A man waves a Syrian flag during a rally last year in Allentown, Pa., which has one of the largest Syrian populations in the U.S. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption
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Peruvian authorities are pursuing charges against a truck driver who damaged the ancient lines at Nazca on Saturday. Here, an aerial view of the geoglyph known as the Guarango Tree at the site in 2014. Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump's State of the Union address is broadcast at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday. The White House is no longer considering Victor Cha for the South Korea ambassadorship. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption
Journalist Details Israel's 'Secret History' Of Targeted Assassinations
The logo of Fuji Xerox Co., the joint venture between Fujifilm Holdings and Xerox, is displayed outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government is looking into how hundreds of secret documents were left inside two large cabinets that were sold. He's seen here with members of his Cabinet after they were sworn in in 2016. Rob Griffith/AP hide caption
Sergey Naryshkin speaks during the European Social Charter Conference in March 2016 in Turin, Italy, prior to his appointment to head Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images hide caption
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Chemotherapy has made a tremendous difference in survival rates for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer. FatCamera/Getty Images hide caption
Typist and sometimes sex worker Lotte (Liv Lisa Fries) aspires to become a police detective in Babylon Berlin. Frederic Batier/X Filme Creative Pool hide caption
Germany's 'Babylon Berlin' Crime Series Is Like 'Cabaret' On Cocaine
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi paves way toward re-election. However, another name will be featured on the ballot: Mousa Moustafa Mousa. He slid into nominations hours before the deadline on Jan. 29, 2018. Amr Nabil/AP hide caption
U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicole Ballistrea watches over the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Nogales, Ariz., in Dec. 2014. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Separatist fighters fly the old, pre-unification flag of South Yemen above their pickup as they patrol Aden on Tuesday. Yemen's internationally recognized government has accused the separatist Southern Transitional Council of orchestrating a coup as it has moved closer to controlling the government's de facto capital. Saleh Al-Obeidi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Empty sake bottles lined up outside a restaurant in the Daikanyama area of Tokyo. Graham Crouch/Getty Images/Lonely Planet Image hide caption