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Preacher Paul Mackenzie, right, leader of the religious commune based in Malindi’s Shakahola forest, appears at Malindi Law Courts, Malindi town, Kenyan Coast Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Mackenzie was arrested for allegedly directing his followers to fast to death in order to meet Jesus. (AP Photo)

Kenyan pastors appear in court over deaths of parishioners

Two pastors based in coastal Kenya have appeared in court over the deaths of more than 100 of their congregants. Pastor Paul Mackenzie, who was arrested over links to cultism, was released and then … more

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI | 5/2/23

FILE - A gay Ugandan couple cover themselves with a pride flag as they pose for a photograph in Uganda on March 25, 2023. Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 passed a new version of an anti-gay bill that removes a clause which appeared to criminalize identifying as LGBTQ. (AP Photo, File)

Ugandan lawmakers pass new version of tough anti-gay bill

Ugandan lawmakers have passed a new version of an anti-gay bill that removes a clause which appeared to criminalize identifying as LGBTQ. Last month, President Yoweri Museveni returned the bill to … more

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA | 5/2/23

A Ukrainian soldier fires an RPG during his training at the frontline positions near Vuhledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Russian defense chief wants wartime missile output doubled

Russia’s defense chief is urging a state company to double its missile output, as a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive looms and both sides in the 14-month war reportedly feel an ammunition … more

By DAVID RISING | 5/2/23

Kenyan riot police react as a tear gas grenade they threw explodes next to them, during clashes with rock-throwing opposition protesters in the Kibera slum of the capital Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, May 2, 2023. The fresh round of demonstrations called by opposition leader Raila Odinga demanded action to tackle the cost of living and reforms to the electoral commission that oversaw last year's election that was won by President William Ruto. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenyan police clash with anti-government protesters

Police in Kenya have clashed with anti-government protesters in the capital, Nairobi. The leader of the political opposition called a fresh round of demonstrations for Tuesday. Opposition lawmakers … more

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI | 5/2/23

FILE - The Farmers Defense Force flag, right, and Dutch flags, fly in the wind on an intersection blocked by tractors in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. The Dutch government plans to drastically cut emissions of nitrogen pollution cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, May 2, 2023 when the European Union's executive arm gave the green light to farm buyout schemes worth nearly 1.5 billion euros ($1.65 billion). (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch plan to cut nitrogen emissions gets EU green light

Dutch government plans to drastically cut emissions of nitrogen pollution have cleared a key hurdle. The European Union’s executive arm gave the green light Tuesday to farm buyout schemes worth … more

5/2/23

In this image made from video provided by Sky News Australia, Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu speaks in an interview in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 28, 2023. Taiwan intends to fight for itself in any armed conflict with China and is unclear as to what countries might stand beside it, the self-governing island's foreign minister said. (Sky News Australia via AP)

Unclear who would help Taiwan in a war: foreign minister

Taiwan's foreign minister says he doesn't know what countries might help it in the event of a war with China. Beijing claims Taiwan as its own territory, to brought under its control by force if … more

5/2/23

In this photo released by the UK Ministry of Defence the last evacuees and military personnel board an RAF aircraft bound for Cyprus from Wadi Seidna Air Base in Sudan, April 29, 2023. (PO Phot Arron Hoare/Uk Ministry of Defence via AP)

Sudanese fleeing clashes flood port city, borders with Egypt

Sudanese fleeing the fighting between rival generals in their capital city are flooding an already overwhelmed city on the Red Sea and Sudan’s northern borders with Egypt. The fighting, now in its … more

BY SAMY MAGDY | 5/2/23

FILE - Election workers empty a ballot box to count votes for a district council election at a polling station in Hong Kong, Nov. 24, 2019. Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, stepped up a campaign to shut down democratic challenges by unveiling plans to eliminate most directly elected seats on local district councils, the last major political representative bodies mostly chosen by the public. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Hong Kong to slash elected seats in setback to democracy

Hong Kong’s leader has unveiled plans to eliminate most directly elected seats on local district councils, the last major political representative bodies chosen by the public. The planned electoral … more

By KANIS LEUNG | 5/2/23

FILE - Cars and trucks queue on a highway after an accident in Frankfurt, Germany, April 26, 2023. Environmental campaigners urged climate envoys from dozens of nations gathering Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Berlin to discuss a global deadline for phasing out fossil fuels and ways of increasing aid to poor countries hit by global warming.((AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Campaigners call for fossil fuel deadline, more climate aid

Environmental campaigners urged climate envoys from dozens of nations gathering Tuesday in Berlin to discuss a global deadline for phasing out fossil fuels and ways of increasing aid to poor … more

By FRANK JORDANS | 5/2/23

FILE - Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Republican People's Party, CHP, delivers a speech during a Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug. 7, 2016. Kilicdaroglu, the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the May 14 election, cuts a starkly different figure than the incumbent who has led the country for two decades. As the polarizing Erdogan has grown increasingly authoritarian, Kilicdaroglu has a reputation as a bridge builder and vows to restore democracy. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Challenger in Turkey presidential race offers sharp contrast

The main challenger trying to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this month's presidential election cuts a starkly different figure than the incumbent who has led the country for two … more

By SUZAN FRASER | 5/2/23

Rabbi Nicky Liss looks through items in a collection belonging to Professor David Latchman of memorabilia related to the history of British Jews, in London, Friday, April 28, 2023. Rabbi Nicky Liss won’t be watching King Charles III’s coronation. He’ll be doing something more important praying for the monarch on the Jewish sabbath. On Saturday, he will join rabbis across Britain in reading a prayer in English and Hebrew that gives thanks for the new king in the name of the “one God who created us all.” (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

King Charles III makes space for faith at his coronation

At a time when religion is fueling tensions around the world, King Charles III is trying to bridge the differences between the faith groups that make up Britain’s increasingly diverse society. … more

By DANICA KIRKA | 5/2/23

A man runs out of the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Australia's central bank surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.85 % at its latest monthly meeting despite pausing its climb last month and new evidence that inflation is slowing. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Australian central bank hikes interest rate to 3.85%

Australia’s central bank has surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.85% despite pausing its climb last month and new evidence that inflation … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 5/2/23

FILE - Palestinian Khader Adnan, center, is greeted by Palestinians after his release from an Israeli prison in the West Bank village of Arrabeh near Jenin, Sunday, July 12, 2015. Palestinian prisoner Adnan died in Israeli custody early Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after a hunger strike of nearly three months, Israel’s prison service announced. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Palestinian prisoner dies in Israel after long hunger strike

Israel's prison service says a Palestinian prisoner has died after a hunger strike of nearly three months. Khader Adnan began his strike shortly after being arrested on Feb. 5. Adnan, accused by … more

5/1/23

Santiago Pena, presidential candidate of the Colorado ruling party, center, talks after the voting closed during general elections in Asuncion, Paraguay, Sunday, April 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Paraguay: Ex-president's influence in question after victory

Conservative Santiago Peña’s overwhelming win in Paraguay’s presidential election not only reaffirmed the long-ruling Colorado Party’s hold on power but raised questions about the future role … more

By DÉBORA REY | 5/1/23

Boris Palmer, the mayor of Germany's southwestern city of Tuebingen, is seen at a press event on May 17, 2022. Palmer said Monday May 1, 2023 that he was taking some “time out” after coming under fire at the weekend for using a racist slur at a conference. (Bernd Wei'brod/dpa via AP)

German mayor takes 'time out' after using racist slur

The mayor of Germany’s southwestern city of Tuebingen said Monday that he's taking some “time out” after coming under fire for using a racist slur at a conference. Boris Palmer also said he'll … more

5/1/23

Police and local residents load the exhumed bodies of victims of a religious cult into the back of a truck in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southern Kenya Sunday, April 23, 2023. Dozens of bodies have been discovered so far in shallow graves in a forest near land owned by a pastor Paul Makenzi in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death. (AP Photo)

Toll rises from 103 to 110 in Kenya cult starvation deaths

Kenyan officials say the number of deaths linked to a cult in the area on the country’s Indian Ocean coast has risen to from 103 to 110. Heavy rains stalled the exhumation process for the third … more

5/1/23

FILE - A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Semera, Ethiopia, Feb. 21, 2022. The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers. (AP Photo, File)

UN agency suspends food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray amid theft

The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to … more

Associated Press | 5/1/23

FILE - Detail of the map showing a cross-section of the road where the Nazi loot was reportedly buried in Ommeren, near Arnhem, at the National Archive of the Netherlands in The Hague, on Jan. 23, 2023. An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewelry looted by the Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy rural Dutch village has — like many previous searches — failed to unearth any treasure. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

New dig likely buries hopes of unearthing Dutch WWII loot

An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewelry looted by the Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy Dutch village has — like many previous searches — failed … more

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER | 5/1/23

American nationals are searched by the U.S. soldiers before boarding a ship in Port Sudan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Sudan's army and its rival paramilitary say they will extend a humanitarian cease-fire another 72 hours as of midnight. The decision follows international pressure to allow the safe passage of civilians and aid but also comes after days of continued fighting despite the earlier truce. (AP Photo/Smowal Abdalla)

UN envoy says Sudan's warring sides agree to negotiate

The United Nations’ top official in Sudan says the country's warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia. Volker Perthes told The Associated … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 5/1/23

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri, attends a regional consultative meeting held in Amman, Jordan , Monday, May 1, 2023. Regional leaders are meeting in Jordan to discuss Syria's return to the Arab fold and a Jordanian proposal to reach a "political solution" to the Syrian conflict. The talks, attended by the top diplomats of Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt, kicked off Monday with a meeting between Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Regional talks on Syria's fate kick off in Jordanian capital

Regional leaders are meeting in Jordan to discuss Syria’s return to the Arab fold and a Jordanian proposal to reach a “political solution” to the Syrian conflict. The talks, attended by the top … more

By OMAR AKOUR | 5/1/23