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Putin orders former Wagner commander to take charge …

CORRECTS NAME SPELLING Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, left, and Chairman of the St. Petersburg regional public organization "League for the Protection of the Interests of Veterans of Local Wars and Military Conflicts" retired Col. Andrei Troshev listen to Russian President Vladimir Putin, unseen, during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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More than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has fled …

Paramedics and employees of Armenian helicopters company transport a sick woman from Nagorno-Karabakh from Goris to the Erebuni Medical Center in Yerevan, Armenia, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Armenian officials say more than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh's original population have fled the region for Armenia. (Hayk Baghdasaryan, PHOTOLURE via AP)

Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a …

In this photo provided by District Police Office, a boy injured in a bomb explosion receives treatment at a hospital, in Mastung near Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. A powerful bomb exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing multiple people and wounding dozens of others, police and a government official said. (District Police Office via AP)

The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian …

A Lebanese-Armenian protester burns Turkish and the Azerbaijani flags near the Azerbaijani Embassy, during a protest to denounce the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the separatist Armenian authorities in the enclave, in Ain Aar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. A 24-hour Azerbaijani blitz last week forced Armenian separatist authorities to sit down for talks on Nagorno-Karabakh's "reintegration" into Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

An election with no parties: Africa’s Eswatini, one of …

FILE - King Mswati III of Eswatini arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of Cyril Ramaphosa at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 25, 2019. The small southern African nation of Eswatini was holding elections Friday Sept. 29, 2023 to decide part of the makeup of its parliament, even as the extremely wealthy king retains absolute power, political parties are banned and elected representatives can merely advise a monarch whose family has reigned supreme for 55 years. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Algeria expands English-language learning as France’s …

Schoolchildren attend a class Tuesday, Sept.19, 2023 in the Ben Omar district of Algiers. More tan 11 millions student are back to school Tuesday. (AP Photo/Str)

Slovakia election pits a pro-Russia former prime minister …

People wait for a bus by an election billboard for "SaS" (Freedom and Solidarity) party in Michalovce, Slovakia, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The billboard reads: 'SaS economic growth for the east'. Slovakia holds early parliamentary elections on Saturday Oct. 30, 2023, with a populist former prime minister Robert Fico and his scandal-tainted party "SMER" (Direction) favored to win after campaigning on a clear pro-Russian and anti-American message. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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As migration surges in Americas, ‘funds simply aren’t …

Migrants travel on a freight train, arriving in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

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Over half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees …

Ethnic Armenian children from Nagorno-Karabakh look from a truck after arriving in Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh announced Thursday that it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by the end of the year, and Armenian officials said more than half of the population has already fled. More than half of the region's population has already fled to Armenia, according to Armenian officials. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)

NATO’s secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to …

Olena Kononenko, 61 reacts near her damaged house after Russian rocket attack in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Dutch police say 3 people are killed in shootings …

Emergency services attend to the scene at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Thursday Sept. 28, 2023. Police in the Netherlands say that people have been killed in two shootings in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, one at a university hospital and one at a nearby home. (AP Photo)

Sweden’s leader turns to the military for help as …

Police stand on the site of a powerful explosion that occurred early Thursday morning Sept. 28, 2023, in a housing area in Storvreta outside Uppsala, Sweden. A 25-year-old woman died in the blast. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)

Israel’s High Court hears challenge to a law that …

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system and in support of the Supreme Court ahead of Thursday's pivotal hearing, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The hearing over a law that makes it more difficult to remove Netanyahu from office deepens a rift between the government and the judiciary amid months of turmoil in Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)