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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)

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

Water mist is sprayed on Muslim pilgrims as they pray on the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Around two million pilgrims are converging on Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca for the largest Hajj since the coronavirus pandemic severely curtailed access to one of Islam's five pillars. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

'Hajj is not Mecca': Why prayers at Mount Arafat are the spiritual peak of Islamic pilgrimage

Muslim pilgrims gather on the rocky hill Mount Arafat outside Mecca for a day of prayer on the second day of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. The Day of Arafat, as it is called, is believed to be when God … more

By RIAZAT BUTT | 6/27/23

A street vendor selling oranges at a taxi rank in Welkom, South Africa, Friday, June 23, 2023. At least 31 people were believed to have died in a gas explosion in a disused mine shaft in the city of Welkom that happened last month but was only now coming to light, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

'Movement' detected at South African mine where dozens suspected dead, but no search operation yet

South African authorities say they have detected “movement” underground at a shuttered gold mine where they believe at least 31 illegal miners died in a suspected gas explosion last month. They … more

By GERALD IMRAY | 6/27/23

FILE - A vehicle with members of the Thai royal family onboard passes through a road where anti-government protesters gathered outside the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand on Oct. 14, 2020. A Thai court will deliver a verdict on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 in the case of five people accused of impeding the queen’s motorcade during a pro-democracy march in 2020, an offense that if judged egregious could bring a death sentence. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Verdict due for 5 protesters accused of blocking Thai queen's car. Law allows the death penalty

A court in Thailand is to deliver a verdict Wednesday in the case of five people accused of impeding the queen’s motorcade during a pro-democracy march in 2020. Hundreds of criminal cases have … more

By JERRY HARMER and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI | 6/27/23

FILE - Relatives and classmates of the missing 43 Ayotzinapa college students march in Mexico City, Sept. 26, 2022, on the anniversary of their disappearance in Iguala, Guerrero state. Eight soldiers linked to the disappearance of the student teachers in 2014, were arrested and are in a military prison awaiting a civil judge to determine whether to open criminal proceedings against them, reported an Army commander, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico arrests former official in disappearance of 43 students in 2014, charges 8 soldiers

Mexico says it has arrested the former head of a federal anti-kidnapping unit in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Gualberto Ramírez was head of the anti-kidnapping unit for … more

6/26/23