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Pope Francis, left, and Indonesian President Joko Widodo attend a meeting with Indonesian authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps, during his apostolic visit to Asia, at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (Willy Kurniawan/Pool Photo via AP)

In Asia, pope urges Indonesia to live up to promise of ‘harmony in diversity,’ fight extremism

By Nicole Winfield and Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, right, receives Pope Francis, helped on a wheelchair by assistant Piergiorgio Zanetti, at Istana Merdeka Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. Pope Francis is opening his visit to Indonesia with a packed first day Wednesday, meeting political and religious leaders and setting a rigorous pace for an 11-day, four-nation trip through tropical Asia and Oceania that will test his stamina and health. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope has packed first full day in Indonesia with visits to president, clergy in test of stamina

By Nicole Winfield and Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

FILE - Residents rush to help injured children moments after a rocket attack hit a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Saturday, July 27, 2024. Two back-to-back strikes in Beirut and Tehran, both attributed to Israel and targeting high-ranking figures in Hezbollah and Hamas, have left Hezbollah and Iran in a quandary. (AP Photo/Hassan Shams, File)

UN’s complicity in terror murders the 12 Druze children all over again

By Danielle Ofek – Special to Higher Ground

This combination of photos provided by Youssef Salem shows relatives he has lost from Israeli strikes during the Gaza war which started Oct. 7, 2023. Top row from left, Mohamed Salem with his daughter, Amal; his wife, Fidaa; his daughter Sara, and Ibrahim Salem. Second row from left, the daughter of Um Ahmed Salem, Mohamed Hani Salem, Um Hani Salem and Ismail Salem. Third row from left, Adel Salem, Um Ahmed Salem, Ismail Salem, Munir, Nour and Mohamed Salem. (Courtesy Youssef Salem via AP)

The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

In this Aug. 29, 2023, file photo, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi places his hands on his heart as a gesture of respect as he leaves after the conclusion of a news conference in Tehran, Iran. President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday, May 20, 2024, after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iranian President Raisi, the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’ found dead at helicopter crash site

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Moj News Agency, rescue teams' vehicles are seen near the site of the incident of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan in northwestern Iran, Sunday, May 19, 2024. A helicopter carrying President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. (Azin Haghighi/Moj News Agency via AP)

Rescuers search for helicopter that went down with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi aboard

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Laborers remove scaffolding at the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Doha, Monday, April 29, 2019. FIFA is under pressure to publish a long-awaited review into compensation for workers who helped deliver the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

FIFA urged to release compensation review for Qatar World Cup migrant workers

By James Robson - Associated Press

FILE - Palestinians look at the destruction of the Al-Gatshan family building after an Israeli strike in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on Dec. 18, 2023. After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history. The Palestinian death toll is approaching 20,000 and satellite data shows that one-third of structures across the tiny enclave have been destroyed. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in history, experts say

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated handout file image provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, scores of people sit on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The international rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch allege on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, that Greek authorities have failed to properly investigate allegations by some survivors that the rescue mission had been mishandled. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP, File)

Rights groups say Greece has failed to properly investigate claims it mishandled migrant tragedy

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Daouda Diallo, one of Burkina Faso's most prominent human rights defenders poses for a photograph, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Thursday Feb. 3, 2022. Daouda Diallo — who won the Martin Ennals awards for human rights in 2022 — was taken to an unknown location by men who accosted him in the nation's capital city on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023 the local civic group which Diallo founded said in a statement. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia, File)

Burkina Faso rights defender abducted as concerns grow over alleged clampdown on dissent

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Workers walk to the Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Lusail, Qatar, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. One year after Qatar hosted the men’s World Cup, the gas-rich emirate and soccer body FIFA have been urged by human rights group Amnesty International on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, to do more for migrant workers. The workers' labor in mostly searing heat was essential to prepare stadiums, transport routes and hotels for the month-long tournament. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

One year on from World Cup, Qatar and FIFA urged by rights group to do more for migrant workers

Associated Press

A man visiting from New Jersey holds up a poster in support of bringing Israeli hostages home behind a protest where a large banner that says "Biden: Ceasefire Now" along with fake white body bags, representing those killed in the escalating conflict in Gaza and Israel, is displayed in front of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Fake body bags and roses laid out at White House in protest, seeking cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war

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Tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 31, 2017. The human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Tuesday Nov. 14, 2023 has strongly criticized the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the world famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

UNESCO urges Cambodia not to forcibly evict residents of Angkor Wat temple complex

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 31, 2017. The human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Tuesday Nov. 14, 2023 has strongly criticized the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the world famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

A rights group accuses UNESCO of turning a blind eye to forcible evictions at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

People hold banners as they protest against police brutality at Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos, Nigeria on Oct. 15, 2020. Many Nigerians on Friday Oct. 20, 2023 remembered the victims of the historic protests against police brutality which took place three years ago, with Amnesty International reporting that at least 15 of the protesters are still being detained illegally. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Nigerians remember those killed or detained in the 2020 protests against police brutality

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

FILE - Women chant slogans protesting violence against women and demanding the release of all detainees before the U.N. rights office in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 2, 2022. Sudan's powerful paramilitary has been singled out by a leading rights group and 30 United Nations experts with accusations of rape and sexual violence against women in separate statements, as the country enters its fourth month of conflict. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Thursday, AUg. 17, 2023, the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary apparently targeted women and girls in the western Darfur region of non-Arab ethnicity as well as activists recording human rights abuses during its fighting with the country's armed forces. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Rights group and U.N. experts single out Sudanese paramilitary with accusations of sexual violence

By Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London, on May 1, 2019. A British judge has rejected the latest attempt by Assange to fight extradition to the United States to face spying charges. High Court justice Jonathan Swift said a new appeal would simply “re-run” arguments that Assange’s lawyers had already made and lost. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Amnesty International condemns U.K. extradition of Julian Assange to U.S.

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Chinese and Hong Kong flags are hanged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong on June 17, 2022. Amnesty International said Tuesday, May 30, 2023, that a Uyghur student who it had said was missing in Hong Kong after being interrogated did not travel to the city, easing concerns over his safety but raising questions over how the allegations first emerged. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Rights group says Uyghur student it reported to be missing in Hong Kong did not travel to city

By Kanis Leung and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

In this Aug. 22, 2015, file photo, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood waves his hand from a defendants cage in a courtroom in Torah prison, southern Cairo, Egypt. A report released by Amnesty International Wednesday, April 21, 2021, said the number of executions worldwide in 2020 plummeted to its lowest level in at least a decade. But the report said four states in the Middle East — Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia respectively — topped the global list and pressed on with shootings, beheadings and hangings, ignoring pleas by rights groups to halt executions during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia executes 2 Bahraini men over militant activities; Amnesty called trial ‘grossly unfair’

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Chinese and Hong Kong flags are hanged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong, Friday, June 17, 2022. Hong Kong's government on Saturday, May 27, 2023 slammed rights group Amnesty International's accusation over a missing Uyghur student as "groundless," and said that government records showed that the student had not entered or been refused entry to Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Hong Kong denies knowledge about Uyghur student, slams Amnesty for saying he disappeared at airport

By Zen Soo - Associated Press