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FILE - Palestinians flee from northern Gaza to the south after the Israeli army issued an unprecedented evacuation warning to a population of over 1 million people in northern Gaza and Gaza City to seek refuge in the south ahead of a possible Israeli ground invasion, on Oct. 13, 2023. Najla Shawa and her family are safe for now after fleeing their home in Gaza City, but she’s worried she may never be able to return. Shawa, a Gaza native who works for the international aid group Oxfam, is sheltering with her husband, two daughters and about 50 others at a compound in Zawaida, a community just south of the area Israeli forces ordered residents to evacuate before an anticipated ground offensive. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

Palestinian mother fears for her children as she wonders about the future after evacuating Gaza City

Najla Shawa and her family are safe for now after fleeing their home in Gaza City. But she’s worried she may never be able to return. Shawa is a Gaza native who works for the international aid … more

By DANICA KIRKA | 10/15/23

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, center in the first row, and Deputy chairman of State Administration Council, Vice Senior Gen. Soe Win, center left in the first row, and other attendees sit for a group photo after a ceremony to mark the 8th anniversary of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar's military seeks to keep ethnic minority allies on its side with anniversary of cease-fire

Myanmar’s military government has hosted representatives from ethnic rebel groups to mark the eighth anniversary of the signing of a multilateral cease-fire agreement. But the event was boycotted … more

By GRANT PECK | 10/15/23

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with a Saudi official before boarding a plane to leave Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Top US envoy will return to Israel after stops in Arab nations aimed at avoiding a broader conflict

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return to Israel this week after completing a frantic six-country rush through Arab nations aimed at preventing the Israel-Hamas war from igniting a broader … more

By MATTHEW LEE | 10/15/23

6.3 magnitude earthquake hits western Afghanistan, USGS says

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey says, more than a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened … more

10/15/23

Former dentist Nazim Valiyev shows his dental tools at his home in Baku, Azerbaijan, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Valiyev is among the estimated 700,000 Azerbaijanis who fled or were forced out of the region amid violence that flared beginning in 1988 and then flared into an outright war that ended in 1994 with the region under the control of ethnic Armenian forces supported by Armenia. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)

Azerbaijanis who fled a separatist region decades ago ache to return, but it could be a long wait

The sudden capitulation of ethnic Armenian forces in a separatist region of Azerbaijan raises hopes for the return of thousands of people who fled the territory decades ago. As they now contemplate … more

By AIDA SULTANOVA | 10/15/23

Soldiers frisk a man at a security check ahead of Sunday's runoff presidential election in Duran, Ecuador, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ecuadorians electing new president, choosing between an heir to a banana empire and an attorney

Frightened by unprecedented violence on the streets and within prisons, Ecuadorians have a universal demand for their next president — safety. A runoff election Sunday pits an heir to a banana … more

By REGINA GARCIA CANO | 10/15/23

Staff leave the Louvre Museum as people are evacuated after it received a written threat, in Paris, Saturday Oct. 14, 2023. The Louvre Museum says it is closing for the day and evacuating all visitors and staff after a threat. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated after bomb threats with France on alert

French police say the Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff after receiving bomb threats. Both monuments are being searched by police on Sunday. The threats came after the … more

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER | 10/14/23

Palestinian demonstrators clash with Israeli forces following a demonstration in support of the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

While the world is watching Gaza, violence fuels growing tensions in the occupied West Bank

With the world’s attention focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 54 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest … more

By JULIA FRANKEL and JOSEPH KRAUSS | 10/14/23

A poster of Ada Sagi, 75-year-old mother of Noam Sagi, is on display at a press conference of British children of Israeli hostages at a hotel in London, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Noam Sagi, 53, is a London-based psychotherapist who grew up on Kibbutz Nir Oz. His 75-year-old mother, Ada Sagi, was taken hostage on October 7. Sharon Lifschitz, 52, is an artist and academic whose parents are peace activists aged 85 and 83 and were taken hostage too. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Ada Sagi was already dealing with the pain of loss. Then war came to her door

Ada Sagi was getting ready to travel to London to celebrate her 75th birthday with family when Hamas militants attacked her kibbutz and took her hostage. The trip was supposed to be a joyous occasion … more

By DANICA KIRKA | 10/14/23

The grave of Ukrainian soldier Andrii Kozyr, who was reburied the day before, in the village of Hroza near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. The Russian rocket hit a cafe where friends and relatives gathered for the wake for Kozyr, killing at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Fierce fighting persists in Ukraine’s east as Kyiv reports nonstop assaults by Russia on a key city

Ukrainian officials have reported intense combat that is characterized by relentless assaults by Russian forces on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. City head Vitalii Barabash said on Ukrainian … more

10/14/23

In this photo provided by Reuters, Issam Abdallah, a videographer for the news agency, poses for a selfie while working in Maras, Turkey, on Feb. 11, 2023. Abdallah was killed Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, when an Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon. Six other journalists were injured in the incident. (Issam Abdallah/Reuters via AP)

Reuters videographer killed in southern Lebanon by Israeli shelling laid to rest

Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah who was killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon, was laid to rest in his hometown in a funeral procession attended by hundreds of people. Draped in a … more

10/14/23

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday Oct. 13, 2023, after stops in Jordan, Qatar, and Bahrain in the same day. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Blinken calls for protection of civilians as Israel prepares for expected assault on Gaza

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for protection of civilians in both the Gaza Strip and Israel as the Israeli military ordered half of the Palestinian territory’s population to … more

By MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR | 10/14/23

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, speaks during a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bouhabib, in Beirut Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Amirabdollahian blasted the United States for calling for restraint in the region while at the same time allowing Israel to "commit out crimes" in Gaza. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iran's foreign minister warns Israel from Beirut it could suffer 'a huge earthquake'

Iran’s foreign minister has called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle. Hossein … more

By BASSEM MROUE | 10/14/23

Police officers stand guard outside the high school where a man stabbed a teacher, Saturday Oct.14, 2023 in Arras, northern France. A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and wounded three other people Friday in Arras. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Schaeffer)

France is deploying 7,000 troops after a deadly school stabbing by a suspected Islamic radical

France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack. Counterterrorism authorities … more

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON | 10/14/23

New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins meets people on the street in Auckland on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, the last day of campaigning for New Zealand's election. New Zealanders vote in a national general election Saturday. (New Zealand Herald via AP)

Voting closes in New Zealand's election, with polls indicating people favor a conservative change

Voting has closed in New Zealand and ballot counting was underway in a general election, with opinion polls indicating people were favoring a conservative change after six years of a liberal … more

By NICK PERRY | 10/14/23

FILE - People shop at a street market in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Evolving crisis fuels anxiety among Venezuelans who want a better economy but see worsening woes

Venezuelans have come to feel the decade-long crisis that undid their country as one numbingly featureless expanse of struggles. But the crisis has evolved over the years, and the latest phase is … more

By REGINA GARCIA CANO | 10/14/23

Workers hoisting campaign banner of ruling Law and Justice leader and Poland's most powerful politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is running in crucial parliamentary election, in Sandomierz, Poland, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. At stake in Sunday's vote are the health of the nation's democracy, strained under the ruling conservative Law and Justice party, and the foreign alliances of a country on NATO's eastern flank that has been a crucial ally. The main challenger is centrist Civic Coalition. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Emotions run high as Poland prepares to hold a high-stakes national election

Poland is holding an election Sunday that many view as its most important one since the 1989 vote that toppled communism. At stake are the health of the nation's democracy and the foreign alliances … more

By VANESSA GERA | 10/14/23

Song Yut Wa, left, daughter of Lo Hoi Ha, 82, right, enjoys the wind at dusk amid the summer heat in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

AP PHOTOS: Hong Kong's hottest summer fell hardest on most vulnerable

HONG KONG (AP) — Joe Wong sweats through his days as a cleaner in a Hong Kong housing complex, laboring in narrow, stuffy corridors that this summer and last were the worst he’s known. He finds … more

By LOUISE DELMOTTE | 10/13/23

Karin Journo takes a selfie before she went to the Tribe of Nova music festival. Saturday’s attack on the open-air Tribe of Nova music festival is believed to be the worst civilian massacre in Israeli history, with at least 260 dead and a still undetermined number taken hostage. Dozens of Hamas militants who had blown through Israel’s heavily fortified separation fence and crossed into the country from Gaza opened fire on about 3,500 young Israelis who had come together for a joyous night of electronic music to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. (Karin Journo via Meitav Journo via AP)

A father worries for his missing child: 'My daughter didn't go to war. She just went to dance'

Because of the fracture in her leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket. But a week before Hamas militants turned the party into a … more

By JOHN LEICESTER | 10/13/23

European Council President Charles Michel speaks during an exclusive interview with the Associated Press at the EU Council in Brussels, Friday Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

The AP Interview: EU President Michel warns about spillover of Israel-Hamas war into Europe

European Union leader Charles Michel has warned in The AP Interview that the Israel-Hamas war could create a surge in refugees heading for Europe, raising the risk of spurring on anti-migrant forces, … more

By RAF CASERT | 10/13/23