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A child casts his parent’s ballot as a police officer guards at a polling station during the presidential election in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, March 17, 2024. Voters in Russia are going to the polls for the last day of a presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule after he clamped down on dissent. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Putin extends rule for another 6 years in expected election win

Putin in line to be the longest-serving Russian leader since Catherine the Great

A child casts his parent’s ballot as a police officer guards at a polling station during the presidential election in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, March 17, 2024. Voters in Russia are going to the polls for the last day of a presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule after he clamped down on dissent. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, accompanied by members of the Movement of the First All-Russian children’s and youth organization, visits the Russia Expo international exhibition in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. As Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little electoral drama in the race. What he does after he crosses the finish line, however, is what’s drawing attention and, for many observers, provoking anxiety. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russian election, 6 more years of Putin, and what we should expect

Putin should head into a new term with few obvious restraints

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, accompanied by members of the Movement of the First All-Russian children’s and youth organization, visits the Russia Expo international exhibition in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. As Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little electoral drama in the race. What he does after he crosses the finish line, however, is what’s drawing attention and, for many observers, provoking anxiety. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
Armed members of the G9 and Family gang stand guard at their roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 11, 2024. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken with Haiti’s prime minister about the ongoing humanitarian, security, and political crises in that country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Odelyn Joseph

Canada supports intervention in Haiti as the best course

UN envoy says military action is the right path to healing gang crisis in Caribbean nation

Armed members of the G9 and Family gang stand guard at their roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 11, 2024. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken with Haiti’s prime minister about the ongoing humanitarian, security, and political crises in that country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Odelyn Joseph
Rows of fresh cut beef in the coolers of the retail section at the Wight’s Meat Packing facility in Fombell, Pa. is shown on June 16, 2022. Canada’s federal government as well as organizations representing some the nation’s beef producers warn a decision south of the border about “Product of USA” labels on meat, poultry and eggs could disrupt supply chains. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Keith Srakocic

Canada concerned as final rule for ‘Product of USA’ meat labels announced

Officials worried changes could lead to supply chain disruptions

Rows of fresh cut beef in the coolers of the retail section at the Wight’s Meat Packing facility in Fombell, Pa. is shown on June 16, 2022. Canada’s federal government as well as organizations representing some the nation’s beef producers warn a decision south of the border about “Product of USA” labels on meat, poultry and eggs could disrupt supply chains. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Keith Srakocic
FILE - Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales smiles during her visit to Sebby’s Corner in north London, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Princess Kate apologized Monday, March 11, 2024 for “confusion” caused by her editing of a family photo released by the palace — an image of the British royal and her children that was intended to calm concern and speculation about the princess’s health, but had the opposite effect. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File )

Princess of Wales apologizes after release and withdrawal of doctored photo

Family photo intended to calm concern and speculation about royal’s health, but had opposite effect

FILE - Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales smiles during her visit to Sebby’s Corner in north London, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Princess Kate apologized Monday, March 11, 2024 for “confusion” caused by her editing of a family photo released by the palace — an image of the British royal and her children that was intended to calm concern and speculation about the princess’s health, but had the opposite effect. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File )
Ukrainian police officer Volodymyr Nikulin poses for a photo in downtown Kyiv, Monday March 11, 2024. Nikulin helped Associated Press journalists during the siege of Mariupol, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, while filming “20 Days in Mariupol” which won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Ukraine’s first Oscar hailed as reminder of war’s horrors

‘20 Days in Mariupol’ a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s invasion

Ukrainian police officer Volodymyr Nikulin poses for a photo in downtown Kyiv, Monday March 11, 2024. Nikulin helped Associated Press journalists during the siege of Mariupol, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, while filming “20 Days in Mariupol” which won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
FILE - A portion of a page from a Harry Truman’s 1947 presidential diary is shown at the National Archives in Washington, July 10, 2003. Presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden have kept presidential diaries. In them, they confide in themselves, express raw opinions, trace even the humdrum habits of their day and offer insight-on-the-fly on monumental decisions of their time. It’s where they may also spill secrets they shouldn’t. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw and may have secrets to tell

Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, the president of the…

FILE - A portion of a page from a Harry Truman’s 1947 presidential diary is shown at the National Archives in Washington, July 10, 2003. Presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden have kept presidential diaries. In them, they confide in themselves, express raw opinions, trace even the humdrum habits of their day and offer insight-on-the-fly on monumental decisions of their time. It’s where they may also spill secrets they shouldn’t. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Members of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, USGPN, set up a security perimeter around one of the three downtown stations after police fought off an attack by gangs the day before, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, March 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Gangs attack police stations in Haiti as leaders call emergency meeting

Country remains in state of emergency with nightly curfew in effect

Members of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, USGPN, set up a security perimeter around one of the three downtown stations after police fought off an attack by gangs the day before, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, March 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
An Israeli soldier on top a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Sunday, March 10, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Aid groups working to get supplies to Gaza by sea, but 1st ship still waiting

U.S. officials working to set up pier to accept sea deliveries, but say it could be weeks

An Israeli soldier on top a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Sunday, March 10, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. A major French union is warning of possible strikes in the public sector, including at hospitals, during the Paris Olympics. The general secretary of the CGT tells France Info media that the union will give notice of a possible strike in public services during the Games, which are held in July-August. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

To avoid strikes at Paris Olympics, French government to pay bonuses

The social situation in France remains tense, amid recent protests from teachers, police and farmers

FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. A major French union is warning of possible strikes in the public sector, including at hospitals, during the Paris Olympics. The general secretary of the CGT tells France Info media that the union will give notice of a possible strike in public services during the Games, which are held in July-August. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. The 2024 general election campaign will pick up Saturday, March 9, where the 2020 contest left off. Fresh off their Super Tuesday domination to set up a near-certain rematch, the two rivals will hold dueling events in a state that both parties see as pivotal to winning in November. (AP Photo)

The Biden-Trump rematch comes into view with dueling visits to Georgia

Once a Republican stronghold, Georgia is now competitive

In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. The 2024 general election campaign will pick up Saturday, March 9, where the 2020 contest left off. Fresh off their Super Tuesday domination to set up a near-certain rematch, the two rivals will hold dueling events in a state that both parties see as pivotal to winning in November. (AP Photo)
Pedestrians run for cover after hearing gunshots in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Foreigners trapped in violence-torn Haiti wait desperately for a way out

Earlier this week, Haiti’s government extended a state of emergency and nightly curfew

Pedestrians run for cover after hearing gunshots in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Counting in progress for the twin referendum to change the Constitution on family and care continues at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), in Dublin, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Ballots are being counted on two Irish constitutional amendments that would broaden the definition of family and remove language about a woman’s role in the home. (Damien Storan/PA via AP)

Irish prime minister concedes defeat in vote over woman’s role at home

Opponents argued that the wording of the changes was poorly thought out

Counting in progress for the twin referendum to change the Constitution on family and care continues at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), in Dublin, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Ballots are being counted on two Irish constitutional amendments that would broaden the definition of family and remove language about a woman’s role in the home. (Damien Storan/PA via AP)
In this screengrab made from video provided by Nick Burri, a skier is pulled by a horse during a skijoring competition in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Skijoring draws its name from the Norwegian word skikjoring, meaning “ski driving.” It started as a practical mode of transportation in Scandinavia and became popular in the Alps around 1900. Today’s sport features horses at full gallop towing skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pole that’s cut in half. (Nick Burri, via AP)

Cross skiing and rodeo and you get unlikely wild west sport of skijoring

Inherently dangerous sport drawing on real horse power draws adrenaline-seeking competitors

In this screengrab made from video provided by Nick Burri, a skier is pulled by a horse during a skijoring competition in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Skijoring draws its name from the Norwegian word skikjoring, meaning “ski driving.” It started as a practical mode of transportation in Scandinavia and became popular in the Alps around 1900. Today’s sport features horses at full gallop towing skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pole that’s cut in half. (Nick Burri, via AP)
Women activists raise bras to symbolize their breaking free from restrictions imposed on them as they join an International Women’s Day protest in Manila, Philippines on Friday March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) Favila)

France enshrines abortion as world marks International Women’s Day

France became first country to explicitly guarantee abortion rights in its national charter.

Women activists raise bras to symbolize their breaking free from restrictions imposed on them as they join an International Women’s Day protest in Manila, Philippines on Friday March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) Favila)
Facebook employees unveil a new logo and the name “Meta” on the sign in front of Facebook headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images

Widespread Meta outage raises the uneasy spectre of losing our stories

Social media spaces have filled in important space where humans are humans

Facebook employees unveil a new logo and the name “Meta” on the sign in front of Facebook headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images
FILE - People speak next to a famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square on V-J Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow on April 14, 2015. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough has reversed a department memo shared by a VA undersecretary Tuesday, March 5, 2024, that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic photograph because it “depicts a non-consensual act” and was inconsistent with the department’s sexual harassment policy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Iconic Times Square war kiss photo to remain on display after consent debate

U.S. Veterans Affairs memo saying photo ‘depicts a non-consensual act’ sparks political firestorm

FILE - People speak next to a famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square on V-J Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow on April 14, 2015. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough has reversed a department memo shared by a VA undersecretary Tuesday, March 5, 2024, that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic photograph because it “depicts a non-consensual act” and was inconsistent with the department’s sexual harassment policy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley poses for a selfie after speaking at a campaign event in South Burlington, Vermont, Sunday, March 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Haley suspends campaign leaving Trump a clear path to Republican nomination

Departure clears Trump to focus solely on his likely rematch in November with Biden

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley poses for a selfie after speaking at a campaign event in South Burlington, Vermont, Sunday, March 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
FILE - A dinghy lies on the shore after a shipwreck where two migrants were killed and eight were rescued, in Thermi, on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2023. The U.N. migration agency reported Wednesday that 8,565 people died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, a record high since launching its tally of the death toll a decade ago. The International Organization for Migration says the biggest increase in deaths last year came in the treacherous Mediterranean sea crossing. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas, File)

A record 8,565 migrants died last year attempting to flee their homelands: UN

Biggest increase was on the treacherous Mediterranean Sea crossing, to 3,129 from 2,411

FILE - A dinghy lies on the shore after a shipwreck where two migrants were killed and eight were rescued, in Thermi, on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2023. The U.N. migration agency reported Wednesday that 8,565 people died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, a record high since launching its tally of the death toll a decade ago. The International Organization for Migration says the biggest increase in deaths last year came in the treacherous Mediterranean sea crossing. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas, File)
FILE- In this Jan. 3, 2019, file photo the Apple logo is displayed at the Apple store in the Brooklyn borough of New York. European Union fines Apple nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

EU slaps Apple with nearly $2B fine for music streaming violation

Antitrust ruling says firm unfairly favoured its own music streaming service over others

FILE- In this Jan. 3, 2019, file photo the Apple logo is displayed at the Apple store in the Brooklyn borough of New York. European Union fines Apple nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)