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  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks as he meets with President Joe Biden to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    House debt ceiling vote to avert default on track with Biden and McCarthy both confident of passage

  • Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition, left, shakes hands with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a stakeholder event, in connection to the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting between Europe and the United States, in Lulea, Sweden, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency via AP)

    U.S., Europe working on voluntary AI code of conduct as calls grow for regulation

  • Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Abd Algadier, a Sudanese citizen of Canada, is mere blocks from the head-quarters of the Rapid Support Forces headquarters, the paramilitary group whose lashing against the Sudan’s army has left him unable to return to Canada and in peril on nearly every front. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Marwan Ali

    Trapped by Sudan fighting, at least 60 infants, toddlers and children died in Khartoum orphanage

  • FILE - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning gestures during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Oct. 13, 2022. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning responded Wednesday, May 31, 2023 to complaints from the United States about a Chinese fighter jet’s dangerous interception of an American Air Force reconnaissance aircraft, saying that China would keep taking measures it deems necessary to safeguard its sovereignty. (AP Photo/Liu Zheng, File)

    China responds to US complaint over plane intercept with demand for end to surveillance flights

  • Polish soldiers, part of the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo KFOR, guard a municipal building in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo have used metal fences and barbed wire to beef up positions in a northern town following clashes with ethnic Serbs that left 30 soldiers wounded. (AP Photo/Marjan Vucetic)(AP Photo/Marjan Vucetic)

    Efforts to defuse Kosovo crisis intensify amid more protests

  • A woman runs past the government building, decorated with European Union and Moldovan flags in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Moldova will host the Meeting of the European Political Community on June 1, 2023. Preparations for a major summit of European leaders were still underway in Moldova on Wednesday, a sign of the Eastern European country’s ambitions to draw closer to the West and break with its Russian-dominated past amid the war in neighboring Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

    EU aspirant Moldova prepares to host major international summit

  • FILE - Latvia's Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics talks to journalists on second day of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in Bucharest, Romania, on Nov. 30, 2022. Latvian lawmakers are set to elect a new head of state on Wednesday May 31, 2023 from a field of three candidates with none of them a clear favorite to win ahead of the unpredictable vote by the Baltic nation's 100-seat Saeima legislature. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

    Latvian Parliament elects foreign minister as new president

  • This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows shows activity at a launch pad at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station near Tongchang-ri, North Korea, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. North Korea's attempt to put the country's first spy satellite into space failed Wednesday in a setback to leader Kim Jong Un's push to boost his military capabilities as tensions with the United States and South Korea rise. The white part of this image is an area that wasn't captured by the passing Planet Labs PBC satellite. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

    North Korea spy satellite launch fails as rocket falls into the sea

  • Sabina Giliazova of Russia and Blandine Pont of France, bottom, in action during the women's -48 category at the World Judo Championships in Doha, Qatar, Sunday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)

    Olympic sports leaders meet amid uncertainty over Russians competing at 2024 Paris Games

  • FILE - Kemi Badenoch, Britain's Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade, Minister for Women and Equalities leaves after attending a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London, on Jan. 17, 2023. The U.K. government on Wednesday May 10, 2023 scrapped plan to remove all remaining EU laws, some 4,000 in all, from British statute books by the end of this year — a post-Brexit goal that critics said was rash and unachievable. Badenoch said in a written statement that the government would instead draw up a list of about 600 specific laws that would be revoked. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

    UK hails first post-Brexit trade deals with Australia, New Zealand, but impact likely small

  • People line up in front of a bakery during a cease-fire in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, May 27, 2023. Saudi Arabia and the United States say the warring parties in Sudan are adhering better to a week-long cease-fire after days of fighting. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

    Sudan's military says it has suspended its participation in talks with paramilitary rival

  • Former head of Serbia's state security service Jovica Stanisic arrives to appear in court at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. United Nations appeals judges on Wednesday significantly expanded the convictions of two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes across Bosnia and in one town in Croatia as members of a joint criminal plan to drive out non-Serbs from the areas during the Balkan wars. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool Photo via AP)

    UN appeals court increases sentences for 2 Serbs convicted of crimes in Balkan wars

  • Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, is escorted by prison officials into a federal women’s prison camp on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, in Bryan, Texas. Holmes will spend the next 11 years serving her sentence for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

    Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for notorious blood-testing hoax