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A South Korean army K1E1 tank crosses a floating bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river-crossing exercise between South Korea and the United States as a part of the Freedom Shield military exercise in Yeoncheon, South Korea, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea says it tested new missiles as it threatens strong steps against US-South Korea drills

North Korea says it has test-launched new anti-aircraft missiles, as its military threatens unspecified grave steps against the U.S. and South Korea over their military drills. The official Korean … more

By HYUNG-JIN KIM | 3/20/25

FILE - Migrants aboard a Cyprus marine police patrol boat are brought to a harbor after being rescued from their own vessel off the Mediterranean island nation's southeastern coast of Protaras, Cyprus, on Jan. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

UN refugee agency says Cyprus still pushes back migrant boats, Cyprus insists agency has it wrong

Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation continues to engage in so-called pushbacks against migrant boats departing … more

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS | 3/20/25

FILE - White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

67,000 white South Africans have expressed interest in Trump's plan to give them refugee status

The U.S. Embassy in South Africa says it has received a list of nearly 70,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white … more

By GERALD IMRAY | 3/20/25

Giant panda cub twins Leni and Lotti plays in an outdoor area of the Panda Garden, during their first outdoor adventure, at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

AP PHOTOS: Giant panda cub twins venture out for the first time at Berlin Zoo

BERLIN (AP) — Giant panda cub twins Leni and Lotti ventured out for the first time at Berlin Zoo on Thursday. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. more

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI | 3/20/25

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the media during a press conference at Canada House in London on Monday, March 17, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

AP source: New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will call a snap election on Sunday

A government official familiar with the matter says Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will call an snap election on Sunday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized … more

By ROB GILLIES | 3/20/25

Protesters hold posters as they march during a rally against the passing of a new military law allowing active military personnel to hold more civilian posts, outside the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Why Indonesia's new military law is alarming pro-democracy activists and rights groups

Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously voted to pass a controversial revision of its military law that will expand the armed forces’ role in civilian affairs despite growing opposition from … more

By NINIEK KARMINI | 3/20/25

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks during a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Germany reopens its embassy in Syria, 13 years after it was closed

Germany has reopened its embassy in Damascus, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reopened the embassy during a visit to Damascus … more

3/20/25

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, during a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

The EU will shrug off Hungary’s opposition to Ukraine support at a summit. What’s Orbán’s next move?

Hungary is poised to do it again. For the second time in a month, every other European Union nation is poised on Thursday to sign a joint statement backing Ukraine. It's a symbolic move that makes … more

By ELLA JOYNER | 3/20/25

FILE - Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)

Rwanda-backed rebels enter mineral-rich town in Congo, defying ceasefire calls

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the strategic town of Walikale in eastern Congo late Wednesday, according to residents and civil society leaders, a day after the Congolese and Rwandan presidents … more

By JUSTIN KABUMBA | 3/20/25

People raise their mobile phones as they gather outside the City Hall to protest the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Turkey detains 37 over 'provocative' social media posts following arrest of Istanbul mayor

Turkey's interior minister says authorities have detained 37 people for allegedly sharing “provocative” content on social media following the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and potential challenger … more

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER | 3/20/25

Amadou Ndiaye holds a Braille tablet in Bamako, Mali, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

200 years after the creation of braille, blind people in Mali say it has allowed them to fit in

Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system that has transformed the lives of many blind and partially sighted people. In Mali, some people say it has … more

By MOUSTAPHA DIALLO | 3/20/25

Sri Indrayati, 52, removes the tattoo of the name of her first daughter that she got shortly after she gave birth to her at the age of 22, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Muslims with tattoo regrets flock to a free removal service during Ramadan

A growing number of people in Indonesia’s capital have signed up for free tattoo removal services offered by an Islamic charity organization during Ramadan to give practicing Muslims an opportunity … more

By NINIEK KARMINI | 3/19/25

A subway sign, center top, is seen at the Kodenmacho station, that was affected by a deadly sarin nerve gas attack 30 years ago, in Tokyo, as a passenger gets out of its exit Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

30 years after deadly Tokyo subway gassing, survivors and victims' families still seeking closure

Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones are still seeking justice. Thirteen people were killed and thousands were … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 3/19/25

Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly responds to a question during a news conference on tariffs, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year

Canada's government says China executed four Canadians earlier this year. Such executions of Westerners are relatively rare. Beijing’s embassy in Ottawa said the executions were due to drug crimes … more

By ROB GILLIES | 3/19/25

Ukrainian servicemen react after returning from captivity during a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia and Ukraine swap hundreds of prisoners in one of the war's largest exchanges

Russia and Ukraine say they have each swapped 175 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges of the war began. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday the exchange included severely … more

By HANNA ARHIROVA | 3/19/25

This photo released by the Jalisco State Attorney General's Office shows shoes at the Izaguirre Ranch where skeletal remains were also discovered in the municipality of Teuchitlan, Mexico, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Jalisco State Attorney General's Office via AP)

Mexico's attorney general cites irregularities in investigation of alleged cartel killing site

Mexico’s attorney general has reported irregularities in an investigation by state authorities into an alleged cartel killing site and training camp at a ranch in the western state of Jalisco where … more

Associated Press | 3/19/25

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen rings a bell to signify the start of the weekly College of Commissioners meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU signals a new drive to buy European weapons and break its security dependency on the US

The European Union is on a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States. Under a strategy unveiled Thursday, the 27 nation bloc is urged to buy defense equipment in Europe rather … more

By LORNE COOK | 3/19/25

FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts

A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed. The freeze also affected … more

By DAVID RISING and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL | 3/19/25

Undated photo of a bream fish at a river lock in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, Netherlands, where a "fish doorbell" was installed that lets viewers of an online livestream alert authorities to fish being held up as they make their springtime migration to shallow spawning grounds. (Visdeurbel via AP)

A Dutch 'fish doorbell' has turned into an unlikely online hit combining slow TV and ecology

The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that allows denizens of the internet to give a helping hand to denizens of the deep in their springtime swim to shallow spawning … more

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA | 3/19/25

FILE - Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu addresses his supporters in front of the Istanbul courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, file)

Police arrest Istanbul mayor, a key Erdogan rival, over alleged corruption and terror links

Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and terror links. The state-run Anadolu … more

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER | 3/19/25