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Germany, China hold high-level meeting amid tensions …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on a balcony during a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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Himalayan glaciers could lose 80% of their volume if global …

FILE - A Hindu devotee bathes and performs morning rituals in the Ganges River on the outskirts of Prayagraj, India, June 8, 2023. A new report Tuesday, June 20, from a Nepal-based research organization finds that water security for nearly 2 billion people living downstream of rivers that originate in the Himalayan ranges will likely be threatened by the end of this century due to rapid glacier melt if global warming is not controlled. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

UK lawmakers back scathing report that slammed Boris Johnson …

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a meeting with Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson inside 10 Downing Street London, Monday, June 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, POOL)

Blinken and Xi pledge to stabilize deteriorated US-China …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, walks to a meeting with China's top diplomat Wang Yi, not in photo, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Monday, June 19, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)

UN complains Russia blocks aid workers from area of Ukraine …

Water flows over the collapsed Kakhovka Dam in Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down a Ukrainian dam that collapsed earlier this month while under Russian control, according to exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo, File)

As death toll rises to 81, new accounts clash with official …

A man cries after speaking with survivors of a deadly migrant boat sinking at a migrant camp in Malakasa north of Athens, on Monday, June 19, 2023. Hundreds of migrants are believed to be missing after a fishing trawler sank off southern Greece last week. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

UN members adopt first-ever treaty to protect marine life …

FILE - U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the media during a visit to the U.N. office in the capital Nairobi, Kenya, May 3, 2023. The 193 U.N. member nations have adopted the first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas. The United Nations chief hailed the historic agreement saying it gives the ocean “a fighting chance.” (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)

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Amazon, Marriott and other companies vow to hire …

FILE - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 12, 2016. Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott and Hilton pledged Monday June 19, 2023 to hire more than 13,000 refugees, including Ukrainian women who have fled the war with Russia, over the next three years in Europe. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Russian opposition leader Navalny urges anti-Kremlin …

A view of a TV Screen showing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 2nd left, between his lawyers in a courtroom, via video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, during a preliminary hearing, in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, about 260 kilometers (163 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 19, 2023. A Russian court has opened a new trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that could keep him behind bars for decades. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

New Chinese premier makes first foreign trip to Europe …

Protests, poisoning and prison: The life of Kremlin …

FILE - Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. In a span of a decade, Navalny has gone from the Kremlin's biggest foe to Russia's most prominent political prisoner. Already serving two convictions that have landed him in prison for at least nine years, he faces a new trial that could keep him behind for another two decades. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Ugandan border town buries victims of rebel massacre …

The coffins of Florence Masika and her son Zakayo Masereka, who were both killed by suspected rebels as they retreated from Saturday's attack on the Lhubiriha Secondary School, are carried to their burial in Nyabugando, Uganda Sunday, June 18, 2023. A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday began burying the victims of the brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels that left at least 42 people dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the frontier with volatile eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

North Korea calls failed spy satellite launch ‘the …

A TV screen shows an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center on the screen, during a news program, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 19, 2023. Top North Korean officials vowed to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite as they called their country's first, and failed, launch last month "the most serious" shortcoming this year and harshly criticized those responsible, state media reported Monday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Australia’s Senate votes for holding referendum on …

Labor senators applaud after the passing of the Voice to Parliament in the Senate chamber at Australia's Parliament House, in Canberra, Monday, June 19, 2023. The Senate voted to hold a referendum this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocate aiming to give the nation's most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)