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In this photo provided by The Federation Council of The Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation Press Service, lawmakers of Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation attend a session in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. The upper house of the Russian parliament has revoked the ratification of a global nuclear test ban in what Moscow has described as a move to put itself on par with the United States. (Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation via AP)
Russian parliament's upper house rescinds ratification of global nuclear test ban
The upper house of the Russian parliament has revoked the country's ratification of a global nuclear test ban. Moscow has described it as a move to put itself on par with the United States. The … more
In this photo released on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, by the Hezbollah Media Relations Office, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with Ziad al-Nakhleh, the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, center, and Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials, their first reported meeting since the Hamas-Israel war erupted earlier this month and clashes began along the Lebanon-Israel border. (Hezbollah Media Relations Office, via AP )
Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah holds talks with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials. The meeting Wednesday is the first one reported since the Hamas-Israel war erupted earlier … more
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The 42-year-old mother of four who was raped in the Bulengo displacement camp where she had fled war in eastern Congo poses for a photograph Aug. 23, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been displaced over the past year in eastern Congo amid fighting by more than 130 armed groups. That leaves them vulnerable to sexual assault, which is on the rise. French aid group Doctors Without Borders says more than twice as many women in recent months have sought treatment for sexual assault in some displacement camps outside the eastern city of Goma. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
'I wanted to scream': Growing conflict in Congo drives sexual assault against displaced women
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been displaced over the past year in eastern Congo amid fighting by more than 130 armed groups. That leaves them vulnerable to sexual assault, which is … more
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Japan's Supreme Court is seen in this Sept. 4, 2023, in Tokyo. Japan's Supreme Court will rule Wednesday, Oct 25, whether a law forcing transgender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to officially change their gender is constitutional.(Kyodo News via AP)
Japan’s top court strikes down required removal of reproductive organs to officially change gender
Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to have their reproductive organs removed in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional. The decision … more
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Hostilities in Syria are the worst in 4 years, with disregard for civilian lives, UN official says
The head of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria says that fighting there has reached its worst point in years, with devastating consequences for civilians. “We are witnessing the largest … more
This Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, photo provided by the Catholic University of Santa Maria, shows the reconstruction of the face of a young woman who was found frozen and mummified near the summit of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes after being sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago, in Arequipa, Peru. The job was done by a team of Peruvian and Polish archeologists and a Swedish sculptor who specialized in facial reconstruction. (Manuel Ballivian Figueroa/Catholic University of Santa Maria via AP)
Experts reconstruct the face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca sacrificed in Andean snow
A team of scientists has unveiled the possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes. The silicone-made bust … more
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FILE - Haitian migrants who hope to apply for asylum in the U.S. wait to register their names on a list made by a religious organization in Reynosa, Mexico, Dec. 21, 2022, on the other side of the border with McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
Nicaragua is weaponizing US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say
Flight data shows that more than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months. That adds to a historic crush of migration by people … more
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File - Family members and colleagues wait to welcome released prisoners from Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Military-ruled Myanmar on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, allowed prisoners to have visitors from outside, a right that had been suspended for 3 1/2 years due to the coronavirus pandemic, the military's information office and prison officials said. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
Myanmar reinstates family visits to prisoners to end a ban started during the pandemic
Military-ruled Myanmar is allowing prisoners to have family visitors from outside. It's a right that had been suspended for 3½ years because of the coronavirus pandemic. The rule allowing visitors … more
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FILE - People gather on the top of the AquaDom aquarium at the Sea Life tourist attraction in Berlin, on July 27, 2015. Prosecutors in Berlin say they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst. The AquaDom aquarium, which stood in a hotel lobby, burst in the early hours of Dec. 16, sending 1 million liters (264,000 gallons) of water gushing into the building and the street outside. (Joerg Carstensen via DPA, File)
Prosecutors close investigation of Berlin aquarium collapse as the cause remains unclear
Prosecutors in Berlin say they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst. … more
FILE - Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban briefs the media in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 10, 2020. The Hungarian parliament has refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, further delaying the Nordic country’s inclusion in the military alliance. The delay on Tuesday comes as Hungary remains the main hurdle to Sweden’s admission into NATO after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan submitted a protocol to Turkey’s parliament on Monday to approve its admission. All 31 allies must endorse the accession. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File )
Hungary in the spotlight after Turkey presses on with Sweden's bid to join NATO
The Hungarian parliament has refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, further delaying the Nordic country’s inclusion in the military alliance. The delay on Tuesday comes … more
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Stuck in hotels, Israeli residents whose kibbutz was attacked by Hamas wonder where to go
Burying friends, updating death lists: The morbid routine of displaced survivors of a Hamas massacre
After Hamas militants attacked Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, killing more than 100 of its 1,100 residents, the Israeli government evacuated many survivors to a hotel near the Dead Sea. On the shores of … more
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
UN chief warns that the risk of the Gaza war spreading is growing as situation becomes more dire
The United Nations chief is warning that the situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour with the risk of the Gaza war spreading through the region increasing as societies splinter … more
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People attend the funeral procession of Hezbollah fighter, Bilal Nemr Rmeiti, who was killed by Israeli shelling, during his funeral procession in Majadel village, south Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Lebanon's prime minister visits troops at the country's tense southern border with Israel
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has visited troops deployed near the border with Israel and U.N. peacekeepers as Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops clash for a third week. Prime Minister … more
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Miners gather at the top of a goldmine shaft in Springs, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding around 500 of their colleagues underground for the second day at the mine over a union dispute. Some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles, the head of the mine said on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
Police say miners from a rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground in South Africa
Police in South Africa say a group of gold miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute. The head of the mine says … more
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Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a press conference at the Swedish Government headquarter Rosenbad in Stockholm, Tuesday Oct. 24, 2023. (Jonas Ekströmer/TT News Agency via AP)
The damage to a Baltic undersea cable was 'purposeful,' Swedish leader says but gives no details
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the damage done to an undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia was “purposeful,” but has declined to give any details. A spokesman for the … more
FILE - The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani reacts during a meeting, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, channeled the wider anger in the Arab world over Israel's unrelenting airstrikes and siege of the Gaza Strip that the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry says has killed over 5,000 people so far. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
Qatar becomes a key intermediary in Israel-Hamas war as fate of hostages hangs in the balance
The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of some 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel over two weeks ago. The negotiations … more
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FILE - Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, on Oct. 18, 2023. The pope on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023 accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked for weeks by reports of a gay orgy involving a male prostitute in a priest’s apartment. The Vatican didn’t give a reason for why Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak was resigning as head of the diocese of Sosnowiec, in southwestern Poland. At 59, he is several years shy of the normal retirement age of 75. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Pope accepts resignation of bishop of Polish diocese where gay orgy scandal under investigation
The pope has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked for weeks by reports of a gay orgy in a priest’s apartment. The Vatican didn’t give a reason for the … more
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Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who was held hostage in Gaza after being abducted during Hamas' bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel, speaks to members of the press a day after being released by Hamas militants, at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Now freed, an Israeli hostage describes the 'hell' of harrowing Hamas attack and terrifying capture
Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants … more
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Al Noor Mosque Imam Gamal Fouda looks onto the court room during a coroner's inquiry in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, into the 2019 mosque shootings. The inquiry into New Zealand’s worst mass-shooting will examine, among other issues, the response times of police and medics and whether any of the 51 people who were killed could have been saved. (Iain McGregor/Pool Photo via AP)
Inquiry into New Zealand's worst mass shooting will examine response times of police and medics
An inquiry into New Zealand’s worst mass shooting will examine — among other issues — the response times of police and medics and whether any of the 51 people who were killed could have been … more
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A small wooden boat is towed into a port in Yangyang, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Four suspected North Korean defectors were found in the small wooden boat near the two Koreas' sea border Tuesday, South Korean officials said. (Park Young-seo/Yonhap via AP)
4 suspected North Korean defectors found in a small boat in South Korean waters
South Korean officials say four suspected North Korean defectors were found in a small wooden boat near the two Koreas’ sea border. Defections by North Koreans have been a sore point in relations … more
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