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      <image:caption>Villagers fetch water from a makeshift borehole in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. as the United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa, triggered by the El Nino weather phenomenon, has had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region's worst hunger crisis in decades. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trump’s administration has made many trips to Greenland in hopes of convincing the people and government to consider their proposal. Source: [The New York Times]</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trump signed his first executive order in October 2019 which started his war on environmental regulation. Source: [Bloomberg Law]</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Activists and artists take stage at Climate Week NYC to promote the summit. Photo: The Climate Group</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polling data from Areda from Feb. 23-27 (before coalition changes), released March 6, 2023. Graphic: Julia Kempton.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers an address to lawmakers, later condemning the terrorist actions that have led to upwards of 1000 women and girls becoming hospitalized. Photo: AP/Vahid Salemi</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Demonstrators gather in Jerusalem to protest the proposed judicial reforms. Photo: Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/ New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protests in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square on Saturday night. Photo: Time/ Mostafa Alkharouf-Anadolu Agency</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Representatives from the European Union and Israel posing in front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Photo: AP/Mahmoud Illean</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Turkish students at NYU have organized to raise awareness and donations for earthquake relief. Photo: Julia Kempton.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Washington Square Park on the evening of the Turkish Cultural Association’s vigil, on Feb. 15. Photo: Julia Kempton.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The UN Headquarters Conference Room III, where deliberations took place, as seen during a press conference. Photo: United Nations.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy cruising on international waters. Source: US Navy</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A mural of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, is on display in Gaza City on May 15, 2022. Photo: (AP Photo/Adel Hana)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel’s right-wing Likud Party, attends the Knesset’s swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem on Nov. 15, 2022 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Picture of President Yoon. Photo: Lee Young-ho / Bloomberg</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Forces of the Kurdish group Komala standing near Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: Emily Garthwaite/ The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protestors gathering in September outside the United Nations offices in Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan. Photo: Azad Lashkari / Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Biden, Kushida, and Yoon pictured above at Camp David, following a speech given by Biden on the three’s future military joint operations. Photo: FP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Two men watch the changing stock tickers on the floor of the Shanghai Stock Exchange: (Photo: SCMP/Reuters)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses the United States’ Congress: NBC</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>South Korean voters view a line of campaign posters for various candidates on March 28, the opening of the Korean election season. (Photo: AP News/Ahn Young-joon)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol meets with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House. As China becomes increasingly aggressive in the Indo-Pacific, Yoon has sought to tie South Korea closer to the United States. (Photo: AP News/Evan Vucci)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi welcomes his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Beijing, China.  Source: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls, called Matryoshkas, depicting President Xi Jinping of China, left, and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, right. Source: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA</image:caption>
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      <image:title>East Asia - China’s Credit Downgraded amid Negative Future Forecast - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>China’s Ministry of Finance  Source: Alamy Stock Photo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A colorful beachfront skyline in Qingdao, China Source: Xiaoyong/Dreamstime</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The three foreign ministers agree on restarting the summits. (Photo: Ahn Young-Joon/Reuters)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trilateral talks will involve geopolitical, economic, and security issues. (Photo: China Briefing)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Democratic People’s Party presidential candidate, Vice President Lai Ching-te, joins hands with running mate Hsiao Bi-khim, a former US envoy. The two are seen as frontrunners in Taiwan’s 2024 presidential race. (Photo: AP News/Chiang Ying-ying)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>TPP presidential candidate Ko Wen-je waves to the press with running mate Cynthia Wu Hsin-ying. The TPP plans to run its own ticket after unity talks with the KMT collapsed. (Photo: AP News/Chiang Ying-ying)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chinese Graphite Mine Source: Evgeny_V/Shutterstock</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Worldwide Graphite production by nation Source: Elements by Visual Capitalist</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping stand side by side at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco Photo: AP News/Jeff Chiu</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Japanese Coast Guard ships sail near the island chain referred to as Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China. Both claim the islands as their own. Photo: AP News/Emily Wang</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The two opposition parties and their candidates displaying support and allyship. Photo: Ann Wang/AlJazeera</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The current Taiwanese government continuously fights for complete independence. Photo: REUTERS/Ann Wang</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Biden (left) greets Premier Xi Jinping (right) at APEC Summit  Source: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The 13th National Women’s Congress was held in Beijing and dominated by men (Photo: NYT/Yao Dawei/Xinhua)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The resort city of Qingdao located on the coast of the Yellow Sea Source: AP/Alexei Druzhinin</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Chinese investor monitors stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing Source: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Chinese coast guard ship blocks a Philippine coast guard ship as it tries to get to Second Thomas Shoal in a resupply mission in early October 2023. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan, File)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A man steps on an Israeli flag during a protest outside the national mosque after the Friday prayer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: AP Photo/Vincent Thian</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Muslim protesters burn U.S. and Israel national flags during a rally against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Photo: AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The opening of Indonesia’s first high-speed railway was delayed almost four years. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurating the region’s first high-speed railway, “Whoosh,” in Jakarta. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The 37th anniversary celebration of the People Power Revolution on Feb. 25, 2023, at the People Power Monument in Quezon City. Photo: Maria Tan/ABS-CBN News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 1986, the People’s Power Revolution ousted Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Photo: Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong lectures in Singapore. Photo: REUTERS/Isabel Kua</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Investors shy away from volatile assets like cryptocurrencies as central banks back away from lax monetary policies. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Arshad Warsi hosted popular show Power Play and had been affiliated with the ARY channel for the past eight years before he was sacked in August  Photo: AP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Prominent Pakistani Journalist Arshad Sharif Killed in Kenya - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pakistan ranks amongst the lowest countries in World Press Freedom Index where journalistic freedom is under threat Photo: Statista/ Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/russia-ukraine-war</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - 2022 Remittances Projection: India Set to Hit $100 billion in 2022 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An increased remittance rate from 2022 could allow for increased social equality as lower-income families begin gaining access to more resources through the money sent home from their partners working abroad. Photo: Times of Oman</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - 2022 Remittances Projection: India Set to Hit $100 billion in 2022 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Many Indian migrants have transitioned into higher paying jobs in developing countries and thus have earned more money to send home to their families. Photo: BBC</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Nepal Recognizes First Multicultural Same-Sex Marriage with Backing of US Embassy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The LGBTQ+ community at Nepal’s annual pride parade held this year in Kathmandu, Nepal on Aug. 20, 2024 (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Nepal Recognizes First Multicultural Same-Sex Marriage with Backing of US Embassy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Surendra Panday and Maya Gurung pictured with their approved marriage certificate after the Nepali Supreme Court allowed for a temporary registration of same-sex couples on Nov. 29, 2023 (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/3xnp2gpxqex6m8x412ufl3b7shpz63-2f29s-6bpp4-4gj88-x3x2m-rtj9w-r3xt9-drt7n-twf93-a5hll-zsw8f-gxdka-p5d6n-pgyj5-6yx4n-83azs-zbrpa-exmsd-tsc5s</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Prime Minister Modi Strengthens Ties with US Leaders During Visit - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Indian Prime Minister Modi addresses a crowd in Nassau County at an event celebrating US-India relations. (Photo: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Prime Minister Modi Strengthens Ties with US Leaders During Visit - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Members of the Quad Summit meet in Wilmington Delaware to discuss foreign relations in the Indo-Pacific region  (Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan and IMF Reach $7 Billion Dollar Bailout Deal, In Response to Economic Crisis&amp;nbsp; - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pakistani citizens protesting against higher consumer prices, affecting their daily quality of life. AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan and IMF Reach $7 Billion Dollar Bailout Deal, In Response to Economic Crisis&amp;nbsp; - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Shehbaz Sharif entering the 79th session of the U.N general assembly. AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/india-introduces-nuclear-naval-subs</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India Introduces Nuclear Naval Submarines as Tensions with China Persist - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Depiction of a lake situated at the China-India border in Ladakh, technically a territory in India. Part of Ladakh is ethnically Tibetan, tying the region to China as well. AP Photo/Channi Arand</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India Introduces Nuclear Naval Submarines as Tensions with China Persist - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chinese Defense Minister and Indian Defense Minister shake hands after discussing tensions regarding territory in the South China Sea. They are set to discuss a resolution for the Himalayan border dispute as well. AP Photo/Manish Swarup</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan Heighten Political Unrest and Censorship in Pakistan - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pakistani Women protesting the imprisonment of a Christian Woman, Asia Bibi, on Blasphemy Charges. K.M Chaudary/AP News.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan Heighten Political Unrest and Censorship in Pakistan - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The effects of Blasphemy laws reach all Pakistanis, but particularly minorities. Fareed Khan/AP News</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/gwk5dm2x3fcrhl9qdv8b5j7j9o7qdt</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-12-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Increased Hostility Towards Women's Rights Activists In Afghanistan - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Women gather to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 3. Wali Sabawoon/Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Increased Hostility Towards Women's Rights Activists In Afghanistan - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A small group of Afghan women protested near the presidential palace in Kabul on September 3rd, demanding the protection of equal rights for men and women from the Taliban. Wali Sabawoon/AP</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/qizp7seo0ybzvro8slr0hptqmxiqrx</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-12-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Prime Minister Modi calls for climate equity at COP28 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>COP28 commencing in Dubai on Nov 30. Photo: AP Photo/Peter Dejong</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Prime Minister Modi calls for climate equity at COP28 - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Prime Minister Modi shaking hands with UNGA President Francis on Dec 1. Photo: AP Photo/Peter Dejong</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/secret-bhutanese-crypto-mining</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-12-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Secret Bhutanese Crypto Mining Facilities Location Unveiled - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of the recently discovered crypto mines in Dagana Pass, Bhutan as part of the Forbes investigation. Source: Planet Labs PBS</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Secret Bhutanese Crypto Mining Facilities Location Unveiled - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tala Hydroelectric Power Station: the biggest hydropower station in Bhutan. Source: Pragsl/Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/workers-rescued-from-tunnel-collapse</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-12-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Workers Rescued from a Tunnel Collapse in India After a 17 Day Wait - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A father embraces his son, who had just been rescued from the tunnel early Wednesday, November 29. Source: BBC/Prashant Pandey</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Workers Rescued from a Tunnel Collapse in India After a 17 Day Wait - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An ambulance on standby at the entrance of the tunnel during the workers’ rescue on November 28th, 2023. Source: PTI</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/ftj7z5y3qekxkxcudg7u8sb27iaflk</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan and China Hold Largest Ever Navy Drills - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The type 054A/P frigate was made for Pakistan by China. Photo: Global Times/ Liu Xuanzun</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan and China Hold Largest Ever Navy Drills - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Pakistani national flag flies alongside a Chinese national flag in front of the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Photo: Reuters/David Gray</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/dxrmuunpgeo2nmgynsc1wh6ubh2rww</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Nepal Bans TikTok, Citing Disruption to Social Harmony - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Following a cabinet meeting, Nepal announced a ban on TikTok that would go into effect immediately, but without details for implementation. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Nepal Bans TikTok, Citing Disruption to Social Harmony - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the US Congress in March earlier this year. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/lw3eljop9rrdsgjucn7w1y1y870ay5</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Earthquakes Again Strike Nepal, Sounding Fears of Future Destruction - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A man stands in front of his damaged home in the Jajarkot District in northwestern Nepal, the hardest hit district from the Friday night earthquake. Nearly all the homes in the village were damaged or destroyed. Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Earthquakes Again Strike Nepal, Sounding Fears of Future Destruction - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Police work to pack relief supplies to distribute among earthquake survivors in the Jajarkot District on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/qilw1zsnyumw0al7ezal3v6odve4am</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - State Elections in India Begin, Testing Support for the BJP - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A rally in support of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, Nov. 9. Source: PTI</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - State Elections in India Begin, Testing Support for the BJP - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Prime Minister Modi giving a speech at a rally in Congress-led Rajasthan in late May. Source:Twitter/@BJP4India</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/y86va53xuaca9zio2a375zu40qhonl</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - The Geopolitical Implications of Sri Lanka Allowing Chinese Ship to Dock - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Shi Yan 6 docked at Colombo on Thursday, Oct. 26. Photo: AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - The Geopolitical Implications of Sri Lanka Allowing Chinese Ship to Dock - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>China’s Xi Jingping shaking hands with Sri Lanka’s Ranil Wickremesinghe at Beijing in 2017. Photo: Xinhua/Xie Huanchi</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/police-commandos-targeted-during-manipur-unrest</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Police Commandos Targeted During Manipur Unrest - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Security personnel during an operation in Manipur. Photo: PTI</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Police Commandos Targeted During Manipur Unrest - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Unidentified insurgents torch two buildings in Manipur. Photo: PTI</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/pakistani-government-creating-requirements</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistani Government Creating Stringent Requirements for Afghan Refugees - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Afghan families wait to board into a bus to depart for their homeland, in Karachi, Pakistan. Friday October 6th 2023. AP Photo/Fareed Khan.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistani Government Creating Stringent Requirements for Afghan Refugees - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An Afghan refugee family returns to Afghanistan through Pakistan's border crossing, Torkham, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on March 11, 2015. AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-10-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India Resumes Visa Services in Canada after Diplomatic Fallout - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An Indian flag is laid on the street as protesters wave Canadian and “Khalistan” flags during a protest outside the Indian Consulate in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Photo: Darryl Dyck/AP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India Resumes Visa Services in Canada after Diplomatic Fallout - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Trudeau and Modi at the  G20 summit in New Delhi in September 2023. Photo: Sean Kilpatrick/AP</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/indian-police-raid-local-news-outlet</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-10-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Police Raid Local News Outlet - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Security officers carry items confiscated from the raid on NewsClick. Photo: Dinesh Joshi</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Police Raid Local News Outlet - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accused of suppressing media outlets critical of him. Photo: Presidential Press and Information Office</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-10-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Supreme Court Declines to Legalize Same Sex Marriage - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Supporters of same-sex marriage at a rally in New Delhi in January. Photo: Associated Press Delhi</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Supreme Court Declines to Legalize Same Sex Marriage - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Demonstration in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, New Delhi, October 18, 2023. ANUSHREE FADNAVIS / REUTERS, Le Monde</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-10-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India’s Response to the War in Gaza - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Smoke arising after an Israeli attack on Gaza City on Thursday, Oct. 12. Photo: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India’s Response to the War in Gaza - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi hug after a meeting in 2018 in New Delhi, India. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/indian-goverment-ramps-up-infrastructure</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-10-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Government Ramps Up Infrastructure Spending - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The skyline in Mumbai, India. Source: Hardik Joshi</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Government Ramps Up Infrastructure Spending - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>People queuing up for jobs. Source: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/d57jiufy7xs47sxjjxo2yz9bpk9v2r</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-05-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Bangladesh-Russia Nuclear Plant Deal Settled in Chinese Yuan - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The currently under construction nuclear power plant in Rooppur, Bangladesh. Source: Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Bangladesh-Russia Nuclear Plant Deal Settled in Chinese Yuan - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chinese Yuan, rather than US Dollars, were used by Bangladesh to pay Russia to bypass sanctions. Source: Reuters</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/kmcjw8f6ke9bdq0duxxgh7ng5c1obo</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India Surpassing China as the Most Populous Country in the World&amp;nbsp; - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>India to become world’s most populous country. Source: AP Photo / Altaf Qadri.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - India Surpassing China as the Most Populous Country in the World&amp;nbsp; - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN estimates. Source: AP Photo / Altaf Qadri.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/k3nwc7vyx8gunwgvdpbk7yulr89afg</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Supreme Court Set to Hear Petitions to Legalize Same-Sex Marriages - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Activists and allies come out supporting the LGBTQ community as the Indian Supreme Court decides on the status of same-sex marriage. Source: AP.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Supreme Court Set to Hear Petitions to Legalize Same-Sex Marriages - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Much of South Asia, and beyond, fails to provide legislative protection and rights to the LGBTQ + community. Source: CFR Research, Pew Research Center, Marriage Equality USA, ILGA</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/7wy3w1u9qvu6pwpvpcq7pdecrzp6m1</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan’s Muted Ramadan Celebrations Due To Economic Crisis - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Uzair Younus, the director of the Pakistan Initiative at the Atlantic Council, blamed some of the country’s current turmoil on the ruling elite. He said it “should be viewed as the most serious threat to the country’s cohesion since 1971.” Credit: Saiyna Bashir for The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan’s Muted Ramadan Celebrations Due To Economic Crisis - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>People breaking fast with the help of volunteers. Credit: Saiyna Bashir for The New York Times.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/a3t904t73qgk6gnm8pidqa0xlof9sm</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Rahul Gandhi Attacks Modi’s Adani Connections - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of the Adani Group’s buildings in Ahmedabad, India. Source: REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Rahul Gandhi Attacks Modi’s Adani Connections - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rahul Gandhi protesting the Modi government’s involvement with the Adani Group in Parliament. Source: ANI</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/7q5jzwkxhnikp0503dv0g02vmb4jse</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Disputes Over Digital Law Send Bangladeshi Journalist To Jail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>University students in Dhaka hold placards demanding the release of journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams. Sri Lanka, March 30, 2023. Source: The Guardian, Agence France-Presse</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Disputes Over Digital Law Send Bangladeshi Journalist To Jail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Journalists in Dhaka protest against the Digital Security Act on October 11, 2018 [Source: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]. Al Jazeera</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/sri-lanka-approves-liberalization-of-fuel-market</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Sri Lanka Approves Liberalization of Fuel Market - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Drivers push auto rickshaws in a line to buy petrol from a fuel station amid Sri Lanka's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 29, 2022. Source: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Sri Lanka Approves Liberalization of Fuel Market - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Protesters carrying the Sri Lanka flag march in the Galle Face Green area of Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 17, 2022. Source: Atul Loke/The New York Times.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/c3ufzn026g1piem7dcb1gp1zb28zlm</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan Inches Closer to IMF Loan After Saudi Arabia Comes to Its Rescue - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Saudi Arabian and Pakistani officials sign deal formalizing investment in hydropower project and $2 billion credit line. Source: APP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Pakistan Inches Closer to IMF Loan After Saudi Arabia Comes to Its Rescue - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>People in Karachi wait in queues to get water after the flood destroys water pipelines making safe drinking water inaccessible for many. Source: Fareed Khan/AP</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/fzzoy1pgewf31na23cvqasrt0c19ww</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - COVID-19 Cases Spike in India - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Indian nurses taking COVID-19 precautions in a hospital. Photo: Ajit Solanki/AP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - COVID-19 Cases Spike in India - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mass funeral pyre during the peak of India’s second wave of COVID-19. Photo: Atlaf Qadri/AP</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/xoxvh7ifz7g0s3h611l3w47vfemih7</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi Sentenced to Jail and Expelled From Parliament - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Member Parliaments congregate outside the Lok Sabha to protest against Rahul Gandhi’s sentencing and expulsion from Parliament. Photo: Stinger/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Indian Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi Sentenced to Jail and Expelled From Parliament - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rahul Gandhi walks across Haryana in the final leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra mobilizing large crowds. Photo: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/punjab-faces-an-internet-blackout-as-authorities-hunt-down-sikh-preacher</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-03-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Punjab Faces An Internet Blackout As Authorities Hunt Down Sikh Preacher - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A teacher conducts a lesson in the light of kerosene lamps and a candle in a house in Kolkata.  Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, The Guardian</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Punjab Faces An Internet Blackout As Authorities Hunt Down Sikh Preacher - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Passengers rest inside a train while waiting for the electricity to be restored at a railway station in Kolkata. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters, The Guardian</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-/z1ugj0lm7j0txzhxx0x0ou5769b9lj</loc>
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    <lastmod>2023-03-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Digital Payments in India have Reached a Zenith - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>PhonePe, India’s largest mobile payment app. Source: PhonePe’s official website</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Digital Payments in India have Reached a Zenith - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the virtual linkage of India and Singapore’s digital payment systems. Source: Indian Government Archives</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, second left, was defense secretary during the final years of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war. Photo: The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Preparations for a welcoming ceremony for Chinese research ship Yuan Wang 5 in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. Photo: AFP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The newly appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, meets the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman. Photo: Associated Press of Pakistan.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>PM Shehbaz Sharif and Prince Mohammed Bin Salman were pictured together at the Royal Palace in Jeddah. Photo: AFP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Police officers and journalists gathered at the scene of the bombing just outside the Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Photo: Fareed Khan/ Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An image of the inside of the bus bombed on Tuesday at the University of Karachi. Photo: Fareed Khan/Associated Press.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pose for a photo in Glasgow, Scotland, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Residents wearing masks line up for mass COVID testing in Chaoyang District on Monday, April 25, 2022, in Beijing. Photo: Ng Han Guan via. AP Photo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sri Lankans in the nation’s capital, Colombo, protested on the streets on April 20, 2022, amid the worsening financial situation. Photo: Eranga Jayawardena/ Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Members of Sri Lanka's opposition political party National People's Power participate in an anti-government protest rally in front of the Town Hall in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Photo Eranga Jayawardena/Associated Press.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Nepali man sits in front of the board displaying foreign money exchange. Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Civilians gathered in the streets of Afghanistan’s Khost province to protest Pakistan’s airstrikes along the border on April 16, 2022. Photo: AFP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Civilians gathered in the streets of Afghanistan’s Khost province to protest Pakistan’s airstrikes along the border on April 16, 2022. Photo: AFP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Students protesting in New Delhi, India at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Photo: Gajendra Yadav/India Express</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Students in Northern India Protest Against Anti-Muslim Attacks - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Dehli where the recent protest occurred. Photo: Zee</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A poster of Imran Khan in front of the National Assembly in Islamabad. Photo: Saiyna Bashir/The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>PTI supporters gathered in the streets of Karachi protesting Imran Khan’s removal from office on April 10, 2022. Photo: PTI MEDIA WING</image:caption>
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      <image:title>South Asia - Taliban Outlaws the Production of Opium Poppies - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Farmers cultivating opium poppies. Photo: The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Harvesting opium poppies has been around for several decades. Photo: AP News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pakistani paramilitary troops stationed outside the National Assembly in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad, on Sunday, April 3, 2022. Photo: Anjum Naveed/AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Imran Khan’s supporters are seen marching in the streets waving flags of Khan’s political party PTI. Photo: Rahmat Gul/AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>United opposition lawmakers seen walking towards the parliament building in Islamabad. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Indian workers gather outside asking for better pay. Photo: AP News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Health workers claiming their contracts were not renewed by the government supported the protest. Photo: AP News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On July 17th, 2021 candles were lit in New Delhi after Danish Siddiqui’s passing in Afghanistan. Photo: Altaf Qadri/Associated Press.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Prime Minister Imran Khan being interviewed by Oksana Boyko of Russia Television on Feb 22, 2022. Photo: APP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bill Gates pictured here sitting with Prime Minister Imran Khan on Gates’s first ever visit to Pakistan. Photo: Press Information Department via AP / Uncredited/Press Information Department.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bill Gates seated with public health officials of Pakistan at a forum on Thursday at the National Command and Operation Centre in Islamabad. Photo: NCOC</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former President Klaus Iohannis steps down the podium after his farewell speech, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Feb.12, 2025.  (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo: AP Photo/Pamela Smith)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>North Korean troops in Russia preparing for future combat. Source: The Financial Brand</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Donald Trump meeting with Viktor Orban in the Oval Office. Photo: Doug Mills, The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to a crowd during the opposition protest in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, Oct. 28. Photo: Zurab Tsertsvadze, AP News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the BRICS summit. Photo: Vladimir Astapkovich, United Nations</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stars of David tagged onto the wall of a building in Paris on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ukrainian soldiers take cover in a frontline trench during the battle of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on March 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A map illustrating Russia’s hold over large swaths of Eastern Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crowd storming into the airfield of Dagestan’s main airport in Makhachkala, Russia on Oct. 30, 2023. Photo: AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crowd shouting antisemitic slogans on stormed airfield in Makhachkala, Russia on Oct. 30, 2023, upon arrival of aircraft from Tel Aviv, Israel. Source: AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at a news conference on Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The fence along the Polish-Belarusian border, Aug. 26, 2021 Photo: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map of Suwalki Gap, 2022 Source: The Guardian</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Russian Court Orders Arrest of Dissident Journalist Marina Ovsyannikova - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Marina Ovsyannikova, former TV editor at Russia’s Channel One, awaits her hearing on July 28, 2022 after making a live protest against Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. Photo: AP Photo/ Alexander Zemlianichenko</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Russian Court Orders Arrest of Dissident Journalist Marina Ovsyannikova - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Screenshot from the footage of Ovsyannikova’s March 14, 2022 on-air protest, when she held up a sign that said “No war. Stop the war. Don't believe the propaganda, they're lying to you here” Photo: Insider Screenshot</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Romania Strengthens its Energy Production With Joint Black Sea Project - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Black Sea Oil &amp; Gas pipeline entering an onshore LNG plant in Romania, June 28, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/George Carlin</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Romania Strengthens its Energy Production With Joint Black Sea Project - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of Existing and Upcoming LNG Import Terminals in Europe, 2018 Photo: King &amp; Spalding LLP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - EU’s Aid to Poland Jeopardized - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium in Sept. 2022. Photo: AP Photo/Olivier Matthys</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - EU’s Aid to Poland Jeopardized - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Law and Justice Party has been criticized for helping facilitate backsliding in Poland. Photo: Agencja Gazeta/Slawomir Kaminski/via Reuters.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map depicting St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, where the Russian men docked their boat on Oct. 6, 2022. Map: AP Graphic</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan pictured leaving the Capitol Hill chamber on May 10, 2017. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Ukrainian Troops Close To Liberating Kherson in Southern Offensive - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Russian armored vehicle parked near a government office in Kherson City, July 2022. Photo: Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - EU Considers Renewed Nuclear Threats from Putin - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Putin announced on state television in September a partial mobilization of military forces and threatened to use nuclear arms. Photo: Russia24/Provided by NBC</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - EU Considers Renewed Nuclear Threats from Putin - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian region annexed by Russia in August. Photo: NYT/David Guttenfelder</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Russia Halts Gas Exports to Poland and Bulgaria - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Europe is heavily reliant on Russia for energy exports, and in turn Russia is reliant on the EU for income. This relationship has been increasingly strained as a result of the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Photo: Reuters, via Alarabiya</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gave a speech in front of Gaz-System in Rembelszczyzna, near Warsaw, on April 27 after Russia cut gas to Poland and Bulgaria. Photo: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Explosions hit Moldovan Government Building in Pro-Russian Separatist Region Transnistria - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The damaged building on April 25, 2022, of the Moldovan Ministry of State Security in Tiraspol, the capital of the separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova. Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria via Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Destroyed radio antennas lying on the ground after explosions in a radio facility in Maiac, in the Moldovan separatist region of Transnistria, on April 26, 2022. Photo: Press Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic via Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Serbia Accuses Ukraine of Airline Bomb Threats, Refuses to Join Sanctions on Russia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>AirSerbia is the only European airline, aside from Turkish air companies, maintaining weekly flights to and from Russia following the start of the conflict in Ukraine. Photo: EX-YU Aviation</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From left to right: US Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Thom Tillis (R-NC), in the US embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Photo: Darko Vojinović/ Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Moldova and Lithuania Ban "Symbols of Russian Aggression" - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda speaking at a media conference at the Presidential palace in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on March 21, 2022, after being the first European nation to cut itself entirely off from Russian gas imports. Photo: Mindaugas Kulbis/ Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Moldovan President Maia Sandu addressing the General Debate during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2021, at the UN headquarters in New York City. Photo: Justin Lane/ Photo Pool via Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Serbia Receives Shipment of Chinese Military Supplies - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo of a standard HQ-22/FK-3 system, parts for which were rumored to be in the recent shipment from China to Serbia. Photo: Chinese Ministry of National Defense, via DefenseNews</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Serbia’s military heavily relies on Russian and former Soviet military equipment, and is looking to upgrade its lines of defense via purchases through countries like China and France. Photo: Darko Vojinovic/AP, via DefenseNews</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Alleged War Crimes Committed by Russian Forces in Ukraine - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A street in Bucha covered with destroyed armored fighting vehicles. Photo: Lee Durant/ BBC</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A satellite image showing dispersed bodies along one of the streets of Bucha. Photo: BBC</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Pro-Russian Strongmen Win Re-Election in Hungary, Serbia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (left) and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić (right) each won their respective elections on Sunday, April 3, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/ Andrej Cukic, via Balkan Insight</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Pro-Russian Strongmen Win Re-Election in Hungary, Serbia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The close ties between Budapest and Moscow have raised the question of Hungary’s loyalties and its role within Western institutions, such as the European Union. Photo: FB/Viktor Orbán, via Daily News Hungary</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - European Commission Begins Disciplining Hungary for Breaching the Law - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - European Commission Begins Disciplining Hungary for Breaching the Law - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Europe Responds to Putin Signing a Decree Demanding Gas Payments - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Putin signs a decree requiring “unfriendly countries” to pay in rubles for gas imports. Photo: Mikhail Klementyev/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Morawiecki speaking on Wednesday. Photo: Polsat News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcoming Russian and Ukrainian delegates before the start of war mediation talks in Turkish city Istanbul on March 29, 2022. Photo: Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Press Service via Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Members of the press standing next to a map of the war in Ukraine outside Dolmabahce presidential office after peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegates in Istanbul, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Photo: GocherImagery/MediaPunch/IPX via Associated Press/ Ilker Eray</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Poland Expels 45 Russian Diplomats on Grounds of Espionage - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Russian Embassy in Warsaw from which 45 diplomats are being expelled on the accusation of espionage. Photo: Pawel Supernak/EPA, via Al Jazeera</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As the Russian invasion of Ukraine draws on, neighboring countries such as Poland are showing solidarity and taking action against Moscow in a number of ways. Photo: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ukrainian children coloring at a refugee camp at MoldExpo national exhibition center in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, Moldova on March 14, 2022. Photo: Associated Press/ Sergei Grits</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Refugees from the war in Ukraine looking out from a bus at the border between Ukraine and Moldova in Palanca, Moldova on March 19, 2022. Photo: Associated Press/ Sergei Grits</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>More than two million refugees have fled Ukraine as the Russian invasion reaches its two week mark. Photo: Associated Press/Visar Kryeziu, via The Hill.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Civilian evacuation efforts have proven tough across different parts of Ukraine due to the destruction caused by the conflict and continuous shelling by Russia.  Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP, via Al Jazeera</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (center right) speaking with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili (center left) before an EU meeting in Brussels, Belgium on March 1, 2022. Photo: Associated Press/Virginia Mayo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressing the European Parliament during a session on Ukraine in Brussels, Belgium on March 1, 2022. Photo: Associated Press/Virginia Mayo</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Russia Lays Siege to Major Ukrainian Seaports and Cities - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Data provided by the Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project as of March 3, 2022 at 3 pm ET. Photo: Renée Rigdon/ CNN</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Residential building in Mariupol after Russian bombardment. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - What the Ukraine Crisis Means for North Korea - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>South Koreans watch coverage of the invasion of Ukraine in Seoul. Photo: Ahn Young-Joon / Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kim Jong-un. Photo: KCNA / Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Ukraine’s Neighbors Respond to the Russian Invasion on Ukraine - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Smoke and fire rising as Russian forces bomb Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Photo: Gleb Garanich/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Solidarity with Ukrainians protest in Wrocław, Poland. Photo: Maciej Kulczyński/PAP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Ukraine’s Neighbors Respond to the Russian Invasion on Ukraine - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ukrainians walking to the Hungarian-Ukrainian border. Photo: Bernadett Szabo/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dusk falls on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, after the first day of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Russian troops were advancing on the city. Photo: Brendan Hoffman/ New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A map depicting the locations of Russian air attacks in Ukraine, as of 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24. Ukrainian officials confirmed that the country has been attacked from the north, east, and south. Photo: Times Reporting; Ukrainian Officials, via The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Controversial Amendment to the Education Law Passes the Polish Parliament - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Family protesting against the Lex Czarnek bill. Photo: Piotr Wójcik/Wyborcza.pl</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Controversial Amendment to the Education Law Passes the Polish Parliament - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Andrzej Duda (left) and Przemysław Czarnek (right). Photo: Grzegorz Jakubowski/Gazeta.pl</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Top European Court Rules in Favor of Suspending Funding for Rule of Law Violations - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The European Court of Justice, the highest legal entity in Europe, delivered the verdict that EU member states can have funding suspended for rule of law violations. Poland and Hungary appear as likely targets of this legislation. Photo: Arne Immanuel B’nsch/ Associated Press, via New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Top European Court Rules in Favor of Suspending Funding for Rule of Law Violations - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (left) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán head the right-wing governments of their respective countries, and have been at the face of controversy with the European Union in recent years. Photo: AP, via Financial Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Serbians Protest Against Lithium Mines near Statehood Day Ceremony - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Police officers block off protesters from reaching the venue where Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is holding a Statehood Day Event in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Photo: Associated Press/Darko Vojinovic</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Eastern-Central Europe - Serbians Protest Against Lithium Mines near Statehood Day Ceremony - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, right, awards the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Serbia to actor Johnny Depp, during a Statehood Day award ceremony in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Photo: Serbian Presidential Press Service via Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protestors gathered outside of the parliament building in Bratislava ahead of the vote on the Defense Cooperation Agreement. Photo: Pavol Zachar/TASR, via AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad signed the US-Slovak Defense Coordination Agreement in Washington DC on Feb. 3, 2022.  Photo: Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry, via The Slovak Spectator</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic leaving a parliament session in Podgorica, Montenegro, Friday, February 4, 2022. Photo: Associated Press/ Risto Bozovic</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Montenegro's Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic speaks to the media in Podgorica, Montenegro, Friday, February 4, 2022. Photo: Associated Press/ Risto Bozovic</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jorge G. Castañeda with Mexican President Vicente Fox during his administration which lasted from 2000 to 2006. Source: Cuartoscuro</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chairman of the Special Commission for Defense of Guyana Essequibo, Hermann Escarra, standing next to the new Venezuelan Map that includes the Essequibo territory. Source: AP Photos/ Matias Delacroix</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Peru's President Dina Boluarte speaks as she meets with foreign press, in Lima, Peru January 24, 2023. Image Source: REUTERS/Angelica Ponce</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An image of Venezuelan independence fighter and hero Simon Bolivar, next to a sign of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A, PDVSA, taken in Caracas, Venezuela. Source: AP Photos/Ariana Cubillos</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protesters celebrate the decriminalization of abortion in Quintana Roo, Mexico in 2022. Source: Reuters/Paola Garcia</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Advocates for reproductive rights celebrate in Colombia in 2023. Source: Reuters/Luisa Gonzalez</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Costa Rica Minister for Foreign Affairs Arnoldo Ricardo Andre Tinoco addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at United Nations headquarters. Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Image Source: AP Photo/Craig Ruttle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Migrants heading to the U.S. wait to board a bus that will take them to the border with Costa Rica at the Migrants Reception Station in Lajas Blancas, Darien province, Panama, September 23, 2023. Image source: REUTERS/Aris Martinez</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former President Jair Bolsonaro being photographed outside of his home after Federal Police conducted a raid, following charges of forging vaccination documents. May 3rd, 2023. Image source: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Federal Police outside of ex-president Jair Boslonaro in Brasilia, Brazil. May 3, 2023. Image source: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An aerial view of the brine pools and processing areas of the Rockwood lithium plant on the Atacama salt flat, in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. Source: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chile’s President Gabriel Boric looks at lithium samples and applications while visiting Universidad de Antofagasta venue. Source: Ximena Navarro/Chilean Presidency/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrives for a session during the 28th Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 25, 2023. Source: AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An image of Cuba's former President Raúl Castro, alongside Díaz-Canel, borders a sign that reads: "We are continuity.” April 17, 2023. Photo: Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, meets with President Biden at the White House. April 20, 2023. Image source: AP Photo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gustavo Petro meets with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro outside of the Miraflores Presidential Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela on Nov. 1, 2022. Photo: AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is asserting Brazil's role in global politics. Photo: AP/Eraldo Peres</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Police patrols the outside of the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília, Brazil, while Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro testifies against the jewelry embezzlement accusations. Photo: AP/Gustavo Moreno</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bolsonaro greets supporters outside the Liberal Party's headquarters in Brasília, Brazil, upon his arrival in the country on March 30, 2023. Photo: AP/Gustavo Moreno</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A map of the disputed area of Guyana Esequiba and the Stabroek oil reservoir. Source: BBC</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A public hearing on the question of the jurisdiction for the Arbitral Award of 3 Oct. 1899 (Guyana v. Venezuela). Source: UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Frank van Beek</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso looks on as he meets people affected by a landslide in Alausi. Photo: Reuters/Karen Toro</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A demonstrator in Quito waves an Ecuadorian flag during a cultural festival amid an impasse between the government of President Guillermo Lasso and Indigenous demonstrators. Photo: Adriano Machado/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image of Patricia Benavides, the head of the Peruvian Attorney General’s office, giving a speech to reporters in an event collaborating with UNODC and USAID. Image Source: EUROPAPRESS.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Then-President Pedro Castillo and then-Vice President Dina Boluarte waving to cameras as they are inaugurated into government in August 2021. Image source: ElEconomista</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Colombian President Gustavo Petro with the Defense Minister and other armed forces generals. Photo: AP/Fernando Vergara</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Colombia's Vice President Francia Márquez, José Otty Patiño and Pablo Beltrán hold the peace accords signed at the end of the second round of peace negotiations in Mexico City, Mar. 10, 2023. Photo AP/Marco Ugarte</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Haitian National Police has been overwhelmed by gangs clashing in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Source: Odelyn Joseph/AP/picture alliance</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Haitians are suffering from gang violence, food insecurity, and economic disaster. Source: Johnson Sabin/EPA</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A boy and his family were among the debris following the earthquake in Isla Puna, Ecuador. March 19, 2023. Image source: REUTERS/Maria Fernanda Landin</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>20,000 new inmates being interned at The Center for Confinement on Terrorism on Friday, February 24, 2023. Image source: Twitter/Nayib Bukele</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The 2018 demonstrations in Nicaragua left 300 dead and 2,000 injured, as police and pro-government armed groups repressed the protests. Source: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in 2018. Photo: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Alla Prigolovkina is one of the Russian women who decided to give birth to her child in Argentina. Photo: AP/Natacha Pisarenko</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lev Andres was born to two Russian parents in Argentina. His family is one of the few that intends to stay in the country. Photo: AP/Natacha Pisarenko</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protester being detained by state police, after taking part in a march against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Lima, Peru, Jan.19, 2023. Image source: AP Photo/Martin Mejia</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, entering the government palace in Lima, Peru to give a press conference. Feb. 10, 2023 Image source: AP Photo/Martin Mejia</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Peruvian President Pedro Castillo addresses the audience during the opening of the VII Ministerial Summit on Government and Digital Transformation of the Americas, in Lima, Peru on Nov 10, 2022. Source: Reuters/Sebastian Castaneda</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former Vice President Dina Boluarte acknowledges lawmakers after she was sworn in as president at Congress in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Behind is Congress President Jose Williams. Peru's Congress voted to remove President Pedro Castillo from office Wednesday and replace him with the vice president, shortly after Castillo tried to dissolve the legislature ahead of a scheduled vote to remove him. Source: AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pablo Beltran, representing ELN (left) shakes hands with Ivan Danilo Rueda, the high commissioner for peace on behalf of the Colombian government, as peace talks restart, at the Hotel Humboldt in Caracas, Venezuela, Nov 21, 2022. In the center is Carlos Martinez, a retired Venezuelan military official serving as guarantor. Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Talks between the Colombian government and the country's largest remaining rebel group, the National Liberation Army, come amid President Gustavo Petro's push for 'total peace.' Source: Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jorge Rodriguez (right), President of Venezuela's National Assembly and Head of Nicolas Maduro's negotiating team, along with Nicolas Maduro Guerra (left), son of Venezuela's President, in the meeting in Mexico City last weekend. Source: REUTERS/Henry Romero</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chevron is the second largest oil company headquartered in the United States. Source: AP Photo/Alan Diaz</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Migrants arrive in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, after being sent across the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in July 2019. Source: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Estimated Outcomes of Border Apprehension, February 2021 through April 2022. Source: American Immigration Council</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President-Elect Lula speaks with youth activists during COP-27 taking place in Egypt. Thursday 17th, 2022. Image source: AP Photo/Peter Dejong.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bar graph depicting the amount of yearly deforested area. The graph depicts the previous three president’s terms and their influence on deforestation. The rate of growth for Balsonaro’s term significantly surpasses the previous two administrations. Image source: AP Photo/Peter Dejong.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lula managed to recruit supporters from diverse backgrounds. Photo: AP Photo/Nelson Antoine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The pervasive homophobic discourse by Bolsonaro made queer people become strong supporters of Lula in 2022. Photo: AP Photo/Andre Penner</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Supporters of Brazil's President and candidate for re-election Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hold flags as election campaigns continues in Brasilia, Brazil. Source: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>People attend a protest over Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro's defeat in the presidential run-off election, in Anapolis, Goias state, Brazil. Source: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) celebrated Mexican Independence Day on September 15th, 2022. Image source: AP Photo/Fernando Llano</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and US Climate Envoy John Kerry bump arms during a US-Mexico meeting in Mexico City on February 9th, 2022. Image source: AP Photo/Fernando Llano</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Men detained under the "state of exception" are transported to a detention center in a cargo truck in Soyapango, El Salvador, on Oct. 7. Source: Moises Castillo/AP file</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's government arrested more than 14,000 people after it declared a 'state of exception' in response to a surge in gang violence. Source: Jose Cabezas/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sign reading “2023 Census for Fair Elections 2025”, displayed in front of protest blockades. Image source: Página Siete/APG.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Luis Fernando Camacho, at the time right-wing opposition leader, after requesting the resignation of Evo Morales on November 10, 2019, in La Paz, Bolivia. Image source: Getty Images/Javier Mamani</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico. Source: Reuters/Edgard Garrido</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Members of the Mexican National Guard and the Mexican army check a car at a military checkpoint, as part of a security operation to reduce violence, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Source: Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>These Afghan migrants are using blankets and luggage cars as makeshift shelters in the airport. Source: Bruno Santos/Folhapress</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The precarious conditions Afghans have encountered in Guarulhos are making many consider leaving Brazil soon. Source: Bruno Santo/Folhapress</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chileans waved flags as they celebrated the rejection of the proposed constitution. Source: Pablo Sanhueza/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Supporters of the proposed constitution protesting in Santiago after the results were released on Sunday. Source: Tomas Munita/NYT</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pedro Castillo, Peru’s President, at the Andean Community Summit in Lima, Peru. The summit took place on August 22, 2022. Image source: AP Photo/Martin Mejia</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Demonstrators in Lima, Peru showing their solidarity with Pedro Castillo’s sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredes. She has been requested by the prosecutor for alleged involvement in a corruption network. The demonstrations took place on August 26, 2022. Photo: AP Photo/Martin Mejia</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Energy Crises Across the World Bring Gaze Back to Venezuela’s Oil Reserves - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Maduro is now recognized as the head of state of Venezuela by a number of countries across the world. Source: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Many sources claim Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world in comparison to any other country. Source: Statista/Florian Zandt</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the High-Level Economic Dialogue Second Annual Meeting. Image source: AP Photo/Raquel Cunha</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Displayed handguns at the Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. The event is one of the largest trade shows in the world. Image source: AP Photo/John Locher</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2022-11-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Latin America - The Votes Are In: Brazilian Elections Reveal a Polarized Country with an Uncertain Fate - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Candidates Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro will be facing each other in a runoff election at the end of the month. Source: AP Photo/Eraldo Peres</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Generally speaking, Lula has support mainly from Northern and Northeastern states, which have higher rates of poverty. Bolsonaro's support is concentrated in wealthier areas of the country like Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and the South. Source: Agence France-Presse/Tatiana Magarinos</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Gang Wars Wreak Instability in Haiti - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Unfortunately many districts in Haiti are already dominated by crime. Photo: DW News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A woman and a child try to find their way during a demonstration against the violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 29, 2022. Photo: Odelyn Joseph/ Le Monde</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Mexico’s Electricity Reform Bill Fails - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused opposition legislators of 'an act of treason' after they voted down his proposed reforms. Photo: Henry Romero/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Opposition legislators react after a reform of the electricity sector failed to pass the lower house of Congress, Mexico City, Apr. 17, 2022. Photo: Luis Cortes/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Brazil’s Superior Military Court Audio Proves Prisoners Were Tortured During Military Dictatorship Period - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Student Protest during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil. Photo: Arquivo Nacional / Brasil de Fato</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Vice President of Brazil, General Mourão, laughed when asked about the possibility of investigating the material revealed. Photo: Sérgio Lima / Poder 360</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Chile Implements Water Rationing Plan - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The dried-up El Yeso Reservoir, located in the Andes; Chile has been in drought for 12 years. Photo: Javier Torres/AFP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A cow is seen on land that used to be filled with water, at the Aculeo Lagoon in Paine, Chile on Jan. 9, 2019. Photo: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Protests Against Peruvian Government Increase While Violence Rises - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Peruvian president leaving for an impeachment hearing at the Congress on Monday, March 28. Photo: GPB News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Thousands of people have taken to the streets calling for Castillo’s removal. Photo: Sebastian Castaneda/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Peruvian president leaving for an impeachment hearing at the Congress on Monday, March 28. Photo: GPB News</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Survives Second Impeachment Process - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Thousands of people have taken to the streets calling for Castillo’s removal. Photo: Sebastian Castaneda/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - El Salvador Declares a State of Emergency - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A police officer patrols La Libertad square in San Salvador on March 29 after El Salvador's Congress declared a state of emergency. On Sunday, some constitutional protections were temporarily suspended after the Central American country recorded a sharp rise in killings attributed to criminal gangs. Photo: Jose Cabezas/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, on Nov. 1, in San Salvador. Photo: Jose Cabezas/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Signs of security cooperation between China and the Solomon Islands threatens stability in the entire region - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Prime Minister Sogavare and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meet in Beijing in 2019. Photo: Thomas Peter / Wall Street Journal</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Signs of security cooperation between China and the Solomon Islands threatens stability in the entire region - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Australian Federal Police sent to Honiara last year during protests. Photo: Gary Ramage / Wall Street Journal</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Argentina Agrees to a New Debt Program With The IMF - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A general view of Argentina's Senate, as legislators meet to debate and vote on an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: Agustin Marcarian/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Argentina Agrees to a New Debt Program With The IMF - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Demonstrators march in front of the National Congress as the Senate debates an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: Mariana Nedelcu/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Peruvian President Faces Second Impeachment Process - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Castillo's disapproval rating has reached almost 70 percent after less than a year in power. Photo: Semana</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Castillo's disapproval rating has reached almost 70 percent after less than a year in power. Photo: Semana</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - The Dominican Republic Announces a Border Wall With Haiti - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Dominican Republic's president, Luis Abinader, in Dajabón as construction begins on the wall that will span nearly half the 244-mile border with Haiti. Photo: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Haitians routinely cross the border into the Dominican Republic to sell goods at a market in Dajabón. Photo: Ricardo Rojas/ Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation regarding the military operation against Ukraine. Photo: Aljazeera</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Russian and Ukrainian conflict has already killed more than 9,100 people and displaced 1 million individuals. Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - President Bolsonaro Fights to Open Indigenous Amazon Lands for Mining Companies - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The logo for Brazilian’s largest mining company, Vale SA Photo: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Alessandra Munduruku, a Munduruku activist defending her land. Photo: BBC</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Women in Bogota celebrate in the wake of the ruling that makes abortions legal in Colombia. Photo: Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Women celebrate Colombia's constitutional court decision to decriminalize abortion until 24 weeks of gestation, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Latin America - Peruvian President Names Fourth Prime Minister - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Peru's President Pedro Castillo (left) swears in Anibal Torres as his new prime minister. Photo: Martin Mejia/AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Héctor Valer poses for a photograph after being named prime minister by Peru's president, Pedro Castillo, in Lima on Feb. 1. Photo: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rescue team looking for bodies in the rubble caused by heavy rains on Tuesday, Feb. 15 in Petropolis, north of Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Tânia Rêgo / Agência Brasil</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rescue team looking for bodies in the rubble caused by heavy rains on Tuesday, Feb. 15 in Petropolis, north of Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Tânia Rêgo / Agência Brasil</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Photo: Casa Rosada</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Police officers guard the perimeter of a scene where Heber Lopez, an independent journalist who ran NoticiasWeb, was shot dead in Salina Cruz, in Oaxaca state, Mexico. Photo: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Police officers guard the perimeter of a scene where Heber Lopez, an independent journalist who ran NoticiasWeb, was shot dead in Salina Cruz, in Oaxaca state, Mexico. Photo: Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Xiomara Castro waving to supporters during her swearing-in ceremony  Photo: REUTERS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Supporters of Ximara Castro at her rally in Tegucigalpa, Photo: Associated Press/Moises Castillo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Biden addresses the press in the Rose Garden on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo: AP Photo/Manuel Balce)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Turkish protesters march against the blockade of aid to Gaza at a port in Istanbul. (Photo: AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Elon Musk delivers a speech following President-elect Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Photo: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - How Elon Musk’s Unconventional Role Could Shape the Trump Administration’s Approach to Iran - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Elon Musk and then then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign event at the Butler Farm show on Oct. 5, 2024. (Photo: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev (center) and other representatives applaud during the U.N.’s annual conference closing plenary session. (Photo: AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - COP29 Climate Summit Funding Deal Falls Short of Meeting Developing Nations’ Needs to Combat Climate Change - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Climate activists protest at the COP29 U.N. Summit. (Photo: AP Photo/Sergei Grits).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A resident of the West Kingston slum Tivoli Gardens holds a Jamaican flag during a protest in Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. (Photo: AP Photo/David McFadden)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters on Sept. 22, 2022. (Photo: AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press at NATO headquarters following the US presidential election results. (Photo: NYT/Nicolas Tucat)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Biden and Trump meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13, 2024. (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Vice President Kamala Harris at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on Nov. 4, 2024. (Photo: Susan Walsh/AP Photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former US President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Oct. 20, 2024. (Photo: Susan Walsh/AP Photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport has been closed to US airlines since Nov. 12, 2024. (Photo: Reuters/Ralph Tedy Erol)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Houses on the slopes of a Port-au-Prince neighborhood in May 2024. (Photo: AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about Russian election interference at a press conference in September. (Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Photo: Alex Brandon/AP Photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In this Dec. 4, 2019, photo, from front row left, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, U.S. President Donald Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a ceremony event during a NATO leaders meeting at The Grove hotel and resort in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Three years into the Trump presidency, America's new place in the world is coming into focus, with influence waning from NATO meeting rooms to the Middle East to the capital cities of key allies. And in many ways, that's just fine with the White House.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and John Bass, Department of State Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs, pose for photos at the Transatlantic Working Dinner, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - US’s Support for Democracy and Its Impact on Africa, the Balkans, and the Caribbean - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Former President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House, declaring a national emergency to build a wall along the southern border on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In this photo provided Thursday, June 20, 2024, by the North Korean government, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, right, attend the official welcome ceremony at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, June 19. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency.(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sikhs in Peshawar, Pakistan, hold a protest after the killing of Khalistan advocate Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023. (Photo: AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at the ASEAN summit in Laos on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Photo: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaking at the ASEAN Summit in Laos on Oct. 11, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Tang Chhin Sothy)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Residents wade through a flooded street after Hurricane John passed through Acapulco, Mexico, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo: AP Photo/Bernardino Hernandez)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blaine Bennett, the U.S. Border Patrol agent in charge at Douglas Station, Vice President Harris, and John Modlin, chief patrol agent for the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, discuss challenges at the border. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kim-Jung-Un visits the Uranium enrichment site (Photo: NBC/Reuters)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kamala Harris visits the DMZ zone (Photo: CNN/Leah Millis)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets people during the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trudeau speaks during a press conference at The Canadian High Commission to take part in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London on Thursday, April 19, 2018. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Large clouds of smoke replacing forests in the Park fire, California’s third largest wildfire in history. Photo: Noah Berger / Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Biden addresses the leaders of the Indo-Pacific region, strategizing how the nations can cooperate. AP Photo/Evan Vucci</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>United States Capitol Building, where members of Congress are currently discussing and debating the aid package that will be sent to Ukraine to aid their war effort. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A deforested area of the Amazon Rainforest near Novo Progresso, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2009. Source: AP Photo / Andre Penner.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Brazilian President Lula Da Silva at the White House on Feb. 10. Source: AP Photo / Alex Brandon.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that a suspect (later identified as Jack Teixera) has been taken into custody following the mass leaks of classified U.S. government documents, Thursday, April 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-05-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Donald Trump speaks at a rally while on the campaign trail for the 2016 election. Photo: Nati Harnik / Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Donald Trump enters his car en route to Trump Tower on April 3, 2023. Photo: WABC / New York Post</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>View of the Jewish Settlement of Efrat, West Bank on Jan 30, 2023 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Biden walks with Prince Mohammad bin Salman during his visit to Riyadh in July. Source: Bandar Algaloud / Al-Jazeera News</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President Joe Biden speaks at the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on Sept. 21, 2022. He promised a “consequential” response if Russia uses nuclear weapons. Photo: AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ukrainian soldiers driving in recently retaken areas in Ukraine after successfully forcing Russian troops to retreat on Oct. 4, 2022. Photo: AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protesters take over a road in downtown Tehran on Sept. 21, a few days after the death of Mahsi Amani. Photo: AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Biden speaks before the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - Biden Discusses Immigration, Supply-Chain Issues With President López Obrador of Mexico - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Joe Biden in the Oval Office with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in November, 2021. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Commercial trucks awaiting inspection at the US-Mexico border in April, 2022. Photo: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / The Texas Tribune</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - Biden Nominates Bridget Brink as Ambassador to Ukraine After Three Year Vacancy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday, April 24 2022. Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem at a news conference. Photo: Adrian Wyld / Bloomberg.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Reuters graphic of Canadian yearly inflation rates since the 1990s.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - Biden and Modi Meet as Russia Drives Wedge in Close Ties - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Biden speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 11th, 2022. Photo: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Putin and Modi embrace at a summit between both nations on December 6th, 2021. Photo: Manish Swarup / AP Photo.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Health worker Abdul K. Bangura delivering a cooler of COVID vaccines to Kathantha Yimbo, Sierra Leone. Photo: Finbarr O’Reilly / The New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Medical staff at Kenyatta Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, 2021. Photo: Ben Curtis/ Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A First Nations member dances in St. Peter’s Square on March 31st, 2022. Photo: Alessandra Tarantino / Associated Press.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - Pope Offers Official Apology to Canadian Indigenous Communities - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pope Francis reads a formal apology to Indigenous delegates on April 1st, 2022. Photo: CBC News.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - Biden Proposes Drastic Overhaul to Asylum-Seeking Process - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Migrants crossing the Paso del Norte International Bridge to attend a court hearing for asylum seekers, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Photo: Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Families traveling from Matamoros, Mexico to seek asylum in the US. Photo: Carolyn Cole / LA Times</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - US to Declare Actions by Myanmar’s Military a Genocide - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rohingya refugees crossing the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2017. Photo: Adam Dean / New York Times</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken at the “Burma’s Path to Genocide” Exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo: Kevin Lamarque / Pool via AP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - Canada Commits to Unified Western Response against Russia - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joins the Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and Foreign Affairs Minister in denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at a news conference on February 24th, 2022. Photo: Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press</image:caption>
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      <image:title>North America - US Supreme Court to Consider Overturning Trump’s Controversial “Remain in Mexico” Policy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Asylum seekers waiting for news of US policy changes at the border in Tijuana, Mexico on February 19, 2021. Photo: Gregory Bull / AP Photo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>April 4, 2025, Opposition parties in the Central African Republic demonstrate in the streets of Bangui in protest of the government and its usage of Wagner mercenaries.  (Photo: AP Photo/Jean Fernand Koena)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sept. 22, 2020, Malians demonstrate against France and in support of Russia on the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Mali, in Bamako, Mali.  (Photo: AP Photo/File)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Flowers laid at the statue of Russian mercenaries as a tribute to the late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in Bangui, Central African Republic, March 2024.  (Photo: AP Photo/Sam Mednick)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ghanaians gather to protest Galamsey and call for government action in the nation’s capital Accra, Ghana. (Photo: Nipah Dennis/ NBC News)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On Jan. 29, rebels patrol the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.  [Brian Inganga/AP Newsroom]</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On Feb. 17, M23 rebels patrol the streets of Bukavu, DRC.  [Janvier Barhahiga/AP Newsroom]</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attending a Holy Mass led by Pope Francis in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023.  (Photo: AP Photo/Ben Curtis)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) accompanying UNCHR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi to Bientu, South Sudan, which housed the country’s largest camp for the internally-displaced, June 18, 2017.  (Photo: AP Photo/Sam Mednick)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>M23 rebels capture Bukava, DR Congo, the second largest city in the eastern region of the country, February 16, 2025.  (Photo: AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>South African soldiers sent by the SADC stand in Goma, DR Congo as the bodies of two South African soldiers are repatriated to South Africa February 20, 2024.  (Photo: AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Congolese women selling chickens at the Virunga market in Goma, DR Congo, one month after M23 captured the city, February 27, 2025.  (Photo: AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Geographic distribution of cases of disease and deaths associated with it in the DRC (Photo: World Health Association)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Red Cross workers collect the remains of a dead person in east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, one day after it was taken by M23 rebels, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Congolese citizens who fled Bukavu at the Rusizi district in Rwanda waiting to return home [Reuters]</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kenya’s former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP Newsroom/ Andrew Kasuku)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenyan Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua Impeached in Historic Vote - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kenya’s National Assembly, the legislative lower house, sits to vote on the impeachment of Deputy President Gachagua before the sitting of the Senate, the upper house. (Photo: Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-18</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Mozambican voters rally for candidate Daniel Chapo in Maputo, Mozambique, October 6 2024.  (Photo: AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Current President of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi (left) shakes hands with Frelimo candidate Daniel Chapo (right), May 2024.  (Photo: Constancio Sitoe/Xinhua)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Russia Avoids Western Sanctions in Alliance with Gabon - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Russian tankers registered under the flag of Gabon in the ocean.  (Photo: Getty Images)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Russia Avoids Western Sanctions in Alliance with Gabon - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken welcomes Gabonese coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema in Washington October 2024.  (Photo: Official State Department/Freddie Everett)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - 45 Found Dead off the Coast of Djibouti Carrying Migrants Crossing the Red Sea - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>At least 45 dead off the coast of Djibouti from sunken migrant ship (Photo: Djibouti Coast Guard/ABC News)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - 45 Found Dead off the Coast of Djibouti Carrying Migrants Crossing the Red Sea - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The devastating effects of drought and conflict in Somalia seen in a refugee camp on the outskirts of the nation (Photo: AP Newsroom/Jerome Delay)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Vladimir Putin standing with the Burkina Faso junta leader, Ibrahim Traore, at the Russian-African summit in Saint Petersburg, 2023.  (Photo: NBC/Mikhail Tereshchenko)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Strengthen Russian Relations in a New Satellite Deal - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Malians gather around an image of Richard Wagner, symbol of Russia’s Wagner Mercenary group, celebrating the departure of French soldiers in 2022.  (Photo: The Washington Post/Paul Lorgerie)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Ghana Creates Greater Hope for Gender Equality in Sub-Saharan Africa - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Gender Equity Bill signed into law creates hope for a more progressive future in Ghana. (Photo: Austria Institute of International Affairs)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Ghana Creates Greater Hope for Gender Equality in Sub-Saharan Africa - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Strong Activism in Ghana. (Photo: Amnesty International)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-11-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenyan Government Evicted 700 Indigenous People from the Mau Forest - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>William Ruto, President of Kenya, visiting the Seoul National Cemetery in November 2022. Photo: KOCIS/Jeon Han.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenyan Government Evicted 700 Indigenous People from the Mau Forest - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A boy planting a tree during the Mau Forest Restoration-Tree-Planting exercise. Photo: Global Landscapes Forum/Antony Odhiambo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Paramilitary Force Captures Sudan’s Darfur Region - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known mononymously as Hemedti, greets the audience at a speech in 2020. Photo: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Paramilitary Force Captures Sudan’s Darfur Region - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sudanese women cross the border between Sudan and Chad in 2023. Photo: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Ugandan Government Apprehends the Commander of a Terrorist Group Linked to the October Tourist Attack - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, giving a speech on security in September 2023. Photo: PPU/NewVision Uganda.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Ugandan Government Apprehends the Commander of a Terrorist Group Linked to the October Tourist Attack - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Relatives of victims in the Kasese attack riding with the coffins of their family members. Photo: AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwaddah.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenyan Soldier Killed by a Mortar Bomb as Conflict in the DRC Rages On - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A family fleeing the conflict in Masisi, North Kivu Province. Photo: Flickr/Julien Harneis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>UNHCR handing over non-food items to internally displaced persons in Pweto, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: MONUSCO/ Nelly Kabena.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa calls for immediate cessation of violence. Photo: Anadolu Agency.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ramaphosa delivers a speech on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Photo: Indian Express.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chickens that were subjected to new techniques to discover an outbreak of avian influenza in Cameroon. Photo: Laura Gil Martinez/IAEA.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Scientists swab a wood duck for avian influenza. Photo: U.S Fish and Wildlife Service.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Irabrahim Traore pictured with Vladimir Putin in August. Photo: Alexei Danichev/Reuters.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Supporters of Ibrahim Traore wave a Russian flag in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Photo: Sophie Garcie/AP Photo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Western Countries Raise Concerns Over Wagner Group’s Presence in Mali - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Russian mercenaries boarding a helicopter in northern Mali in an undated photo handed out by the French military. Photo: AP News.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Western Countries Raise Concerns Over Wagner Group’s Presence in Mali - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Abdoulaye Diop, Mali's foreign minister, speak at a press conference about alleged human rights abuses committed by the Wagner Group in Bamako, Mali, on February 7. Photo: Baba Ahmed/AP News.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The BRICS head-of-state members posing for a picture at the summit in 2018. Photo: Mike Hutchings/AFP.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Putin’s Visit to South Africa Raises Concerns Over His ICC Arrest - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>President Putin whispers in President Ramaphosa’s ear at the Russia-Africa Summit in 2019. Photo: Sergei Chirikov/REUTERS.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - 103 Dead in Kenya From a Mass Starvation Cult Practice - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pastor Ezekiel Odero, holding a bible, while being led by the police in Mombasa, Kenya on Thursday. Photo: Maarufu Mohamed/AP News.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - 103 Dead in Kenya From a Mass Starvation Cult Practice - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A victim of the Christian cult in Kenya after being rescued by the Kenyan Red Cross inside a car in the outskirts of Malindi on the Kenyan coast on Tuesday. Photo: AP News.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Civilians flee on a bus out of Khartoum to Aswan, Egypt. Photo: El-Tayeb Siddig/REUTERS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Violent protest in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday. Photo: John Muchucha/REUTERS.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Raila Odinga participating in a protest in Nairobi, Kenya where police are using water hoses to control the riots. Photo: Thomas Mukoya/REUTERS.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Nigerian Senator Faces Jail for Illegal Organ Harvesting - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nigerian senator, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu at their 2022 New Year’s celebrations before the allegations came to light. Photo: Ike Ekweremadu/Facebook.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Nigerian Senator Faces Jail for Illegal Organ Harvesting - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ike Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu and his daughter, Sonia Ekweremadu outside the Old Bailey court in the UK. at the start of the trial last month. Photo: Tom Symonds/BBC.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-03-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Sub-Saharan Africa - Ugandan Parliament Passes Strict Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Protesters against the anti-LGBTQ+ bill stand outside the Ugandan High Commissions in Nairobi, Kenya wearing masks to keep their anonymity. Photo: Ben Curtis/AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Clare Byarugaba, LGBTQ+ Rights Activist from the Chapter Four Uganda, said in response to these claims that, “Whether you're heterosexual or homosexual, the government and parliament should introduce laws, or at least implement existing laws that protect all children - boys, girls from defilement. So the issue of recruitment has been unproven, it is baseless, it is biased.” Many activists in Uganda have come out with similar statements and support for the frightened LGBTQ+ community.  “You are either with us or you’re with the Western world,” stated Parliament Speaker Anita Among, an avid defender of the anti-gay laws. International outrage was ignited over the passing of the bill, with the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights calling the bill excessively harsh, urging President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, who has long been opposed to LGBTQ+ rights, to not sign it into law. In a speech to the Parliament, President Museveni said, “Western countries should stop wasting the time of humanity by trying to impose their practices on other people.” John Kirby, the U.S. National Security Council spokesperson, warned Uganda of possible economic repercussions.  Uganda has a long history of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community that began with colonial-era laws. In 2014, a similar bill to the 2023 anti-homosexuality bill was proposed but redrafted to impose lighter sentences for gay sex. The bill that passed on Tuesday reverses those redrafts from 2014. When calling for the veto of the 2023 bill, Oryem Nyeko, Ugandan Human Rights Watch researcher, said, “One of the most extreme features of this new bill is that it criminalizes people simply for being who they are as well as further infringing on the rights to privacy, and freedoms of expression and association that are already compromised in Uganda.” Frank Mugisha, Ugandan LGBTQ+ advocate, said that the LGBTQ+ people of Uganda may face mob violence, and are living in fear. The Ugandan anti-homosexuality laws are the first in a series of recent strikes on LGBTQ+ people in East Africa. Kenya is following suit with talks about introducing similar bills to Uganda.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, signed a second peace pact for the upcoming Nigerian election on February 23, 2023 in the nation’s capital Abuja. Photo: Peter Obi/Twitter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>More than 3,000 new Congolese military recruits are getting preliminary military training because of the resurgence of the rebel group M23 in Goma, DRC on Monday. Photo: Moses Sawasawa/Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Current Congolese military officers have been stationed in Goma to help train new military recruits to help combat M23 on Monday. Photo: Moses Sawasawa/Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The chief negotiators on both sides, Redwan Hussein (Ethiopia) and Getachew Reda (Tigray), shake hands after signing the peace treaty in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo: Themba Hadebe/AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protests in Pretoria, South Africa, urging the warring parties to make peace. Photo: Themba Hadebe/ AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Relatives moving a deceased body from the bombing site a day after the attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia on October 30th. Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>People walking around the debris and rummage from the bombing, a day after the attacks occurred at the Zobe intersection on October 30th. Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>South African protest for climate change action in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Solar panels work on a street in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Sunday Alamba/AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>People from Tigray protesting the conflict between the Tigray rebels and the Ethiopian government outside the United Arab Emirates in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday. Photo: Themba Hadebe/Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Ethiopian parade with national flags in the capital, Addis Abada, to show support for the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) in Tigray last year. Photo: Associated Press</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This sign at a gas station in Frankfurt, Germany shows how high gas prices have gotten, and they are only set to increase after OPEC’s decision to cut exports last Wednesday. Photo: Michael Probst/AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tunisia saw a record-breaking 9.1% inflation rate and many customers cannot afford even the basic necessities. Photo: Ben Bouazza/AP Newsroom</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Former Speaker of the House Representative Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei, Taiwan on August 3, 2023, pictured here next to the Taiwanese President, President Tsai Ing-wen. Photo: Boston University</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Captures the unmarked graves of Ukrainian soldiers and citizens, buried by Russian infantry and “hidden” in wooded areas to prevent discovery of the massive casualties. Maloletka describes how after the graves were discovered, a mass operation was enacted by civilians to bury each person in these graves properly. Photo: Unmarked Graves</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gerard Cadet of Little Haiti BK addresses the crowd at City Hall. Source: Sophia Moore.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pavel Sulyandziga, speaker at the event, with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2011. Source: Alexei Druzhinin/AP Photo, RIA Novosti</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Panelists Todd Harrison, Victoria Samson, Michael Mineiro, Kaitlyn Johnson, and Makena Young (from top left to bottom right)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Prosper Africa: US and African businesses growing together. Photo: US Embassy in Niger/ Tomato Jos</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ukrainian servicemen ride on tanks towards the front line to meet Russian forces in the Lugansk region of Ukraine on Feb. 25, 2022. Photo: Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A couple embraces before separating in eastern Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. Photo: Andriy Andriyenko / AP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Angela Stent (top left), Charles Kupchan (top right), Rose Gottemoeller (bottom left), and Richard Haass (bottom right)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Satellite imagery depicting additional equipment and troop deployment heading towards Ukraine, captured on Feb. 23 near Kupino, Russia / Photo: Maxar Technologies</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Opening remarks by Amelie Daigle and panelists Avigail Aviles-Texaco, Erika Pinheiro, Natsu Taylor Saito, Noura Erakat, and Regan Delogans (top left to bottom right)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Indigenous-led organization NDN Collective on Indigenous Peoples Day.  Photo: Institute for Policy Research / Shutterstock</image:caption>
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