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Palestinians evacuate wounded after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israeli evacuation call in Gaza hikes Egypt's fears of a mass exodus of refugees into its territory

Israel’s call for half of the Gaza Strip’s population to evacuate south is hiking Egypt’s fears of a massive influx of refugees across the border into its territory. Egypt’s leadership says … more

By SAMY MAGDY and JACK JEFFERY | 10/13/23

FILE Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service from the colony in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, during a hearing at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 22, 2023. A court in Russia has upheld a 19 year prison sentence against imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. He was found guilty of charges of extremism at a hearing in August. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russian authorities raid the homes of lawyers for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Allies of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny say Russian authorities have searched the homes of three lawyers representing him, with one of them detained. One ally says the raids are an … more

By DASHA LITVINOVA | 10/13/23

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shows his support for a yes vote during a visit to Adelaide, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Advocates for and against a referendum that would acknowledge Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution campaigned for a final day on the eve of the first such ballot in Australia in a generation. (Michael Errey/AAP Image via AP)

Final arguments are being made before Australia's vote Saturday to create Indigenous Voice

Opposing campaigners have made their final pitches over changing the Australia’s constitution to acknowledge a place for Indigenous Australians on the eve of the nation’s first referendum in a … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 10/13/23

Israeli soldiers surround a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife at the site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. At least 260 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the attack last Saturday. (AP Photo/Erik Marmor)

A music festival survivor fleeing the attack, a pair of Hamas militants and a deadly decision

When Hamas militants swarmed into Israel over the weekend, one of their first targets was the Tribe of Nova music festival. At least 260 people were killed there, and an unknown number were taken … more

By ALON BERNSTEIN and SAM MCNEIL | 10/13/23

Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, a mega-prison in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador is gradually filling its new mega prison with alleged gang members

With tattoo-covered faces, wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison. Unveiled earlier … more

By MARCOS ALEMÁN | 10/12/23

Smoke from wildfires fills the air during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. In Manaus, a city of 2 million, air quality ranked among the worst globally, leading to the suspension of college classes and the cancellation of various activities, including an international marathon. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

In the Amazon, millions breathe hazardous air as drought and wildfires spread through the rainforest

Smoke from forest fires covered large swaths of the Brazilian Amazon as the region endures one of the worst droughts on record, with many rivers at historically low levels. In Manaus, the air quality … more

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE | 10/12/23

Palestinians evacuate wounded people after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

In its quest to crush Hamas, Israel will confront the bitter, familiar dilemmas of Mideast wars

As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. Israeli leaders have pledged to annihilate the … more

By JOSEPH KRAUSS | 10/12/23

FILE - Former Russian state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova attends a press conference Friday, Feb. 10, 2023 in Paris, France. French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV. The Paris prosecutor's office said Marina Ovsyannikova called emergency services and was hospitalized after suddenly falling ill at her Paris apartment Thursday, Oct. 12. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

French police are probing possible poisoning of Russian journalist who denounced Ukraine war on TV

French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled Russia after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV. The Paris prosecutor's office said Marina … more

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Defense ministers and ambassadors pose for a group photo during a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO will hold a major nuclear exercise next week as Russia plans to pull out of a test ban treaty

The chief of NATO says the alliance will hold a major nuclear exercise next week. The announcement by Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg came after Russia warned it would pull out of a global nuclear … more

By LORNE COOK | 10/12/23

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, shakes hands with Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto during a group photo during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Pentagon's 'FrankenSAM' program cobbles together air defense weapons for Ukraine

The Pentagon calls it FrankenSAM. It's a project that cobbles together air defense weapons for Ukraine from an array of parts from around the world. But now, as congressional gridlock delays funding … more

By LOLITA C. BALDOR | 10/12/23

An injured Thai overseas worker, on wheelchair, who was evacuated from Israel, arrives at Suvarnabhumi International Airport, in Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. The first Thai nationals evacuated since the latest war between Israel and Hamas returned home Thursday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai and Filipino workers filling labor gap in Israel get caught up in war between Israel and Hamas

The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza have arrived in Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials. … more

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAi and JIM GOMEZ | 10/12/23

An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says

U.N. officials say more than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan were women and children. Taliban officials say more than 2,000 people of all ages and … more

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This handout photo released by Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov's telegram channel on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, shows a damaged house destroyed by debris of a Ukrainian drone that was shot down by Russian air defense outside Belgorod, Russia. Three people, including a child, were killed in Russia's Belgorod region overnight after drone debris fell on a private house, setting it on fire, Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported Thursday. Two others have been hospitalized with severe injuries, the official said. (Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov telegram channel via AP)

NATO member Romania finds more drone fragments on its soil after Russian again hits southern Ukraine

Authorities in Romania found a crater on their territory near the border with Ukraine they believe was likely caused by a crashed drone that exploded on impact. Thursday's predawn discovery has … more

By STEPHEN MCGRATH | 10/12/23

Sweden's Defense Minister Pal Jonson, left, arrives for a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov arrived at NATO for meetings with alliance defense ministers to further drum up support for Ukraine's fight against Russia. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Months on, there are few signs that Turkey plans to honor its pledge to help Sweden join NATO

Three months after Turkey agreed to expedite Sweden's NATO membership bid, little sign of progress has emerged. NATO defense ministers are meeting Thursday and the issue was expected to be raised. … more

By LORNE COOK | 10/12/23

U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is escorted as it arrives in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (Kang Duck-chul/Yonhap via AP)

US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as North's leader Kim exchanges messages with Putin

A U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea in a demonstration of strength against North Korea. South Korea's Defense Ministry says the USS Ronald Reagan and its battle group … more

By HYUNG-JIN KIM | 10/12/23

In this photo provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Chinese Australian journalist Cheng Lei, right, poses with Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne, on Wednesday Oct. 11, 2023. Cheng, who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia. (Sarah Hodges/DFAT via AP)

Australian minister credits improved relations with China for the release of a detained journalist

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong is crediting improved relations with China for the return home this week of an Australian journalist whose three-year detention in China had strained ties. A … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 10/12/23

FILE - Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh rides on the shoulders of cheering crowds in Tehran's Majlis Square, outside the parliament building, after reiterating his oil nationalization views to his supporters on Sept. 27, 1951. While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times, the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran, the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well. The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. (AP Photo, File)

CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits 'Argo' rescue

While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 10/12/23

A Hamas militant in a body bag is seen in Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from Neraby Gaza Strip Saturday when they killed and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

After a hard fight to clear militants, Israeli soldiers find a scene of destruction, slain children

The Israeli military led a group of journalists, including an Associated Press reporter, on a tour of Kibbutz Be'eri, a village a few miles from Israel’s fortified border with Gaza. Be’eri, a … more

By SAM McNEIL | 10/11/23

FILE - With the headquarters of the ruling party burning in the back, supporters of Niger's ruling junta demonstrate in Niamey, Niger, on July 27, 2023. The French troops being forced out of Niger were seen as a key line of decadelong defense amid efforts led by the West, particularly U.S. and France, to fight against jihadi violence in Africa’s hard-hit Sahel region.. (AP Photo/Fatahoulaye Hassane Midou, File)

French troops are starting to withdraw from Niger and junta leaders give UN head 72 hours to leave

The French military says it's begun withdrawing from Niger following the July coup when mutinous soldiers toppled the country’s democratically elected president. More than 100 troops left in two … more

By SAM MEDNICK | 10/11/23

Destruction from Israeli aerial bombardment is seen in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza is tiny and watched closely by Israel. But rescuing hostages there would be a daunting task

The Hamas-run Gaza Strip is a tiny enclave, measuring 25 miles long and no more than 7 miles wide. It is surveilled continually by Israel, and surrounded by its guns. But locating and rescuing dozens … more

By AMY TEIBEL | 10/11/23