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Protesters wave Israeli flags outside parliament in Jerusalem on Monday, part of a massive show of anger over the hard-right government's push to overhaul the justice system. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Here's why Netanyahu's court overhaul, now on hold, brought Israel to the brink

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Musician Pras Michel in a 2015 portrait taken in Los Angeles. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Pras Michel stands trial in Washington, D.C., for conspiracy and other charges

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Magnus Ek, 53, a retired Swedish lieutenant, is teaching a group of Ukrainian conscripts how to fire an AK-47 in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Ek, who spent a decade as an instructor in Sweden, is among a group of foreign military volunteers who have gone to train Ukrainians how to defend their country from Russia's invasion. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption

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Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, at a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Sunday, March 26, 2023. Greg Baker/AP hide caption

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Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan set up bonfires and block a highway during a protest moments after the Israeli leader fired his defense minister, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 26, 2023. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP hide caption

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Randall Robinson, right, is pictured with Coretta Scott King and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., after the Senate voted to override then-President Reagan's veto of tough new sanctions against South Africa in 1986. Robinson died Friday at 81. John Duricka/AP hide caption

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Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking the freeway during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday. Ariel Schalit/AP hide caption

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Protesters wearing number tags during a rally in Hong Kong, Sunday. Dozens of people on Sunday joined Hong Kong's first authorized demonstration against the government since the lifting of major COVID-19 restrictions under unprecedentedly strict rules, including wearing a numbered badge around their necks. Louise Delmotte/AP hide caption

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Ilya Ponomarev is the founder of February Morning, an opposition Russian-language online newscast aimed at viewers in Russia. Behind him is a flag symbolizing the "free Russia of the future," created following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ponomarev calls it the "Russian tricolor without the blood." Eleanor Beardsley/NPR hide caption

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A scrappy newscast in Kyiv aimed at Russians counters Putin's propaganda machine

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Crosses honoring fallen Marines stand at the top of Horno Ridge at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Graham Smith/NPR hide caption

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A howitzer is fired at a training area in the Volyn region. Ukraine is using this region, quiet for the moment, to train troops for the front line in the east. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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On the border with Belarus, Ukrainian troops prep for a long war — and the front line

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Xavier "Chabelo" Lopez sticks out his tongue during a telethon event in 2015. Lopez, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name "Chabelo," died at the age of 88, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wrote Saturday. Saul Lopez/AP hide caption

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BTS swag is raffled off at an in-person event hosted by the Titas of BTS on March 10. Some 40 women gathered at a bar in Quezon City to celebrate the March birthdays of BTS members Suga and J-Hope. Ashley Westerman/NPR hide caption

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These BTS superfans in the Philippines show you're never too old to be a K-pop stan

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Ibrahim Muslimani, 30, speaks to a class about a piece of music blending different eras and languages at the Nefes Foundation for Arts and Culture, which he founded in 2016, in Gaziantep, Turkey, on Nov. 22, 2022. Nicole Tung for NPR hide caption

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This month, President Joe Biden announced a "historic project to strengthen Australian submarine capacity and our own." Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images hide caption

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Paul Rusesabagina looks on as he sits with some of his co-accused at the Supreme Court in Kigali, Rwanda, on Feb. 17, 2021, where he denied charges of being associated with an armed group. On Friday, the Rwandan government said it commuted his sentence. Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Paul Rusesabagina, 'Hotel Rwanda' hero, released from prison

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Supporters of Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, shout slogans during a protest in Karachi on March 19, demanding release of arrested party workers in recent police clashes. Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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In a polarized Pakistan, Imran Khan accuses opponents of conspiracies

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