A woman with diabetes uses a glucometer to measure the glucose in her blood. Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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A local resident carries a cage on Thursday while walking past an apartment building destroyed in the besieged city of Mariupol. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters hide caption
Ivan Fedorov (third from left), then first deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, attends a meeting on road repairs in southeastern Ukraine in 2020. Fedorov, now the mayor of Melitopol, was abducted by Russian forces earlier this month and later freed. Dmytro Smolyenko/Future Publishing via Getty Images hide caption
The UN says it needs a record-breaking $4.4 billion to help Afghanistan
Aleksii Simchenko welds together pieces of scrap steel to make a set of plates for body armor. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption
Tugboats pull on the Ever Forward near Pasadena, Md., on Tuesday, trying to free the ship as it sits in the Chesapeake Bay after running aground near Baltimore. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Baarud, a 5-month-old camel, playfully pulls at Aadar Mohamed's hijab in the village of Hiijinle, outside of Lughaya in northwest Somaliland on Dec. 10, 2019. Nichole Sobecki hide caption
Ukraine is inventing a new way to fight on the digital battlefield
President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov (right) during the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow. Handout/Host Photo Agency via Getty Imag hide caption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Since the war began, he has been appealing to world leaders for more support for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia. J. Scott Applewhite/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Angelina Voychenko (left) and her children and Yuliya Bortnik (right) and her son fled Mariupol after hiding for weeks in the basement of Voychenko's parents' home, with no electricity, phone service or heat, as the building shook from fighter jets and explosions. When they emerged to buy food, what they saw made them decide to leave: destroyed buildings, looted stores, no food in sight. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption
Australian Ambassador to China Graham Fletcher, left, is turned away by court officials and police as he tried to enter the trial of Chinese Australian journalist Cheng Lei at the Beijing Number 2 Intermediate People's Court on Thursday in Beijing. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption