Muneer Subaihani at the airport in Baghdad on Tuesday, waiting to board the first of his flights back to the United States. Ahmed Qusay for NPR hide caption
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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist and asylum-seeker, won two prestigious Australian literary prizes for his debut, a book composed in text messages sent from a detention center on Manus Island. Hoda Afshar hide caption
A months-long service has come to a close at a church in The Hague, Netherlands. Koen Van Weel/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó talks to the press as he holds his daughter, Miranda, next to his wife, Fabiana Rosales, outside his home in Caracas on Thursday. Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A U.S. court has ordered the Syrian government to pay $300 million for killing American journalist Marie Colvin in 2012. Colvin is seen here in London in 2010. Arthur Edwards/WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Displaced Syrians gather inside a tent in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria in December. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A construction worker saws steel rods at the site of a school that was funded by the United States Agency for International Development in the Palestinian village of al-Jabaa, in the West Bank, on Jan. 22. Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Thailand's Pollution Control Department declared air quality in the the Thai capital unhealthy, leading to the closure of 400 public schools through the end of the week. Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. law enforcement personnel escort Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at New York's Long Island MacArthur Airport in January 2017. U.S. law enforcement via AP hide caption
Bruce McArthur pleaded guilty to killing eight men between 2010 and 2017. He is seen here standing in a blue sweater (right) in a sketch made by a courtroom artist in Toronto. John Mantha/Reuters hide caption
The ship Hammersmith Bridge, foreground, which has just arrived from Shanghai in China, unloads Chinese shipping containers at the Port of Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, on September 29, 2018. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) serves food to Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a 2011 dinner at Prigozhin's restaurant outside Moscow. Misha Japaridze/AP hide caption
FBI Director Christopher Wray (from left), CIA Director Gina Haspel, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, arrive to testify before the Senate intelligence committee on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption