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Shiela Mishra wipes the head of her ailing brother to keep him cool from the heat wave by using a wet cloth at the district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Monday, June 19, 2023. Several people have died in two of India's most populous states in recent days amid a searing heat wave, as hospitals find themselves overwhelmed with patients. More than hundred people in the Uttar Pradesh state, and dozens in neighboring Bihar state have died due to heat-related illness. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Death toll rises amid sweltering heat wave in 2 of India's most populous states

Nearly 170 people have died in two of India’s most populous states in recent days amid a sweltering heat wave, as hospitals are overwhelmed with patients and routine power outages add to the … more

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH, PIYUSH NAGPAL and SIBI ARASU | 6/19/23

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, welcomes Chinese Premier Li Qiang for a meeting at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 19, 2023. Li has started a visit to Germany and France that is his first trip abroad since taking office, a visit that comes as the European nations seek to balance concerns over economic dependence on China with a desire to engage Beijing on issues such as combating climate change. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

New Chinese premier starts 1st trip abroad to Germany and France

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has started a visit to Germany and France that is his first trip abroad since taking office. The visit comes as Europe seeks to balance concerns over economic dependence on … more

6/19/23

Water flows over the collapsed Kakhovka Dam in Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down a Ukrainian dam that collapsed earlier this month while under Russian control, according to exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo, File)

UN complains Russia won't let aid workers into areas hit by dam collapse in southern Ukraine

The United Nations is rebuking Moscow for allegedly denying its aid workers access to Russian-occupied areas affected by the recent Kakhova dam collapse in southern Ukraine. The breach stranded … more

By SUSIE BLANN | 6/19/23

Labor senators applaud after the passing of the Voice to Parliament in the Senate chamber at Australia's Parliament House, in Canberra, Monday, June 19, 2023. The Senate voted to hold a referendum this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocate aiming to give the nation's most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia's Senate votes for holding referendum on Indigenous Voice to Parliament within 6 months

Australia’s Senate has voted for a referendum to be held this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocacy body to give the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 6/18/23

This photo taken from drone footage, provided by the Ukrainian military and dated May 28, 2023, shows a car on the Kakhovka Dam that appears to be laden with explosives. The dam collapsed June 6, while it was under Russian control. (Ukrainian military via AP)

Russia had means, motive and opportunity to destroy Ukraine dam, drone photos and information show

Exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press show that Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down a Ukrainian dam that collapsed earlier this month while … more

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT | 6/18/23

Survivors of latest tragical shipwreck prepare to board a bus to transfer to Athens at the port of Kalamata, Greece, Friday, June 16, 2023. The round-the-clock effort continued off the coast of southern Greece despite little hope of finding survivors or bodies after none have been found since Wednesday, when 78 bodies were recovered and 104 people were rescued. (John Liakos/InTime News via AP)

Two survivors of a deadly shipwreck describe their ordeal to Greek authorities

A Greek news web site has published excerpts from the depositions of two survivors of Wednesday's deadly shipwreck off southwestern Greece. More than 500 people are feared drowned after an … more

By DEMETRIS NELLAS | 6/18/23

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool)

Netanyahu says he's opposed to any interim US-Iran deal on nuclear program

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu spoke after reports in … more

By TIA GOLDENBERG | 6/18/23

FILE - Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan sail a wooden boat before being assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, in the Mediterranean sea, about 30 miles north of Libya, Saturday, June 17, 2023. Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea. The interior ministers are traveling Sunday for talks with the president and their counterpart in Tunisia, a major North African stepping stone for migrants trying to reach Europe at risk of their lives. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra, File)

France, Germany join forces against migration from Tunisia in wake of latest Mediterranean tragedy

Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea. The interior ministers are traveling … more

6/18/23

Relatives grieve as they wait to collect the bodies of villagers who were killed by suspected rebels as they retreated from Saturday's attack on the Lhubiriha Secondary School, outside the mortuary of the hospital in Bwera, Uganda Sunday, June 18, 2023. Ugandan authorities have recovered the bodies of 41 people including 38 students who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked the school in Mpondwe near the border with Congo, according to the local mayor. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ugandan border town prepares to bury victims of rebel massacre that left 42 dead, mostly students

A Ugandan border town is preparing to bury victims of a brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels on a school that left 42 dead, most of them students. Security forces have stepped up patrols along … more

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA | 6/18/23

FILE - Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. Malian voters cast ballots on a new draft constitution Sunday, June 18, 2023, in a referendum that the country's coup leader says will pave the way toward holding new elections in 2024, but that critics have called a delaying tactic. In a message broadcast on state television on the eve of the vote, Col. Assimi Goita told Malians that the proposed draft constitution “provides for a better-organized executive power, while maintaining the necessary balance with the legislative power.”. (AP Photo, File)

Mali's military junta holds referendum on new constitution that it calls a step toward new elections

Malian voters are casting ballots on whether to approve a new constitution. The coup leader in charge of the West African country says that Sunday's referendum is one of the steps toward holding new … more

By BABA AHMED | 6/18/23

FILE - People prepare food in a Khrtoum neighborhood on June 16, 2023. Sudan’s warring parties began a cease-fire Sunday morning, June 18, 2023, after two months of fighting pushed the African nation into chaos. (AP Photo, File)

Sudan begins a cease-fire ahead of a pledging conference to raise funds for humanitarian assistance

Sudan’s warring parties have begun a cease-fire, as two months of fighting pushed the African nation into further chaos. The three-day cease-fire has taken effect Sunday morning. It comes ahead of … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 6/18/23

FILE Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, sits in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday Jan. 5, 2023. For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with new arrests reported daily. At the same time, a government campaign has gotten rid of many independent lawyers, making it difficult for the detainees to mount any kind of legal defense. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)

Belarus crackdown targets not just political activists but also their lawyers

For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with … more

By YURAS KARMANAU | 6/18/23

Team members of ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', Matthias Huss, drill holes into the Rhone Glacier to take measurements near Goms, Switzerland, Friday, June 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Swiss vote on climate bill as Alpine nation's iconic glaciers succumb to warming

Swiss voters are going to the polls to decide on a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The referendum was sparked by a … more

6/18/23

Israeli police examine the crime scene where a gunman opened fire at a car wash in Yafa an-Naseriyye, near Nazareth, Israel, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Five people were killed in the shooting, the latest in a wave of criminal violence tearing through the country's Palestinian communities. More than 100 people have been killed in violent crime in Arab communities since the start of this year, more than three times higher than at the same time last year. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Violent crime within Israel's Palestinian minority reaches new heights under Netanyahu's government

A relentless wave of violent crime among Israel’s Palestinian minority is turning cities and towns into bloody battlefields and exasperating the community. Anger over the mounting insecurity is … more

By TIA GOLDENBERG | 6/18/23

Afghans walk at a tourist resort where they are accommodated, in Shengjin, 70 kilometer (44 mile) northwest of the capital, Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Hundreds of Afghans are languishing in Albania, waiting for the U.S. visas they were promised, almost two years after fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country. For many, it's an emotional roller coaster. (AP Photo/Llazar Semini)

After escaping the Taliban, hundreds of Afghans languish in Albania in a prolonged US visa process

Hundreds of Afghans are languishing in Albania, waiting for the U.S. visas they were promised, almost two years after fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country. For many, it's an emotional roller … more

By LLAZAR SEMINI | 6/18/23

A woman who was declared dead before her relatives noticed she was moving in the middle of her wake was being treated on Monday at a hospital in Ecuador. (June 12)

Ecuadorean woman who revived during her wake is dead after a week in intensive care at a hospital

A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care. Bella Montoya's … more

6/17/23

FILE - Pope Francis is flanked by Jesuits' superior general Arturo Sosa Abascal, left, after presiding a mass on March 12, 2022. Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order said Thursday, June 15, 2023 it has expelled a prominent Slovenian priest from the congregation following allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuses against adult women. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

Supporter defends expelled Jesuit priest against 'lynching', says abuse claims unproven

The head of a religious art and culture center founded by a disgraced Jesuit priest has come to his defense. The director of the Aletti Center in Rome says the claims against the Rev. Marko Ivan … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 6/17/23

People prepare food in a Khrtoum neighborhood Friday, June 16, 2023. Sudan had plunged into chaos since mid-April when monthslong tensions between the military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the northeastern African nation. (AP Photo)

Sudan officials say airstrike kills 17, including 5 children, in capital Khartoum

Sudanese health officials say an airstrike in Sudan’s capital Khartoum has killed at least 17 people, including five children as fighting continued between rival generals seeking to control the … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 6/17/23

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves before boarding a plane for his travel to China, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, June 16, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken set for high-stakes China visit with tensions rising and breakthrough prospects low

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has embarked on a high-stakes diplomatic trip to China to try to cool exploding tensions between the powers that have set many around the world on edge. Yet … more

By MATTHEW LEE | 6/17/23

A cyclist rides past an uprooted tree following heavy winds and incessant rains after landfall of cyclone Biparjoy at Mandvi in Kutch district of Western Indian state of Gujarat, Friday, June 16, 2023. Cyclone Biparjoy knocked out power and threw shipping containers into the sea in western India on Friday before aiming its lashing winds and rain at part of Pakistan that suffered devastating floods last year. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Thousands in western India relief camps begin returning home as Cyclone Biparjoy recedes

Over 100,000 people who sheltered from Cyclone Biparjoy in relief camps in western India have begun to return home after the storm weakened and headed toward Pakistan. In the coastal village of … more

By AJIT SOLANKI | 6/17/23