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Maldives opposition candidate Mohamed Muiz wins the …

Maldives' incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih casts his vote in Male, Maldives, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Maldivians are voting in the runoff presidential election that has turned into a virtual referendum on which regional power, India or China, will have the biggest influence in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sharuhaan)

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Almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh’s people have left, Armenia’s …

Ethnic Armenian children from Nagorno-Karabakh sit next to their belongings near a tent camp after arriving to Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Armenian officials say that by Friday evening over 97,700 people had left Nagorno-Karabakh. The region's population was around 120,000 before the exodus began. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)

Kronthaler’s carnival: Westwood’s legacy finds its maverick …

A model wears a creation for the Andreas Kronthaler For Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 2024 womenswear fashion collection presented Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023 in Paris. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer)

Putin marks anniversary of annexation of Ukrainian regions …

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a video celebrating the anniversary of the referendum called illegal by the U.N. in four Ukrainian regions one year ago, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

A European body condemns Turkey’s sentencing of an activist …

FILE - Turksih philantropist Osman Kavala is photographed in Istanbul on April 29, 2015. A European human rights organization on Saturday Sept. 30, 2023, condemned the decision by Turkey's Supreme Court to confirm the aggravated life sentence for activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala. (AP Photo/File)

6 miners killed, 15 trapped underground in collapse of …

Germany’s government and Elon Musk spar on X over migrant …

FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Germany's government rebuked X owner Elon Musk after he criticized the recent work of migrant rescue ships that German humanitarian groups operate in the Mediterranean Sea. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

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Death toll from Pakistan bombing rises to 54 as suspicion …

An injured victim of Friday's deadly bombing is treated at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing more then 50 people and wounding dozens others, authorities said, in one of the country's deadliest attacks targeting civilians in months. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Ukraine hosts a defense industry forum seeking to …

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022. Ukraine hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia's full-scale invasion and reduce foreign dependence on arms deliveries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk seeks to boost …

Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, left, and his Civic Platform member, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, right, stand on stage during an election campaign rally in Otwock, Poland, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Africa’s Eswatini, one of the last absolute monarchies, …

Voters queue to cast their votes in Manzini, Eswatini, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The small southern African nation of Eswatini is holding elections to decide part of the makeup of its parliament while its extremely wealthy king retains absolute power. (AP Photo)

NATO beefs up its Kosovo force as the US worries …

Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani speaks during and interview with The Associated Press in the capital Pristina, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Kosovo police on Friday raided several locations in a Serb-dominated area of the country's north, where weekend violence left one Kosovo police officer and three Serb insurgents dead and further strained relations between Serbia and its former province. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

More than 80% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees …

An ethnic Armenian woman from Nagorno-Karabakh walks past a street cafe after arriving to Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. Armenian officials say more than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh's original population have fled the region for Armenia. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)

The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian …

Lebanese-Armenian protesters hold flares with the colors of their nation's flag, near the Azerbaijani Embassy, to denounce the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the separatist Armenian authorities in the enclave, in Ain Aar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. A 24-hour Azerbaijani blitz last week forced Armenian separatist authorities to sit down for talks on Nagorno-Karabakh's "reintegration" into Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)