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This handout photo taken from video released Tuesday, June 27, 2023 by Belarus' Presidential Press Office, shows Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivering his speech during a ceremony presenting the general's epaulettes in Minsk. President Alexander Lukashenko, a close Putin ally who brokered a deal with Prigozhin to stop the uprising, didn't immediately address Prigozhin's fate in a speech Tuesday. Lukashenko framed the insurrection by Wagner as a significant threat, saying he placed Belarus' armed forces on a combat footing as the mutiny unfolded. (Belarusian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Belarusian leader approved forced transfers of Ukrainian children, says opposition figure

A Belarusian opposition figure says that he has provided the International Criminal Court with materials that allegedly detail President Alexander Lukashenko's involvement in the forcible transfer of … more

By YURAS KARMANAU | 6/28/23

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander de Croo, Polish President Andrzej Duda, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, Romania's President Klaus Iohannis and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, from left, are seen during a joint press conference at Rutte's Catshuis residence in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Leaders of seven NATO allies met in the Netherlands with Secretary-General Stoltenberg for talks ahead of the alliance's summit in Lithuania next month. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

NATO chief convenes July 6 talks hoping to convince Turkey to let Sweden join

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he's called a meeting of senior officials on July 6 to try to overcome Turkish objections to Sweden joining the military organization. The meeting is a … more

6/28/23

FILE - Israeli military reservists protest against the plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, on a freeway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, on Feb. 9, 2023. Dozens of reservists from the Israeli Air Force have released a letter renewing threats to refuse to show up for duty if the government moves ahead with a contentious plan to overhaul the country's judiciary. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Dozens of Israeli air force vets threaten not to serve after Netanyahu resumes judicial overhaul

Dozens of Israeli air force say they won't show up for duty if the right-wing government moves ahead with a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary. Wednesday's letter comes after … more

By TIA GOLDENBERG | 6/28/23

Gunmen abduct 14 state police officers in the Mexican state of Chiapas

Armed men have abducted 14 state police officers in southern Mexico. The kidnapping on Tuesday prompted a heavy deployment of federal and local forces. The provincial security office said the 14 … more

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE | 6/28/23

FILE - Protesters pray outside Dutch government buildings in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday, April 9, 2001, as the Upper House of Parliament began debating registration that will legalize euthanasia under strict guidelines. Slogan on table reads, "Human considers, God decides." Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers have found. The Netherlands was the first country to allow doctors to kill patients at their request if they met strict requirements. (AP Photo/Serge Ligtenberg, File)

Some Dutch people seeking euthanasia cite autism or intellectual disabilities, researchers say

Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives. That’s according to … more

By MARIA CHENG | 6/28/23

Pilgrims walk at Mina tent camp during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Around two million 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)

Muslims at Hajj pilgrimage brave intense heat to cast stones at pillars representing the devil

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims are braving intense heat to perform the symbolic stoning of the devil during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. With morning temperatures rising past 42 … more

By RIAZAT BUTT | 6/28/23

A 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer in a Paris suburb on Tuesday. The death unleashed tensions between angry residents and police. (June 28)

France heightens security after unrest prompted by police shooting of 17-year-old

France’s government has announced heightened police presence around Paris and other big cities and called for calm after scattered violence over the death of a 17-year-old delivery driver. The … more

6/28/23

In this photo provided by the National Police of Ukraine, a police officer and a rescue worker walk in front of a restaurant RIA Pizza destroyed by a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (National Police of Ukraine via AP)

Death toll rises to 8 in Russian attack on a restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk

Ukraine's State Emergency Service says the death toll from a Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant in an eastern Ukrainian city has risen to eight. The service said Wednesday that at least … more

6/28/23

Hamrin Alouji, the mother of 13-year-old Peyal Aqil, goes through her daughter's photographs at their family home in Qamishli, Syria, on Monday, June 5, 2023. Alouji said her daughter was coming home with her friends on May 21 after a school exam when a recruiter for the Revolutionary Youth approached her - the youth branch of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and entered a center belonging to the group with him. Her friends waited for her outside, but she never came out. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides

A U.N. report says armed groups across Syria are recruiting children into their ranks in growing numbers, even as fighting is subsiding. The report released Tuesday says the number of confirmed cases … more

By HOGIR ABDO and ABBY SEWELL | 6/28/23

Student activist Bunkueanun Paothong arrives at a criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. A court in Thailand on Wednesday acquitted the student activist and four other people of impeding the motorcade of the country’s queen during pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, an offense that could have seen them sentenced to 16 years in jail or even the death penalty. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai court acquits 5 who were accused of blocking the queen's motorcade during 2020 protests

A court in Thailand has acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the motorcade of the country’s queen during pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, an offense that could have … more

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI | 6/28/23

Tensions erupt in a Paris suburb after a 17-year-old delivery driver is killed in a police standoff

Lawyers say a 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer in a Paris suburb. The death unleashed tensions in the area between angry residents setting barricades on fire and … more

6/27/23

FILE - Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem on Feb. 27, 2018. Two victims of Leifer, convicted of their sexual abuse as children, told a court in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, of the pain she had caused them. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Sisters tell Australia court that abuse by Jewish school principal broke trust, painful to remember

Two sisters have told an Australian court that being sexually abused by their Jewish school's principal broke their ability to trust forever and is painful to remember. Malka Leifer was convicted of … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 6/27/23

Bernardo Arévalo, presidential candidate with the Seed Movement, gives an interview in Guatemala City, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Arévalo will compete in a presidential runoff election on Aug. 20. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Bernardo Arévalo, Guatemala's electoral surprise, makes corruption fight top priority

Bernardo Arévalo, the surprise of the first round of voting in Guatemala, says the choice in the Aug. 20 presidential runoff is a clear one: Continue living under a corrupt system with his rival or … more

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | 6/27/23

FILE - This file photo shows a part of new housing projects in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Givat Ze'ev, Monday, June 18, 2023. Israel’s far-right government on Monday, June 26, 2023, approved plans to build thousands of new homes in the occupied West Bank — a move that threatened to worsen increasingly strained relations with the United States. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

UN urges Israel and Palestinians to halt West Bank violence in statement backed by US and Russia

The U.N. Security Council is urging Israel and the Palestinians to avoid actions that can further inflame tensions in the volatile West Bank. The statement was backed by both the United States and … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 6/27/23

Morning newspapers publish an ad of condolence massages for two victims of Titan submersible incident, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, by their family and firm, displayed at a roadside stall, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. As an international group of agencies investigates why the Titan submersible imploded while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage, U.S. maritime officials say they'll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Family of Pakistani father and son who died in Titan submersible shares memories and gratitude

The family of two Pakistani men who died in the implosion of a submersible as it descended to the wreckage of the Titanic have thanked everyone who tried to rescue the father and son or sent … more

By MUNIR AHMED | 6/27/23

In this photo provided by the Paris Fire brigade on Thursday June 22, 2023, firefighters work at the site of an explosion in Paris, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. French rescue workers searched Thursday for a person feared missing after a powerful blast brought down a building on Paris' Left Bank, injuring more than 30 people, four of them critically. (E Thepault/BSPP via AP)

Rescuers found body in rubble of Paris building that collapsed in explosion

The Paris prosecutor's office says French emergency workers found a body in the rubble of a building that collapsed in an explosion last week. Rescuers are working to remove the remains and identify … more

6/27/23

People hold pictures of missing girl Emanuela Orlandi during a sit-in in St.Peter's Square as Pope Francis, at the window of his studio in background, recites the Angelus noon prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, June 25, 2023. The Pope in his speech remembered the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a lay employee of the Holy See, that vanished June 22, 1983, after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Parliamentary inquest into 'Vatican Girl' mystery moves forward as pope acknowledges family's pain

Italy’s Parliament is poised to open a bicameral commission of inquiry into the 1883 disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee. If that happens, it would be the third new … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 6/27/23

FILE - Malians demonstrate against France and in support of Russia on the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Mali, in Bamako, Mali, Sept. 22, 2020. The Russian mercenary group that briefly rebelled against President Vladimir Putin’s authority has for years been a ruthless force-for-hire across Africa, protecting rulers at the expense of the masses. That dynamic is not expected to change now that the group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been exiled to Belarus as punishment for the failed rebellion. Neither Russia nor the African leaders dependent on Wagner’s fighters have any interest in ending their relationships. (AP Photo/File)

Russian militia maintains ruthless role in Africa after failed rebellion

The Russian mercenary group that briefly rebelled against President Vladimir Putin’s authority has for years been a ruthless force-for-hire across Africa, protecting rulers at the expense of the … more

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA, CHINEDU ASADU and ZANE IRWIN | 6/27/23

Newly appointed Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis speaks during a handover ceremony, in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' cabinet has been sworn in as his center-right New Democracy party had 40.55%, more than twice the opposition Syriza party's 17.84% on Sunday's elections. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

After elections, Greece vows to continue 'strict but fair' migration policy

Greece’s new migration minister is promising to continue a “strict but fair” policy toward migration and attempts at illegal entry into the country. The new minister, Dimitris Kairidis, spoke … more

6/27/23

AfD members, Bjorn Hocke, left, Robert Sesselmann, centre, Stephan Brandner, 3rd from left and Tino Chrupalla are photographed at the AfD election party, in Sonneberg, Germany, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Sesselmann has received the most votes in the first round of the run off elections. Alternative for Germany hope to win the political party's first-ever governing post. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)

After a far-right victory in German county, a man in neo-Nazi clothing hands balloons to children

German authorities are investigating a video showing a man in neo-Nazi clothing handing balloons to kindergartners a day after the country’s main far-right party won control of a county … more

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