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EXPLAINER: A look at famine and its toll as Somalia at risk

Within weeks, a famine could be declared in Somalia, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Such a declaration is rare and a sign of the dire consequences from the worst drought in decades in the … more

By CARA ANNA | 10/5/22

Serhiy Shvets, an employee at Europe's largest Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, talks to the Associated Press in his apartment in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Shvets is among workers from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant recounting their fears of being abducted and tortured or killed by Russian forces occupying the facility and the city of Enerhodar. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

Ukraine nuclear workers recount abuse, threats from Russians

Workers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are recounting fears of being abducted and tortured or killed by Russian forces who seized control of the facility and the city of Enerhodar. Ukrainian … more

By HANNA ARHIROVA | 10/5/22

FILE - Presidential election campaign flags hang for sale, featuring the faces of both current President Jair Bolsonaro, left, and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, outside the Supreme Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 5, 2022. Bolsonaro will face da Silva in the Oct. 30 runoff for president. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Bolsonaro, Lula fight for endorsements before Brazil runoff

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are starting to bring centrist allies to their camps as they campaign for their runoff election. Former President Da Silva … more

By MAURICIO SAVARESE | 10/4/22

Family and friends of inmates wait for news of their jailed loved ones after a deadly prison riot in Latacunga, Ecuador, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. A clash between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the prison has left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Drug capo among 16 dead in bloody Ecuador prison riot

The death toll from a bloody fight among prison inmates has risen to 16. And Ecuadorian authorities say one of the dead was an alleged drug gang boss who had evaded charges in Peru by faking his … more

10/4/22

FILE - A relative wearing a T-Shirt with an image of a disappeared boy, inspects an area where the group suspects there are interred bodies of missing persons, just outside of Cuautla, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. Activists said Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, that Esmeralda Gallardo, who led efforts to find her missing 22-year-old daughter, was killed in Mexico, the fourth murder of a volunteer search activist in Mexico since the start of 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mother of missing Mexico woman killed, 4th since early 2021

Yet another mother searching for her disappeared child has been killed in Mexico. It's the fourth murder of a volunteer search activist in Mexico since the start of 2021. Activists on Tuesday … more

10/4/22

Antonio Garcia, of the Colombian guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN), left, shakes hands with Ivan Danilo Rueda, High Commissioner for Peace on behalf of the Colombian government, after signing an agreement to resume peace talks, at the Casa Cultural Aquiles Nazoa in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. The agreement comes after more than four years of suspension, and will start in November. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Colombia and ELN rebels to restart peace talks

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018. After meeting in Venezuela’s … more

By MANUEL RUEDA | 10/4/22

A protester carries a piece of wood simulating a weapon during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in the Petion-Ville area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti at breaking point as economy tanks and violence soars

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is in the grips of an inflationary vise that is squeezing its citizenry and exacerbating protests that have brought society to the breaking … more

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO | 10/4/22

FILE - Then Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, right, son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, speaks to Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka, left, at a "thanksgiving" ceremony in Entebbe, Uganda on May 7, 2022. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni fired his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba as commander of the nation's infantry forces Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 after the son tweeted an unprovoked threat to capture the capital of neighboring Kenya, drawing widespread concern in East Africa. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

Uganda's president fires military son after offensive tweets

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his son as commander of the infantry forces Tuesday after the son tweeted an unprovoked threat to capture the capital of neighboring Kenya, drawing widespread … more

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA | 10/4/22

Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore cheer with Russian flags in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. Burkina Faso's new junta leadership is calling for calm after the French Embassy and other buildings were attacked. (AP Photo/Kilaye Bationo)

Burkina Faso coup supporters gather near regional mediation

Protesters are gathering in Burkina Faso's capital where West African regional mediators are stepping up pressure on the country's new junta. The meeting Tuesday in the capital, Ouagadougou, comes … more

By ARSENE KABORE | 10/4/22

FILE - Mock wanted posters for the owners and chairpersons of Lebanese banks, posted by activists from the Depositors' Outcry group, hang on a gate to a parking lot, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 18, 2022. Lebanese depositors, including a retired police officer, stormed at least three banks in the cash-strapped country Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, after banks ended a week-long strike and partially reopened. As the tiny Mediterranean nation's crippling economic crisis continues to worsen, a growing number of Lebanese depositors have opted to break into banks and forcefully withdraw their trapped savings. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Depositors storm 4 Lebanese banks, demanding their own money

Lebanese depositors have stormed at least four banks after the country's crippled financial institutions partially reopened. The banks on Tuesday were met with angry depositors demanding their … more

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 10/4/22

Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, speaks to The Associated Press at his home in Magere, just north of the capital Kampala, in Uganda, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. A planned pipeline to export oil from Uganda is likely to entrench the long rule of President Yoweri Museveni, Wine said Tuesday, voicing his opposition to a project that's increasingly controversial over environmental concerns. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine objects to oil pipeline

Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine says that a planned pipeline to export oil is likely to entrench the long rule of President Yoweri Museveni. In an interview with The Associated Press, Wine voiced … more

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA | 10/4/22

A young girl plays outside her tent at a relief camp, in Jaffarabad, a district in the southwestern Baluchistan province, Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Almost 3 million children in Pakistan may miss at least one semester because of flood damage to schools, officials said Thursday, following heavy monsoon rains likely worsened by climate change. (AP Photo/Zahid Hussain)

UN flood aid appeal jumps amid disease surge in Pakistan

The United Nations is asking for five times' more international aid after deadly floods in Pakistan left millions of survivors homeless and at rising risk of waterborne diseases. The UN on Tuesday … more

By MUNIR AHMED | 10/4/22

In this photo provided by the Armed Forces of Denmark, a view the disturbance in the water above the gas leak, in the Baltic Sea, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Following the suspected sabotage this week of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to Europe, there were two leaks off Sweden, including a large one above North Stream 1, and a smaller one above North Stream 2. (Rune Dyrholm/Armed Forces of Denmark via AP)

Swedes close area of Baltic Sea around pipeline gas leaks

The Swedish prosecutor in charge of the investigation into leaks from pipelines in the Baltic Sea said Tuesday that he has ordered the area to be closed as he carries out a preliminary investigation … more

10/4/22

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2015 file photo German chancellor Angela Merkel poses for a selfie with a refugee in a facility for arriving refugees in Berlin. The U.N. refugee agency says it's giving its highest award to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts to bring in more than 1 million refugees — mostly from Syria — into Germany, despite some pockets of criticism at both home and abroad. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP, File)

Merkel wins UN refugee agency award over welcome of Syrians

The U.N. refugee agency says it’s giving its highest award to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts to accept more than 1 million refugees — mostly from Syria — into Germany, … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 10/4/22

This picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, shows a Saman test tug rocket before being launched, in Iran. Iranian state media said Tuesday the government launched the space tug capable of shifting satellites between orbits on Monday. Hassan Salarieh, the country's space agency chief, said the Monday launch is expected to be followed by testing soon. Farsi words on the rocket read, "Saman sub-orbital explorer." (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran says it launched test 'tug' into suborbital space

Iran says it has launched a test tug into sub-orbital space. State TV said Tuesday that the Saman space tug was built by the country’s Space Research Center and launched by the Islamic Republic's … more

10/4/22

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the parliament in a vote of confidence session for his proposed labor minister in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran's president tries to assuage anger as protests continue

Iranian president has appealed for national unity and tried to allay anger against the country’s rulers, even as the antigovernment protests engulfing the country continued to spread to … more

By The Associated Press | 10/4/22

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, watches through binoculars as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sits near during the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus Zapad-2021 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2021. Putin's threats to use "all the means at our disposal" to defend his country as it wages war in Ukraine have cranked up global fears that he might use his nuclear arsenal, with the world's largest stockpile of warheads. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

What's Putin thinking? Tough to know for nuclear analysts

Trying to figure out what Russian President Vladimir Putin is thinking is tough for Kremlin watchers who want to know whether he is bluffing with his nuclear threats. For now, they cautiously suggest … more

By JOHN LEICESTER | 10/4/22

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during high level Security Council meeting on situation in Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

UN chief: World is in `life-or-death struggle' for survival

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the world is in “a life-or-death struggle” for survival as “climate chaos gallops ahead.” He accused the world’s 20 wealthiest … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER and SETH BORENSTEIN | 10/3/22

In this handout photo released by Arctic Academy of Sciences, Valery Mitko, the former president of the Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Mitko, a renowned Russian polar scientist has died while being under house arrest on charges of treason. He was 81. Mitko died in St. Petersburg of an unspecified illness, according to the Pervyi Otdel human rights group that defended him in the criminal case. It said that Mitko just returned from a hospital and was unable to walk. (Arctic Academy of Sciences via AP)

Mitko, Russian Arctic expert, dies at 81 under house arrest

Valery Mitko, a renowned Russian polar scientist has died while being under house arrest on charges of treason. He was 81. Mitko died on Monday in St. Petersburg of an unspecified illness, according … more

10/3/22

A man cleans a Hazara education center that was destroyed in Friday's suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Last week’s suicide bombing at the Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than double the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press on Monday. Dozens more were injured in Friday's blast, making it one of the bloodiest attacks since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Death toll in last week's Kabul school blast climbs to 52

A tally compiled by The Associated Press shows that last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education center killed as many as 52 people, more than double the death toll acknowledged by Taliban … more

By FAZEL RAHMAN FAIZI | 10/3/22