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3 killed at massive fire in Pakistan’s largest southern …

Firefighters and rescue workers recover a body from a burnt multi-story commercial building in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. A massive fire broke out Wednesday in a multi-story commercial building in Pakistan's largest southern port city of Karachi, killing a number of people and damaging several shops, police and rescue officials said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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Guyana’s president says it is preparing to defend itself …

The Essequibo River flows through Kurupukari crossing in Guyana, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2023. Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals. (AP Photo/Juan Pablo Arraez)

The UK apologizes to families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans …

FILE - A Liverpool fan pays his respects to the fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium tragedy outside the Anfield Hillsborough memorial ahead of an English Premier League soccer match at Anfield in Liverpool, England, Sunday Sept. 23, 2012. The British government apologized Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 to the families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans who died after a stadium crush 34 years ago, as it introduced a charter it said will sharply diminish the chances that others will endure the kinds of injustices they suffered. (AP Photo/Clint Hughes, file)

Dutch military police have discovered 47 migrants hiding …

Under Putin, the uber-wealthy Russians known as ‘oligarchs’ …

FILE - Self-exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky leaves the High Court in London, Wednesday, March, 10, 2010, after winning his libel case against a Russian broadcaster that accused him of masterminding the murder of a former Russian agent in London. After President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, he was reported to have told about two dozen of the men regarded as Russia's top oligarchs that if they stayed out of politics, their wealth wouldn't be touched. Berezovsky, a Putin critic, was granted asylum in the United Kingdom in 2003. Ten years later, he was found dead in his home; a disputed post-mortem examination said he appeared to have hanged himself. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

A new Dutch parliament has been sworn in after Wilders’ …

Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius, leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, or VVD, left, and Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the New Social Contract party, right, talk prior to the start of a meeting with speaker of the House Vera Bergkamp, two days after far-right PVV party leader Geert Wilders won the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

A survivor is pulled out of a Zambian mine nearly a week …

Zambian Army special forces officers follow the rescue operation of miners on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023 in Chingola, around 400 kilometres (248 miles) north of the capital Lusaka, Zambia. Seven miners were confirmed dead and more than 20 others were missing and presumed dead after heavy rains caused landslides that buried them inside tunnels they had been digging illegally at a copper mine in Zambia, police and local authorities said Saturday. (AP Photo)

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NATO member-to-be Sweden and the US sign defense …

Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson talks during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

At least 85 civilians killed by a Nigerian army drone …

Victims of an army drone attack receives treatment at a hospital in Kaduna Nigeria, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Nigeria's emergency services agency says more than 80 people are confirmed dead after military drones "mistakenly" bombed a religious gathering in the northwest. Some 60 people were injured in the attack Sunday in Kaduna state. (AP Photo/ Kehinde Gbenga)

Taliban’s abusive education policies harm boys as …

FILE - In this March 19, 2013 file photo, afghan boys study in a makeshift school in the village of Budyali, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. The Taliban's "abusive" educational policies are harming boys as well as girls in Afghanistan, according to a Human Rights Watch report published Wednesday. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

To phase out or phase down fossil fuels? That is …

Activists protest against fossil fuels at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch government pledges nearly $2.7 billion for …

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba attends a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Hanke Bruins Slot of the Netherlands following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination …

FILE - Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 7, 2020. Joseph Vincent, a former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Britain and Rwanda strike a new treaty in efforts …

Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverly, left, and Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta shake hands after signing a new treaty in Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. The treaty will address concerns by the Supreme Court, including assurances that Rwanda will not remove anybody transferred under the partnership to another country. (Ben Birchall/PA Wire via AP)