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The Skansen Aquarium's entrance, part of the zoo on Djurgarden island, where a deadly snake escaped on Saturday via a light fixture in the ceiling of its glass enclosure, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday Oct. 24, 2022. A venomous king cobra which escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo six days ago has been located inside the building where its terrarium is located but has not yet been recaptured, the park said Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Cobra missing for 6 days in Swedish zoo located, still free

A venomous king cobra which escaped from a Swedish zoo terrarium six days ago has been located inside the building where it lived but has not been recaptured. The park said Friday the reptile was … more

10/28/22

2 Palestinians killed by Israel; military alleges ambush

Palestinian health officials say two Palestinians have been killed and a third was wounded by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank. Conflicting claims emerged about the shooting near the city … more

10/28/22

Bar-tailed godwits stand on the beach at Marion Bay in Australia's Tasmania state on Feb. 17, 2018. A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird expert said Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Eric Woehler via AP)

Alaska-Australia flight could place bird in record books

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania. … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 10/28/22

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, rescuers use boats to evacuate residents from flooded areas due to Tropical Storm Nalgae at Parang, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Friday Oct. 28, 2022. Floodwaters rapidly rose in many low-lying villages, forcing some villagers to climb to their roofs, where they were rescued by army troops, police and volunteers, officials said. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

At least 31 dead in floods, landslides in south Philippines

Philippine officials say at least 31 people have died and nine others are missing after flash floods and landslides were set off by torrential rains that swamped a southern province overnight. … more

10/28/22

A commuter wearing a face mask rides a scooter along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Shanghai district orders mass COVID-19 testing, lockdown

China's largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing on all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and confining them to their homes at least until results are known. Friday's … more

10/28/22

At UN climate summit, India to flex its negotiating muscles

The key priority for India at the upcoming U.N. climate conference will be how to pay for the transition away from fossil fuels for energy and industries to meet temperature limit targets, according … more

By SIBI ARASU | 10/28/22

FILE - Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is seen from around twenty kilometers away in an area in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

UN nuclear agency to probe Russia claim of `dirty bombs'

The U.N. nuclear chief says he is sending inspectors to two locations in Ukraine where Russia alleged that activities related to the possible production of “dirty bombs” was taking place and … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 10/27/22

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for the House of Commons for his first Prime Minister's Questions in London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Sunak was elected by the ruling Conservative party to replace Liz Truss who resigned. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK says new PM Rishi Sunak won't go to UN climate conference

The British government says new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not attend the major United Nations climate conference next month. Sunak’s office said the decision was made because of “pressing … more

10/27/22

FILE - A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018. The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report issued Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years

The World Health Organization says the number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years in 2021. A report from the U.N. … more

10/27/22

A teacher looks out the window of an empty classroom at the God's Will Primary school, which was closed for the day to mourn the death of a pupil from Ebola, in Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Uganda's Ebola outbreak is under control and authorities are doing well to trace most contacts, a top public health official in Africa said Thursday, despite six cases of schoolchildren with the disease in three different schools in the capital, one of whom died. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

African health official: Ebola in Uganda is under control

Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is under control, a top public health official in Africa said Thursday, noting that local health authorities are doing well in tracing most contacts. “The situation is not … more

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and HAJARAH NALWADDA | 10/27/22

FILE - Women protest after more than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and armed robbery of a video production crew appeared on court, outside the Krugersdorp Magistrate Court in South Africa, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, women’s rights groups in South Africa expressed outrage and criticized police for perceived failures after charges were dropped against 14 men accused of gang raping and robbing female members of a film crew at an abandoned mine in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed/File)

Outrage in South Africa as charges dropped in gang rape case

Women’s rights groups in South Africa have expressed outrage at the withdrawing of charges against 14 suspects accused of gang raping and robbing female members of a film crew at an abandoned mine … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 10/27/22

Bullet holes on the wall and blood on the ground are seen after gunmen attacked the Shah Cheragh shrine in the southern city of Shiraz, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Gunmen attacked the major Shiite holy site in Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens. The attack came as protesters elsewhere in Iran marked a symbolic 40 days since a woman's death in custody ignited the biggest anti-government movement in over a decade. (Mohammadreza Dehdari/Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA via AP)

Iran leaders try to link protests to gun attack killing 15

Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests roiling the country to an Islamic State-claimed gun attack on a famous mosque that killed 15 people. The comments … more

By The Associated Press | 10/27/22

FILE - An Egyptian vendor walks past a poster showing a U.S. dollar outside an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Egypt’s central bank has announced that it raised interest rates by 2% and switched to a more flexible exchange rate system. The institution said Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 it had raised the lending rate, the deposit rate and the discount rate. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt, IMF reach preliminary agreement for $3 billion loan

The International Monetary Fund has reached a deal with the Egyptian government, paving the way for the country to access a $3 billion loan. IMF officials on Thursday announced a “staff … more

10/27/22

FILE - Former presidential candidate and TV star Ksenia Sobchak attends a news conference in Moscow, on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Russian investigators on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 raided the home of Sobchak, the glamourous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's one-time boss, in a move that has sent shockwaves through the country's political scene. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak arrives in Lithuania

Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak — the glamorous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s onetime boss — has arrived in Lithuania on an Israeli passport after fleeing Russian … more

10/27/22

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein waves to journalists upon his arrival at the presidential palace to meet with Lebanese President Michel Aoun in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon delivers signed sea border deal to U.S. mediator

Lebanon has signed and delivered its copy of a U.S.-mediated sea border deal with Israel to an American mediator, and Israel was expected to sign off. President Michel Aoun and a delegation of … more

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 10/27/22

FILE - A woman sits on a car as she leaves Ulsan Jungbu police station in Ulsan, South Korea on Sept. 15, 2022, for the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office. South Korea has initiated a court review on whether to extradite a 42-year-old woman facing murder charges from New Zealand, where the bodies of two long-dead children were found in abandoned suitcases in August. (Bae Byung-soo/Newsis via AP, File)

South Korea to review extradition of New Zealand suspect

South Korea has initiated a court review on whether to extradite a 42-year-old woman facing murder charges from New Zealand, where the bodies of two long-dead children were found in abandoned … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 10/27/22

Jury discharged in Australian Parliament House rape trial

A judge has discharged a jury in the high-profile trial of a former government advisor charged with raping a colleague in the Australian Parliament House because a juror had brought a research paper … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 10/26/22

Venezuelan migrants board a bus to the Tocumen International Airport to return to Venezuela, in Panama City, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Venezuelans halted in Panama by US policy change return home

With dashed dreams and empty hands, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants are stranded in Panama’s capital looking for a way home after surviving the crossing of the Darien Gap only to find that a United … more

By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ | 10/26/22

In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)

Is UK leader Rishi Sunak too rich to rule in tough times?

As he makes tough decisions to stem Britain’s economic crisis, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will “always protect the most vulnerable.” But some wonder whether he is too rich to relate. … more

By JILL LAWLESS | 10/26/22

Supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection, right, confront supporters of Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is also running for president, during a campaign event at a bus station in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. The presidential run-off election is set for Oct. 30. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

On Sunday, Brazil's bitter presidential race comes to an end

On Sunday, Brazilians are choosing between two futures. There's a future of conservative values under a far-right leader. For others, there's the hope of returning to a prosperous past presided … more

By DAVID BILLER and CARLA BRIDI | 10/26/22