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Philippines says Chinese coast guard assaulted its …

In this image from video handout provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship, bottom, uses water cannon Philippine coast guard patrol ship, BRP Cabra, center, as it approaches Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday Dec. 10, 2023. The Chinese coast guard assaulted three Philippine vessels with water cannon blasts Sunday and rammed one of them, causing serious engine damage off a disputed shoal in the South China Sea just a day after similar hostilities at another shoal, the Philippine coast guard said. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

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Climate negotiators urged to reach a consensus on curbing …

Denmark's Minister for Climate Dan Jorgensen, left, attends a stocktaking plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Hong Kong holds first council elections under new rules …

Hong Kong's Chief Executive John Lee, left, and his wife Janet Lam, right, cast their ballot at a polling station during the District Council elections in Hong Kong, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. Residents went to the polls on Sunday in Hong Kong's first district council elections since an electoral overhaul was implemented under Beijing's guidance of “patriots” administering the city, effectively shutting out all pro-democracy candidates.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

For Putin, winning reelection could be easier than resolving …

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2023. President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power. But he faces daunting challenges. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which …

FILE - Eleanor Roosevelt talks with Rene Cassin, French member of the United Nations Commission on human rights, before Mrs. Roosevelt's speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, Sept. 28, 1948. Seventy-five years ago on Sunday Dec. 10, 2023, the U.N. General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting in Paris. It laid one of the foundation stones of the international order that emerged following the horrors of World War II. (AP Photo/File)

The inauguration of Javier Milei has Argentina wondering …

FILE - Javier Milei, Liberty Advances coalition presidential candidate, holds a cardboard image of a 100 US dollar bill bedecked with an image of his his face during his closing campaign rally in Cordoba, Argentina, Nov. 16, 2023. As a candidate, Milei pledged to purge the political establishment of corruption, to eliminate the Central Bank he has accused of printing money and fueling inflation, and to replace the rapidly depreciating peso with the U.S. dollar. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera, File)

Cows in Rotterdam harbor, seedlings on rafts in India; …

FILE - Ichiro Kitazawa, a chef at the Japanese restaurant Rocoi, inspects herbs on a floating garden known as a chinampa in Xochimilco in Mexico City on July 13, 2017. Efforts to put agriculture on or in the water are as old as the Aztecs, who built artificial islets to grow food long ago in what's now Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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US and Philippines condemn the Chinese coast guard’s …

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship, right, uses its water cannons on a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel as it approaches Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Saturday Dec. 9, 2023. The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, separately condemned a high-seas assault Saturday by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

A British Palestinian surgeon gave testimony to a …

Doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta, a Palestinian-British plastic surgeon specializing in conflict medicine, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. Abu Sitta who spent weeks in the Gaza Strip during the current Israel-Hamas war in the enclave as part of a Doctors Without Borders medical team said he has given testimony to a British war crimes investigation unit. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Live updates | Gaza death toll tops 17,700 and Yemen …

Friends and relatives of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group attend a rally calling for their release in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Polish truck drivers are blocking the border with …

Ukrainian truck drivers wait to cross from Poland back into Ukraine in Korczowa, Poland, on Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. Ukrainian charities and companies supplying the country’s military warn that problems are growing as Polish truck drivers show no sign of ending a monthlong border blockade. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)

Organizers of COP28 want an inclusive summit. But …

Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, of Solomon Islands, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Tensions are soaring between Guyana and Venezuela …

Venezuelan lawmaker Diosdado Cabello, looks at a new map of Venezuela with the Essequibo territory, a large swath of land that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela, during a session at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Turkey’s Erdogan accuses the West of ‘barbarism’ …

FILE - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes statements with Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, on Dec. 7, 2023. Erdogan used a speech on human rights Saturday Dec. 9, 2023 to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)