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- + Blinken will enter diplomatic maelstrom over Gaza war on new Mideast trip
- + Israeli troops advance toward Gaza City as the Palestinian death toll rise above 9,000 Israeli troops are fighting with Hamas militants on the edges of Gaza City, as the Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000.
- + Live updates | Israel’s troops advance as diplomatic efforts aim to at least pause Gaza fighting
- + Netanyahu has sidestepped accountability for failing to prevent Hamas attack, instead blaming others
- + As more Palestinians with foreign citizenship leave Gaza, some families are left in the lurch
- + Belarusians who fled repression face new hurdles as they try to rebuild their lives abroad
- + Dozens of severely wounded, and dual nationals, allowed to flee Gaza as war rages on After more than three weeks of siege, the first Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza. They were hundreds of dual passport holders and dozens of seriously injured peop
- + Live updates | Dozens of foreign passport holders and injured allowed to flee Gaza
- + With flowers, altars and candles, Mexicans are honoring deceased relatives on the Day of the Dead
- + Dozens of Afghans who were illegally in Pakistan are detained and deported in nationwide sweeps
- + Oil prices could reach ‘uncharted waters’ if the Israel-Hamas war escalates, the World Bank says
- + Live updates | Israel deepens military assault in the northern Gaza Strip
- + Israeli troops push deeper into Gaza and free captive as fears rise for Palestinian civilians Israeli troops and tanks are pushing deeper into Gaza, advancing on two sides of the territory’s main city.
- + Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ships around the world
- + Putin calls meeting after mob storms Dagestan airport looking for Israelis on jet from Tel Aviv
- + Mission impossible? Biden says Mideast leaders must consider a two-state solution after the war ends
- + Explosive device blows up at convention center in south India killing at least one and wounding 36
- + Israeli media, also traumatized by Hamas attack, become communicators of Israel’s message 33 mins ago
- + Live updates | Internet and cell service gradually returns to Gaza after heavy Israeli bombardment
- + Gaza deaths top 8,000 as tanks and infantry push in during widening ground offensive A U.N. agency says thousands of people have broken into aid warehouses in Gaza to take flour and basic hygiene products.
- + About 30 children were taken hostage by Hamas militants. Their families wait in agony
- + Israel-Hamas war upends years of conventional wisdom. Leaders give few details on what comes next
- + Palestinian officials say death toll rises from expanded Israel military operation Israel has expanded its ground operation in Gaza, sending in tanks and infantry backed by massive strikes from the air and sea.
- + A spiderweb of Hamas tunnels in Gaza Strip raises risks for an Israeli ground offensive
- + Mass graves, unclaimed bodies and overcrowded cemeteries. The war robs Gaza of funeral rites
- + Taliban free Afghan activist arrested 7 months ago after campaigning for girls’ education
- + DeSantis is sending some weapons to Israel in move that could bolster him in the GOP primary
- + Israeli troops briefly raid northern Gaza to ‘prepare’ for an expected full-scale incursion
- + Many Israelis are furious at their government’s chaotic recovery efforts after Hamas attack
- + Strikers have shut down a vital Great Lakes shipping artery for days, and negotiations are looming A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Gre
- + Hurricane Otis batters Acapulco before weakening over southern Mexico
- + Israel-Hamas war: Live updates
- + UN warns Gaza blockade could force it to sharply cut relief missions as Israeli bombings rise
- + Japan’s top court strikes down required sterilization surgery to officially change gender
- + Russia maneuvers carefully over the Israel-Hamas war as it seeks to expand its global clout Russia has issued carefully calibrated criticism of both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas. But the conflict also is giving Moscow bold new opportunities
- + Forced labor concerns prompt US lawmakers to demand ban on seafood from 2 Chinese provinces Some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that seafood processed in two Chinese provinces be banned from entering the U.S. market because of concerns about rights abuses.
- + Is Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system ironclad?
- + Israel launches 400 strikes across Gaza, where health officials say hundreds of Palestinians killed
- + Qatar becomes a key intermediary in Israel-Hamas war as fate of hostages hangs in the balance
- + UN chief warns that the risk of the Gaza war spreading is growing as situation becomes more dire
- + After presidential race surprise, Argentine economy minister and right-wing populist look to runoff
- + China crackdown on cyber scams in Southeast Asia nets thousands but leaves networks intact
- + Trying to keep hope alive, families share stories about loved ones abducted in the attack on Israel
- + Israel ramps up strikes on Gaza as US advises delaying ground war to allow talks on captives Israel has ramped up its airstrikes across Gaza, including in areas where civilians have been told to seek refuge.
- + Two weeks ago she was thriving. Now, a middle-class mom in Gaza struggles to survive 36 mins ago
- + Mired in economic crisis, Argentines weigh whether to hand reins to anti-establishment populist
- + Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts Israeli warplanes have struck targets across Gaza and two airports in neighboring Syria as the 2-week-old war with Hamas in Gaza threatens to spiral into a bro
- + AP visual analysis: Rocket from Gaza appeared to go astray, likely caused deadly hospital explosion
- + Palestinian death toll in West Bank surges as Israel pursues militants following Hamas rampage
- + Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals
- + The father of American teenage hostage freed by Hamas says she is ‘doing very good’
- + At Cairo summit, even Arab leaders at peace with Israel expressed growing anger over the Gaza war
- + Egypt’s border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into the besieged Palestinian territory.
- + Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in London as Israel-Hamas war roils the world
- + Under siege by Hamas militants, a hometown and the lives within it are scarred forever
- + Airstrikes hit Gaza as Israel says it doesn’t plan to control life there after destroying Hamas Israel says it does not plan to take long-term control over the Gaza Strip after an expected ground offensive to root out Hamas militants that rule the terr
- + Ruins and memories of a paradise lost in an Israeli village where attackers killed and kidnapped dozens
- + A Palestinian engineer who returned to Gaza City after fleeing south is killed in an airstrike
- + Russia extends detention of a US journalist detained for failing to register as a foreign agent
- + Republicans warn many Gaza refugees could be headed for the U.S. Here’s why that’s unlikely Former President Donald Trump and other top Republicans are issuing increasingly urgent calls for the U.S. to seal its borders against a potential mass exodus
- + Journalists in Gaza wrestle with issues of survival in addition to getting stories out 44 mins ago
- + Gaza awaits humanitarian aid, as Israel tells troops to ‘be ready’ for ground invasion
- + From hospital, to shelter, to deadly inferno: Fleeing Palestinians lose another sanctuary in Gaza
- + Russian-American journalist charged in Russia with failing to register as a ‘foreign agent’
- + Biden will stress humanitarian aid, avoiding deeper conflict in Israel but is scrapping Jordan stop
- + What we know about the deadly blast at a Gaza City hospital
- + Israel will let Egypt deliver some aid to Gaza, as doctors struggle to treat hospital blast victims Israel says will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day seal on the territory.
- + Why Egypt and other Arab countries are unwilling to take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza 26 mins ago
- + US vetoes UN resolution condemning Hamas’ attacks on Israel and all violence against civilians
- + Police shoot dead suspected extremist accused of killing 2 Swedish soccer fans on a Brussels street
- + Hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City hospital, Health Ministry says The Hamas-run Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip says at least 500 people have been killed in an explosion that it says was caused by an Israeli airstrike.
- + Ukraine claims a major strike on Russian airfields and thanks US for providing long-range missiles
- + How Quran burnings in Sweden have increased threats from Islamic militants
- + Versailles Palace evacuated again in security scare with France on heightened alert against attacks
- + Daniel Noboa, political neophyte and heir to fortune, wins presidency in violence-wracked Ecuador
- + He’s a survivor: A mother fights for son kidnapped by Hamas militants
- + Urban battle from past Gaza war offers glimpse of what an Israeli ground offensive might look like
- + Hospitals in Gaza face collapse as water, power and medicine run out Hospitals in Gaza faced collapse Monday as water, power and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindling food supplies while Israel mainta
- + Poland gives support to centrist opposition after 8 years of nationalist rule
- + The AP Interview: EU President Michel warns about spillover of Israel-Hamas war into Europe
- + Israeli evacuation call in Gaza hikes Egypt’s fears of a mass exodus of refugees into its territory
- + Hamas says 70 people, mostly women and children, killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza’s fleeing convoys Hamas officials say that 70 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on convoys fleeing Gaza City.
- + Blinken and Austin bolster US support for Israel as potential ground offensive in Gaza looms
- + US says North Korea delivered 1,000 containers of equipment and munitions to Russia for Ukraine war 48 mins ago
- + Trump says Netanyahu ‘let us down’ before the 2020 airstrike that killed a top Iranian general
- + The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital is overflowing as Israeli attacks intensify
- + What to know on the sixth day of the Israel-Hamas war
- + The US is moving quickly to boost Israel’s military. A look at what assistance it’s providing
- + As desperation in Gaza grows, Israel says it won’t allow aid to flow until Hamas releases hostages U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed American support to Israel on Thursday as its military pulverized the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with airstrikes
- + 6.3 magnitude earthquake shakes part of western Afghanistan where an earlier quake killed over 2,000
- + A Chinese Australian journalist detained for 3 years in China returns to Australia
- + Gaza is tiny and watched closely by Israel. But rescuing hostages there would be a daunting task 28 mins ago
- + As strikes devastate Gaza, Israel forms unity government to oversee war sparked by Hamas attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a stunning we
- + Biden to condemn Hamas brutality in attack on Israel and call out rape and torture by militants 34 mins ago
- + As Israel pummels Gaza, families of those held hostage by militants agonize over loved ones’ safety
- + Unprecedented Israeli bombardment lays waste to upscale Rimal, the beating heart of Gaza City 36 mins ago
- + Israel pounds Gaza neighborhoods, as people scramble for safety in sealed-off territory Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the ti
- + Under heavy bombing, Palestinians in Gaza move from place to place, only to discover nowhere is safe
- + European Union ‘immediately’ suspends hundreds of millions in aid for Palestinian authorities
- + What went wrong? Questions emerge over Israel’s intelligence prowess after Hamas attack
- + For years, they trusted the army to defend and inform them. Now many Israelis feel abandoned 4 mins ago
- + Israel vows complete siege on Gaza as it strikes the Palestinian territory after incursion by Hamas Israel has vowed to lay total siege to the Gaza Strip, as its pounds the impoverished, Hamas-ruled territory in the wake of an unprecedented weekend incur
- + US raises the death toll to 9 of Americans killed in the weekend Hamas attacks on Israel
- + Desperate people dig out dead and injured from quakes that killed over 2,000 in Afghanistan.
- + Hamas attack on Israel thrusts Biden into Mideast crisis and has him fending off GOP criticism
- + A policeman in Egypt killed 2 Israelis and 1 Egyptian at a tourist site in Alexandria
- + Israel declares war and approves ‘significant’ steps to retaliate for surprise attack by Hamas The Israeli government formally declared war and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise atta
- + These photos show fear, death and destruction in battle scenes from Israel and the Gaza Strip
- + Biden condemns the ‘appalling assault’ by Hamas as Israel’s allies express anger and shock 24 mins ago
- + Hamas surprise attack out of Gaza stuns Israel and leaves hundreds dead in fighting, retaliation Hamas militants have fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented surprise early morning
- + US Senate leader raises trade and fentanyl at start of 1st congressional visit to China since 2019
- + Icy flood that killed at least 41 in India’s northeast was feared for years
- + For imprisoned Nobel laureates, the prize did not bring freedom
- + Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting women’s oppression
- + Things to know about the Nobel Prizes
- + A Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine kills a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother A Russian missile attack in Ukraine has killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother. The strike on Friday in the northeastern city of Kharkiv came a day after a stri
- + Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians
- + The Biden administration says it is using executive power to allow border wall construction in Texas
- + Flash floods kill at least 18 in northeastern India and leave nearly 100 missing
- + The Nobel literature prize goes to Norway’s Jon Fosse, who once wrote a novel in a single sentence One of his country’s most-performed dramatists, Fosse, 64, has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and e
- + September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it ‘mind-blowing’
- + Biden tries to reassure allies of continued US support for Ukraine after Congress drops aid request
- + Study finds more people are moving into high flood zones, increasing risk of water disasters A new study finds that far more people are in harm’s way as they move into high flood zones around the world.
- + Italy launches probe after bus with foreign tourists in Venice plunges from overpass, killing 21
- + Russia says it has foiled a major Ukraine drone attack as concerns grow over Kyiv’s weapons supplies
- + Point of no return: Pope challenges leaders at UN talks to slow global warming before it’s too late
- + Mexico’s president says 10,000 migrants a day head to US border; he blames US sanctions on Cuba
- + Trio earns Nobel Prize in physics for split-second glimpse of superfast spinning world of electrons
- + A deal to expedite grain exports has been reached between Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania
- + Europe Union’s top diplomat dismisses concern about bloc’s long-term support for Ukraine
- + Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control of Nagorno-Karabakh as the Armenian exodus slows to a trickle
- + Women’s voices and votes loom large as pope is set to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future
- + 10 people are dead after Mexico church roof collapses. No more survivors believed buried in rubble
- + Karikó and Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for work that enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
- + Armenia grapples with multiple challenges after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh
- + Biden says there’s ‘not much time’ to keep aid flowing to Ukraine and Congress must ‘stop the games’ President Joe Biden says American aid to Ukraine will keep flowing for now as he tries to reassure allies of continued U.S. financial support f
- + India’s devastating monsoon season is a sign of things to come, as climate and poor planning combine
- + A populist ex-premier who opposes support for Ukraine leads his leftist party to victory in Slovakia
- + Suicide bomber detonates a device in Turkey’s capital hours before president’s speech to lawmakers
- + Almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh’s people have left, Armenia’s government says
- + Traveling with Milley: A reporter recalls how America’s top soldier was most at home with his troops
- + Death toll from Pakistan bombing rises to 54 as suspicion falls on local Islamic State group chapter
- + Putin marks anniversary of annexation of Ukrainian regions as drones attack overnight Russian President Vladimir Putin has released an address marking the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s unilateral annexation of four Ukrainian regions.
- + Ukraine hosts a defense industry forum seeking to ramp up weapons production for the war
- + Analysis: American soldier’s release from detention was quick by North Korean standards
- + Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam’s prophet
- + Putin orders former Wagner commander to take charge of ‘volunteer units’ in Ukraine
- + What to know and what’s next for Travis King, the American soldier who ran into North Korea
- + At US Antarctic base hit by harassment claims, workers are banned from buying alcohol at bars
- + Half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees as the separatist government says it will dissolve
- + North Korean leader urges greater nuclear weapons production in response to a ‘new Cold War’
- + NATO’s secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss battlefield and ammunition needs in Ukraine NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops.
- + Biden tells Pacific islands leaders he hears their warnings about climate change and will act
- + US offers Poland rare loan of $2 billion to modernize its military The Biden administration says it is offering $2 billion in loans to Poland to support the defense modernization of the ally which has been a hub for weapons going into Ukraine. 55 mins a
- + Using duct tape and bombs, Ukraine’s drone pilots wage war with low-cost, improvised weapons
- + President Macron says France will end its military presence in Niger, pull its ambassador after coup
- + Libya’s top prosecutor jails 8 officials for potential negligence in the deadly collapse of dams
- + The threat of wildfires is rising. So are new artificial intelligence solutions to fight them
- + India had been riding a geopolitical high. But it comes to the UN with a mess on its hands The recent G20 Summit hosted by India couldn’t have gone better for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. World leaders hailed it as a success after the disparate group
- + A Ukrainian train is a lifeline connecting the nation’s capital with the front line
- + US will establish diplomatic ties with the Cook Islands and Niue as Biden hosts Pacific leaders
- + The Biden administration is poised to allow Israeli citizens to travel to the US without a US visa
- + At UN, African leaders say enough is enough: They must be partnered with, not sidelined
- + India-Canada tensions shine light on complexities of Sikh activism in the diaspora
- + A month after Prigozhin’s suspicious death, the Kremlin is silent on his plane crash and legacy
- + Russian foreign minister lambastes the West but barely mentions Ukraine in UN speech Russia’s top diplomat is lashing out at the U.S. and the West as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure.
- + As the world’s problems grow more challenging, the head of the United Nations gets bleaker
- + Pope decries indifference toward migrants, as he prays for the dead in the French port of Marseille
- + A Ukrainian missile strikes the headquarters of Russia’s navy in Crimea
- + Netanyahu tells UN that Israel is ‘at the cusp’ of a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is “at the cusp” of a historic breakthrough leading to a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia.
- + United States and China launch economic and financial working groups with aim of easing tensions
- + Zelenskyy to speak before Canadian Parliament in his campaign to shore up support for Ukraine
- + Talks are held on Nagorno-Karabakh’s fate as Azerbaijan claims full control of the breakaway region
- + British royals sprinkle star power on a grateful French town with up-and-down ties to royalty
- + Russia strikes cities from east to west in Ukraine ahead of key Zelenskyy meetings in US
- + Inside a Ukrainian brigade’s battle ‘through hell’ to reclaim a village on the way to Bakhmut The brigade’s mission was to reclaim a village on the road to Bakhmut. But first they had to survive a forest filled with Russian soldiers.
- + Zelenskyy delivers upbeat message to US lawmakers on war progress as some Republican support softens
- + Azerbaijan and Armenian forces reach cease-fire deal for breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh, officials say
- + In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis exploded
- + Iran’s president urges US to demonstrate it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal
- + Ukraine’s president, at Security Council, lashes out at Russia but avoids face-to-face encounter Ukraine’s president is accusing Russia of undermining all norms of war and the United Nations Charter. The allegation was aired Wednesday at a meeting of
- + Ukraine, Russia and the tense U.N. encounter that almost happened — but didn’t 43 mins ago
- + India expels Canadian diplomat, escalating tensions after Trudeau accuses India in Sikh’s killing
- + A Moscow court declines to hear an appeal by jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich
- + US issues more sanctions over Iran drone program after nation’s president denies supplying Russia The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven people and four companies in China, Russia and Turkey who officials allege are connected with the development of I
- + Americans released by Iran arrive home, tearfully embrace their loved ones and declare: ‘Freedom!’
- + What to know about the Sikh movement at the center of the tensions between India and Canada
- + 5 prisoners freed in US swap with Iran, arrive in Qatar Americans held for years in Iranian custody walked arm-in-arm off a plane into freedom as part of a painstakingly negotiated deal between the United States and Iran.
- + Libya was mired in chaos and corruption. For years, warnings the Derna dams may burst went unheeded
- + Mexican president defends inclusion of Russian military contingent in Independence parade
- + As Slovakia’s trust in democracy fades, its election frontrunner campaigns against aid to Ukraine
- + As leaders convene, the UN pushes toward its crucial global goals. But progress is lagging
- + Special UN summit, protests, week of talk turn up heat on fossil fuels and global warming The heat is about to be turned up on fossil fuels, the United States and President Joe Biden. The United Nations and the city that hosts it are focusing this upcomi
- + For a divided Libya, disastrous floods have become a rallying cry for unity
- + North Korean arms for Russia probably wouldn’t make a big difference in the Ukraine war, Milley says
- + North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his way home after concluding a trip to Russia’s Far East
- + South Korea’s Yoon warns against Russia-North Korea military cooperation and plans to discuss at UN
- + Brazil restores stricter climate goals
- + Libya investigates dams’ collapse after a devastating flood last weekend killed more than 11,000
- + North Korea’s Kim Jong Un inspects Russian bombers and a warship on a visit to Russia’s Far East
- + US military orders new interviews on the deadly 2021 Afghan airport attack as criticism persists The Pentagon’s Central Command has decided to interview roughly two dozen service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked durin
- + Searchers look for more than 10,000 missing in flooded Libyan city where death toll eclipsed 11,000
- + North Korea’s Kim gets a close look at Russian fighter jets as his tour narrows its focus to weapons
- + Belarus leader proposes three-way cooperation with Russia’s Putin and North Korea’s Kim
- + Blinded by a Russian shell, this Ukrainian soldier couldn’t see his wedding. But cried at new love
- + Whole families drowned in Libya’s flood. Many didn’t realize the danger until they heard dams burst
- + Libyan city buries thousands in mass graves after flood as mayor says death toll could triple
- + No sign of Kim Jong Un on his Russian travels as Seoul expresses concern over meetings with Putin North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is to tour a Russian aircraft plant that builds fighter jets and then visit the country’s Pacific Fleet, but his exact whe
- + Israel’s finance minister now governs the West Bank. Critics see steps toward permanent control
- + With Russia isolated on the world stage, Putin turns to old friend North Korea for help
- + In Iran, snap checkpoints and university purges mark the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini protests
- + Israeli Supreme Court hears first challenge to Netanyahu’s divisive judicial overhaul
- + US sanctions Lebanon-South America network accused of financing Hezbollah The United States has slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbo
- + Rescue teams are frustrated that Morocco did not accept more international help after earthquake
- + North Korea’s leader is in Russia to meet Putin, with both locked in standoffs with the West
- + What to know about the Morocco earthquake and the efforts to help
- + Dozens of remote Moroccan villages struggle in aftermath of devastating earthquake The toll of the massive earthquake that devastated Morocco can be seen in dozens of remote villages across the North African county’s disaster zone.
- + North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia, setting the stage for a meeting with Putin
- + Kim Jong Un is heading to Russia. What do Pyongyang and Moscow want from each other?
- + ‘No risk’ that NATO member Romania will be dragged into war, senior alliance official says
- + Moroccan villagers mourn after earthquake brings destruction to their rural mountain home Moroccans living in the village of Moulay Brahim are mourning neighbors who perished after a 6.8 earthquake destroyed buildings and lives.
- + Aftershock rattles Morocco as rescuers seek survivors from the earthquake that killed over 2,100
- + Niger junta accuses France of amassing forces for a military intervention after the coup in July
- + Russia is turning to old ally North Korea to resupply its arsenal for the war in Ukraine
- + Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 2 foreign aid workers and target Kyiv
- + Republican opposition to abortion threatens global HIV/AIDS program that has saved 25 million lives
- + India seeks a greater voice for the developing world at G20 but the Ukraine war may overshadow talks
- + Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 1,000 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco killing more than 1,000 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city
- + UN atomic watchdog warns of threat to nuclear safety as fighting spikes near a plant in Ukraine
- + For nearly a quarter century, an AP correspondent watched the Putin era unfold in Russia
- + Trapped US explorer thanks authorities for saving his life in emotional video from Turkish cave Rescuers from across Europe rushed to a cave in Turkey to save an American researcher who became trapped around 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) below the surface af
- + Police comb the UK and put ports on alert for an escaped prison inmate awaiting terrorism trial
- + King Charles III shows his reign will be more about evolution than revolution after year on the job
- + Mexican Supreme Court’s abortion decision expands access to millions, stands in contrast to US
- + Foreign Relations chair seeks answers from US oil firms on Russia business after Ukraine invasion
- + India’s prime minister uses the G20 summit to advertise his global reach and court voters at home
- + Russian missile turns Ukrainian market into fiery, blackened ruin strewn with bodies
- + A Russian strike on a market in eastern Ukraine kills 17 and wounds dozens, officials say
- + War sanctions against Russia highlight growing divisions among the Group of 20 countries
- + This summer broke the world record for the highest temperature officially recorded The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperature
- + Myanmar won’t be allowed to lead Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2026, in blow to generals
- + A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly
- + The US sent cluster munitions to Ukraine but activists still seek to bolster a treaty banning them
- + Biden nominates former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to serve as ambassador to Israel
- + Cluster munition deaths in Ukraine pass Syria, fueling rise in a weapon the world has tried to ban More than 300 people were killed by cluster munitions in Ukraine in 2022, surpassing Syria as the country with the highest number of deaths from the contro
- + Putin has dashed global hopes for reviving the Ukraine grain deal. This is why it matters
- + France’s waning influence in coup-hit Africa appears clear while few remember their former colonizer The era of France’s arm-twisting interventionism in Africa may finally be over. France has sat by militarily despite moves by putschists to seize con
- + UN nuclear watchdog report seen by AP says Iran slows its enrichment of near-weapons-grade uranium
- + Putin says he won’t renew the grain deal until the West meets his demands. The West says it has
- + Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI
- + As Africa opens a climate summit, poor weather forecasting keeps the continent underprepared
- + AI project imagines adult faces of children who disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship
- + A building marked by fire and death shows the decay of South Africa’s ‘city of gold’
- + Pope gives ‘noble’ Chinese people a shoutout at Mass in Mongolia in bid to warm ties
- + Russians press Ukraine in the northeast to distract from more important battles in counteroffensive The Russian military is staging a ferocious push in northeastern Ukraine. The effort is designed to pin down Ukrainian forces, distract them from their co
- + Ecuador says 57 guards and police officers are released after being held hostage in several prisons
- + India launches a spacecraft to study the sun after successful landing near the moon’s south pole
- + Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi A former Italian premier is contending that a French air force missile brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 and is appealing t
- + Pakistani traders strike countrywide against high inflation and utility bills
- + Pope starts Mongolia visit by praising the country’s religious freedom dating back to Genghis Khan
- + Car bomb explosions and hostage-taking inside prisons underscore Ecuador’s fragile security
- + Death toll from Johannesburg fire rises to 76 as city turns to tough job of identifying victims Emergency teams have finished searching a derelict Johannesburg apartment building a day after one of South Africa’s deadliest fires broke out there.
- + Pope arrives on first visit to Mongolia as Vatican relations with Russia and China remain strained
- + Russian students are returning to school, where they face new lessons to boost their patriotism
- + Russia’s Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan set to meet amid efforts to repair Ukraine grain deal
- + At least 74 are dead, many of them homeless, as fire rips through a rundown building in South Africa
- + Gabon election results were a ‘smokescreen’ for soldiers to oust unpopular president, analysts say Analysts say the ouster of Gabon’s president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population’s grievance
- + As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home
- + U.S. envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China’s seafood ban over wastewater release
- + North Korea says it simulated nuclear attacks on South Korea and rehearsed occupation of its rival
- + Soldiers in Gabon say they’ve seized power and appointed the republican guard chief as head of state Mutinous soldiers in Gabon have announced that the head of the republican guard will be the country’s new head of state, hours after saying they had
- + Australians are voting on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Here’s what you need to know
- + Russia earns less from oil and spends more on war. So far, sanctions are working like a slow poison
- + White House says Putin and Kim Jong Un traded letters as Russia looks for munitions from North Korea
- + Spain has condemned inappropriate World Cup kiss. Can it now reckon with sexism in soccer?
- + Neurosurgeon investigating patient’s mystery symptoms plucks a worm from woman’s brain in Australia
- + Guatemala progressive’s presidential victory certified, but his party is suspended Progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo was confirmed the winner of Guatemala’s presidential election by the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Monday, but the
- + Alumni grieve for Jesuit-run university seized by Nicaraguan government that transformed their lives
- + Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is buried in private, ending his tumultuous journey
- + Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising
- + Biden will visit Hanoi next month as he seeks to strengthen US-Vietnam relations
- + To stop wildfires, residents in some Greek suburbs put their own money toward early warning drones
- + Illegal logging thrives in Mexico City’s forest-covered boroughs, as locals strive to plant trees
- + The Ukraine war, propaganda-style, is coming to Russian movie screens. Will people watch?
- + An evacuation order finds few followers in northeastern Ukraine despite Russia’s push in the region Neighborhood children frolic in a playground in the village of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, seemingly immune to the war unfolding a short distance away on a front
- + Takeaways from AP’s investigation into sexual harassment and assault at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station
- + Global inflation pressures could become harder to manage in coming years, research suggests
- + At a Japanese nuclear plant, a contentious treated water release is just the start of decommissioning
- + Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers
- + Zimbabwe’s opposition alleges ‘gigantic fraud’ in vote that extends the ZANU-PF party’s 43-year rule Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has alleged “blatant and gigantic fraud” after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner of an
- + The British Museum says it has recovered some of the stolen 2,000 items
- + Fukushima residents are cautious after the wrecked nuclear plant began releasing treated wastewater
- + Russia’s Wagner mercenaries face uncertainty after the presumed death of their leader in plane crash The Wagner Group’s presence extends from Syria to Africa, projecting the Kremlin’s global influence with mercenaries accused of using brutal force.
- + Shelling kills civilians in Ukraine’s northeast as fears grow of a second Russian takeover
- + Ukraine aid faces a stress test as some GOP 2024 presidential candidates balk at continued support
- + AP WAS THERE: A 1953 CIA-led coup in Iran topples prime minister, cements shah’s power
- + A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people still trying to make sense of it
- + Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Over the years, Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed
- + Kremlin denies role in plane crash believed to have killed Russian mercenary leader Prigozhin
- + Support grows for sustainable development, a ‘bioeconomy,’ in the Amazon
- + Police arrest two men in suspected torching of British pub cherished for its lopsided walls British police say two men have been arrested on suspicion of burning down an historic English pub that was famous for its lopsided walls and sagging foundation.
- + China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release
- + Wagner plane crash seems intended to send a clear message to potential Kremlin foes
- + US intelligence assessment shows intentionally caused explosion crashed Wagner chief’s plane
- + India lands a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, a first for the world as it joins elite club
- + Thousands of discouraged migrants are stranded in Niger because of border closures following coup
- + Tropical Storm Franklin makes landfall, dumping heavy rain on Haiti and the Dominican Republic
- + US approves new $500M arms sale to Taiwan as aggression from China intensifies The Biden administration has approved a new $500 million arms sale to Taiwan as it ramps up military assistance to the island despite fervent objections from China. 50 mins a
- + Voting delays mark Zimbabwe’s election as the president known as ‘the crocodile’ seeks a second term
- + A failed lunar mission dents Russian pride and reflects deeper problems with Moscow’s space industry
- + New Thai leader Srettha Thavisin is a wealthy property developer who didn’t hide his political views
- + Former Thai leader Thaksin goes to jail as political party linked to him wins vote to take power
- + State Department renews ban on use of US passports for travel to North Korea The Biden administration is extending for another year a ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea.
- + Voter fatigue edges out optimism as Zimbabwe holds 2nd general election since Mugabe’s ouster
- + A presidential runoff is likely in Ecuador between an ally of ex-president and a banana tycoon’s son The vote count in Ecuador’s special presidential election points to a leftist backed by the country’s fugitive ex-president likely facing a runoff
- + Rights group says Saudi Arabian border guards fired on and killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants
- + Guatemala’s pick of independent anti-corruption progressive as president may face challenge
- + Cyprus rescues 115 Syrian migrants aboard 3 separate boats over the last three days 48 mins ago
- + Swiss glaciers under threat again as heat wave drives zero-temperature level to record high
- + Firefighters curb blazes threatening 2 cities in western Canada but are ‘not out of the woods yet’
- + Tropical Storm Hilary makes landfall along Mexico’s Baja coast, carrying deluge to California
- + A tanker believed to hold sanctioned Iran oil starts offloading near Texas despite Tehran’s threats
- + Talks between regional bloc and Niger’s junta yield little, an official tells The Associated Press
- + Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole Russia’s Roscosmos space agency says the Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, bringing a premature end t
- + Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused by ex-aide’s lawyer of ordering sale of jewelry given as official gift
- + Canadian firefighters wage epic battle to save communities after mass evacuations Firefighters battling wildfires in British Columbia are trying to stop flames that swept through West Kelowna suburbs and forced the evacuation of Kelowna’s University of
- + City empties as thousands flee wildfire burning near capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories
- + Chinese military launches drills around Taiwan as a ‘warning’ after a top island official went to US
- + One of the Egyptian activists behind the 2011 uprising freed from prison after presidential pardon
- + US, Japan and South Korea open summit to bolster security over objections of Beijing
- + After Israeli raids, Palestinian police struggle in militant hotbed, reflecting region on the brink
- + Iran’s foreign minister visits Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince as tensions between rivals ease
- + ‘Complete betrayal of trust:' Neonatal nurse in a British hospital found guilty of killing 7 babies
- + The Gaza Strip gets its first cat cafe, a cozy refuge from life under blockade The global cat cafe trend, where people pay to have coffee and hang out with cats, has finally come to the besieged Gaza Strip. 38 mins ago
- + Niger’s neighbors running out of options as defense chiefs meet to discuss potential military force
- + More than 60 Senegalese migrants feared dead on monthlong voyage to Spain
- + Ukrainian soldiers who were blinded in combat face the new battle of navigating the world again
- + As Israeli settlements thrive, Palestinian taps run dry. The water crisis reflects a broader battle
- + Who wants to fly over Taliban-held Afghanistan? New FAA rules allow it, but planes largely avoid it
- + Germany’s Cabinet approves a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis possession and sale
- + Muslim mobs attack churches in eastern Pakistan after accusing Christians of desecrating the Quran
- + Russia hits Ukrainian grain depots again as a foreign ship tries out Kyiv’s new Black Sea corridor Officials say Russia has resumed its targeting of grain infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, using drones in overnight strikes on storage
- + An abandoned desert village an hour from Dubai offers a glimpse at the UAE’s hardscrabble past
- + Advocates sue federal government for failing to ban imports of cocoa harvested by children
- + Political leader in Ecuador is killed less than a week after presidential candidate’s assassination
- + Massive explosion at a gas station in Russia’s Dagestan kills 35 and injures scores more Russian officials say a massive explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan has killed 35 people and injured scores of others.
- + As the Black Sea becomes a battleground, one Ukrainian farmer doesn’t know how he’ll sell his grain
- + Russia unleashes a country-wide missile barrage on Ukraine as Putin addresses security conference
- + The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price
- + Argentine peso plunges after rightist who admires Trump comes first in primary vote
- + Ecuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets Ecuador used to be one of Latin America’s most peaceful nations. Today, criminals prowl relatively wealthy and working-class neighborhoods alike.
- + Niger’s coup leaders say they will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for ‘high treason’
- + North Korea’s Kim orders sharp increase in missile production, days before US-South Korea drills
- + What’s behind the tentative US-Iran agreement involving prisoners and frozen funds
- + Niger’s junta gains the upper hand over the regional bloc threatening military force, analysts say One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta ha
- + Polish government plans referendum asking if voters want ‘thousands of illegal immigrants’
- + Russian Orthodox priests face persecution from state and church for supporting peace in Ukraine
- + 7 killed in Ukraine’s Kherson region, including a 23-day-old baby girl
- + Two years after fall of Kabul, tens of thousands of Afghans languish in limbo waiting for US visas
- + An activist tied to Niger’s junta says its leaders won’t hold talks until the region recognizes them A local activist in Niger with ties to the military regime says the only way to avoid conflict in the country between mutinous soldiers that ousted t
- + Shippers warned to stay away from Iranian waters over seizure threat as US-Iran tensions high
- + Killing of Ecuador candidate deepens country’s sense of vulnerability to crime
- + Tensions rise as West African nations prepare to send troops to restore democracy in Niger
- + US government sanctions Russians on the board of Alfa Group in response to war in Ukraine
- + UAE’s al-Jaber urges more financing to help Caribbean and other regions fight climate change The head of this year’s U.N. global climate summit is urging more availability of funds to help the Caribbean and other regions fight climate change. 26 min
- + Anti-corruption presidential candidate is assassinated in Ecuador as country reels from violence
- + Western officials: Niger junta warned they’d kill deposed president after any military intervention
- + Northern Ireland’s top police officer apologizes for ‘industrial scale’ data breach
- + UN Security Council to hold first open meeting on North Korea human rights situation since 2017
- + Rainforest nations in Africa and Asia join Amazon summit to discuss rainforest preservation
- + Fire at French vacation home for adults with disabilities leaves 11 dead Eleven people have died after a fire ripped through a vacation home for adults with disabilities in eastern France.
- + American nurse and her young daughter freed nearly two weeks after abduction in Haiti
- + Niger’s ousted president is said to be running low on food under house arrest, 2 weeks after coup
- + Is it election season? Pakistan leader moves to disband parliament, his jailed nemesis seeks release
- + The World Food Program slowly resumes food aid to Ethiopia after months of suspension and criticism
- + India’s opposition targets Modi in their no-confidence motion over ethnic violence in Manipur state
- + Niger’s junta rejects a diplomatic visit by regional and UN officials over ‘atmosphere of menace’
- + Rwanda genocide survivors criticize UN court’s call to permanently halt elderly suspect’s trial
- + South Korea evacuates thousands of Scouts from coastal campsite as tropical storm nears Tens of thousands of Scouts carrying backpacks and water bottles began arriving at university dormitories, government and corporate training centers, and hotels aroun
- + An Indigenous leader has inspired an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river
- + India’s Modi faces a no-confidence vote over silence on ethnic violence tearing at remote Manipur
- + West African leaders will meet Thursday after Niger’s junta defies key deadline and shuts airspace
- + Russia criticizes the talks in Saudi Arabia on ending the war in Ukraine after Moscow not invited Russia’s Foreign Ministry has chided efforts by international officials meeting in Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement for the war in Ukraine.
- + Justice Department helping Ukraine in war crimes investigations, Attorney General Garland says 43 mins ago
- + Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest. Why is it so important to protect? Representatives of eight South American governments are gathering in Brazil this week to talk about the Amazon rainforest.
- + A deadline arrives for Niger’s junta to reinstate the president. Citizens cheer and fear what’s next
- + Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan goes from high office to high-security prison after sentencing
- + Pope announces World Youth Day to return to Asia in 2027, urges young people ‘not to be afraid’
- + Russia mounts a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine following its retaliation promise
- + Niger’s junta isn’t backing down, and a regional force prepares to intervene. Here’s what to expect
- + Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan arrested after corruption conviction
- + Russia promises retaliation after Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker in 2nd sea attack in a day
- + Russia’s war with Ukraine has generated its own fog, and mis- and disinformation are everywhere
- + Syrian baby born under earthquake rubble turns 6 months, happily surrounded by her adopted family A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family home destroyed by the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria six months ago is in good health w
- + A baby was found in the rubble of a US raid in Afghanistan. But who exactly was killed and why? A baby found in the rubble of a U.S. raid in Afghanistan in 2019 is raising questions about who was killed and why. A U.S.
- + Mutinous soldiers in Niger sever French military ties while ‘hostage’ president pleads for US help
- + In Niger, the US seeks to hang on to its last, best counterterrorist outpost in West Africa
- + 3 years after Beirut port blast, intrigue foils an investigation and even the death toll is disputed
- + Kremlin critic Navalny convicted of extremism and sentenced to 19 years in prison
- + Hundreds rally in Niger, denouncing France, as the country’s new junta seeks to justify its coup
- + Israeli protesters are calling for democracy. But what about the occupation of Palestinians?
- + The US wants Kenya to lead a force in Haiti with 1,000 police. Watchdogs say they’ll export abuse
- + US military may put armed troops on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz to stop Iran seizures The U.S. military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aime
- + Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson
- + Climate change made July hotter for almost every human on earth
- + Malians who thrived with arrival of UN peacekeeping mission fear economic fallout from its departure
- + Some of Niger’s neighbors defend the coup there, even hinting at war. It’s a warning for Africa
- + European militaries evacuate foreign nationals from Niger as regional tensions rise after coup
- + Russian drone strikes hit a Ukrainian port on Romania’s border that is key to grain exports Russian drones have hit a Ukrainian port city along the border with Romania, causing significant damage and a huge fire at facilities that are key to Ukrainian
- + France planning an evacuation of people seeking to leave Niger after the coup in its former colony
- + Analysis: Buildup of American forces in Persian Gulf a new signal of worsening US-Iran conflict
- + Niger crisis deepens as European nations evacuate and coup leaders get support from other juntas France, Italy and Spain have announced evacuations from Niger for their citizens and other European nationals.
- + The Crimean Peninsula is both a playground and a battleground, coveted by Ukraine and Russia
- + Russia accuses Ukraine of striking same Moscow building that was hit by drone days ago
- + Here’s how hot and extreme the summer has been, and it’s only halfway over
- + French embassy in Niger is attacked as protesters waving Russian flags march through capital Thousands of people backing the coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital denouncing France, the country’s former colonial power, waving Russian
- + Pakistan buries the dead after 54 killed in a bombing at an election rally for a pro-Taliban cleric
- + As the pope heads to Portugal, he’s laying the groundwork for the church’s future and his own legacy
- + Russian ballistic missile strikes kill at least 6 people in Zelenskyy’s hometown in central Ukraine
- + A bomb at a political rally in northwest Pakistan kills at least 40 people and wounds nearly 200
- + African leaders leave Russia summit without grain deal or a path to end the war in Ukraine
- + Ukraine again reported bringing war deep into Russia with attacks on Moscow and border region Ukraine has brought the war far from the front line into the heart of Russia again in drone penetrations Russian authorities said damaged two office buildings a
- + Salvage crews begin towing a burning cargo ship to a new location off the Dutch coast as smoke eases
- + US Secretary of State tells Australia that WikiLeaks founder is accused of ‘very serious’ crime
- + A family’s deadly tale shows chaos at the Tunisian border where Black migrants face discrimination
- + Blinken says US economic support for Niger is at risk as military takeover threatens stability
- + Soldiers declare Niger general as head of state after he led a coup and detained the president
- + Senegal’s opposition leader charged with conspiracy against the state and calls for insurrection Senegal’s public prosecutor said the opposition leader has been charged with conspiracy against the state and calls for insurrections, among other offens
- + A Hong Kong court rejects a government-requested ban on popular protest song after Google’s defiance
- + Unmarked Senegal beach graves hold untold number of West African migrants, officials and locals say
- + Moscow blames Kyiv for missile attacks in southern Russia as Kremlin forces pound Ukrainian village
- + Sudan conflict brings new atrocities to Darfur as militias kill, rape, burn homes in rampages
- + Israeli army kills 14-year-old Palestinian as an Israeli minister visits a flashpoint holy site
- + Niger’s president vows democracy will prevail after mutinous soldiers detain him and declare a coup
- + Bluffing or not, Putin’s declared deployment of nuclear weapons to Belarus raises tensions
- + Putin claims fighting intensifies in southeastern Ukraine, with Russia inflicting heavy losses Russian President Vladimir Putin says the fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region of southeastern Ukraine has “intensified significantly.”
- + How the coup in Niger could expand the reach of Islamic extremism, and Wagner, in West Africa
- + Israel’s top court will hear challenges to a law that weakens its power, escalating political crisis
- + Rival Koreas mark armistice anniversary in two different ways that highlight rising tensions
- + African leaders arrive in Russia for summit as Kremlin seeks allies amid fighting in Ukraine
- + UK prime minister urged to speed up compensation for infected blood scandal victims British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is committed to paying out compensation swiftly to thousands of people affected by the country’s infected blood scandal, whic
- + On their own front line, Ukrainian surgeons treat waves of soldiers since the counteroffensive began
- + China removes its outspoken foreign minister during a bumpy time in relations with the US
- + Israeli doctors walk off the job, more strikes may be looming after a law weakening courts passed
- + South Korean court overturns impeachment of government minister ousted over deadly crowd crush
- + Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites In just a week, Russia has fired dozens of missiles and drones at the Odesa region of Ukraine, hitting the historic city center that had been largely spar
- + Heat wave returns as Greece grapples with more wildfire evacuations
- + Why is Israel’s judicial overhaul so divisive?
- + Israeli doctors reveal Netanyahu’s heart problem only after implanting pacemaker
- + Israeli parliament approves key part of judicial overhaul that has exposed deep fissures in society Israeli lawmakers have approved a key portion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s divisive plan to reshape the country’s justice system.
- + Russia says Moscow and Crimea hit by Ukrainian drones while Russian forces bombard Ukraine’s south
- + Specter of right wing entering Spanish government fades after inconclusive national election
- + Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fades from the spotlight
- + Polls close as Spain awaits results from election that could take the country to the right
- + Israel’s Netanyahu hospitalized as thousands protest judicial overhaul plan ahead of key vote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still recovering in a hospital after an emergency heart procedure, as tens of thousands of supporters and opponen
- + Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa badly damages landmark Orthodox cathedral; 1 dead, many wounded
- + Greek authorities evacuate some 19,000 people as wildfire blazes on the island of Rhodes
- + Ukraine wants ships to keep exporting its grain despite Russian attacks. Some are interested A major shipping group says there is still interest from ship owners in carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea if they can mitigate the risk.
- + CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here’s what you need to see and know today
- + A man lies in a Kenya morgue. His family says he’s one of at least 35 shot dead by police this month
- + Migrants face misery in Tunisia. Rights activists fear that the EU deal will make things even worse
- + Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade. A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer
- + Thousands of Muslims take to the streets to express outrage over Quran desecration in Sweden
- + After decades of struggle in Israel, dozens of African Hebrew Israelites face deportation
- + By pulling out of the Ukrainian grain deal, Russia risks alienating its few remaining partners
- + Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?
- + A diplomatic fight breaks out after a man desecrated the Quran
- + Fatal shooting hours before the Women’s World Cup began in New Zealand appears to be an isolated act
- + The US and North Korea have no diplomatic ties — but they still have ways to talk about US soldier
- + US says North Korea has not responded to attempts to discuss American soldier who ran across border
- + 11-year-old daughter of top Kashmiri rebel leader issues rare appeal to visit father jailed in India The eleven-year-old daughter of a prominent Kashmiri rebel leader who faces life in prison in neighboring India has issued an emotional appeal, urging Ne
- + Canadian wildfires hit Indigenous communities hard, threatening their land and culture
- + Cracks are emerging in Israel’s military. Reservists threaten not to serve if government plan passes
- + North Korea stays silent on its apparent detention of a US soldier who bolted across the border North Korea is staying silent about the detention of an American soldier who sprinted across the Koreas’ heavily fortified border as members of his tour gro
- + Tourist who saw US soldier sprint to North Korea initially thought it was a stunt
- + Video appears to show Russian mercenary chief Prigozhin for first time since short-lived mutiny 13 mins ago
- + Tourists and residents warned to stay inside as deadly heat hits Europe during peak travel season
- + A closer look at Panmunjom, the famous border town where a US soldier crossed into North Korea
- + US soldier facing military disciplinary actions flees to North Korea while touring a border village
- + US deploys nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea in show of force against North Korea The United States has deployed a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time in four decades, as the allies warned North Korea that any use of the North
- + A look at some Americans who crossed into North Korea over the past years
- + Key Russian bridge to Crimea is struck again as Putin vows response to attack that killed 2 An attack before dawn damaged part of a bridge linking Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea that is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine.
- + French tourism businesses are wary of customers drying up as droughts worsen
- + A heat wave in southern Europe generates health warnings for residents and tourists
- + Russia halts landmark deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain at time of growing hunger
- + South Korea’s death toll from destructive rainstorm grows to 40 as workers search for survivors
- + Israel’s Netanyahu is rushed to hospital for dehydration. Hours later, he says he feels ‘very good’ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he feels “very good.” He will spend the night in the hospital, according to his office, and a
- + Palestinian gunman opens fire on a car in the occupied West Bank, wounding 3, including 2 girls
- + Ukraine bides its time in its counteroffensive, trying to stretch Russian forces before striking
- + Putin says Russia has ‘sufficient stockpile’ of cluster bombs as Ukraine gets its own supply from US
- + Better weather conditions help slow down La Palma wildfire in Spain’s Canary Islands
- + Bargain-hunting Uruguayans are flocking to Argentina as its peso slides. Back home, shops struggle
- + A wave of political turbulence is rolling through Guatemala and other Central American countries
- + South Korea to expand support for Ukraine as President Yoon Suk Yeol makes a surprise visit
- + Why allowing Ukraine to ship grain during Russia’s war matters to the world
- + For some remote Canadian wildfires, best and fastest option is sending in the smokejumpers
- + China accuses US of militarizing space following protest over Navy plane’s Taiwan Strait transit
- + Guatemala’s corruption is thrust into international spotlight by the government’s election meddling
- + Putin says he offered Wagner mercenaries the option to stay as a single unit Russian President Vladimir Putin says he offered mercenaries from the Wagner private military company the chance to keep serving as single unit under the same commander.
- + North Korea’s ambassador blames US for regional tensions in a rare appearance at UN Security Council
- + A heat wave named Cerberus has southern Europe in its jaws, and it’s only going to get worse
- + Record monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people in northern India over two weeks
- + Ukraine repels large Russian missile and drone attack that injures civilians in Kyiv
- + Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russ
- + Mass grave with at least 87 bodies found in Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, United Nations says
- + Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action laws
- + Live Updates | Biden vows NATO unity behind Ukraine ‘will not falter’ as summit concludes
- + Turkey’s Erdogan says lawmakers will take up ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership in October
- + Russia’s threat to pull out of Ukraine grain deal raises fears about global food security
- + Russia’s Defense Ministry says Wagner mercenaries are surrendering their weapons to the military 34 mins ago
- + In fight against Canada fires, dancing South Africa crews are a familiar and uplifting sight In the fight against Canada’s wildfires, South Africa crews are a familiar and uplifting sight. It’s the fifth time they’ve deployed to Canada, which is fa
- + Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s
- + NATO chief says no timetable set for Ukraine’s membership; Zelenskyy calls that ‘absurd’
- + Desperate Ukrainians take long and uncertain journey to escape Russian occupation
- + Sweden’s rocky road from neutrality toward NATO membership
- + NATO will boost defense spending to help back Ukraine but the math is tricky. Just ask Luxembourg
- + Erdogan urges Europe to revive Turkish EU membership talks in exchange for Swedish NATO accession
- + Biden and King Charles III zero in on generational challenge of climate change
- + How many Russians have died in Ukraine? Data shows what Moscow hides Nearly 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine, according to a new statistical analysis.
- + Russian mercenary leader Prigozhin’s commanders pledge loyalty at Kremlin after short-lived mutiny
- + Ukraine and the environment will top the agenda when Biden meets UK politicians and royalty
- + Mexican military to take over airports as president takes aim at corruption, mismanagement
- + NATO unity will be tested at upcoming summit. Ukraine’s possible entry may be the biggest challenge With no end in sight to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO leaders are gathering in Lithuania this week for their annual summit at a time when the wor
- + Russia reports intercepting a missile over annexed Crimea and briefly halts traffic on key bridge
- + Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, including prelates based in Hong Kong and Jerusalem
- + Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide as ethnic tensions linger on
- + A German county elected a far-right candidate for the first time since the Nazi era, raising concern
- + NATO summit host Lithuania is a small country with a loud voice, especially when it comes to Russia
- + The Dutch prime minister hands in his resignation as the government collapses over migration
- + Ukraine’s president hails the country’s soldiers from Snake Island to mark 500 days of war Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has marked the 500th day of the war by hailing the country’s soldiers in a video from a Black Sea island that became
- + US Treasury chief Yellen and China’s No. 2 leader express hope for improved bilateral communication
- + France’s small towns are reeling from the spread of rioting. ‘Now it’s affecting the countryside’
- + For the third time this week, Earth sets an unofficial heat record. What’s behind those big numbers? Earth’s average temperature set a new unofficial record high on Thursday, the third such milestone in a week that already rated as the hottest on rec
- + AP PHOTOS: Record-breaking heat scorches communities around the world
- + AP PHOTOS: Russia’s war in Ukraine reaches the 500-day mark
- + Guantanamo detainees tell first independent visitor about scars from torture and hopes to leave
- + Turkey and Sweden fail to end their NATO membership standoff. Their leaders will try again on Monday
- + UAE pledges $15 million to help rebuild occupied West Bank camp hard hit by Israeli offensive
- + Russian cruise missile attack on Ukraine city of Lviv kills 5 people and injures dozens Russia has fired cruise missiles at a western Ukraine city far from the front line of the war, killing at least five people in an apartment building.
- + Nations set to agree on shipping emissions cuts but fall short of aligning with climate goals 26 mins ago
- + France sees itself as blind to race. After a teen is killed by police, how does one discuss racism?
- + Iran tried to seize 2 oil tankers near Strait of Hormuz and fired shots at one of them, US Navy says
- + Armed mobs rampage through villages and push remote Indian region to the brink of civil war
- + As Israel ends 2-day West Bank offensive, Palestinian residents emerge to scenes of vast destruction Palestinian residents of the Jenin refugee camp encountered scenes of widespread destruction as they emerged from their homes and returned from nearby sh
- + Two months after Charles III’s coronation, Scotland hosts its own event to honor the new monarch
- + France’s Macron is weakened by crisis over teen killed by police
- + ‘Liberty, equality, fraternity’ for all? New riots make France confront an old problem
- + Putin says Russia is ‘united as never before’ during Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting
- + Russia says it foiled Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow as Kyiv’s counteroffensive grinds on The Russian military says it has fended off a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow that prompted authorities to briefly close one of the city’s airports.
- + Ukrainians honor award-winning writer killed in Russian missile attack on restaurant
- + US ambassador visits Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on charges of espionage
- + Crowds across France show solidarity at town halls targeted in rioting following police shooting
- + Israel targets West Bank militant stronghold with drones and troops, killing 8 Palestinians Israel has used drones to strike targets in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank and deployed hundreds of troops in the area.
- + Farmers in Nepal celebrate rice planting day with special feasts and festivities
- + Putin will speak with leaders of China and India in his first summit since the Wagner insurrection
- + After fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa
- + Biden’s upcoming European trip is meant to boost NATO against Russia as the war in Ukraine drags on
- + Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading posts on Twitter
- + Russian attacks in Ukraine leave 3 killed, 17 wounded. Spain highlights European support for Kyiv
- + Russia launches the first drone strike on Kyiv in 12 days and all are shot down Ukrainian officials say Russia has launched a drone attack on the capital Kyiv. It was the first such attack of the war in 12 days.
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