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FILE - In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, a view of the International Space Station taken on March 30, 2022 by crew of Russian Soyuz MS-19 space ship after undocking from the Station. NASA and Russia's space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, just as they were preparing to exit the International Space Station late Wednesday, Dec. 14 because of an apparent coolant leak from an attached space capsule. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP, File)

Russian space capsule leak likely caused by micrometeorite

A Russian space official says a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station was likely caused by a micrometeorite strike. Russia’s space corporation … more

12/15/22

A view of the main entrance to Furuvik Zoo, around 10 kms east of Gavle, Sweden, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. Four chimpanzees, one of which is wounded, are on the loose inside a building in a Swedish zoo, a day after they escaped from their enclosure. Three others have been shot dead. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP)

4 chimps loose in monkey house in Swedish zoo, 3 shot dead

Four chimpanzees, one of which is wounded, are on the loose inside a building in a Swedish zoo, a day after they escaped from their enclosure. Three others have been shot dead. Swedish officials and … more

12/15/22

FILE - Pope Francis is flanked by Jesuits' superior general Arturo Sosa Abascal, left as he leaves the Church of the Gesu', mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), after presiding a mass on March 12, 2022. The head of Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order admitted Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, that a famous Jesuit priest had been convicted of one of the most serious crimes in the Catholic Church some two years before the Vatican decided to shelve another case against him for allegedly abusing other adult women under his spiritual care.The Rev. Arturo Sosa, the Jesuit superior general, made the admission during a briefing with journalists that was dominated by the scandal over the Rev. Marko Ivan Rubnik and the reluctance of both the Vatican and the Jesuits to tell the whole story behind the unusually lenient treatment he received. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Jesuit case underscores secrecy, leniency for abuse of women

Revelations that the Vatican let a famous Jesuit priest off the hook twice for abusing his authority over adult women has exposed two main weaknesses in the Holy See’s abuse policies. One is that … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 12/15/22

A man examines a damaged apartment building after what Russian officials in Donetsk said was a shelling by Ukrainian forces, in Donetsk, the capital of Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Russia warns 'consequences' if US missiles sent to Ukraine

Russia’s Foreign Ministry is warning that if the United States confirms reports that it plans to deliver sophisticated air defense missiles to Ukraine, it would be a “provocative move" that could … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 12/15/22

The coffin of a 16-year-old is carried during a funeral procession in northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. About 1,500 mourners gathered Thursday in a Roma settlement in northern Greece for the funeral of Kostas Frangoulis who died days after being shot in the head by police during a car chase over an unpaid gas station bill. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Greece: Funeral held for Roma teen shot during police chase

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in northern Greece for the funeral of a Roma teenager who died days after being shot in the head during a police chase over an unpaid gas station bill. The death of … more

By VASSILIS KOMMATAS and KOSTAS KANTOURIS | 12/15/22

A man injured by the Afghan forces shelling receives treatment at a hospital in Chaman, southwestern Pakistan along the Afghan border, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. Pakistani authorities on Thursday accused Afghan Taliban forces of indiscriminately firing mortars toward the civilian population near the southwestern Chaman border crossing, killing and wounding some people, a sign of increasing tension between the two neighbors. (AP Photo)

Pakistan: Afghan Taliban shell border town, killing civilian

Pakistani authorities say one person was killed and at least 11 injured when Afghan Taliban fighters fired mortars toward the civilians near the southwestern Chaman border crossing. Thursday’s … more

By ABDUL SATTAR | 12/15/22

Irish UN peacekeepers and Lebanese soldiers investigate the scene where gunfire came on a UN peacekeeper convoy in the Al-Aqbiya village, south Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

UN peacekeeper killed after attack in southern Lebanon

An Irish U.N. peacekeeper has been killed and several others wounded after unidentified attackers fired at a convoy in southern Lebanon. The Irish Defense Forces' statement Thursday said a pair of … more

By ABBY SEWELL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 12/15/22

Co-founder Kseniia Drahaniuk of the nonprofit group Zemliachky pauses during an interview in front of shelves stacked with military boots at its supply room in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. The home-grown association helps equip women soldiers who have joined Ukraine's army by the thousands in response to Russia's invasion nearly 10 months ago. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Home-grown supply operation outfits Ukraine's women soldiers

More than 50,000 women have enlisted in Ukraine's war effort. But the country's military wasn't fully ready to equip them. So, a home-grown volunteer group is serving up hundreds of boots, uniforms, … more

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and JAMEY KEATEN | 12/15/22

An Iranian woman holds a portrait of the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in 2020, in a pro-government demonstration in front of the United Nation's office in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. The demonstrators condemned calls for the Islamic Republic to be expelled from the UN Commission on the Status of Women by other member countries, following Iranian security forces' continued crackdown on anti-government protests sparked by the death of a women after she was arrested by the country's morality police in September. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

UN council ousts Iran from UN commission backing women

The U.N. Economic and Social Council has voted to immediately oust Iran from the U.N.’s premiere global body fighting for gender equality. The U.S.-sponsored resolution cites Iran's systematic … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 12/14/22

Areas are damaged following torrential rains in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. At least 100 people have been killed and dozens injured by widespread floods and landslides caused by the rains. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Death toll rises to more than 140 in floods in Congo capital

Congo's government says the number of people killed by widespread floods and landslides in the capital Kinshasa has climbed to more than 140. At least 12 more people are still missing and officials … more

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE | 12/14/22

FILE - A chimpanzee looks out of his enclosure as visitors trickle into Zoo Miami, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Miami. Three chimpanzees that escaped from their enclosure in a central Sweden animal park and roamed the closed Furuvik zoo north of Stockholm, have been put to sleep. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Sweden: chimps euthanized after escaping from zoo enclosure

Swedish media are reporting that three chimpanzees that escaped from their enclosure in a zoo have been captured and euthanized. A press spokeswoman for the zoo told the Expressen daily that the … more

12/14/22

FILE - Campaigners took their hat off in a show of respect for people who took their own lives in The Hague, Netherlands, on Oct. 10, 2022. A Dutch court on Wednesday Dec. 14, 2022 upheld the Netherlands' ban on assisted suicide, in a setback for activists who argue that the prohibition was an infringement of their human rights. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch court rejects challenge to assisted suicide ban

A Dutch court has upheld the Netherlands’ ban on assisted suicide. The decision issued on Wednesday is a setback for activists who say the prohibition infringes on their human right to determine … more

By MIKE CORDER | 12/14/22

FILE - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a final campaign rally at a stadium in the town of Jimma in the southwestern Oromia Region of Ethiopia, June 16 2021. Even as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attends the U.S.-Africa summit this week to promote last month's peace agreement between his government and authorities from the country's Tigray region, the larger region of Oromia appears increasingly unstable (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

As Tigray calms, Ethiopia sees growing conflict in Oromia

As one deadly conflict in Ethiopia begins to calm, another is growing, challenging a government that’s eager to persuade the international community to lift sanctions and revive what was once one … more

By CARA ANNA | 12/14/22

Police work near the scene of a fatal shooting in Wieambilla, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Multiple people, including a few police officers, were shot and killed at a property in rural Australia after officers who arrived to investigate reports of a missing person were ambushed, authorities said. (Jason O'Brien/AAP Image via AP)

Australian police investigate extremist views of cop killers

Australian police are investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbor at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a … more

12/13/22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears via video during his address to the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. Zelenskyy urges New Zealand to take a leading role in focusing on the environmental destruction his country is suffering as a result of Russia's invasion. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Zelenskyy asks New Zealand to focus on war's ecological toll

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged New Zealand to take a leading role in focusing on the environmental destruction his country is suffering as a result of Russia’s invasion. … more

By NICK PERRY | 12/13/22

FILE - Nurse Dmytro Gavro, left, with his colleagues perform CPR on a girl fatally injured during the shelling of a residential area, in the city hospital of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. A team of doctors and nurses who fled Mariupol as Russian forces closed in on their hospital are starting up a new medical center in the Ukrainian capital to serve people displaced by the war. Around 30 staff from Mariupol's Hospital Number 2 and a team of cardiac specialists who rescued their equipment from shelling in the eastern city of Kramatorsk started taking patients on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukraine: Doctors from occupied city open hospital in Kyiv

A team of doctors and nurses who fled Mariupol as Russian forces closed in on their hospital are starting up a new medical center in the Ukrainian capital to serve people displaced by the war. Around … more

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and LORI HINNANT | 12/13/22

FILE - Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet attends a Mass for the election of a new pope celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, not pictured, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. A Vatican cardinal sued a Canadian woman for defamation in Canadian court on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 after she accused him of sexual assault when he was archbishop of Quebec. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office, is seeking $100,000 in compensatory damages for “injury to his reputation, honor and dignity,” according to a copy of the complaint provided by Ouellet’s office. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Vatican cardinal sues for defamation in Quebec assault claim

A Vatican cardinal is suing a Canadian woman for defamation after she accused him of sexual assault while he was archbishop of Quebec. Cardinal Marc Ouellet is head of the Vatican’s bishops’ … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 12/13/22

Fathi Bashagha, one of Libya's rival prime ministers, gives an interview to The Associated Press, in Sirte, Libya, May 25, 2022. Bashagha called Tuesday, Dec. 13 for the release of the former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all onboard, after he surfaced in U.S. custody earlier this week. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Rival Libya PM calls for US to release Lockerbie accused

One of Libya’s rival prime ministers has called for the release of the former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, … more

12/13/22

FILE - People look at flowers placed on the Promenade des Anglais at the scene of a truck attack Monday July 18, 2016 in Nice, southern France. A French court on Tuesday Dec.13, 2022 convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

8 in France convicted of roles in Bastille Day truck attack

A French court has convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. The … more

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY | 12/13/22

FILE - A woman reacts as she holds a photo of an injured 16-year-old teenager while relatives and other protesters from the Roma community protest outside the courthouse in Greece's second largest city of Thessaloniki, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. The 16-year-old Roma teenager, who was shot in the head during a police chase over an allegedly unpaid gas station bill, has died on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, after been hospitalized for more than a week in Thessaloniki. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File)

Greece: Roma community leaders call for calm after teen dies

Leaders of the Roma community in northern Greece have appealed for calm as student and anarchist groups called rallies to protest the death of a Roma teenager. The 16-year-old was shot in the head … more

By COSTAS KANTOURIS | 12/13/22