French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, center, and Paris police leader Didier Lallement, right, give a press conference outside the police headquarters in Paris. Kamil Zihnioglu/AP hide caption
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I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer, by Ahmet Altan Beth Novey/NPR hide caption
The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin, by Jan Stocklassa and translated by Tara F. Chace. Amazon Crossing hide caption
Left: Volunteers take part in a "mapathon" organized by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Right: OpenStreetMap contributors pinpoint dump sites along rivers and waterways in Dar es Salaam in an effort to predict and prevent flooding in the Tanzanian city. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team hide caption
Hong Kong's government is set to invoke emergency powers it hasn't used in more than 50 years, as it moves to ban face masks. Here, demonstrators stand in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay to protest the police shooting of a young demonstrator. Chan Long Hei/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A pile of rough-hewn pink Himalayan salt cubes. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
A portrait of the Nizam of Hyderabad, Osman Ali Khan. The seventh and last nizam ruled Hyderabad between 1911 and 1948, until it was merged back into independent India. PA Images via Getty Images hide caption
Storm clouds rolled over Capitol Hill earlier this week. Tom Brenner/Getty Images hide caption
Then-U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker speaks during a news conference in Kyiv on July 27. Volker is being deposed on Thursday as part of the House impeachment inquiry. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Diplomat Kurt Volker Caught Up In Whirlwind Of Impeachment Inquiry
Singapore, which is the setting for the hit movie Crazy Rich Asians, has enacted a law against false information that critics say will stifle public discussion and hamstring journalists. Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Oct. 24, 2018. Many major executives backed out of the event after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This year, some of the big corporate names are expected to return. Amr Nabil/AP hide caption
President Trump greets Finnish President Sauli Niinistö on the South Portico of the White House on Wednesday. They are holding a joint press conference amid a building impeachment inquiry into Trump. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
A maintenance worker sweeps the street as riot police block the door to the Congress building Tuesday in Lima. Late Tuesday night, Mercedes Aráoz, the vice president who had briefly accepted the mantle of acting president from lawmakers, performed a surprise U-turn by announcing her resignation. Martin Mejia/AP hide caption
In the weeks following the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump spent more time praising Saudi Arabia as a very important ally than he did reacting to the killing. Hasan Jamali/AP hide caption
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a news conference in Rome on Wednesday. Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Confirms He Was On Trump's Call With Zelenskiy
People at the Seoul Railway Station watch a newscast showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch. North Korea on Wednesday fired projectiles toward its eastern sea, South Korea's military said, in an apparent display of its expanding military capabilities ahead of planned nuclear negotiations with the United States this weekend. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption
Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan's national security adviser, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Monday. After U.S.-Taliban talks excluded Afghanistan's government and collapsed last month, Mohib tells NPR that the only way to lasting peace is to include the country's leaders. Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The Afghan Government Must Lead Peace Talks, Its National Security Adviser Says
Indian spiritual and political leader Mohandas Gandhi circa 1935. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, But His Attitudes On Race And Sex Are Under Scrutiny
Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, poses for The Associated Press following an interview in Istanbul on Tuesday. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP hide caption