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Rescue personnel of the SOS Mediterranee's volunteers, right, help transfer the passengers from a wooden migrant boat onto their own rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea as a masked person seen left, leapt onto the migrant boat as he approached them using a rubber dinghy, left, on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. An aid group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean says one of its missions was interrupted by masked, armed bandits who boarded the overloaded smugglers’ boat and then sped away with it after the migrants threw themselves into the sea. (Charles Thiefaine/SOS Mediterranee via AP)

Armed bandits interrupt a rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean off Libya, an aid group says

An aid group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean says one of its missions has been interrupted by armed bandits. SOS Mediterranee filmed the incident Tuesday off Libya. According to the video, … more

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Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store speaks during his arrival at the NATO summit on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke).

NATO-member Norway donates six F-16 jets to Ukraine

Norway says it will donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Wednesday that the jets will be important for defending the country against Russian attacks. Ukraine … more

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FILE - Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, sits in a defendant's cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. The wife of Bialiatskian, an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said Wednesday July 10, 2024 that the country's authorities are depriving her husband of medicine as his health deteriorates. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)

Belarusian authorities are depriving Nobel Peace Prize laureate of medicine in jail, his wife says

The wife of an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate says that the Belarusian authorities are depriving her husband of medicine. The 61-year-old pro-democracy activist, Ales Bialiatski, is … more

By YURAS KARMANAU | 7/10/24

FILE - Activists hold signs during a demonstration for Egypt's jailed leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Mohamed al-Siddiq, jailed activist, at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A mass trial in the United Arab Emirates of dissidents that has faced widespread criticism abroad ended Wednesday July 10, 2024 with dozens of people sentenced to life in prison, activists said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

Dozens of people are sentenced to life in prison in a mass trial in the UAE criticized abroad

A mass trial in the United Arab Emirates of dissidents that was widely criticized abroad has sentenced 43 people to life in prison, while others received other prison terms. The sentences Wednesday … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 7/10/24

A forensic officer at the scene in Ashlyn Close, Bushey, after an incident on Tuesday evening, in Hertfordshire, England, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. British police were hunting for a man believed to be armed with a crossbow after three women were killed in a house near London. Hertfordshire Police said Kyle Clifford, 26, was being sought over the suspected triple murder. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

UK police are searching for a man after wife, daughters of BBC commentator killed

British police were hunting for a man believed to be armed with a crossbow after three women were killed in a house near London. The BBC said the women killed were the family of its main radio racing … more

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A man casts his ballot in front of a mural of late President Hugo Chavez as part of a rehearsal for the July 28 presidential election at a voting center in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez Fortune)

How does Venezuela's presidential election work?

Venezuela’s government faces its toughest electoral test in decades in a July 28 presidential election, which could give President Nicolas Maduro another six years in power or end the … more

By REGINA GARCIA CANO | 7/10/24

A keeper carries a newborn baby Chinese pangolin to be weighed at the Prague zoo, Czech Republic, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. The baby female of the critically endangered animal was born on July 1, 2024. This is the second Chinese pangolin to be born here in less than two years and is doing well. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

A second critically endangered Chinese pangolin is born in the Prague zoo in less than 2 years

A second Chinese pangolin was born in the Prague zoo in less than two years and is doing well, defying the odds and surprising park officials. The female of the critically endangered mammal was born … more

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, is welcomed with military honours by Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Vienna Austria, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Modi's visit to Austria is the first by an Indian prime minister in 41 years. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

India's Modi discusses the Ukraine war with Austria a day after meeting Putin

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has discussed the war in Ukraine with Austria, an ally of Kyiv that has a policy of military neutrality. He emphasized the need for diplomacy a day after he met … more

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FILE - This file image made from video provided by AuBC shows a part of an area in Palumpa, Australia, Thursday, July 4, 2024, where a girl was reported missing Tuesday after she went swimming. Crocodile numbers in Australia's Northern Territory must be either maintained or reduced and cannot be allowed to outstrip the human population, the territory's leader said after the 12-year-old girl was killed while swimming. (AuBC via AP, File)

Rangers shot dead a 14-foot crocodile after it killed a girl swimming in an Australian creek

Rangers have shot dead a 14-foot saltwater crocodile in Australia after it killed a 12-year-old girl while she was swimming with her family. Wildlife rangers had been attempting to trap or shoot the … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 7/10/24

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President William Lai Ching-te, right pose for photos with American Institute in Taiwan's (AIT) director Raymond F. Greene in Taipei, Taiwan on July 10, 2024. Raymond who newly assumed his office on July 9, met with Taiwan President William Lai in the morning of July 10, when both reiterated on the strong partnership Taiwan and the U.S. nurtured from the past, with ups and downs. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

New top US envoy to Taiwan pledges to help the island with self-defense as threats from China loom

The United States’ new top envoy to Taiwan has promised Washington will help the self-ruled island defend itself as China ramps up its military threats against Taipei. Raymond Greene assumed his … more

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Sharlona Warner, right, the mother of 8 month old Zackary Blades, speaks to the media alongside Detective Constable Natalie Horner, left, outside Durham Crown Court, Durham. England, Tuesday July 9, 2024. Drunken driver Darryl Anderson who snapped a photo showing he was speeding at 141 mph before a deadly crash, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. He was sentenced Tuesday for the May 31 crash that killed little Zackary Blades and his aunt, Karlene Warner. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)

Drunken driver who snapped photo going 141 mph before deadly collision imprisoned for 17 years

A drunken driver who snapped a photo showing he was speeding at 141 mph before a deadly crash in England has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. Darryl Anderson was sentenced Tuesday for the May 31 … more

By BRIAN MELLEY | 7/9/24

Armed security officers escort Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille as he visits the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Haiti's prime minister and police chief visited the capital's largest hospital after authorities announced that police took control of the medical institution over the weekend from armed gangs. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitian police say they have taken largest hospital back from gang control

Haiti’s newly selected Prime Minister Garry Conille and Haiti’s police chief visited the capital’s largest hospital, after authorities said they took control of the medical institution over the … more

By EVENS SANON | 7/9/24

Gurneys are seen outside the Okhmatdyt children's hospital after it was hit by Russian missiles on Monday, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka)

In a diplomatic quirk, Russia chairs a UN meeting decrying its strike on a Ukraine kids' hospital

U.N. Security Council members are confronting Russia over a missile strike that destroyed part of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital. Russia denies responsibility for the strike. Several … more

By JENNIFER PELTZ | 7/9/24

FILE - This photo released by Mexico's National Security Commission shows bags of illegal drugs, including 100 pounds (45.5 kilograms) of fentanyl, according to authorities, inside a sports utility vehicle after police stopped the car for a missing front license plate near Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, Jan. 25, 2018. As Mexican-made fentanyl continues to flood into the U.S., Mexico’s efforts to seize the drug have declined dramatically, according to figures made public on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Mexico's National Security Commission via AP, File)

Mexico's efforts to seize US-bound fentanyl drop sharply, while seizures of meth soar

Even as Mexican-made fentanyl continues to flood into the United States, Mexico’s efforts to seize the drug have declined dramatically. Figures for the first half of 2024 show that Mexican federal … more

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This photo distributed by the Peruvian National Police shows police carrying a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, July 5, 2024. Peruvian authorities announced on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that they have found the mummified body of the American man who died 22 years ago, along with two other American climbers, after the three were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest mountain. (Peruvian National Police via AP)

The body of an American climber buried by an avalanche 22 years ago in Peru has been found

Police in Peru say they have found the body of an American mountaineer who was buried by an avalanche 22 years ago as he tried to climb one of the highest peaks in the Andes. Police say they found … more

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO | 7/9/24

FILE - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, gives an address while accompanied by his bodyguard Yasser Nemr Qranbish, during a rally to mark the sixth anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after an 18-year occupation, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, on May 25, 2006. An Israeli strike in Syria Tuesday July 9, 2024 killed Qranbish, a former personal bodyguard of Hezbollah leader, an official with the Lebanese militant group said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Israeli strike in Syria kills a former bodyguard of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader

An official with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says an Israeli strike in Syria killed a former personal bodyguard of group's leader. Hezbollah later identified the militant as Yasser Nemr … more

By BASSEM MROUE | 7/9/24

FILE - The Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on February 8, 2024. South African authorities have dropped an investigation into Johnson & Johnson for alleged anti-competitive practices after the company agreed not to enforce its patent on a critical TB medication, a move that should allow generic producers to make the drug at much lower prices. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

South Africa drops probe of J&J after it agrees to lower price of TB drug and withdraws patent

Medical advocacy groups welcomed Johnson & Johnson’s decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication, allowing its production at much lower prices, after South African … more

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, background center, poses for a photograph with the new intake of Scottish Labour Members of Parliament, outside no 10 Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Lucy North/PA via AP)

Hundreds of new UK lawmakers gather to be sworn in as Parliament returns after a dramatic election

Hundreds of newly elected lawmakers are gathering in Britain's Parliament on Tuesday after the election that brought a Labour government to power. Among the 650 members of the House of Commons, 335 … more

By JILL LAWLESS | 7/9/24

Rescuers and volunteers are working at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital that was strongly damaged during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 08, 2024, amid the Russian invasion. Russia is massively attacking Ukraine with missiles on July 08. (Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via AP)

Kyiv mourns as rescuers make last-ditch efforts at children's hospital hit by Russian missile

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rescue operations have stretched into a second day at a major Kyiv children’s hospital struck by a Russian missile. Zelenskyy said 38 people were killed … more

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Protestors hold placards during a rally against antisemitism in Sydney, on Feb. 18, 2024. The Australian government named a special envoy Tuesday, July 9, 2024 to confront a rise in antisemitism across the country since the Israel-Hamas war began. A similar envoy will soon be appointed to challenge Islamophobia in Australia and both will promote social cohesion, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters at the Sydney Jewish Museum. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)

Australia appoints special envoy to confront a rise in antisemitism across the country

The Australian government has named a special envoy to confront a rise in antisemitism across the country since the Israel-Hamas war began. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday a similar … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 7/9/24