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A man cast his ballot in Sierra Leone general elections in Freetown Saturday June 24, 2023. Sierra Leoneans are selecting their next president amid mounting frustration due to an ailing economy, rising unemployment and the loom of deadly protests (AP Photo)

Sierra Leone's president seeks another term as opponents complain about the economy and unemployment

Voters in Sierra Leone are deciding whether to give President Julius Maada Bio a second term in office. Saturday's election comes amid high unemployment and growing concerns about the economy in the … more

By KEMO CHAM and KABBA KARGBO | 6/24/23

A delivery driver takes a drink as he waits at a traffic light on an unseasonably hot day in Beijing, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Authorities continued a rare red alert for high temperatures in parts of China's capital on Saturday, the highest level of warning, as highs were once again expected to climb to around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Farenheit). (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Beijing sizzles under worst heat wave and authorities ask people to stay indoors

Beijing and parts of northern China are experiencing record temperatures, with authorities urging people to limit their time outdoors. The observatory in southern Beijing on Saturday for the first … more

By SIMINA MISTREANU | 6/24/23

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, June 22, 2023. Muslim pilgrims are converging on Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca for the largest Hajj since the coronavirus pandemic severely curtailed access to one of Islam's five pillars. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Nearly 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia so far for annual Hajj pilgrimage

Saudi officials say close to 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in the country so far for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. This year’s pilgrimage will be the first without the restrictions … more

By RIAZAT BUTT | 6/23/23

Commuters queuing to catch minibus taxi in Welkom, South Africa, Friday, June 23, 2023. At least 31 people were believed to have died in a gas explosion in a disused mine shaft in South Africa that happened last month but was only now coming to light, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa says 31 illegal miners believed killed in explosion in May, only now coming to light

Authorities in South Africa say at least 31 illegal miners are believed to have died in a gas explosion in a shuttered gold mine that happened last month but is only now coming to light after people … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 6/23/23

Ukrainian air defense intercepts a Shahed drone mid-air in the third Russia aerial attack on the capital in the last 24 hours in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US, UK, France demand UN investigate Russia's sanctions-busting use of Iranian drones in Ukraine

The United States, Britain and France are demanding that the United Nations urgently investigate Russia’s reported use of hundreds of Iranian-provided drones in the war in Ukraine, which would … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 6/23/23

Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, left, and Sgt Matt Ratana's partner Su Bushby, right, read a statement outside Northampton Crown Court after Louis De Zoysa was convicted of his murder, in Northampton, England, Friday June 23, 2023. (Matthew Cooper/PA via AP)

Man convicted of murder in the shooting of a UK police officer while the suspect was handcuffed

A man has been convicted of murder for shooting a British police officer with an antique handgun while the suspect was handcuffed in a cell nearly three years ago. A jury deliberated for just over … more

6/23/23

An international delegation examines a torched building as they tour the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, days after a rampage by Jewish settlers, Friday, June 23, 2023. Israeli settlers entered the town, setting fire to Palestinian cars and homes after four Israelis were killed by Palestinian gunmen in the northern West Bank on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel arrests 3 settlers suspected in violent attacks in Palestinian towns

Israel’s security agency says it has detained three Israeli settlers on suspicion of involvement in mass rampages through Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank this week following the killing … more

By ISABEL DEBRE | 6/23/23

FILE - Trucks loaded with United Nations humanitarian aid for Syria following a devastating earthquake are parked at Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, in Syria's Idlib province, on Feb. 10, 2023. A convoy carrying United Nations aid entered opposition-held Idlib from government-held Syria Friday, June 23, 2023, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria in February. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

UN aid enters Syrian rebel enclave from government territory in first such crossing since earthquake

A convoy carrying U.N. aid has entered Syria's last rebel-held enclave from government-held territory, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since February's deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake … more

By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL | 6/23/23

FILE - Migrants run on Spanish soil after crossing the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco in Melilla, Spain, on June 24, 2022. Rights groups on Friday denounced a lack of justice and transparency over the deaths of 37 migrants on June 24 last year as they attempted to cross the border from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Melilla. (AP Photo/Javier Bernardo)

Rights groups denounce Spain and Morocco's lack of justice as Melilla tragedy anniversary nears

Rights groups have denounced a lack of justice and transparency over the deaths of 37 migrants on June 24, 2022, as they attempted to cross the border from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of … more

By JENNIFER O'MAHONY | 6/23/23

FILE - In this photo released by Press Information Department, Prime Minister Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, right, chairs a meeting regarding ongoing crackdown against human smugglers, in Islamabad, Pakistan on June 21, 2023. The government has also launched a crackdown on the human traffickers who arranged travel for the Pakistanis on the fishing boat, many of whom were seeking jobs in Europe. So far, police have arrested at least 17 suspected traffickers in connection with the case.(Press Information Department via AP, File)

About 350 Pakistanis were on migrant boat that sank off Greece and many may have died, official says

Pakistan’s interior minister says an estimated 350 Pakistanis were on board an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants that sank off Greece last week, and that many remain missing and may have … more

By MUNIR AHMED | 6/23/23

This GeoColor satellite image taken Tuesday, June 20, 2023 and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Bret as it chugged toward the eastern Caribbean. (NOAA via AP)

Tropical Storm Bret brings winds and rain to islands in eastern Caribbean

Tropical Storm Bret is bringing winds and heavy rain to islands in the eastern Caribbean that shut down to prepare for potential landslides and flooding. The storm’s center was west of St. Vincent … more

By DÁNICA COTO | 6/23/23

A car is recovered from a flooded underpass by a towing service following heavy rain, early Friday, June 23, 2023, in Duisburg, Germany. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

Storms and heavy rain flood roads, block railway lines in Germany

Storms and heavy rain across a large swath of Germany have flooded roads and forced the closure of some major railway routes, but there is no immediate word of any injuries. Germany’s national … more

6/23/23

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal attends the unveiling of a graffiti wall at the entrance of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 12, 2023. The Pears Jewish Campus, run by the local Chabad community, is located in the German capital's Wilmersdorf neighbourhood and will be officially opened Sunday, June 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany's biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust is set to open in Berlin, five years after the groundbreaking. The Pears Jewish Campus by the city’s Chabad community … more

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | 6/23/23

FILE - Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of Greece's conservative New Democracy party, waves to supporters on the island of Salamina, near Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Greeks heading to the polls on Sunday June 25, for a second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win re-election by a large margin. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, file)

Greek elections a one-horse race after conservatives topple left-wing strongholds

Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win reelection by a large margin. Opinion polls suggest the … more

By DEREK GATOPOULOS | 6/23/23

Wang Quanzhang and his wife Li Wenzu look at their phone and laptop in the dark after power was cut off for their apartment in Beijing's Changping district, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Disbarred human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in Beijing that is further squeezing the country's battered civil rights community. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese human rights lawyer chased out of 13 homes in 2 months as pressure rises on legal advocates

A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in Beijing that is … more

By HUIZHONG WU | 6/23/23

People displaced by gang violence stand in Jean-Kere Almicar's front yard, where they have sought refuge, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Nearly 200 people who once lived in the Cite Soleil slum near Almicar’s house are now camped out in his front yard and nearby areas. They are among the nearly 165,000 Haitians who have fled their homes amid a surge in gang violence. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Chased from their homes by gangs, thousands of Haitians languish in shelters with lives in limbo

A gang rampaged through the Cite Soleil slum, killing and raping and setting fire to hundreds of wood-and-tin homes. Forced out of the neighborhood, one family of four lived on the streets of … more

By DÁNICA COTO | 6/23/23

A fence surrounds a seemingly unoccupied building on the grounds of a proposed new Russian embassy near the Australian Parliament in Canberra, Feb. 28, 2023. A suspected lone Russian diplomat was on Friday, June 23, 2023, apparently squatting on the site of the proposed embassy that the Australian government has vetoed. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act of defiance saying a "bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security." (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Suspected Russian diplomat is occupying the nation's vetoed embassy site in Australia's capital

A suspected lone Russian diplomat is apparently squatting on the site of Moscow's proposed embassy that the Australian government has vetoed. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 6/22/23

Dilrukshan Kumara looks at the ocean as he stands by the wreck of the remains of his family's home in Iranawila, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 15, 2023. Much like the hundreds of other fishing hamlets that dot the coastline, the village of Iranawila suffers from coastal erosion. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

AP PHOTOS: In Sri Lanka, fishers suffer as sea erosion destroys homes and beaches

IRANAWILA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Ranjith Sunimal Fernando now has a shell of a home at the edge of Sri Lanka's coast, lost to the sea. Waves lap past the broken walls into damaged, empty rooms. … more

By ERANGA JAYAWARDENA | 6/22/23

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives at the St. Damaso courtyard for a private audience with Pope Francis, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. (Alessandro Di Meo, Pool via AP)

Brazil's president offers to try to win release of bishop imprisoned in Nicaragua

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is offering to help try to gain the release of a Roman Catholic bishop imprisoned in Nicaragua. Lula made the comments Thursday after visiting with Pope … more

6/22/23

FILE - Relatives and classmates of the missing 43 Ayotzinapa college students march in Mexico City, Sept. 26, 2022, on the anniversary of their disappearance in Iguala, Guerrero state. Eight soldiers linked to the disappearance of the student teachers in 2014, were arrested and are in a military prison awaiting a civil judge to determine whether to open criminal proceedings against them, reported an Army commander, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

8 Mexican army soldiers arrested in 2014 disappearances of 43 students

A military official has confirmed that eight soldiers have been detained and taken to a military prison for their possible involvement in events surrounding the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from … more

By MARIA VERZA | 6/22/23