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Saudi delegation visits Palestinian territories as …

Nayef al-Sudairi, Saudi Arabia's the first-ever Saudi ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, arrives to present his credentials to the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Riyad Al-Maliki, Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Al-Sudairi visited the Palestinian territories Tuesday to discuss the burgeoning Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, which the kingdom has said will hinge on what concessions Israel is willing to grant the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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At least 20 dead in gas station explosion as Nagorno-Karabakh …

Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh lineup to receive humanitarian aid at a temporary camp in Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Thousands of Armenians have streamed out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military reclaimed full control of the breakaway region last week. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)

Russian drone strikes on Odesa hit port area and cut off …

In this photo provided by the Odesa Region Administration, firefighters work to extinguish a fire in port infrastructure after a Russian rocket attack in Izmail, Odesa region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.(Odesa Region Administration via AP)

South Korea’s Constitutional Court strikes down law banning …

Park Sang-hak, center, a refugee from the North who runs the group Fighters for a Free North Korea from a small Seoul office, and South Korean conservative activists prepare to release balloons bearing leaflets condemning the North Korean leader during an anti-North Korea rally against the 99th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth, called "The Day of the Sun," at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, on April 15, 2011. South Korea's Constitutional Court on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, struck down a 2020 law that criminalized the sending of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to North Korea, calling it an excessive restriction on free speech. The balloons read "Overthrow Kim Jong Il's dictatorship." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

2 explosions rip through dwellings in Sweden. At least …

Damages caused by an explosion in a residential building in the Ekholmen area, in Linköping, Sweden, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (Stefan Jerrevång/TT News Agency via AP)

India and US army chiefs call for free and stable Indo-Pacific …

Chief of staff of the U.S. Army Gen. Randy George speaks at the opening ceremony of 13th Indo-Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference and 47th Indo-Pacific Armies Management Seminar in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

US aims to create nuclear fusion facility within 10 years, …

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gestures as she speaks at the UN offices in Vienna, Monday Sept. 25, 2023. Granholm has emphasized the importance of nuclear fusion as a pioneering and future-oriented technology in the clean energy transition. As part of its clean-energy agenda, the Biden administration wants to "create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years," Granholm said in an interview with The Associated Press in Vienna. (AP Photo/Stephanie Liechtenstein)

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Opposition lawmakers call on Canada’s House speaker …

The Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Rota is apologizing for recognizing in Parliament a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II, just after Zelenskyy addressed the House of Commons on Friday. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Libya’s top prosecutor jails 8 officials for potential …

FILE - Rescue teams look for flash flood victims in the city of Derna, Libya, on Sept. 18, 2023. Libya’s chief prosecutor said Monday Sept. 25, 2023 he ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams earlier this month, a disaster that sent a wall of water several meters high through the center of a coastal city and left thousands of people dead. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

Blast in Nagorno-Karabakh injures more than 200 as …

In this image taken from video, refugees from the first group of about 30 people from Nagorno-Karabakh gather in a temporary camp after arriving to Armenia's Kornidzor village in Syunik region, Armenia, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The first refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in Armenia, local officials reported Sunday, and more were expected to come after a 10-month blockade and a lightning military offensive this month that resulted in Azerbaijan reclaiming full control of the breakaway region. (AP Photo)

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Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander among 34 killed …

In this photo provided by the Odesa Region Administration, firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a hotel at the seaport after a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (Odesa Region Administration via AP)

Toymaker Lego will stick to its quest to find sustainable …

FILE - A LEGO set made of its blocks featuring K-pop band BTS, is shown during a publicity event at a store in Seoul, South Korea, on March 2, 2023. Danish toymaker Lego said Monday Sept. 25, 2023 that an experiment to make its colorful building bricks out of recycled drinks bottles didn’t work but the world’s largest toymaker “remains committed” to its plans to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emission. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

A trial opens in France over the killing of a police …

FILE - A French police officer lays flowers while paying tribute to his colleagues killed in a knife attack near their home in Magnanville, west of Paris, France, on June 14, 2016. A trial is opening in French counterterrorism court Monday Sept. 25, 2023 over the killing of two police officers in their home in 2016, in front of their 3-year-old son. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)