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FILE - Los Angeles Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (33) hooks a shot over Portland Trail Blazers' Jim Brewer (52) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles on March 12, 1980. Abdul-Jabbar wins his sixth MVP award after claiming five in the 1970s. He averaged 24.8 points, 10.8 rebounds and 3.4 blocks. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)
Timeline of NBA in 1980s as league celebrates 75th season

By The Associated Press Jan. 17, 2022 10:45 AM EST

Cars drive on a bridge in front of the old town with the St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland Monday, June 14, 2021. The lakeside city known as a Cold War crossroads and a hub for Swiss discretion, neutrality and humanitarianism, is set to return to a spotlight on the world stage as U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin come to town for a summit on Wednesday, June 16. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Geneva regains diplomatic spotlight with Putin-Biden summit

By Jamey Keaten Jun. 15, 2021 02:22 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 1990 file photo, in a spontaneous and rare moment of accord between the Soviet Union's most popular politicians, rivals Boris Yeltsin, left, and Mikhail Gorbachev shake hands at a Kremlin ceremony on the 73rd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90 on Tuesday March 2, 2021,, receiving greetings from the Kremlin and global leaders while Russians remained divided over his legacy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Former Soviet leader Gorbachev turns 90

By Vladimir Isachenkov Mar. 02, 2021 12:43 PM EST

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Rabbi Shaul Nekrich, right, take part in a ceremony at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 to complete the historic Sulzbach Torah Scroll from 1792, rediscovered in 2013 and just restored. The ceremony takes place on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP)
Germany remembers Auschwitz liberation in parliament

By Kirsten Grieshaber Jan. 27, 2021 08:08 AM EST

A Holocaust survivor receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the COVID-19 disease, at a vaccination center on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia were poised to get their first coronavirus vaccinations on Wednesday to acknowledge their past suffering with a special tribute 76 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others. The vaccinations were also offered to all other Jews in the area older than 85. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
'We owe this to them': Shoah survivors in vaccine spotlight

By Kirsten Grieshaber And Philipp Jenne Jan. 27, 2021 03:25 AM EST

A man reads a newspaper with the headline: 'PM in intensive care', outside St Thomas' Hospital in central London as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care fighting the coronavirus in London, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' hospital in central London on Sunday after his coronavirus symptoms persisted for 10 days. Having been in hospital for tests and observation, his doctors advised that he be admitted to intensive care on Monday evening. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
When leaders are stricken in office, how do nations act?

By Tamer Fakahany Apr. 07, 2020 10:49 AM EDT