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FILE - Police officers scuffle with protesters during a demonstration in Lyon, central France, on March 23, 2023. French authorities see the police as protectors ensuring that citizens can peacefully protest President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious retirement age increase. But to human rights advocates and demonstrators who were clubbed or tear-gassed, officers have overstepped their mission. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

Pension protests raise tension between police, demonstrators

French authorities see the police as protectors who ensure that citizens can peacefully protest President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious retirement age increase. But to human rights advocates and … more

By ELAINE GANLEY | 4/3/23

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 31, 2023. (Alexei Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia to put nukes near Belarus' western border, envoy says

Russia's ambassador to Belarus says that Moscow will deploy tactical nuclear weapons close to Belarus’ border with NATO neighbors. Sunday's statement from Ambassador Boris Gryzlov comes amid … more

By YURAS KARMANAU | 4/2/23

Activists demonstrate outside the Algerian embassy to France to demand the release of release of Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi, Thursday, March 30, 2023 in Paris. Ihsane El Kadi has for years been the target of Algerian authorities and was taken to custody on Dec. 24 2022. The verdict in his trial for "illegal fund raising" and "endangering state security", is expected Sunday April 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Algerian court sentences prominent journalist to 5 years

A court in Algiers sentenced a prominent journalist to five years in prison with two years suspended on Sunday. Ihsane El-Kadi, who was active in Algeria’s Hirak pro-democracy protest movement in … more

4/2/23

Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, center, waves during the Palm Sunday procession on the Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem, Sunday, April 2, 2023. The procession observes Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem in the time leading up to his crucifixion, which Christians mark on Good Friday. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Christian faithful mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem

Thousands of Christian pilgrims have participated in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week. Worshipers carried palm fronds and olive branches and marched from the top of … more

4/2/23

Activists' network in Mexico helps U.S. women get abortions

A network of abortion-rights activists in Mexico is finding ways to offer assistance -- including shipments of abortion pills -- to women in the United States affected by recently imposed abortion … more

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ | 4/2/23

Pope Francis arrives to celebrate the Palm Sunday's mass in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican Sunday, April 2, 2023 a day after being discharged from the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he has been treated for bronchitis, The Vatican said. The Roman Catholic Church enters Holy Week, retracing the story of the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Rebounding Pope Francis begins Palm Sunday Mass at Vatican

Pope Francis has opened the celebration of Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, presiding at his first ceremony after a hospital stay for bronchitis. Francis wore a long, ivory-colored coat as he … more

4/2/23

A mother prepares a meal for her family in a displacement camp on the bank of a flooded rice paddy near the village of Nicoadala, Zambezia province, Mozambique, Friday, March 24, 2023. Weeks after a massive cyclone hit Mozambique for a second time, the still-flooded country is facing a spiraling cholera outbreak which threatens to add to the devastation. (AP Photo/Tom Gould)

Mozambique works to contain cholera outbreak after cyclone

Weeks after massive Cyclone Freddy hit Mozambique for a second time, the still-flooded country is facing a spiraling cholera outbreak that threatens to add to the devastation. More than 19,000 cases … more

By TOM GOULD | 4/2/23

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Helsinki, Finland, Saturday, April 1, 2023. A parliamentary election in Finland on Sunday is shaping up as an extremely close race between three parties as Prime Minister Sanna Marin's Social Democrats fight to secure a second term running the government. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Finns vote in tight election; young leader seeks reelection

Polling stations have opened in Finland for a general election that is expected to produce a close finish between three parties. Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats are fighting to secure … more

4/2/23

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to open new pharmaceutical production facilities in the Kaliningrad Region, Mordovia and St Petersburg via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 30, 2023. An international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of justice for the man whose country invaded Ukraine but complicates efforts to end that war in peace talks. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

War-crimes warrant for Putin could complicate Ukraine peace

An international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of justice for the man whose country invaded Ukraine but complicates efforts to end that war in peace talks. Both … more

By MIKE CORDER | 4/2/23

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, center left, and Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei, walk to a staging area during their visit to the Mayan site Tikal, in Peten, Guatemala, Saturday, April 1, 2023. Tsai is in Guatemala for an official three-day visit. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Presidents of Taiwan, Guatemala visit Mayan pyramid

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei have toured the archaeological site of Tikal during a trip by Tsai that aims to shore up the self-governing … more

4/1/23

Israelis protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israelis still protest legal overhaul despite suspension

Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting a controversial plan to revamp the country’s legal system, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suspension of the changes earlier in the week. … more

4/1/23

FILE - The body of a man is illuminated by police flashlights as investigators work a crime scene where an alleged thief and a female passenger died in a shootout during a robbery on a bus in San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. 6, 2023. According to the authorities, the Central American nation has reached its highest murder rate since the Organization of Judicial Investigation office has kept records. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez, File)

Drug trafficking blamed as homicides soar in Costa Rica

Costa Rica logged a record 657 homicides last year. Limon, a Caribbean port with a homicide rate five times the national average, was at the epicenter. The bloodshed in a country better known for a … more

By JAVIER CORDOBA | 4/1/23

FILE - Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad speaks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. Syria’s chief diplomat was in Cairo on Saturday, April 1, 2023, a step forward in the process of normalizing ties between the two countries. It was the first trip for a Syrian foreign minister to Egypt in over a decade. (Alexander Nememov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Syria's FM visits Egypt in step toward restoring ties

Syria’s chief diplomat is visiting Egypt in a step toward normalizing ties between the two countries. It was the first trip to the capital of Cairo for a Syrian foreign minister in over a decade. … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 4/1/23

FILE - Afghan worshippers attend Friday prayer during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 31, 2023. A women-run radio station in Afghanistan’s northeast has been shut down for playing songs and music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said Saturday, April 1. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban close women-run Afghan station for playing music

A Taliban official says a women-run radio station in Afghanistan's northeast was closed for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan. During their previous rule in the late 1990s, the Taliban … more

4/1/23

Irwing Lopez, a 35-year-old migrant construction worker from Venezuela, washes windshields for tips at a stoplight near the U.S. border wall, behind, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2023. Lopez's friend and fellow Venezuelan Samuel Marchena was detained by immigration agents and hours later became one of the 39 migrants who died earlier this week in a fire at an immigration detention center. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants

Tensions have simmered between migrants and residents in Mexican border cities for years, with camps set up near crossings by those who can’t afford housing or who cling to hopes the U.S. will … more

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ | 4/1/23

A statue of late Pope John Paul II is backdropped by the rooms on the top floor normally used when a pope is hospitalized at the Agostino Gemelli hospital, in Rome, Friday, March 31, 2023. Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis as his recovery proceeds in a "normal" way, even had pizza for dinner and will be in St. Peter's Square for Palm Sunday Mass, the Vatican said. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis leaves hospital after bronchitis treatment

Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis. The 86-year-old Francis was hospitalized on Wednesday at Gemelli Polyclinic where he received … more

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | 4/1/23

Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga stands next to one of his vehicles he says was struck by a teargas canister fired by riot police, at his home in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, March 31, 2023. In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Odinga denounced the point-blank firing of a tear gas canister at local journalists during his latest anti-government protest as a "primitive act of intolerance" and vowed to go to court over what he called an attempt on his own life. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenyan opposition leader to sue over alleged attempt on life

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has denounced the point-blank firing of a tear gas canister at local journalists during his latest anti-government protest as a “primitive act of … more

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI | 4/1/23

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a speech during an opening ceremony of Fukushima Institute for Research, Education and Innovation (F-REI) in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Saturday, April 1, 2023. (Kyodo News via AP)

Small areas reopen near Fukushima nuclear plant, few return

Evacuation orders have been lifted in small sections of Tomioka, a town just southwest of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, in time for the area’s popular cherry blossom season. Prime … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 4/1/23

FILE - Britain's King Charles III waves from a balcony of the city hall in Hamburg, Germany, Friday, March 31, 2023. King Charles III won plenty of hearts during his three-day visit to Germany, his first foreign trip since becoming king following the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, last year. (AP Photo/Gregor Fischer, File)

Charles wins hearts in Germany as soft power pays off

King Charles III won plenty of hearts during his three-day visit to Germany, his first foreign trip since becoming king following the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, last year. The closely … more

By FRANK JORDANS and EMILY SCHULTHEIS | 4/1/23

FILE - A traffic light signals green in front of the logos of the Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS in Zurich, Switzerland, on March 19, 2023. Analysts say the UBS takeover of embattled rival Credit Suisse has shaken Switzerland’s self-image and dented its reputation as a global financial center. They warn that the country’s prosperity could grow too dependent on a single banking behemoth. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP, File)

Credit Suisse takeover hits heart of Swiss banking, identity

Analysts say the UBS takeover of embattled rival Credit Suisse has shaken Switzerland’s self-image and dented its reputation as a global financial center. They warn that the country’s prosperity … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 4/1/23