![Pakistan's national security adviser Moeed Yusuf gestures as he speaks to members of the media in Islamabad on September 15, 2021 about the ongoing situation in Afghanistan [Aamir Qureshi/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/000_9MW3H6.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
![Duterte has repeatedly claimed the ICC has no jurisdiction over him [File: EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/418a67d4203b423f9bb900d324e21555_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
![An offering is seen at the site of the former Brandon Indian Residential School where researchers located 104 potential graves in Brandon, Manitoba, on June 12 [Shannon VanRaes/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-06-13T052122Z_386255968_RC26ZN9AOSYX_RTRMADP_3_CANADA-INDIGENOUS-CHILDREN.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![North Korea, which celebrated the anniversary of its founding earlier this week, is thought to have tested a pair of ballistic missiles in contravention of sanctions [File: Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1000-1.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Chinese authorities have told China Evergrande Group's major lenders not to expect interest payments due next week on bank loans, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News, taking the cash-strapped developer a step closer to one of the nation's biggest debt restructurings [File: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/378205029.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![A Palestinian man receives cash as the United Nations begins to distribute cash aid, funded by Qatar, to thousands of poor families, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 15, 2021 [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-15T085908Z_1870836377_RC28QP91RTUK_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-QATAR.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Inflation is hitting Canadian voters in the pocketbook - and being used as fodder against incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's party [Carlos Osorio/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-15T152058Z_796673753_RC2FQP9VH8O7_RTRMADP_3_CANADA-ELECTION-1.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley's office says he regularly contacts foreign military leaders [File: Susan Walsh/AP photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AP21244645181754.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Cameroonian author Imbolo Mbue's debut offering, Behold the Dreamers, has raised the profile of the country's writing scene [File: Thomas Samson/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/000_CT4AK.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Olympic gymnast Simone Biles testifies during a Senate hearing about the FBI's mishandling of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse investigation [Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-15-GYMNASTICS-USA-NASSAR.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Duterte has repeatedly claimed the ICC has no jurisdiction over him [File: EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/418a67d4203b423f9bb900d324e21555_18.jpeg?resize=120%2C80)
First all-civilian space crew set to blast off on SpaceX rocket
It is the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight that no professional astronaut is aboard an orbit-bound rocket.
![From left, Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski, Jared Isaacman and Sian Proctor float during a zero-gravity flight out of Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States - a flight designed to prepare them for their upcoming trip into space aboard SpaceX's commercial spacecraft [File: John Kraus/Inspiration4 via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AP21253524795289.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Canada election: Meet the major political party leaders
Canadians are voting for a new parliament on September 20. Here’s a look at the major party leaders and their platforms.
![Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, left to right, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole before the federal election English-language leaders debate on September 9 [File: Sean Kilpatrick/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-10T013105Z_26454174_RC2OMP9Q6FG4_RTRMADP_3_CANADA-ELECTION.jpg?resize=570%2C380)