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Ukraine says it downed Russian hypersonic missiles …

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry, firefighters put out fire caused by fragments of a Russian rocket after it was shot down by air defense system during the night Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, May 16, 2023. (Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry via AP)

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Child dead, 23 missing after hippopotamus capsizes canoe …

Malawi's Minister of Water and Sanitation, Gladys Ganda left, waits with government official Abide Mia, right, for news updates from the rescue party on the banks of Shire River, Tuesday, May 16,2023. Rescuers have been searching for twenty-three missing persons in the southern tip of Malawi's Nsanje District, where a canoe carrying 37 people capsized Monday morning when a hippopotamus hit it while trying to cross into Mozambique. (AP Photo/Austin Kachipeya)

Council of Europe summit in Iceland seeks to hold Russia …

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses, via videolink, the opening ceremony of the Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Leaders from across the continent are laser-focused on holding Russia to account for its invasion of Ukraine and were poised to approve a system during their Council of Europe summit that would precisely establish the damages Moscow would have to pay to rebuild the nation. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

Putin, Zelenskyy agree to meet with ‘African leaders peace …

FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens during a press conference with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in the garden at Chequers, in Aylesbury, England, on May 15, 2023. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday May 16, 2023 that his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of African heads of state to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine. (Carl Court/Pool via AP, File)

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21 pieces of jewelry worth $129 million were stolen. A …

FILE - Visitors stand in the Jewel Room during the reopening of the Green Vault Museum in Dresden's Royal Palace of the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) in Dresden, Germany, May 30, 2020. A German court on Tuesday May 16, 2023, convicted five men of particularly aggravated arson in combination with dangerous bodily injury, theft with weapons, damage to property and intentional arson in the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from the Dresden museum in 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

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Tunisia’s moderate Islamist leader sentenced in absentia …

FILE - Islamist party leader and then parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi speaks during a meeting in Tunis, onOct. 3, 2019. A court has sentenced moderate Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi to a year in prison for allegedly referring to police officers as tyrants in what his party said early Tuesday May 16, 2023 amounted to a sham trial. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

China says ready to ‘smash’ Taiwan self-rule as US …

Senegal opposition leader’s trial postponed after …

A man drives his horse-drawn cart past burned buses, parked in a lot for out of service vehicles, that were set on fire during protests last night in Keur Massar, Dakar region, Senegal, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. According to the authorities at least three people died, including a police officer who was hit by a police vehicle, in Dakar and Ziguinchor during clashes between security forces and supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Russian Duma votes to scrap Cold War armed forces …

In this handout photo released by The State Duma, Russian lawmakers attend a session at the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted unanimously to formally pull out of a Cold War-era security deal, more than eight years after Moscow halted its participation. (The State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament via AP)