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Suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, among them Haitian-American citizens James Solages, left, and Joseph Vincent, second left, are shown in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in July 2021. U.S. officials say four key suspects have been transferred to the U.S. for prosecution. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption

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Pope Francis delivers a speech in the garden of the Palace of the Nation during the meeting of the authorities, the civil society and the diplomatic corps in Kinshasa. ARSENE MPIANA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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In this photo provided by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, its members search for a radioactive capsule believed to have fallen off a truck being transported on a freight route on the outskirts of Perth, Australia, on Saturday. AP hide caption

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Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov attends the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Jan. 20. Michael Probst/AP hide caption

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Ukraine's defense minister pushes for fighter jets, even as training begins on tanks

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Bystanders look on as Pope Francis travels by popemobile as he departs the airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Guerchom Ndebo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Pope Francis is in Democratic Republic of Congo, its first papal visit since 1985

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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, right, sits on a military transport plane as it prepares to depart from Mogadishu, Somalia. Cara Anna/AP hide caption

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Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield says Somalia needs urgent care to avoid another famine

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Monday

An employee examines a vanadium flow battery stack in the Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL. Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory hide caption

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Congress tightens U.S. manufacturing rules after battery technology ends up in China

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks by U.S. and Israeli flags upon arrival to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. Jacquelyn Martin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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British Army Challenger 2 tanks are seen at a training ground in Poland on Sept. 21, 2022. This week, Ukrainian soldiers have arrived in the United Kingdom for training on the Challenger 2. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption

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Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson (shown here in May 2022) has said that President Vladimir Putin didn't seem serious about avoiding war in the days before Russia invaded Ukraine. In a new documentary released on Monday, he says that at one point Putin told the British leader it would be easy to kill him with a missile. Matt Dunham/AP hide caption

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A delivery rider picks up his customers' online order as residents line up outside a store to buy Lunar New Year desserts in Beijing, Jan. 17. China's economic growth fell to its second-lowest level in at least four decades last year under pressure from anti-virus controls and a real estate slump. Andy Wong/AP hide caption

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With COVID lockdowns lifted, China says it's back in business. But it's not so easy

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Sunday

People look at the burnt wreckage of a bus in Bela, an area of Lasbela district of Balochistan province, Pakistan, on Sunday. The passenger bus crashed into a pillar and fell off a bridge, catching fire and killing dozens of people. Muhammad Saleem/AP hide caption

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