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Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes a question in New York Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, at a news conference as he announces that five Americans who had been jailed for years in Iran have been freed. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, Pool)

Atlantic nations forge partnership to cooperate on security, fishing, climate, says White House

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Indigenous people march for the resignation of the Attorney General Consuelo Porras in Guatemala City, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. President-elect Bernardo Arévalo has called people to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office and for the attorney general's resignation due to its office's investigations related to the registration of Arévalo’s Seed Movement party, and alleged fraud in the election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Supporters of Guatemala’s president-elect block highways and roads to protest prosecution

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Columbian President Gustavo Petro Urrego addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Colombian leader summons intense oratory for a bleak warning: that humanity is making itself extinct

By David Biller - Associated Press

President Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden warns U.N. of ‘existential threat’ from climate shocks, urges China and others to act

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Letter to the editor: China must stop aggressive moves

A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Sept. 12., 2023. For years, experts warned that floods pose a significant danger to dams protecting nearly 90,000 people in northeast of Libya, repeatedly calling for immediate maintenance to the two structures outside the city of Derna. But successive governments in the divided and chaos-stricken North African nation did not heed their advice. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty, File)

Libya was mired in chaos and corruption. For years, warnings the Derna dams may burst went unheeded

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II performs a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. On Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, a Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from an F-35 Lightning II over North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Search continues for Marine jet fighter that went down near Charleston over the weekend

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters outside the California Natural Resources Agency in Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 7, 2022. Newsom says he plans to sign into law a pair of climate-focused bills intended to force major corporations to be more transparent about greenhouse gas emissions and financial risks stemming from global warming. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Newsom boosts climate cred by suing ‘Big Oil’ as California struggles to tap brakes on fossil fuels

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Construction workers build a bridge linking the eastern and western parts of Derna, which was divided by the dam collapse following recent flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, in Derna, Libya, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Muhammad J. Elalwany)

UN warns disease outbreak in Libya’s flooded east could spark ‘a second devastating crisis’

By Yousef Marud and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

FILE - A United States Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II takes part in an aerial display during the Singapore Airshow 2022 at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore, Feb. 15, 2022. A Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from a fighter jet over South Carolina and the search for his missing aircraft was focused on two lakes near North Charleston. Military officials say the pilot parachuted safely into a North Charleston neighborhood Sunday Sept. 17, 2023. He was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition. The pilot's name has not been released. A search for the missing F-35 was focused on Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, which are north of North Charleston. (AP Photo/Suhaimi Abdullah file)

Marine Corps orders a two-day aviator stand-down as questions mount over missing F-35 stealth jet

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Dominican Republic security forces stand guard on a border bridge between Dajabón, Dominican Republic, and Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. The president of the Dominican Republic announced Thursday that he would close all borders with neighboring Haiti starting Friday in response to the construction of a supposed canal on Haitian soil that targets waters from the Massacre River, which runs along the border shared by both countries. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernández)

Dominican Republic’s president stands resolute on his closing of all borders with Haiti

By Martín Adames Alcántara - Associated Press

A cracked mosque minaret stands after an earthquake in Moulay Brahim village, near Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. But the full toll was not known as rescuers struggled to get through boulder-strewn roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

AP PHOTOS: Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives

By Sam Metz and Mosa'ab El Shamy - Associated Press

Climate activists block traffic on Park Avenue during a march protesting energy policies and the use of fossil fuels, in New York, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. (AP Photo / Bryan Woolston)

Thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding an end to warming-causing fossil fuels

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

A motorist travels through flood waters on a road that remains closed a day after storm Lee passed through the region, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, near Northeast Harbor, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Atlantic storm Lee delivers high winds and rain before forecasters call off all warnings

By Robert F. Bukaty and David Sharp - Associated Press

Soldiers pose for group photos with a Taiwan flag after a preparedness enhancement drill simulating the defense against Beijing's military intrusions, ahead of the Lunar New Year in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan on Jan. 11, 2023. Taiwan says 103 Chinese warplanes flew toward the island in new daily high in recent times. Taiwan's Defense Ministry said that it detected the planes in the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Ceng, File)

Taiwan says 103 Chinese warplanes flew toward the island in a new daily high

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People form a human chain outside of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, demanding it scrap a controversial redevelopment of Tokyo’s beloved Jingu Gaien park area, part of whose land is owned by an independent sports promotion unit overseen by the ministry, in Tokyo, Japan.(AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Protesters demand that Japan save 1000s of trees by revising a design plan for a popular Tokyo park

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Waves crash against the rocks at Portland Head Light, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2023, in South Portland, Maine. Severe conditions were predicted across parts of Massachusetts and Maine, and hurricane conditions could hit the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where the storm, Lee, downgraded early Saturday from hurricane to post-tropical cyclone, was expected to make landfall later in the day. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Thousands without power and 1 dead after Atlantic storm Lee pummels New England and Maritime Canada

By Robert F. Bukaty and David Sharp - Associated Press

Activists gather and walk through lower Manhattan for the Global Climate Strike protests, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York. The annual Climate Week, which coincides with the U.N. General Assembly, kicks off Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, with tens of thousands of people expected in the “March to End Fossil Fuels” Manhattan rally, one of hundreds of worldwide protests. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)

Special U.N. summit, protests, week of talk turn up heat on fossil fuels and global warming

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Dead animals lie on the mud after heavy rains in Volos, central Greece, on Sept. 6, 2023. The storms flooded 720 square kilometers (72,000 hectares), mostly prime farmland, totally destroying crops. They also swamped hundreds of buildings, broke the country's railway backbone, savaged local roads and bridges and killed tens of thousands of livestock. Thessaly accounts for about 5% of national economic output, and a much larger proportion of agricultural produce. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou, File)

The cost of damage from the record floods in Greece’s breadbasket is estimated to be in the billions

By Costas Kantouris - Associated Press

People search for flood victims in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)

Libya investigates dams’ collapse after a devastating flood last weekend killed more than 11,000

By Samy Magdy and Yousef Mourad - Associated Press