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President of the 'Rassemblement National' (RN) group Marine Le Pen (L), flanked by Steeve Briois (R), mayor of Henin Beaumont, casts her ballot for the European Parliament election at a polling station in Henin-Beaumont, north of France on June 9, 2024. Francois Lo Presti/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (R) visit the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region on Sep. 13, 2023. Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Demonstrators protest in Mumbai on June 8, 2018, over the arrests of social activists by Indian police. Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption
Left: The Rev. Stan Swamy speaks to the camera in a video from 2020, shortly before he was arrested. Right: A person walks by a church where a memorial Mass was celebrated for Swamy, after his death in Mumbai, India, in July 2021. Screenshot by NPR/Mojo Story/Rafiq Maqbool/AP hide caption
A Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules C-130 takes off from Whenuapai air base near Auckland, New Zealand, bound for Noumea, New Caledonia, on a mercy mission to rescue stranded New Zealand tourists on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Michael Craig/NZ Herald via AP hide caption
New Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te waves during Lai's inauguration ceremonies in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, May 20, 2024. Chiang Ying-ying/AP hide caption
Tin Serioso, 27, with her 1-year-old daughter Cat and 6-year-old Jay, inside their home in Novaliches, Quezon City in the Philippines on April 4, 2024. Her husband Chrismel Serioso was killed by police on October 3, 2023. Kimberly dela Cruz for NPR hide caption
The Sunday Story: Life in the Shadow of the Philippines' Drug War
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a bilateral meeting on Thursday in Beijing, China. Contributor/Getty Images hide caption
Masked residents watch an activist in Nouméa on Wednesday. Delphine Mayeur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Thai activists hold a portrait of Netiporn Sanesangkhom, a member of the activist group Thaluwang outside of Criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday. Sakchai Lalit/AP hide caption
Flanked by union members, President Biden signs orders that increase tariffs on imports of electric vehicles and other strategic goods from China. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
A girl whose relative is missing speaks on the phone at the site of a collapsed billboard following heavy rain and thundershowers in Mumbai, India, on Monday. Rafiq Maqbool/AP hide caption
People are seen near to their damaged homes after heavy flooding in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. Mehrab Ibrahimi/AP hide caption
Demonstrators hold up lights from their phones during a rally organized by Hong Kong mothers in support of extradition law protesters, in Hong Kong on July 5, 2019. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Biden makes his way to Air Force One after posing with highway patrol troopers in Mountain View, Calif., on May 10. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) speaks to reporters with Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second left) as they arrive at the plenary session of the General Elections Commission after his main rivals' challenges to his election victory were rejected in Jakarta, April 24. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A vendor holds a portrait of Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24. Achmad Ibrahim/AP hide caption
Indonesia's next president has a complicated history with the U.S.
The Taliban has a history of supporting the use of stoning as a punishment for "moral crimes" — reiterated in a statement this year by their supreme leader. Above: In 2015, Afghan Solidarity members gather in Kabul to protest Taliban militants who stoned an Afghan woman to death in the Taliban-controlled area outside Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province. She was accused of adultery. Wakil Kohsar /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Taliban affirms that stoning will be punishment for adulterers — especially women
Worshippers and tourists sit on boats facing the bank of the Ganges River in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi to watch the Ganga Aarti, a ritual of devotion to the venerated river. Hindu priests wave fire as the sun sets, ring bells and tap on drums. Thousands watch, clap and chant along from boats crammed in the water. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
Up and down the Ganges, India's Modi enjoys support after 10 years of rule
A banner that shows the late Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar is displayed outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib in Surrey, British Columbia, on Sept. 18, 2023. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption