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Several injured in train, bus collision in southern Germany

Several people have been injured when a train collided with a bus at a railroad crossing in southern Germany. The bus got stuck in a traffic jam Tuesday on the train tracks in Blaustein near the … more

5/24/22

In this image supplied by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), crew wave to a RNZAF Orion near Makin Island in Kiribati, Monday, May 23, 2022. New Zealand's military said Tuesday that an air force plane found seven people who had gone missing. They were aboard two small boats near the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati. (RNZAF via AP)

New Zealand plane finds 7 missing aboard 2 boats in Pacific

Seven people on two small boats that drifted for days in the Pacific have been rescued after a New Zealand plane spotted them near the remote island nation of Kiribati. New Zealand’s military said … more

By NICK PERRY | 5/24/22

More hardship as new sandstorm engulfs parts of Middle East

A sandstorm has blanketed parts of the Middle East including Iraq, Syria, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Monday's storm was the latest in a series of unprecedented nearly back-to-back sandstorms that … more

By SAMYA KULLAB | 5/23/22

FILE - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a ceremony marking Army Day at Army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, April 19, 2022. Bolsonaro signed a decree on May 19, 2022 that he says will create a national carbon market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil president announces carbon market, thin on details

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has announced the creation of a carbon market in Brazil but it is voluntary and the announcement is thin on the kind of details that make for a robust … more

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE | 5/23/22

A supporter of Historical Pact coalition presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, holds a flag with the image of Petro before a closing campaign rally in Zipaquira, Colombia, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Elections are set for May 29. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Ex-rebel emerges as favorite in Colombian presidential race

A one-time rebel fighter has used an emotional anti-establishment discourse and promises to boost state involvement in the economy to garner a commanding lead in polls as Colombia heads into Sunday's … more

By MANUEL RUEDA | 5/23/22

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks before departing Tehran's Mehrabad airport for a trip to Oman, Monday, May, 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran vows revenge over killing of Guard member in Tehran

Iran’s hard-line president has vowed revenge over the killing of a senior Revolutionary Guard member who was gunned down in the heart of Tehran. The still-mysterious attack on the country’s … more

By ISABEL DEBRE | 5/23/22

A Zimbabwe National Parks official holds an elephant tusk during a tour of the ivory stockpiles in Harare, Monday, May, 16, 2022. Zimbabwe is seeking international support to be allowed to sell half a billion dollars worth of ivory stockpile, describing the growth of its elephant population as “dangerous” amid dwindling resources for conservation. The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority on Monday took ambassadors from European Union countries through a tour of the stockpile to press for sales which are banned by CITES, the international body that monitors endangered species. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe opens conference to promote sales of elephant ivory

Zimbabwe has opened an international conference to try to win international support for its campaign to be allowed to sell its stockpile of seized ivory. If the southern African country is not … more

By FARAI MUTSAKA | 5/23/22

A couple, centre, attempt to make their way through muddy waters on a beach near Durban, South Africa, Sunday, May 22, 2022. More than 300 people have been evacuated from their homes as a result of renewed heavy rains, flooding and mudslides in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, weeks after severe flooding killed more than 400 people and displaced more than 40,000 others. Provincial authorities and emergency personnel say the new rains have damaged roads, homes and electricity infrastructure largely in the northern parts of the province since Friday. (AP Photo)

New floods in eastern South Africa displace more than 300

More than 300 people have been evacuated from their homes as a result of renewed heavy rains, flooding and mudslides in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, weeks after severe flooding killed … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 5/23/22

FILE - Rohingya refugee girl Azida plays on a makeshift swing tied to World Food Program (WFP) containers inside Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018. The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has crossed the milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts, The U.N. refugee agency said Monday, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

UN refugee agency: Number of displaced tops 100 million

The U.N. refugee agency says that the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has crossed the milestone of 100 million for the first time on … more

5/23/22

Police officers guard the entrance of the Qatar embassy, Monday, May 23, 2022 in Paris. An investigation for homicide was opened on Monday May 23, 2022 after a watchman at the Qatar Embassy in Paris was killed and a suspect arrested, the prosecutor's office said. The circumstances of the killing, including the method used, were not immediately clear. (AP Photo/Alexander Turnbull)

Guard at Qatari Embassy in Paris killed in attack

Prosecutors say a homicide investigation has been opened after a security guard at the Qatari Embassy in Paris was killed and a suspect arrested. The circumstances of the killing, including the … more

5/23/22

A health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in a neighborhood of Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, May 23, 2022. Pakistan launched a new anti-polio drive on Monday, more than a week after officials detected the third case so far this year in the country's northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan launches new anti-polio drive after 3rd case found

Pakistan has launched a new anti-polio drive, more than a week after officials detected the third case so far this year in the country's northwestern region bordering Afghanistan. The campaign is the … more

5/23/22

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as "a random event" that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe

A doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group has described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that might be … more

By MARIA CHENG | 5/23/22

In this handout provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, smoke billows from ferry M/V Mercraft 2 as it's towed to an island off of the town of Real, Quezon province, Philippines on Monday, May 23, 2022. The passenger ship caught fire as it neared it's port destination in Real, killing several people on board. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP Photo)

7 dead, 120 others rescued in Philippine ferry fire

The Philippine coast guard says a ferry carrying more than 130 people caught fire while approaching a northeastern province and many people escaped by jumping into the sea. Seven people died in the … more

5/23/22

A child and a man, fleeing from heavy shelling, wave to the photographer before departing in an evacuation train at Pokrovsk train station, in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Civilians fleeing areas near the eastern front in the war in Ukraine Sunday described scenes of devastation as their towns and villages came under sustained attack from Russian forces. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

'They ruined everything': Fleeing the devastation in Ukraine

Houses on fire. Artillery blasting through thick apartment walls. People hiding in basements without electricity, water or gas as their towns are pulverized. Civilians fleeing areas near Ukraine's … more

By ELENA BECATOROS | 5/23/22

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Akasaka Palace, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden: Monkeypox threat doesn't rise to level of COVID-19

President Joe Biden is seeking to calm concerns about recent cases of monkeypox that have been identified in Europe and the United States. He says he does not see the need to institute strict … more

By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI | 5/23/22

Guatemalan migrant Juana Alonso Santizo arrives at La Aurora international airport in Guatemala City, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Alonso Santizo who was imprisoned in northeastern Mexico for seven years while trying to migrate to the United States and who was arrested on kidnapping charges was released on Saturday, May 21, after numerous organizations and even Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador interceded on her behalf. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Migrant back home after 7 years in Mexico jail with no trial

An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in … more

By SONIA PÉREZ D. | 5/22/22

Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses delegates during the first day of the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is 'most certainly not over'

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over” despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told … more

5/22/22

Residents travel on a motorbike as they flee their home to avoid clashes between armed gangs, in the Croix-des-Mission neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Experts say the scale and duration of gang clashes, the power they are wielding and the amount of territory they control has reached levels not seen before. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Gangs strangle Haiti's capital as deaths, kidnappings soar

Gangs are fighting each other and seizing territory in Haiti's capital with a new intensity and brutality. That's horrified and frightened many who feel the country is swiftly unraveling as it tries … more

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO | 5/22/22

FILE - Police officers and prison guards inspect the scene of a prison escape by six Palestinian prisoners, outside the Gilboa prison in Northern Israel on Sept. 6, 2021. An Israeli court on Sunday, May 22, 2022, sentenced the six inmates to five years in prison for tunneling out of their cell last year and escaping from a high-security facility in the biggest prison break of its kind in decades. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israeli court sentences Palestinian jailbreakers to 5 years

An Israeli court has sentenced six Palestinian inmates to five years in prison for tunneling out of their cell last year and escaping from a high-security facility. It was the biggest prison break of … more

5/22/22

Israel reports first case of monkeypox, suspects others

Israeli authorities say they have detected the country’s first case of monkeypox in a man who returned from abroad and were looking into other suspected cases. Israel’s Health Ministry said late … more

5/22/22