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Pakistan's interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar holds an interview during his visit for the United Nations General Assembly, Friday Sept. 22, 2023, in New York. Kakar said he expects parliamentary elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Pope Francis arrives at the final session of the "Rencontres Mediterraneennes" meeting at the Palais du Pharo, in Marseille, France, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Francis, during a two-day visit, will join Catholic bishops from the Mediterranean region on discussions that will largely focus on migration. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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FILE - President Joe Biden addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Biden spent much of the past week making the case to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly, Democratic donors and voters that his decades of foreign policy experience and demonstrated moral clarity set him apart from 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S. seek a way to pass through concertina wire, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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