This photo taken on May 31, 2019 shows a watchtower on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. As many as one million ethnic Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrives in a hotel with a delegation in Zaporizhzia, Ukraine, on Aug. 31. The delegation will travel to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid the Russia-Ukraine war. Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
A man stands in front of a crater that was made from a missile strike in Slovyansk on Sunday morning. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
People commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Lady Diana Spencer at the "Flamme de la Liberte" monument in Paris on Wednesday. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Luisa García is the director of Profem Tijuana, a Mexican clinic that offers abortions and is near the border with the United States. In July, Americans made up an estimated 50% of patients seeking abortions there. Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR hide caption
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco, June 5, 1990. Russian news agencies reported that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91, citing a statement from the Central Clinical Hospital. David Longstreath/AP hide caption
A man walks over his collapsed mud house after heavy monsoon rains in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, on Aug. 28. Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In this 2011 video frame released by Brazil's National Indian Foundation, an indigenous man is seen in the forest in Rondonia, Brazil. Video footage was released in 2018 by Brazil's Indian Foundation of the man who is believed to be the last surviving member of his tribe. His death was announced this weekend. Brazil's National Indian Foundation via AP hide caption
Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on Aug. 17, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. The plant in southern Ukraine came under Russian occupation in the early days of the war. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian forces raised a Soviet-era flag in Kherson after capturing the southern Ukrainian city early in the current war. Ukraine carried out new attacks in the Kherson region on Monday, raising the possibility that it is launching a counteroffensive. This photo was taken on May 20 at the World War II memorial in Kherson. Andrey Borodulin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People attend a ceremony for the fallen soldiers of Ukraine on the Field of Mars on Aug. 24 in Lviv, Ukraine. The day marked six months since the start of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, as well as Ukraine's Independence Day. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
Olha Kerod, the wife of a Ukrainian soldier who was captured by Russian forces in Mariupol, poses in front of the Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth, where she often prays, in Lviv, Ukraine, on July 18. "I pray for all the soldiers, not just Stas," her husband, she says. "I will keep praying until they all come home." Laurel Chor for NPR hide caption
People buy fruits and vegetables from street vendors in Kandahar in August. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption