The trial of former Catalan leaders for their roles in the failed independence referendum of 2017 began on Tuesday. Getty Images hide caption
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Russia is considering disconnecting from the global Internet to test its defenses against cyberattack. Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A burning command car belonging to France's anti-terror squad is pictured as riot police take position near the Eiffel Tower. Kamil Zihnioglu/AP hide caption
A picture taken on Feb. 8, 2019 shows the signature "AHitler" on a watercolor entitled "Im Wald" (In the forest) displayed at the Weidler auction house in the southern city of Nuremberg. Daniel Karmann/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Paintings By Adolf Hitler Are 'Unremarkable,' So Why Forge Them?
French president Emmanuel Macron takes part in a meeting in Évry-Courcouronnes on Feb. 4. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Will Macron's 'Great National Debate' Help Defuse France's Yellow Vest Unrest?
The long-delayed opening of the House of Fates Holocaust museum in Budapest, whose entrance is marked by a Star of David, is expected this spring. Ferenc Isza/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Hungary's New Holocaust Museum Isn't Open Yet, But It's Already Causing Concern
Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France names Jews deported in the Holocaust. Some got word this week they are receiving payments from the French government in reparation. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Andreas Mundt, president of Germany's Federal Cartel Office, says "Facebook obtains very detailed profiles of its users and knows what they are doing online" by merging data from a number of sources. Mundt announced the antitrust watchdog's findings in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday. Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters hide caption
Dennis Christensen, a Danish Jehovah's Witness, is escorted from a court room in Orel, Russia, on Wednesday. Yuriy Temirbulatov/Courtesy of Jehovah's Witnesses via AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin center, attends a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Kremlin in Moscow on Saturday. Putin said that Russia will abandon the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, what he called a "symmetrical" response to the U.S. decision to withdraw. Alexei Nikolsky/AP hide caption
British photojournalist John Cantlie is seen in this video image released in December 2016 in what appeared to be central Mosul, Iraq. He was abducted by the Islamic State in 2012. Islamic State's Amaq News Agency via AP hide caption
A fire rages through the top floors of an apartment building in Paris. At least 10 people have been killed and dozens injured. Fire officials say arson is to blame. Beno/AP hide caption
Opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó talks to supporters during a rally against the government of Nicolás Maduro on Feb. 2. Marco Bello/Getty Images hide caption
Axel Hirschfeld looks at the remains of dead birds while holding a Levant sparrowhawk. The bird was found locked in a small enclosure without food or water in a field used by poachers in the town of Ras Baalbek, Lebanon, in September. Sam Tarling for NPR hide caption
A London jury convicted a woman of committing female genital mutilation on her daughter, when the child was 3. It is first time anyone in the U.K. has been found guilty of the crime since it became illegal in 1985. Kirsty O'Connor /Press Association Images via Getty Images hide caption
A months-long service has come to a close at a church in The Hague, Netherlands. Koen Van Weel/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) serves food to Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a 2011 dinner at Prigozhin's restaurant outside Moscow. Misha Japaridze/AP hide caption
The Russian Justice Ministry has issued a proposal to exempt officials from corruption charges under certain conditions. Alexander Shcherbak/TASS/Getty Images hide caption
Alice Dwyer plays the young Hanni Lévy in The Invisibles, which focuses on the lives of four German Jews who stayed in Germany during World War II and survived. Greenwich Entertainment hide caption
'The Invisibles' Reveals How Some Jews Survived Nazi Germany By Hiding In Plain Sight
José Roselló and Victoria Garcia take part in a vigil last Thursday for their son, Julen, whose body was found over the weekend in a borehole in Spain's Málaga province. Alex Zea/AP hide caption
The painting in its original place at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. Thomas Samson/Getty Images hide caption
Holocaust survivors visited the former Auschwitz concentration camp on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Bernd Thissen/Picture Alliance via Getty Image hide caption
A wild boar at at an enclosure set up by forest rangers in a northwestern district of Berlin in 2017. Denmark is building a $12 million fence in an effort to keep out wild boars from Germany. Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
To Keep African Swine Fever Out, Denmark Is Planning A Southern Boar(der) Fence
Cars drive near Frankfurt Airport on Tuesday in Germany. Much of Germany's autobahn system has no speed limit, and a proposal to cap speeds at about 80 mph has sparked controversy. Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Image hide caption