with rising regional tensions following North Korea's surprise test-firing of a missile earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

    Japan's PM interrupts campaign as N Korea test fires missile

  • In this Oct. 4, 2021 file photo, British army veteran Dennis Hutchings, 80, arrives at Laganside Courts, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he is charged in connection with the shooting of John Pat Cunningham, 27, in 1974. An 80-year-old Hutchings died Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, while on trial for a shooting that occurred during “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, fueling debate over the prosecution of soldiers for alleged crimes committed decades ago. (Peter Morrison/PA via AP, file)

    Aging UK soldier dies while on trial for Troubles shooting

  • The internet App Store page showing the Chinese LinkedIn app is displayed on a device in Beijing, China, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Microsoft is shutting down its main LinkedIn service in China later this year as Beijing tightens its internet rules. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

    Chinese users have mixed feelings about LinkedIn departure

  • In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 file photo, a herd of adult and baby elephants walks in the dawn light as the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, sits topped with snow in the background, seen from Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya. Africa's rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report warned Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 amid sweeping forecasts of pain for the continent that contributes least to global warming but will suffer from it most. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

    Climate report: Africa's rare glaciers soon to disappear