An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh looks on from a car upon arrival in Armenia's Goris, in the Syunik region, Armenia, on Monday. Thousands of Armenians have streamed out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military reclaimed full control of the breakaway region last week. Vasily Krestyaninov/AP hide caption
President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with Pacific Islands Forum leaders during the U.S.-Pacific Islands Forum Summit in the East Room of the White House on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Mayra Herrera, one of the women who gathered to celebrate the International Day of Afro-descendant Women in Tamiahua, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Koral Carballo for NPR hide caption
Jamileh Alamolhoda is the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption
Long-time collaborators Pardis Sabeti (right) of the Broad Institute and Christian Happi of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases in Nigeria, are developing an early-warning system that could flag an emerging pandemic . Jodi Hilton for NPR hide caption
FILE - This photo reproduction of a computer-generated image released by Italian Police of Matteo Messina Denaro is displayed at the Palermo police headquarters, Italy, Thursday, April 6, 2007. Alessandro Fucarini/AP hide caption
FILE - A Chinese coast guard ship blocks the way of a Philippine supply boat as it heads towards Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Aug. 22, 2023. Aaron Favila/AP hide caption
Siblings Sofia Oliveira, 18, and Andre Oliveira, 15, pose for a picture at the beach in Costa da Caparica, south of Lisbon, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Ana Brigida/AP hide caption
French President Emmanuel Macron, pictured in July in Paris, says France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country after its democratically elected president was deposed in a coup. Christophe Ena/AP hide caption
Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the women's division of the Berlin Marathon in world record time in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
A photo taken on Oct. 27, 2019 shows the inside of the burned-out van that Barakat Ahmad Barakat and two other men were in when it was targeted by U.S. forces the night of the raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's compound. OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A Kosovo police officer guards the road near the village of Banjska, 55 kilometers (35 miles) north of the capital Pristina, northern Kosovo, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Sunday said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia, increasing tensions between the two former war foes. Dejan Simicevic/AP hide caption
Ekemeni Riley is the managing director of Aligning Science Across Parkinson's, a research initiative that worked on an effort to bring a more diverse population into a study on genes that carry a greater risk for the disease. A team that included scientists from Lagos, London and the U.S. found a previously unknown gene variant that can nearly quadruple the risk for people of African ancestry. Anna Rose Layden for NPR hide caption
Palestinians inspect a damaged building following an Israeli army raid in Nour Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Palestinians said at least two people were killed in the raid, which the army said was carried out to destroy a militant command center and bomb-storage facility in the building. Majdi Mohammed/AP hide caption
A view of the metro car during the inauguration event of Bogota's future metro system as a school of culture for public transport, on Aug. 10. Chepa Beltran/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Dancers Saya Date and Shashank Duggal (center couple) perform in the improvised "Tango de Pista" category at the annual Mundial de Tango competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lucas Babic/NPR hide caption
Mayor Edilberto Molina (right), alongside Lt. Col. Óscar Usme aboard a well-armed Colombian Navy boat, tour the Caguán River which flows past Cartagena del Chairá. Carlos Saavedra for NPR hide caption
A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here. Eitan Abromovitch/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Archaeologists dug into a riverbank in Zambia and uncovered what they call the earliest known wood construction by humans. The half-million year-old artifacts could change how we see Stone-Age people. Larry Barham and Geoff Duller/University of Liverpool hide caption
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Writtle University College, an agricultural college in Writtle, United Kingdom, a day after making his announcement about changes to Britain's climate policies. ALASTAIR GRANT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Steve Inskeep (left) interviews Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York City on Wednesday. Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption