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Israelis protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. On Tuesday, Netanyahu's government for the first time advanced the plan by securing a preliminary vote at the Knesset, defying a mass uproar among Israelis and calls for restraint from the United States. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)
Mass protests in Israel as controversial overhauls advanced
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting their far-right government’s plans to overhaul the legal system, three days after parliament advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a … more
United Nations Security Council members stand for a moment of silence at the urging of Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, after his address to the Council, Friday Feb. 24, 2023 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Russia, Ukraine face off at UN with rival tributes to dead
Russia and Ukraine faced off at the U.N. Security Council on the first anniversary of their war _ with their confrontation even extending to dueling moments of silence for the dead. The showdown … more
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Palestinians protest a deadly Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, as well as a crackdown on Palestinian prisoners by Israel's right-wing government, following Friday prayers at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli settlers shoot, wound 2 Palestinians in West Bank
Palestinian health officials say Israeli settlers have shot and seriously wounded two Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank, in what officials describe as the latest incident in a wave of … more
A police officer runs to detain a man who lays flowers to the monument of Ukrainian author Taras Shevchenko to mark one year since the start of the Russian campaign in Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. OVD-Info, a group that tracks political arrests, said that several people were detained in St. Petersburg after bringing flowers to the Shevchenko monument. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Russians mark Ukraine war anniversary with flowers, arrests
Russians in Moscow and other cities brought flowers to Ukrainian poets and held one-person pickets with antiwar slogans to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian media … more
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In this photo released by the Cambodia Ministry of Health, Cambodia local authority meet health experts before spraying disinfectant at a village in Prey Veng eastern province Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The father of an 11-year old girl in Cambodia who died this week after contracting bird flu has tested positive for the virus, but has not displayed any major symptoms, health authorities said Friday. (Cambodia Ministry of Health via AP)
Experts say bird flu threat small despite Cambodian fatality
Health authorities in Cambodia say the father of an 11-year-old girl who died this week after contracting bird flu has tested positive for the virus but has not displayed any major symptoms. The … more
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This image from Meteosat-9 satellite shows Tropical Cyclone Freddy, center right, and Mozambique on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique as the long-lasting weather system continues to wreak havoc across southern Africa, the United Nations weather agency said. (NOAA via AP)
Cyclone Freddy slams Mozambique with 'dangerous' rainfall
A damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique Friday as the long-lasting weather system continued to wreak havoc across southern Africa. The … more
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FILE - Forensic experts collect a dead body after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 13, 2022. Turkish forces have killed the alleged mastermind behind a deadly Istanbul street bombing in an operation in northern Syria, Turkey's state-run news agency reported on Friday Feb. 24, 2023. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP, File)
Report: Istanbul bomb suspect killed in operation in Syria
Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish forces have killed the alleged planner of a deadly Istanbul street bombing, in an operation in northern Syria. The man, identified as Halil Menci, was … more
FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a flag flies at half-staff in honor of the U.S. service members and other victims killed in the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, at Marine Corps Security Force Company, Aug. 27, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba have returned two Pakistani brothers, Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani, to their home country. The U.S. move on Feb. 23, 2023, comes after holding them two decades without charges at Guantanamo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
2 Pakistanis reach home after being freed from Guantanamo
Officials say two Pakistani brothers who were held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay military prison for two decades have been freed and returned home. Pakistan's announcement Friday said … more
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U.S. First lady Jill Biden, arrives at Windhoek's International Airport, Namibia, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. Dancers, drummers and Namibia's president and first lady welcomed U.S. first lady Jill Biden on Wednesday as she opened a five-day, two-country visit to Africa aimed at highlighting the challenges facing women and young people and the food insecurity plaguing the Horn of Africa. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich)
Jill Biden to Namibian youth: Protect your democracy
U.S. first lady Jill Biden has told the young people of Namibia that the democracy their parents and grandparents fought for is now theirs to defend and protect. She also has encouraged them to … more
Iran calls 84% uranium enrichment allegation a 'conspiracy'
Iranian state television has offered an extended defense against an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity. An official interviewed by state TV's … more
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New video footage shot on Feb. 19, 2023 from the air with a drone for The Associated Press shows how particularly intense fighting since the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion has left no building in Marinka intact. Russian tank fire further added to the destruction, pounding what appeared to be Ukrainian positions amid the ruins. (AP Photo)
Ukraine: Drone video shows cost of intense fighting in east
Although Friday marks the grim first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, fighting between Russian-backed forces and Ukrainian troops has raged in the country’s east since … more
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FILE - Internally displaced people look out from a bus at a refugee center in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict. Estimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an complete picture of the deaths and suffering. Precise figures may never emerge for some of the categories international organizations are attempting to track. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
The calculus of war: Tallying Ukraine toll an elusive task
Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict. Estimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an incomplete … more
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Anastasiia Morhun, 29, comforts her one-year-old son Roman, born on Feb. 24, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. The anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women who gave birth and men who became fathers a year ago on Feb. 24, 2022, as bombs began to fall. Bringing forth new life just as the Russian onslaught snatched other lives away entwined joy and terror together into a sour-sweet mix for people who became parents that day. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)
Joy amid sorrow: 1st birthdays muted for Ukrainian parents
The anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women who gave birth and men who became fathers a year ago, on Feb. 24, 2022, as bombs began to fall. Bringing forth new … more
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A baby Chinese pangolin is being weighed at the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. A female baby of Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo on Feb 2, 2023, as the first birth of the critically endangered animal on the European continent, and was doing well, the park said. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
1st baby pangolin in Europe born in Prague zoo, doing well
A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in Europe. The park says it is doing well after initial troubles. For the first few days after … more
A man poses for a picture as he stands next to the coffin containing the remains of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, during his reburial ceremony in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. Sankara, was reburied, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. The revolutionary leader and twelve others were gunned down in the capital, Ouagadougou, during a 1987 coup and buried hastily, their bodies only allowed to be dug up in 2015, after the ousting of former President Blaise Compaore, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 30 years and prevented the exhumation. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)
Iconic West African leader Sankara reburied in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, has been reburied, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. Sankara and 12 others were gunned down in the capital, … more
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FILE - This handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Oct. 4, 2022, shows a Grad multiple rocket launcher firing at Ukrainian troops at an undisclosed location. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP, File)
Eurojust to support probes into aggression in Ukraine war
The European Union’s judicial cooperation agency is setting up a new center to support efforts to gather evidence of the crime of aggression in Ukraine. The announcement Thursday by Eurojust came … more
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FILE - An injured man stands at the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport in Beirut, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. A British court has ruled that a London-based company that delivered the explosive ammonium nitrate to that detonated in the deadly blast in Beirut's port in 2020 is liable towards the victims, according to Lebanon’s Beirut Bar Association, it was reported on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
UK ruling delivers rare victory for Beirut blast victims
A British court has ruled a London-based company that delivered the explosive ammonium nitrate to Beirut's port is liable towards the victims of a devastating 2020 blast, according to Lebanon’s … more
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A destroyed building leans on a neighbouring house following the earthquake in Samandag, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Survivors of the earthquake that jolted Turkey and Syria 15 days ago, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving hundreds of thousands of others homeless, dealt with more trauma and loss Tuesday after another deadly quake and aftershocks rocked the region. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Death toll from Turkey, Syria earthquake tops 47,000
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has raised the number of fatalities in Turkey from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake to 43,556.  The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria now stands at 47,244. In … more
Pope Francis leaves at the end of a mass in the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, which opens the Lenten season of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before the Holy Week and Easter. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope suffering bad cold but keeps appointments, Vatican says
Pope Francis has a bad cold and is skipping speeches he was set to deliver. Francis did meet with young Orthodox priests and monks on Thursday and members of German research organization the Max … more
Iran acknowledges accusation it enriched uranium to 84%
Iran is directly acknowledging an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity for the first time, which would put the Islamic Republic closer than ever to … more
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