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Liu Zhong-da, a worker of Taroko National Park gets a physical examination after being rescued in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan, Thursday, April 4, 2024. Zhong-da had been driving in a open tunnel that winds through the mountainous Taroko National Park when he saw a giant rock crash down in front of the tunnel's end when one of the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years struck. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Survivors of Taiwan's historic quake recall harrowing moments of tremors, being trapped under rocks

Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences when the ground shook with the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years. People saw rocks tumble onto roadways, watched parts of their homes … more

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU | 4/5/24

India’s opposition Congress party leaders from left, Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, and Rahul Gandhi, display copies of party’s election manifesto during a press conference in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 5, 2024. India's 6-week-long general election starts on April 19 and results will be announced on June 4. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India's opposition makes its election case, calling Modi an autocrat and promising aid to the poor

India’s main opposition party vowed to boost social spending and reverse what it views as a slide into autocracy as it laid out its campaign promises on Friday, two weeks before the start of a … more

By ASHOK SHARMA | 4/5/24

FILE - Presidential candidate Ivan Korcok, a pro-Western career diplomat, arrives at his election headquarters to acknowledge the preliminary results of the first round of the presidential election in Bratislava, Slovakia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Ivan Korcok, a pro-western career diplomat and Peter Pellegrini, a close ally of Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, are facing each other in a presidential runoff on Saturday, April 6, 2024, to determine who succeeds Zuzana Caputova, the country's first female head of state. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

A pro-Western career diplomat faces an ally of the populist premier in Slovakia's presidential vote

A pro-Western career diplomat and a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico are facing each other in a presidential runoff to determine who will be the country's next head of … more

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FILE - Two Air New Zealand passenger jets taxi past each other at Sydney Airport on July 13, 2003. A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay on deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. Officials said on Friday, April 5, 2024, in incident after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland occurred in December last year and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man 600 Australian dollars for offensive behavior in February. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Airplane passenger fined in Sydney for urinating in a cup

A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. Officials say the incident, after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, … more

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The operating room destroyed by a Russian missile attack at DTEK's power plant in Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Russia is attacking Ukraine’s energy sector with renewed intensity and alarming accuracy, signaling to Ukrainian officials that Russia is armed with better intelligence and fresh tactics in its campaign to annihilate the country’s power generation capacity. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine claims it destroyed Russian warplanes in one of its biggest drone attacks of the war

Ukrainian officials are claiming they used a barrage of drones to destroy at least six Russian military aircraft and badly damage eight others at an airfield in Russia’s bordering Rostov region. … more

By ILLIA NOVIKOV | 4/5/24

Members of the Abu Draz family hold the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at their house in Rafah, southern Gaza, Thursday, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Blinken says Israeli offers to increase flow of aid to Gaza are welcome but may not be sufficient

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that measures the Israeli government has announced to expand the flow of aid into Gaza are welcome but may not be enough to meet the Biden … more

By MATTHEW LEE | 4/5/24

Amina Ali, one of the Chibok schoolgirls who was kidnapped in 2014 by Islamic extremists and later escaped, attends a 10th anniversary event of the abduction in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, April 4, 2024. A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are still in captivity 10 years after they were seized from their school in the country’s northeast. At least 276 girls were kidnapped during the April 2014 attack that stunned the world, but most have since regained their freedom. (AP Photo/Mansur Ibrahim )

A film in Nigeria remembers the Chibok girls abducted 10 years ago, and unites heartbroken families

A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are still in captivity 10 years after they were seized from their school in the country’s northeast. At least 276 … more

By CHINEDU ASADU | 4/5/24

Children practise fencing game, on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, April 4, 2024. The country will commemorate on April 7, 2024 the 30th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbours, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

New mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide

New mass graves are still being found in Rwanda, 30 years after the country's genocide in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi were killed by extremist Hutu in massacres that lasted over 100 days. It's a … more

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA | 4/5/24

Workers begin demolition of collapsed building, two days after a powerful earthquake struck the city, in Hualien City, eastern Taiwan, Friday, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Rescue teams searching for family feared trapped in rockslide following Taiwan earthquake

Rescue teams are searching for a family of five feared trapped in a rockslide following Taiwan's biggest earthquake in 25 years. The quake Wednesday left at least 10 dead. Two bodies were found in … more

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FILE - Israelis take cover from the incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

After six months of war, Israel's isolation grows with no end in sight

When Israel declared war against Hamas last October, it stood unified at home and enjoyed broad backing from around the world following an unprecedented attack by the Islamic militant group. Six … more

By JOSEF FEDERMAN | 4/5/24

FILE - A Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter flies over an illegal mining camp during an operation to try to contain it in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. The Yanomami are suffering from severe contamination of mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday, April 4, 2024, by Brazil’s top public health institute. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Mercury exposure widespread among Yanomami tribe in Amazon, report finds

A study conducted in Brazil found that Yanomami people examined from nine villages have been contaminated with high levels of mercury. About 300 people of varying ages had hair samples taken and were … more

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE | 4/4/24

FILE - A resident drives motorbike to Naypyitaw International Airport as security police stand guard, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group said Thursday, April 4, 2024, its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country’s ruling military said it destroyed or seized more than a dozen drones used in the attacks. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar resistance group says its drones hit targets in the capital, but army says it shot them down

Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group says its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw. But the country’s ruling military … more

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FILE -Tourists visit Rialto bridge, in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Day-trippers to the lagoon city who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center during a limited-date pilot program launching later this month will face fines starting at 10 times the entrance fee, officials said Thursday, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Venice day-trippers will face steep fines if they fail to pay an access fee under a pilot program

Day-trippers to Venice who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center during a time-limited pilot program launching later this month will face steep fines. Officials … more

By COLLEEN BARRY | 4/4/24

FILE-French President Emmanuel Macron speaks next to the visitor's book at the genocide memorial site in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Thursday, May 27, 2021. French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies "could have stopped" the 1994 Rwanda genocide and "lacked the will to do so." Macron's office said in a statement that the French president will release a video on Sunday as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)

President Macron says France and its allies 'could have stopped' the 1994 Rwanda genocide

French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide and but lacked the will to do so. Macron’s office said in a statement that the French … more

By SYLVIE CORBET | 4/4/24

FILE - In this handout photo provided by Photo host Agency RIA Novosti, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune addresses a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 16, 2023. President Tebboune’s surprise decision to schedule elections earlier than expected in Algeria is prompting suspicion and appears to be awakening discouraged political parties from a deep lethargy.(Alexei Danichev/Photo host Agency RIA Novosti via AP, File)

Algerians question president for calling an early election without announcing his own campaign

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's surprise decision to schedule elections earlier than expected in Algeria is prompting suspicion and appears to be awakening discouraged political parties from a deep … more

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FILE - A Palestinian man cries while holding a dead child who was found under the rubble of a destroyed building following Israeli airstrikes in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip on Oct. 31, 2023. On Thursday, April 4, 2024, Human Rights Watch says an Israeli attack on a Gaza apartment building in October killed at least 106 civilians, including 54 children. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman, File)

Rights group says Israeli strike on Gaza building killed 106 in apparent war crime

Human Rights Watch says an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Gaza last October killed at least 106 civilians, including 54 children. The New York-based rights group says its investigation … more

By JULIA FRANKEL | 4/4/24

FILE - A nurse holds vials of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 during a vaccination campaign at WiZink indoor arena in Madrid, April 9, 2021. Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia arrested 22 people Thursday as part of an investigation into the suspected siphoning of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Police arrest 22 in EU raids linked to suspected theft of Italy's pandemic funds worth $650 million

Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia have arrested 22 people as part of an investigation into the suspected theft of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the … more

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN | 4/4/24

FILE - Protesters run after police shot warning shots and used water cannon to disperse them during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar on Feb. 9, 2021. The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday, April 4, 2024, to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people. The Human Rights Council, made up of 47 member countries, backed by consensus a measure that calls on governments to avoid exporting or selling jet fuel to Myanmar if they believe its ruling military junta might use the fuel to violate human rights in the war-wracked southeast Asian country. (AP Photo, File)

UN human rights body backs measures against Myanmar and investigations in Iran

The U.N.’s leading human rights body has agreed to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people. The … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 4/4/24

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (Olga Maltseva /Pool Photo via AP)

Russian minister casts prospective Ukraine peace talks as Western plot to win hesitant Global South

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that prospective negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine could be successful only if they take Moscow’s interests in the account. Lavrov on … more

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Nicholas Opiyo, Petitioner and Human rights advocate, speaks to journalists outside the Constitutional Court in Kampala, Uganda, Wednesday, April 3, 2024, after Uganda's Constitutional Court gave its seal of approval on the anti-homosexuality law, declaring that the Anti Homosexuality Act of 2023 complies with the Constitution of Uganda. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Gay rights activists call for more international pressure on Uganda over anti-gay law

Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the country’s Constitutional Court refused to … more

By RISDEL KASASIRA | 4/4/24