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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Louisville Metro Police Department shows Officer Brett Hankison. Attorneys for Hankison, a former police officer involved in the Breonna Taylor raid, want to ban news outlets from part of the jury selection process. Hankison is set to go on trial on wanton endangerment charges, with jury selection set to begin on Feb. 1, 2022. (Courtesy of Louisville Metro Police Department via AP, File)

Ex-cop's trial for Taylor raid offers new chance for justice

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U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jo-Ann Burdian, foreground, speaks along with Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge in Miami Anthony Salisbury, rear, during a news conference, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, at Coast Guard Sector Miami in Miami Beach, Fla. The Coast Guard says it has found four more bodies in its search for dozens of migrants lost at sea off Florida, for a total of five bodies. The maritime security agency said Thursday that it also plans to call off its active search for survivors at sunset if it doesn't receive any new information. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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FILE - In this image from police body camera video shown as evidence in court, Minneapolis police officers attempt to place George Floyd in a police vehicle, on May 25, 2020, outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis. Former police Officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane are on trial in federal court accused of violating Floyd's civil rights as fellow Officer Derek Chauvin killed him. (Minneapolis Police Department via AP, File)

Prosecutors in Floyd killing probe use-of-force training

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, Joseph Maldonado answers a question during an interview at the zoo he runs in Wynnewood, Okla. Maldonado known also as

'Tiger King' Joe Exotic set for resentencing in Oklahoma

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Matthew Reeves. Late Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the state of Alabama to execute Reeves, an inmate who contended that an intellectual disability combined with the state's inattention cost him a chance to avoid lethal injection and choose a new method. Reeves was condemned for killing a man during a robbery in 1996. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Man executed for 1996 killing after Supreme Court clears way

A man wearing a protective mask looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Tokyo. Asian stock markets were mixed Friday as traders looked ahead to data on U.S. employment costs that might influence Federal Reserve decisions on planned interest rate hikes. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Asian stocks mixed after Wall Street sinks for third day

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Donald Anthony Grant. A federal appeals court in Denver has rejected a request from two Oklahoma death row inmates Grant and Gilbert Postelleto temporarily halt their upcoming lethal injections. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the inmates' motion in a ruling on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Oklahoma executes man for 2001 slayings of 2 hotel workers

Europe

A model wears a creation for the Fendi Spring-Summer 2022 Haute Couture fashion collection, in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Kim Jones back on runway as Fendi channels celestial Rome

Family clarifies no 'Picasso NFT' is set to be sold online

FILE - Marina Picasso, right, granddaughter of artist Pablo Picasso, and her son Florian Picasso, left, pose for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press in Cologny near in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. The pair told The Associated Press that they planned to sell 1,010 digital art pieces of one of his ceramic works that has never before seen publicly but a lawyer for the late artist says no sale of digital Picasso art has not been permitted and no digital Picasso artwork would be sold. (AP Photo/Boris Heger, File)

Danish troops to leave Mali after call from country's rulers

FILE - Denmark's Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod attends a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, on Aug. 31, 2021. Denmark's foreign minister says the country will pull its small military force out of northern Mali after the West African country's transitional government said no permission had been given for them to deploy there. The government in Bamako, under coup leader Col. Assimi Goita, on Wednesday told Denmark to withdraw its 90-person contingent that arrived in Mali just a week earlier for a one-year deployment under a European counterterrorism operation. Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod announced the pullout Thursday, following a briefing of parliament's foreign policy committee. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

EU launches WTO action against China over Lithuania dispute

FILE - EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis speaks during a press conference in Brussels, on Dec. 7, 2021. The European Union said Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022 that it has launched action against China at world trade's governing body for discriminatory practices against Lithuania, saying that Beijing's spat with the Baltic country is hitting other EU exports. Lithuania broke with diplomatic custom by agreeing that the Taiwanese office in Vilnius would bear the name Taiwan instead of Chinese Taipei, a term used by other countries to avoid offending Beijing. China considers Taiwan part of its territory with no right to diplomatic recognition. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

England lifts COVID restrictions as omicron threat recedes

A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster from the One NGO, in an underpass leading to Westminster underground train station, in London, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Most coronavirus restrictions including mandatory face masks were lifted in England on Thursday, after Britain's government said its vaccine booster rollout successfully reduced serious illness and COVID-19 hospitalizations. From Thursday, face coverings are no longer required by law anywhere in England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

New Italy president still elusive after 4th round of voting

President of the Italian Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, left, and President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico count ballots during a voting session in the Italian parliament, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. The first rounds of voting in Italy's Parliament for the country's next president yielded an avalanche of blank ballots, as lawmakers and special regional electors failed to deliver a winner amid a political stalemate. (Remo Casilli/Pool photo via AP)

Israel, Cyprus, Greece power cable link secures EU funding

Cypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides talks to the media during a press conference at the Energy ministry in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. Pilides said that the European Union has earmarked 657 million euros ($736 million) for the construction of a a 2,000 megawatt undersea electricity cable linking the power grids of Israel, Cyprus and Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

German archbishop pushes reform after criticism over abuse

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, comments at a press conference on the expert report on sexual violence against children and young people in the Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in Munich, Geremany, Thursday, Jan.27, 2022. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

In Romania, French defense minister pledges support

French Minister of Defense Florence Parly, left, listens during a joint statement with Romanian counterpart Vasile Dincu, right, at the defence ministry headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Jan.27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Middle East

Chinese lecturer, Zhiwei Hu, left, teachers and officials of the Chinese Language Department stand in front of Chinese language books intended for students in Salahaddin University in Irbil, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The Chinese language school in northern Iraq is attracting students who hope to land jobs with a growing number of Chinese companies in the oil, infrastructure, construction, and telecommunications sectors in the region. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

In north Iraq, Chinese language school projects soft power

Autopsy says violence caused death of detained Palestinian

FILE - Mourners pray by the body of 78-year-old Omar Asaad, a Palestinian who has U.S. citizenship, during his funeral at a mosque, in the West Bank village of Jiljiliya, north of Ramallah, Jan. 13, 2022. An autopsy, undertaken by three Palestinian doctors, confirmed that Asaad, who was pronounced dead shortly after being detained by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, died of a heart attack caused by

Dozens of armed militants still hold corner of Syria prison

US attack helicopter shoots flares in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Dozens of armed Islamic State militants remained holed up in the last occupied section of a Syrian prison, U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces said Thursday. The two sides clashed a day after the Syrian Democratic Forces announced they had regained full control of the facility. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Saudi-led coalition says it's probing deadly prison strike

People search the rubble of a prison facility hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that killed at least 87 people, in a stronghold of Houthi rebels on the border with Saudi Arabia, in the northern Saada province of Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Internet access remained largely down on Sunday after another Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a telecommunications center Friday at the Red Sea port city of Hodeida. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Group warns of potential catastrophe on old tanker off Yemen

This satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC shows FSO Safer in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Jan. 9, 2022. A 42-page Greenpeace report warned Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, of a potential major oil leak or explosion on the aging oil tanker. The rusting, neglected Japanese-built tanker has been moored in its location 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) away from Yemen's western Red Sea port of Ras Issa since the 1980s, when it was sold to the Yemeni government. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Abraaj founder fined staggering $135M by Dubai regulator

FILE - Arif Naqvi, the founder and CEO of the Abraaj Group, speaks at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, Sept. 20, 2017, in New York. A regulatory body in Dubai said Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, it is fining the Pakistani-born founder of Abraaj Group, the now defunct Mideast private equity firm accused of fraud, a staggering penalty of $135.5 million. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Jerusalem blanketed in white after rare snowfall

Snow covers the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem Old city, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

As world marks Holocaust, some survivors in Israel struggle

Tshuva Kabra, left, director of the national welfare system at the Chasdei Naomi charity, embraces Holocaust survivor Freida Rovenchim, in her family apartment in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Several dozen impoverished elderly Israelis, among them Holocaust survivors, received food donations from the Chasdei Naomi charity, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Virus-ravaged Iran finds brief respite with mass vaccination

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic bus at the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. After successive virus waves pummeled the country for nearly two years, belated mass vaccination under a new, hard-line president has, for a brief moment, left the stricken nation with a feeling of apparent safety. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Asia

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A shop assistant wearing a face mask, waits for customer at a shop in Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. Hong Kong is cutting the length of mandatory quarantine for people arriving from overseas from 21 to 14 days, even as the southern Chinese city battles a new surge in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong cuts foreign arrival quarantine from 21 to 14 days

In this undated photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center, inspects an area planned for a vegetable greenhouse farm in the Ryonpho area of Hamju county, South Hamgyong province, northeast of Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads:

N. Korea confirms missile tests as Kim visits munitions site

FILE - Visitors walk across the Yalu River Broken Bridge, right, next to the Friendship Bridge connecting China and North Korea in Dandong in northeastern China's Liaoning province, Sept. 9, 2017. After spending two years in a strict lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea may finally be opening up - slowly. The reason could reflect a growing sense of recognition by the leadership that the nation badly needs to win outside economic relief. (AP Photo/Emily Wang, File)

N. Korea, after harsh 2-year lockdown, slowly reopens border

FILE � World Health Organization Regional Director for Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai addresses the media at the start of the five-day annual session Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Manila, Philippines. Current and former staffers have accused Kasai of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency's efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The allegations were laid out in an internal complaint filed in October 2021 and an email in January 2022 sent by unidentified

Staffers complain of racism, abuse by WHO leader in Asia

FILE- Afghan health ministry workers unloads boxes of the first shipment of 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine made by Serum Institute of India, donated by the Indian government, at the customs area of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. India has delivered two tons of medicines to Afghanistan, although it has not officially recognized its Taliban government. A government spokessperson says the medicine was given to Kabul's Indira Gandhi Hospital, which was set up with Indian assistance in 2004. Last month, India supplied Afghanistan with 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and 1.6 tons of medical supplies through the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)

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In this photo provided by climate scientist Rob Jackson, researcher Eric Lebel samples natural gas from a stove in Stanford, Calif., in 2021. According to a study published Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, gas stoves are worse for the climate than previously thought because of constant tiny methane leaks even while they're off. (Rob Jackson via AP)

California museum returns massacre remains to Wiyot Tribe

This Dec. 21, 2010 photo provided by Aldaron Laird shows Tulawat, the site of the Indian Island Massacre, where members of the Wiyot Tribe were killed in 1860. The remains of 20 Native Americans massacred in the 1860s on the Northern California island have been returned to their tribe from a museum where they had been in storage. The tribe's historic preservation officer says the remains will be reunited with their families.� (Aldaron Laird via AP)

He won a trip to space. Then he gave it away to a friend

Kyle Hippchen, a Florida-based airline captain, poses for a photo in front of a SpaceX Dragon capsule at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Hippchen, the real winner of a first-of-its-kind sweepstakes, gave his seat on a SpaceX flight to his college roommate. Though his secret is finally out, that doesn't make it any easier knowing he missed his chance to orbit Earth because he exceeded the weight limit. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Picasso heirs launch digital art piece to ride 'crypto' wave

Marina Picasso, right, granddaughter of artist Pablo Picasso, and her son Florian Picasso pose with a ceramic art-work of Pablo Picasso in Cologny near in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Heirs of Pablo Picasso, the famed 20th-century Spanish artist, are vaulting into 21st-century commerce by selling 1,010 digital art pieces of one of his ceramic works that has never before seen publicly - riding a fad for

Microsoft profits up 21%, giving cushion for gaming push

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, people walk past a Microsoft office in New York. Demand for Microsoft's cloud-computing services and work software helped boost its quarterly profits by 21% as the pandemic kept many office workers at home. The company on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $18.8 billion. (AP Photo/Swayne B. Hall, File)

Neil Young reportedly fights Spotify over Rogan and COVID

This combination photo shows Neil Young in Calabasas, Calif., on May 18, 2016, left, and UFC announcer and podcaster Joe Rogan before a UFC on FOX 5 event in Seattle on Dec. 7, 2012. Young fired off a public missive to his management on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, demanding that they remove his music from the popular streaming service Spotify in protest over Rogan's popular podcast spreading misinformation about COVID-19. But by Tuesday afternoon, his letter had been removed from his website,