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Dozens of people during a rally to receive the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont at Passeig Lluís Companys, on August 8, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Said concentration has been called by pro-independence entities, with the assistance of Junts, ERC, CUP, ANC, Òmnium Cultural, CDR and Associació de Municipis per la Independència (AMI). Puigdemont plans to attend this welcoming act to later participate in the plenary of investiture of the leader of the PSC, almost 7 years after settling in Belgium due to the judicial consequences of the 'procés', and with a warrant of arrest. AUGUST 08;2024 David Zorrakino / Europa Press 08/08/2024 (Europa Press via AP)
Dozens of people during a rally to receive the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont at Passeig Lluís Companys, on August 8, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Said concentration has been called by pro-independence entities, with the assistance of Junts, ERC, CUP, ANC, Òmnium Cultural, CDR and Associació de Municipis per la Independència (AMI). Puigdemont plans to attend this welcoming act to later participate in the plenary of investiture of the leader of the PSC, almost 7 years after settling in Belgium due to the judicial consequences of the 'procés', and with a warrant of arrest. AUGUST 08;2024 David Zorrakino / Europa Press 08/08/2024 (Europa Press via AP)
Dozens of people during a rally to receive the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont at Passeig Lluís Companys, on August 8, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Said concentration has been called by pro-independence entities, with the assistance of Junts, ERC, CUP, ANC, Òmnium Cultural, CDR and Associació de Municipis per la Independència (AMI). Puigdemont plans to attend this welcoming act to later participate in the plenary of investiture of the leader of the PSC, almost 7 years after settling in Belgium due to the judicial consequences of the 'procés', and with a warrant of arrest. AUGUST 08;2024 David Zorrakino / Europa Press 08/08/2024 (Europa Press via AP)
Several people during a rally to receive the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont at Passeig Lluís Companys, on August 8, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Said concentration has been called by pro-independence entities, with the assistance of Junts, ERC, CUP, ANC, Òmnium Cultural, CDR and Associació de Municipis per la Independència (AMI). Puigdemont plans to attend this welcoming act to later participate in the plenary of investiture of the leader of the PSC, almost 7 years after settling in Belgium due to the judicial consequences of the 'procés', and with a warrant of arrest. AUGUST 08;2024 David Zorrakino / Europa Press 08/08/2024 (Europa Press via AP)
Several people during a rally to receive the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont at Passeig Lluís Companys, on August 8, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Said concentration has been called by pro-independence entities, with the assistance of Junts, ERC, CUP, ANC, Òmnium Cultural, CDR and Associació de Municipis per la Independència (AMI). Puigdemont plans to attend this welcoming act to later participate in the plenary of investiture of the leader of the PSC, almost 7 years after settling in Belgium due to the judicial consequences of the 'procés', and with a warrant of arrest. AUGUST 08;2024 David Zorrakino / Europa Press 08/08/2024 (Europa Press via AP)
FILE - South Korea's Lim Jonghoon, right, takes a selfie with North Korea's Ri Jong Sik, left, and Kim Kum, second left, China's Wang Chuqin, background, and Sun Yingsha, center, and his teammate Shin Yubin, right, and Lim Jonghoon during the medal ceremony at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 30, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Participants compete soroban, abacus during the All Japan Soroban Championships at Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto Prefecture on Aug. 8, 2024. August 8 is known as "Soroban Day" in Japan. The eight "8" numbers are read as "hachi" in Japanese. August 8, sound two "hachi, hachi" is heard "pachi, pachi" like the sound of using the abacus. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
Participants compete soroban, abacus during the All Japan Soroban Championships at Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto Prefecture on Aug. 8, 2024. August 8 is known as "Soroban Day" in Japan. The eight "8" numbers are read as "hachi" in Japanese. August 8, sound two "hachi, hachi" is heard "pachi, pachi" like the sound of using the abacus. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
Participants compete soroban, abacus during the All Japan Soroban Championships at Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto Prefecture on Aug. 8, 2024. August 8 is known as "Soroban Day" in Japan. The eight "8" numbers are read as "hachi" in Japanese. August 8, sound two "hachi, hachi" is heard "pachi, pachi" like the sound of using the abacus. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
Participants compete soroban, abacus during the All Japan Soroban Championships at Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto Prefecture on Aug. 8, 2024. August 8 is known as "Soroban Day" in Japan. The eight "8" numbers are read as "hachi" in Japanese. August 8, sound two "hachi, hachi" is heard "pachi, pachi" like the sound of using the abacus. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
Participants compete soroban, abacus during the All Japan Soroban Championships at Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto Prefecture on Aug. 8, 2024. August 8 is known as "Soroban Day" in Japan. The eight "8" numbers are read as "hachi" in Japanese. August 8, sound two "hachi, hachi" is heard "pachi, pachi" like the sound of using the abacus. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
FILE - In this picture taken on Aug. 4, 2021, Belarus' opposition activists Maria Kolesnikova attends a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus. Kolesnikova was imprisoned in September 2020 after defiantly tearing up her passport at the border when authorities tried to deport her. (Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA pool photo via AP, File)
FILE - In this image made from video provided by Russian Federal Security Service via RTR on Aug. 1, 2024, Germany's Rico Krieger, center, and a Russian Federal Security Service agent, left, leave a bus as they arrive at an airport outside Moscow, Russia. Krieger, a German medical worker who was arrested last year on terrorism charges, was the only prisoner freed from Belarus and was among 16 imprisoned Westerners and Russian dissidents swapped for eight Russians held abroad. (Russian Federal Security Service/RTR via AP, File)
FILE - Natalia Pinchuk, the wife of imprisoned Belarusian human rights campaigner and Nobel peace laureate Ales Bialiatski, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland, on March 21, 2023. Pinchuk voiced dismay that the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War didn’t set any Belarusian political prisoners free. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
FILE - Mariusz Kaminski, a minister in the previous right-wing government, arrives at the headquarters of Poland's state-owned TVP broadcaster in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec. 20, 2023. The former Polish Interior Minister said that Minsk had demanded that Warsaw extradite Belarusian opposition leader Latushka, who was handed an 18-year sentence in absentia, in exchange for releasing Andrzej Poczobut, a former reporter for a top Polish newspaper and a member of Belarus’ sizable Polish minority who is serving an eight-year sentence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
FILE - Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, center, holds a portrait of her jailed husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, at a protest demanding freedom for political prisoners in front of the Belarus Embassy, in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 8, 2024. Tsikhanouskaya expressed disappointment that last week’s East-West prisoner swap failed to free any Belarusian prisoners. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)
FILE - Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Viasna rights group, stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Nov. 2, 2011. As the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War unfolded, the Belarusian opposition and rights activists couldn't hide their disappointment that it didn't include a single Belarusian political prisoner. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
PR - CURITIBA - 07/08/2024 - COPA DO BRASIL 2024, GREMIO x CORINTHIANS - Cristaldo, a Gremio player, regrets a missed penalty kick in a decision during a match against Corinthians at the Couto Pereira stadium for the Copa Do Brasil 2024 championship. Photo: Gabriel Machado /AGIF (via AP)