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Putin visits a shipyard to oversee the commissioning …

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his address to the nation in Moscow, Russia, June 26, 2023. President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power. But he faces daunting challenges. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Allies of imprisoned Kremlin foe Navalny sound the alarm, …

FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen, as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in a courtroom of the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 18, 2022. Allies of Navalny are sounding the alarm and saying that neither they nor his lawyers have heard from him in six days. Navalny is serving a 19-year prison term on the charges of extremism. He was due to appear in court Monday, Dec. 11, 2023 via video link but didn’t. (AP Photo, File)

Israel battles militants in Gaza’s main cities, with civilians …

Israeli soldiers take part in a ground operation in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Moti Milrod, Haaretz)

A day of 2 prime ministers in Poland begins the delayed …

FILE - The leader of Poland's ruling conservative party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, front row center, attends the first session of the lower house, or Sejm, of the newly-elected parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 13, 2023. The national conservatives who have ruled Poland for eight years are expected to finally relinquish power this week to a centrist bloc led by political veteran Donald Tusk. The transition will come in several steps over three days, starting Monday Dec. 11, 2023, nearly two months since Poles turned out in huge numbers to vote for change in a national election. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

UN officials and activists ramp up the urgency as “difficult” …

Steven Guilbeault, Canada environment and climate minister, speaks to The Associated press at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Live updates | Israel says it’s prepared to fight for …

Palestinians check a house destroyed in the Israeli bombardment on Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

It’s a tough week for Rishi Sunak. He faces grilling on …

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives at the COVID Inquiry at Dorland House in London, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the pandemic and is likely to be questioned about the impact of his policies such as the Eat Out to Help Out scheme had on the spread of the outbreak. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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Doctor and self-exiled activist Gao Yaojie who exposed …

FILE - AIDS activist Gao Yaojie checks in to a ticket counter at the Beijing Capital airport as she prepares to leave China for the U.S. in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 26, 2007. Gao, a Chinese doctor who embarrassed the government by exposing the AIDS epidemic in rural China in the 1990s and spent her last decade in exile in the United States, died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, at her home in Manhattan. She was 95. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)

Russia targets Kyiv with ballistic missiles. Ukraine …

Chile's President Gabriel Boric, right, talks to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the swearing-in ceremony for new Argentina's President Javier Milei at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Pressure mounts on Hungary to unblock EU membership …

A Hungarian and a European Union flag is seen on a building in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. A countrywide billboard campaign that flooded the streets of Hungary this week takes aim at the head of the European Union's executive Ursula von der Leyen, the start of an election campaign that marks an escalation of tensions between the country's right-wing government and the EU. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Voter turnout plunges below 30% in Hong Kong election …

Police officers patrol outside a polling station during the District Council elections in Hong Kong, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. Residents went to the polls on Sunday in Hong Kong's first district council elections since an electoral overhaul was implemented under Beijing's guidance of “patriots” administering the city, effectively shutting out all pro-democracy candidates.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

At COP28, Indigenous women have a message for leaders: …

Briseida Iglesias, an indigenous tribes leader from Panama, poses for a photo at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Iglesias, of Panama, spearheaded a woman-led movement, the Bundorgan Women Network, that came up with a way to cultivate eucalyptus plants to reduce soil salinity — a major problem in coastal areas where seas are rising now because of planetary warming. (Uzmi Athar/Press Trust of India via AP)

In inaugural speech, Argentina’s Javier Milei prepares …

Argentina's newly sworn-in President Javier Milei arrives to the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Julian Bongiovanni)

Guyana agreed to talks with Venezuela over territorial …

FILE - The Essequibo River flows through Kurupukari crossing in Guyana, Nov. 19, 2023. Venezuela has long claimed Guyana's Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals. On Sunday, Dec. 10, the government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, agreed to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating territorial dispute. (AP Photo/Juan Pablo Arraez, File)