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A 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer in a Paris suburb on Tuesday. The death unleashed tensions between angry residents and police. (June 28)

France heightens security after unrest prompted by police shooting of 17-year-old

France’s government has announced heightened police presence around Paris and other big cities and called for calm after scattered violence over the death of a 17-year-old delivery driver. The … more

6/28/23

In this photo provided by the National Police of Ukraine, a police officer and a rescue worker walk in front of a restaurant RIA Pizza destroyed by a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (National Police of Ukraine via AP)

Death toll rises to 8 in Russian attack on a restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk

Ukraine's State Emergency Service says the death toll from a Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant in an eastern Ukrainian city has risen to eight. The service said Wednesday that at least … more

6/28/23

Hamrin Alouji, the mother of 13-year-old Peyal Aqil, goes through her daughter's photographs at their family home in Qamishli, Syria, on Monday, June 5, 2023. Alouji said her daughter was coming home with her friends on May 21 after a school exam when a recruiter for the Revolutionary Youth approached her - the youth branch of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and entered a center belonging to the group with him. Her friends waited for her outside, but she never came out. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides

A U.N. report says armed groups across Syria are recruiting children into their ranks in growing numbers, even as fighting is subsiding. The report released Tuesday says the number of confirmed cases … more

By HOGIR ABDO and ABBY SEWELL | 6/28/23

Student activist Bunkueanun Paothong arrives at a criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. A court in Thailand on Wednesday acquitted the student activist and four other people of impeding the motorcade of the country’s queen during pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, an offense that could have seen them sentenced to 16 years in jail or even the death penalty. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai court acquits 5 who were accused of blocking the queen's motorcade during 2020 protests

A court in Thailand has acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the motorcade of the country’s queen during pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, an offense that could have … more

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI | 6/28/23

Tensions erupt in a Paris suburb after a 17-year-old delivery driver is killed in a police standoff

Lawyers say a 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer in a Paris suburb. The death unleashed tensions in the area between angry residents setting barricades on fire and … more

6/27/23

FILE - Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem on Feb. 27, 2018. Two victims of Leifer, convicted of their sexual abuse as children, told a court in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, of the pain she had caused them. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Sisters tell Australia court that abuse by Jewish school principal broke trust, painful to remember

Two sisters have told an Australian court that being sexually abused by their Jewish school's principal broke their ability to trust forever and is painful to remember. Malka Leifer was convicted of … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 6/27/23

Bernardo Arévalo, presidential candidate with the Seed Movement, gives an interview in Guatemala City, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Arévalo will compete in a presidential runoff election on Aug. 20. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Bernardo Arévalo, Guatemala's electoral surprise, makes corruption fight top priority

Bernardo Arévalo, the surprise of the first round of voting in Guatemala, says the choice in the Aug. 20 presidential runoff is a clear one: Continue living under a corrupt system with his rival or … more

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | 6/27/23

FILE - This file photo shows a part of new housing projects in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Givat Ze'ev, Monday, June 18, 2023. Israel’s far-right government on Monday, June 26, 2023, approved plans to build thousands of new homes in the occupied West Bank — a move that threatened to worsen increasingly strained relations with the United States. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

UN urges Israel and Palestinians to halt West Bank violence in statement backed by US and Russia

The U.N. Security Council is urging Israel and the Palestinians to avoid actions that can further inflame tensions in the volatile West Bank. The statement was backed by both the United States and … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 6/27/23

Morning newspapers publish an ad of condolence massages for two victims of Titan submersible incident, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, by their family and firm, displayed at a roadside stall, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. As an international group of agencies investigates why the Titan submersible imploded while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage, U.S. maritime officials say they'll issue a report aimed at improving the safety of submersibles worldwide. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Family of Pakistani father and son who died in Titan submersible shares memories and gratitude

The family of two Pakistani men who died in the implosion of a submersible as it descended to the wreckage of the Titanic have thanked everyone who tried to rescue the father and son or sent … more

By MUNIR AHMED | 6/27/23

In this photo provided by the Paris Fire brigade on Thursday June 22, 2023, firefighters work at the site of an explosion in Paris, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. French rescue workers searched Thursday for a person feared missing after a powerful blast brought down a building on Paris' Left Bank, injuring more than 30 people, four of them critically. (E Thepault/BSPP via AP)

Rescuers found body in rubble of Paris building that collapsed in explosion

The Paris prosecutor's office says French emergency workers found a body in the rubble of a building that collapsed in an explosion last week. Rescuers are working to remove the remains and identify … more

6/27/23

People hold pictures of missing girl Emanuela Orlandi during a sit-in in St.Peter's Square as Pope Francis, at the window of his studio in background, recites the Angelus noon prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, June 25, 2023. The Pope in his speech remembered the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a lay employee of the Holy See, that vanished June 22, 1983, after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Parliamentary inquest into 'Vatican Girl' mystery moves forward as pope acknowledges family's pain

Italy’s Parliament is poised to open a bicameral commission of inquiry into the 1883 disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee. If that happens, it would be the third new … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 6/27/23

FILE - Malians demonstrate against France and in support of Russia on the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Mali, in Bamako, Mali, Sept. 22, 2020. The Russian mercenary group that briefly rebelled against President Vladimir Putin’s authority has for years been a ruthless force-for-hire across Africa, protecting rulers at the expense of the masses. That dynamic is not expected to change now that the group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been exiled to Belarus as punishment for the failed rebellion. Neither Russia nor the African leaders dependent on Wagner’s fighters have any interest in ending their relationships. (AP Photo/File)

Russian militia maintains ruthless role in Africa after failed rebellion

The Russian mercenary group that briefly rebelled against President Vladimir Putin’s authority has for years been a ruthless force-for-hire across Africa, protecting rulers at the expense of the … more

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA, CHINEDU ASADU and ZANE IRWIN | 6/27/23

Newly appointed Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis speaks during a handover ceremony, in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' cabinet has been sworn in as his center-right New Democracy party had 40.55%, more than twice the opposition Syriza party's 17.84% on Sunday's elections. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

After elections, Greece vows to continue 'strict but fair' migration policy

Greece’s new migration minister is promising to continue a “strict but fair” policy toward migration and attempts at illegal entry into the country. The new minister, Dimitris Kairidis, spoke … more

6/27/23

AfD members, Bjorn Hocke, left, Robert Sesselmann, centre, Stephan Brandner, 3rd from left and Tino Chrupalla are photographed at the AfD election party, in Sonneberg, Germany, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Sesselmann has received the most votes in the first round of the run off elections. Alternative for Germany hope to win the political party's first-ever governing post. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)

After a far-right victory in German county, a man in neo-Nazi clothing hands balloons to children

German authorities are investigating a video showing a man in neo-Nazi clothing handing balloons to kindergartners a day after the country’s main far-right party won control of a county … more

6/27/23

FILE - Tanya Nedashkivs'ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband who was killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. The United Nations human rights office says Russian forces carried out widespread and systematic torture of civilians who were detained in connection with its attack on Ukraine, and summarily executed dozens of them. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

UN report finds Russia tortured, executed civilians in Ukraine; Kyiv also abused detainees

The United Nations human rights office says Russian forces carried out widespread and systematic torture of civilians who were detained in connection with its attack on Ukraine, and summarily … more

By FRANK JORDANS | 6/27/23

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the opening ceremony of the Year of Chinese tourism in Russia, in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, March 22, 2013. China's muted reaction to the Wagner mercenary group uprising against Russia's military belies Beijing's growing anxieties over the war in Ukraine and how this affects the global balance of power. (AP Photo/Sergei Ilnitsky, Pool, File)

In China, a muted reaction to the revolt in Russia belies anxiety over war, global balance of power

China’s muted reaction to the Wagner mercenary group uprising against Russia’s military belies Beijing’s growing anxieties over the war in Ukraine and how this affects the global balance of … more

By DAKE KANG | 6/27/23

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, talks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, left, during the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 25, 2023.(Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu says China has invited him for a state visit

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has received an invitation for an official visit to China but didn't disclose whether or when the trip would take place. The Israeli leader made the … more

6/27/23

FILE - An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of yellow split peas to be allocated to waiting families after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. In 2023 urgently needed grain and oil have disappeared again for millions caught in a standoff between Ethiopia's government, the United States and United Nations over what U.S. officials say may be the biggest theft of food aid on record. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region, officials say

Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid. The … more

By CARA ANNA | 6/27/23

Loreli King holds up the pictures of her husband Vincent Marzello during a demonstrates as former Minister for Health, Matt Hancock arrives the Dorland House to give evidence at the Covid Inquiry in London, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK was ill-prepared for pandemic because resources were diverted to Brexit, ex-health chief says

Britain's former health secretary has told an official inquiry that the U.K. was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace … more

By SYLVIA HUI | 6/27/23

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, speaks with South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Naledi Pandor, right, as they meet in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

German foreign minister poses challenge to South Africa over its position on Russian war effort

Germany's foreign minister has called for Russia “to stop the bombing” of Ukraine, a pointed message to South Africa as it draws accusations of aiding Moscow's war effort. Annalena Baerbock's … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 6/27/23