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Curious onlookers behind a police cordon, where ten people from the same family were shot dead Friday, April 21, 2023. Police say 10 people were "ambushed" by unknown gunmen at a home in the city of Pietermaritzburg in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. (AP Photo)

Child among 10 family members killed in S. Africa shooting

Police say 10 members of the same family were killed in a mass shooting at a house in South Africa. Police say seven of the victims were females and at least one of them was a child. Police Minister … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 4/21/23

This handout photo released by Telegram Channel of Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov shows the site of the crater after an explosion in Belgorod, Russia, Friday, April 21, 2023. A large explosion hit Belgorod late Thursday, and the Defense Ministry said one of its Su-34 warplanes accidentally discharged ammunition over the city about 25 kms. (15 miles) from the Ukrainian border. Belgorod Regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast injured at least two people, damaged homes and left a crater about 20 meters (65 feet) across.(Telegram Channel of Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov via AP)

Russia's air force accidentally bombs its own city

A powerful bomb accidentally dropped by a Russian warplane has hit the Russian city of Belgorod near Ukraine, injuring two people. Residents of Belgorod, a city of 340,000, first thought it was a … more

4/21/23

Balloons are distributed for free after Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan outside al-Seddik mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Amid joy and tragedy, Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr holiday

The holiday of Eid al-Fitr has ushered in a day of prayers and joy for Muslims around the world. The celebration on Friday was marred by tragedy amid the explosion of conflict in Sudan, while a … more

By ABBY SEWELL | 4/21/23

In this image from a video shot by Hong Kong broadcaster TVB, Hong Kong Bishop Stephen Chow talks to media during his visit to Beijing, with unidentified men standing behind him, on Thursday, April 20, 2023. Chow said in a historic trip to Beijing that he hopes the dioceses of the two cities will have more exchanges and cooperation, local media reported Thursday amid signs of Sino-Vatican strains. (TVB via AP)

Hong Kong bishop invites head of China's state-backed church

Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop has invited a leader of the Communist Party-controlled group for Catholics in mainland China to visit his city. The highly symbolic step step aims to improve … more

4/21/23

Fisherman work on a boat on March 3, 2023, in Kochi, Kerala state, India. The India Meteorological Department as well as the state of Kerala have increased infrastructure for cyclone warnings since Cyclone Ockhi in 2017, which killed about 245 fishermen out at sea. (AP Photo/Satheesh AS)

Early warning is first defense in India climate disasters

Following the devastating 2017 Cyclone Ockhi that ravaged several parts of Kerala state, the India Meteorological Department as well as the state have fast tracked ramping up infrastructure for … more

By PRASHANT RANGNEKAR, Press Trust of India | 4/20/23

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows fires burning at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Explosions and heavy gunfire rattled the Sudanese capital in a fifth day of fighting Wednesday after an internationally brokered truce quickly fell apart. The cease-fire failure suggested the two rival generals fighting for control of the country were determined to crush each other in a potentially prolonged conflict. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Sudan army demands rivals' surrender, threatening cease-fire

Sudan’s military has ruled out any negotiations with the rival paramilitary forces to end the crisis roiling the country and says it will only accept their surrender. A statement from the military … more

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY | 4/20/23

FILE - Leader of the Ennahdha party, Rached Ghannouchi, speaks to the media after he was freed by the Tunisia's anti-terrorism unit in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Influential Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi was detained Monday after a police search, according to his lawyer. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Judge orders Tunisian Islamist leader to stay in custody

The party of influential Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi says a Tunisian investigative judge has ordered him held in custody following his arrest on Monday. Ghannouchi's Ennahdha party denounced in … more

4/20/23

FILE - A woman holds an umbrella to shelter from the sun during a hot sunny day in Madrid, Spain, Monday, July 18, 2022. Europeans, particularly in the south of the continent, are being subjected to more heat stress during the summer months as climate change causes longer periods of extreme weather, a new study published Thursday, April 20, 2023 shows. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Study: Climate change causing more 'heat stress' in Europe

A report shows Europeans, particularly in the south of the continent, are being subjected to more heat stress during the summer months as climate change causes longer periods of extreme weather. The … more

4/20/23

Indian climber Anurag Maloo receives treatment at a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, Thursday, April 20, 2023. Maloo fell into a crevasse on Mount Annapurna, the world's 10th highest mountain, on Monday and was reported missing. There was several attempts from the rescuers to find him since then. (AP Photo/Yunish Gurung)

Indian climber who fell into deep Annapurna crevasse rescued

An Indian climber who fell into a 980-foot crevasse on Mount Annapurna on Monday has been rescued. An expedition organizer said Anurag Maloo was taken to a hospital in the resort town of Pokhara … more

4/20/23

FILE - Tuareg clansmen are silhouetted as they herd cattle in the land between Koygma and Timbuktu, in northern Mali, March 1997. In 2023, Cattle raiding by Islamic extremists is soaring at unprecedented levels in Mali, with jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group stealing millions of dollars worth of cattle to buy weapons and vehicles to fund their insurgency across the war-torn West African country and region below the Sahara Desert, known as the Sahel. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Cattle raiding by jihadis soars in Mali, fuels conflict

Cattle raiding by Islamic extremists is soaring at unprecedented levels in Mali, with jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group stealing millions of dollars' worth of cattle to buy … more

By SAM MEDNICK and BABA AHMED | 4/20/23

FILE - Police officer run a checkpoint set up in the nightclubs and bar zone of San Jose, Costa Rica, Jan 27, 2023. According to authorities, the Central American nation has reached its highest murder rate since the Organization of Judicial Investigation office has kept records. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez, File)

Costa Rica president promises more police, tougher laws

Costa Rica's president is promising to put more police in the streets and he wants legal changes to confront record-setting numbers of homicides that have shaken daily life in a country long known … more

By JAVIER CORDOBA | 4/19/23

FILE - Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel waves as he arrives for a session during the 28th Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Cuba's parliament ratifies President Díaz-Canel for new term

Cuba’s National Assembly has ratified President Miguel Díaz-Canel for a new five-year term, in a decision to maintain continuity as the island faces a deep economic crisis. More than 400 … more

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ | 4/19/23

India's heat is underestimated, harming progress, study says

The full extent of the damage from India’s sizzling heat that’s causing more deaths, illnesses, school shutdowns and crop failures is underestimated by lawmakers and officials in the country and … more

By SIBI ARASU | 4/19/23

Mother Iavosoa, who only gave her first name, and her 10-month-old daughter Soaravo, who is suffering with acute malnutrition, at a hospital in Mananjary, Madagascar, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Southeastern Madagascar has been battered by three intense cyclones in the space of a year and humanitarian groups say it is now facing a hunger emergency because of those climatic disasters. (AP Photo/Sarah Tetaud)

Madagascar faces 'catastrophic' hunger after 3 cyclones

Humanitarian groups say children in remote areas of southeast Madagascar are experiencing “catastrophic” levels of hunger after three cyclones battered the region in the space of a year. UNICEF … more

By SARAH TETAUD | 4/19/23

FILE - Members of US 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command stands next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery during the NATO multinational ground based air defence units exercise "Tobruq Legacy 2017" at the Siauliai airbase some 230 km. (144 miles) east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 20, 2017. Ukraine’s defense minister said Wednesday April 19, 2023 his country has received U.S-made Patriot surface-to-air guided missile systems it has long craved and which Kyiv hopes will help shield it from Russian strikes during the war. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Ukraine: US-made Patriot guided missile systems arrive

Ukraine’s defense minister says his country has received U.S-made Patriot surface-to-air guided missile systems it has long craved and which Kyiv hopes will help shield it from Russian bombardment. … more

By ADAM PEMBLE | 4/19/23

FILE - Lin Hui, a female Panda on a 10-year loan from China is seen eating bamboo at the Chiang Mai Zoo in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, on Sept. 23, 2005. Lin Hui, the giant panda, died Wednesday, April 19, 2023, six months before she was due to return home, officials from the Chiang Mai Zoo said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)

Chinese panda on long-term loan to Thailand dies suddenly

A giant panda on long-term loan from China has died in a zoo in northern Thailand, six months before she was due to return home. Officials from the Chiang Mai Zoo said Wednesday the cause of Lin … more

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI | 4/19/23

Anna Stupnicka-Bando, left, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, walks with Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, at a ceremony for the burial of a "time capsule" on the grounds of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday April 18, 2023. The time capsule contains memorabilia and a message to future generations. It was buried on the grounds of a former children's hospital, a building that will house the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, which is scheduled to open in three years. Tuesday's ceremony comes on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest single Jewish revolt against German forces during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

Presidents and Holocaust survivors and their descendants are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Observances in Warsaw on Wednesday are being held with a poignant sense that … more

By VANESSA GERA | 4/19/23

A police officer inspects a gym, the site of a stabbing attack, in a building in Duisburg, Germany, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Several people were severely injured in a stabbing attack at a gym in the western German city of Duisburg, police said Tuesday evening. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

Suspect at large in German gym stabbing that wounded 4

Police are searching for a man suspected of carrying out a knife attack at a gym in the western German city of Duisburg that left four people seriously wounded. Three people are in life-threatening … more

4/19/23

A man fills a bottle with drinkable water from a source in Sidi Bou Said, north of Tunis, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Tunisians are on the frontlines of a battle against an increasingly severe drought, now in its fifth year in the North African country, with the government issuing a sudden order to its population to ration their water usage for six months — or risk fines or jail. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

In grim drought, Tunisians ration water in state-ordered ban

Tunisians are on the front lines of a battle against an increasingly severe drought, now in its fifth year in the north African country, with the government issuing a sudden order to its population … more

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and MEHDI EL AREM | 4/19/23

In this two picture combo, on left, Hindu priest Swami Ram Das ,48, expresses his views sitting in his ashram, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, and on right, Muslim community leader Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi, 68, talks sitting in a Mosque on Tuesday March 28, 2023, in Ayodya, India. Abidi and Das are two ordinary citizens living in one city in a country of more than 1.4 billion people that is on the cusp of becoming the world's most populated nation. Together they embody the opposing sides of a deeply entrenched religious divide that presents India one of its biggest challenges so far: to safeguard freedoms to its Muslim minority at a time when a rising tide of Hindu nationalism is laying waste to the country's secular underpinnings. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

1 city, 2 people — and India’s widening religious divide

Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi is convinced India is no longer the same country it once was for its minority Muslim citizens. Swami Ram Das believes otherwise: He says India is on a quest to redeem its … more

By SHEIKH SAALIQ | 4/19/23