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French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and President Trump participate in a G-7 working session. Trump is in Biarritz, France, for the G-7 summit of the world's biggest economic powers. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Students and others gather during a demonstration in Hong Kong on Thursday. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption
In Hong Kong, Moderate And Radical Protesters Join Forces To Avoid Past Divisions
Authorities in Gibraltar rejected the United States' latest request not to release a seized Iranian supertanker. Marcos Moreno/AP hide caption
Cancer patients receive chemotherapy treatment at Roshana Cancer Center, a private clinic in western Tehran. Marjan Yazdi for NPR hide caption
Demonstrators try to pull down a smart lamppost during the protest in Hong Kong on Saturday that turned violent. The smart lampposts are raising fears of stepped-up surveillance from authorities. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption
U.S. President Trump has lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz, France. Leaders of some of the world's major economies have arrived in the country for the Group of Seven summit. Ludovic Marin/AP hide caption
Federal agents hold a detainee (second from left) at a downtown Los Angeles parking lot after predawn raids in the L.A. area on Thursday. Reed Saxon/AP hide caption
U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted and seized 52,601 illegal firearms parts from China in recent months. U.S. Customs and Border Protection hide caption
Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Brazil, on Aug. 17. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters hide caption
Extinction Rebellion activists protest outside the Brazilian Embassy in London on Friday, calling on President Jair Bolsonaro to act to protect the Amazon rainforest. The European Union is throwing its weight behind French President Emmanuel Macron's call to put the Amazon fires on the agenda of this weekend's G-7 summit of world leaders in France. Frank Augstein/AP hide caption
A present-day view of the harbor in Kangeq, which was abandoned by the Danish government. John W. Poole/NPR hide caption
American workers Jill Lamantia and Bobby Allen struggle to adapt to the expectations of Chinese management in the documentary American Factory. Steven Bognar /Netflix hide caption
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, shown here at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday, said on Friday that Russia should respond in kind to the testing of a new U.S. cruise missile. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Computer illustration of malignant B-cell lymphocytes seen in Burkitt's lymphoma, the most common childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump announced higher U.S. tariffs on goods from China. "Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China," he tweeted. It was unclear what Trump could do to force U.S. firms to make such a move. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Smoke billows from a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Brazil, earlier this week. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters hide caption
An illustration of the video-sharing website Youtube logo and an Android mobile device with People's Republic of China flag in the background. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Li Ka-shing speaks at a news conference in Hong Kong last year. The nonagenarian tycoon purchased full-page ads in local newspapers warning against violence — but at least one scholar of Chinese language sees a secret message of support for the protesters. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption
A Palestinian man uses a biometric gate as he crosses into Israel at the Qalandia crossing in Jerusalem in July. Israel's military has invested tens of millions of dollars to upgrade West Bank crossings and ease entry for Palestinian workers. But critics slam the military's use of facial recognition technology as problematic. Sebastian Scheiner/AP hide caption
Face Recognition Lets Palestinians Cross Israeli Checkposts Fast, But Raises Concerns
South Korea has announced it will withdraw from a 2016 military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan. Here, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, center, and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, trailing at left, walk in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Thursday. HOW Hwee Young/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Pictures from Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency show the Stena Impero being held in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas last month. Getty Images hide caption
A water sample taken from the Mediterranean Sea as part of a scientific study about microplastics damaging marine ecosystems on the French Riviera in 2018. In a new study, the WHO says that microplastics are "ubiquitous." Eric Gaillard/Reuters hide caption