An empty park outside a railway station due to a lockdown in Pyongyang. Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Palestinian rescuers inspect the site of a damaged building following an Israeli forces raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians and wounded several others during the raid, Palestinian health officials said. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest suspected militants when a gun battle erupted. Majdi Mohammed/AP hide caption
A member of Pat Jasan, a grassroots organization motivated by their faith to root out the destructive influence of drugs, holds poppies as his group slashes and uproots them from a hillside, in Lung Zar village, northern Kachin State, Myanmar on Feb. 3, 2016. Hkun Lat/AP hide caption
Aboriginal man Josh Sly of the Muggera Dancers prepares a fire for a smoking ceremony at the start of an Invasion Day rally in Sydney, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Rick Rycroft/AP hide caption
A M1A2 Abrams battle tank. The U.S. has agreed to send 31 of the tanks to Ukraine to help it defend and reclaim its territory from Russian forces. Mateusz Slodkowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Students watch security personnel guard the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university Wednesday in New Delhi, India. A student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots, prompting dozens of police equipped with tear gas and riot gear to gather outside campus gates. Manish Swarup/AP hide caption
Pope Francis attends a Mass for the feast of the Epiphany earlier this month in Vatican City. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
Former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters on Jan. 17, 2023, outside of a home where he has been staying in Kissimmee, Fla. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption
U.S. Abrams tanks participate in a live fire demonstration during training exercises in Poland in September 2022. President Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. will be sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. Germany also said it will be sending tanks. Omar Marques/Getty Images hide caption
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands next to a Leopard 2 main battle tank of the German armed forces while visiting an army training center in Ostenholz, Germany, on Oct. 17, 2022. David Hecker/Getty Images hide caption
Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial, at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 19, 2022. Majdi Mohammed/AP hide caption
ICARDA lab employee Bilal Inaty cuts a lentil plant in order to test it for various diseases at the ICARDA research station in the village of Terbol in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on Dec. 21, 2022. Dalia Khamissy for NPR hide caption
How ancient seeds from the Fertile Crescent could help save us from climate change
Robert Jenrick, Britain's minister of state for immigration, arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing street in London on Tuesday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption
Alight Guides meeting refugees at Przemysl, Poland train station. Alight Guides work in the US and around the world to support both refugees as well as US sponsor groups through the entire journey. Alight hide caption
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it has moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight. From left,, Siegfried Hecker, Daniel Holz, Sharon Squassoni, Mary Robinson and Elbegdorj Tsakhia with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists remove a cloth covering the Doomsday Clock at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
Mikaela Shiffrin seized first place in her first run in the giant slalom in Kronplatz, Italy, bidding to make history in the World Cup. Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pays his respects to victims of a deadly helicopter crash during a farewell ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 21. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
A Pompeiian style fresco from Herculaneum titled "Young Hercules and the snake", dated to the I second A.C., is seen on display among other archaeological artifacts stolen from Italy and sold in the U.S. by international art traffickers, during a press conference in Rome, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption