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Climate COP29 Indigenous Peoples Photo Gallery
Members of various Indigenous communities pose for a photo while attending the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. From top left, Saina Ekaterina Savvinova, 53, of Yakutsk, Russia, Antumalen Ayelen Antillanca Urrutia, 26, of Huapi Island, Chile, Sydney Males, 27, of Otavalo, Ecuador, Big Wind Carpenter, 31, of Wind River Reservation, United States, Flora Vano, 39, of Port Vila, Vanuatu, Puyr dos Santos Tembe, 47, of Belem, Brazil, Mingma Chhiri, 40, of the Khumbu Pasanglhamu Municipality District, Nepal, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, 41, of N'Djamena, Chad, Ninawa Inu Pereira Nunes, 50, of Feijo, Brazil, Marynne Rimbao, 42, of Unda village, Papua New Guinea, Didja Tchari Djibrillah, 30, of the Mayo-Kebbi East, Chad, and Jackson Michael, 40, of the Borneo, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Photographer at UN climate conference takes intimate portraits of Indigenous attendees and asks about effect of climate change on their communities

NOV. 22, 2024

Berta Sanyi and Paula Hamadi, left, stand chest deep in water as they collect clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
Berta Sanyi and Paula Hamadi, left, stand chest deep in water as they collect clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

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Papuan women’s mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution

NOV. 21, 2024

Nick Chow, part of the COP29 Singapore Pavilion team, poses for a photo with NEWBrew, beer made with treated wastewater, during the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Nick Chow, part of the COP29 Singapore Pavilion team, poses for a photo with NEWBrew, beer made with treated wastewater, during the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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At UN climate talks, “sewage” beer from Singapore highlights water scarcity and innovations

NOV. 21, 2024

Xing Long, a DJ and rave organizer, plays music at a friend's bar in his hometown of Changchun in northeastern China's Jilin province on Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
Xing Long, a DJ and rave organizer, plays music at a friend's bar in his hometown of Changchun in northeastern China's Jilin province on Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

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Welcome to China’s underground raves, from street techno to quotes from Chairman Mao

NOV. 13, 2024

New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon makes a
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon makes a "formal and unreserved" apology in Parliament for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in care, in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (Robert Kitchin/Stuff via AP)

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New Zealand’s leader formally apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care

NOV. 12, 2024

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Nuclear Power Institute of China's Site No. 1, also known as Base 909, in Mucheng Township, Sichuan Province, China, July 5, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Nuclear Power Institute of China's Site No. 1, also known as Base 909, in Mucheng Township, Sichuan Province, China, July 5, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

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Satellite images and documents indicate China working on nuclear propulsion for new aircraft carrier

NOV. 11, 2024

Korea Adoption Fraud Citizens
Buttons, who the Associated Press is referring to only by her childhood nickname because of her legal status, sits for a portrait behind her baby photo taken before she was adopted from Iran to a family in America, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Buttons is one of thousands of children adopted from abroad by American parents, many of them military service members, who were left without citizenship by loopholes in American law that Congress has been aware of for decades, yet remains unwilling to fix. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

NOV. 1, 2024

A Hello Kitty figure welcomes visitors at Sanrio Puroland during her 50th birth anniversary celebrations in Tama, a western suburb of Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
A Hello Kitty figure welcomes visitors at Sanrio Puroland during her 50th birth anniversary celebrations in Tama, a western suburb of Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

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At 50, Hello Kitty is as ‘kawaii’ and lucrative as ever

NOV. 1, 2024

FILE - A TV screen shows an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea stand in line to receive supplies from Russia during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
FILE - A TV screen shows an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea stand in line to receive supplies from Russia during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

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North Korean troops sent to Russia may be pleased to be there, even as they face ferocious fighting

OCT. 30, 2024

Cambodia Crocodiles
Siamese crocodile hatchlings rest together at a hatchling nursery in Phnom Tamao Zoo in Takeo province, Cambodia, on Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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How a nearly extinct crocodile species returned from the brink in Cambodia

OCT. 25, 2024

Samoa New Zealand Navy Ship
In this photo provided by the New Zealand Defence Force, divers survey the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the southern coast of Upulo, Samoa, after the Manawanui ran aground and sank on Oct. 6. (AC Jese Somerville/New Zealand Defence Force via AP)

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Samoan coast where King Charles will visit worries about the future after ship damaged reef

OCT. 24, 2024

A private security man walks outside the Canadian high commission in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 after India and Canada expelled each other’s top diplomats over an ongoing dispute about the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A private security man walks outside the Canadian high commission in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 after India and Canada expelled each other’s top diplomats over an ongoing dispute about the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Canada-India dispute over assassination allegations could impact Modi’s global ambitions

OCT. 15, 2024

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