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Taiwan protests after China boards a tourist boat near Kinmen Island
Taiwan is protesting China’s boarding of a tourist boat as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies just off the Chinese coast but is controlled by Taiwan. Taiwanese media reported … more
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FILE - Pope Francis prays at the beginning of the third day of a Vatican's conference on dealing with sex abuse by priests, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Five years ago this week, Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and they needed to address it, but now, five years later, despite new church laws to hold bishops accountable and promises to do better, the Catholic Church's in-house legal system and pastoral response to victims has proven again to be incapable of dealing with the problem. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool, file)
Long after pope's abuse summit, victims still traumatized by the system meant to address their cases
Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and that they needed to do something … more
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, left, accompanied by his wife Gabriela Rodriguez, wave to supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, after polls closed for general elections on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. El Salvador President Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday, Feb. 19. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases. Electoral officials announced the results Monday after a … more
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Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron visits San Carlos Cemetery on the Falkland Islands, during his high-profile visit to demonstrate they are a "valued part of the British family" amid renewed Argentinian calls for talks on their future, in Stanley, Falkland Islands, Britain, on Monday Feb. 19, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
Britain's top diplomat says he hopes the Falkland Islands will wish to stay in the UK family forever
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has toured battle sites of the Falklands War during a visit meant to underline that the Falkland Islands are a “valued part of the British family.” Cameron … more
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FILE - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, arrives for a German and Brazil governments meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Israel on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, condemned Brazil's president for comparing the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Naza genocide of European Jews during World War II. The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Lula returned to office last year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
Israel says Brazil's president unwelcome until he apologizes for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust
Israel’s foreign minister says Brazil’s president will not be welcome in Israel until he apologizes for comments he made comparing Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of a … more
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FILE - Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 20 kms ( 12 miles) North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 29, 2022. Eastern Congo has been beset by conflict for years, with M23 one of more than 100 armed groups vying for a foothold in the mineral-rich area near the border with Rwanda (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
What's happening in eastern Congo and why aid groups are warning of a new humanitarian crisis
Aid organizations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo region, where the renowned armed rebel group M23 is in the midst of a new advance that threatens to cut off a major city … more
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FILE - Inter Miami's Lionel Messi, center, looks on after the first half of the friendly football match between Hong Kong Team and US Inter Miami CF at the Hong Kong Stadium in Hong Kong, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Inter Miami's global tour of exhibition games, thought they are about promotion and marketing, hope to build a new brand by using stars like Messi and Uruguayan Luis Suarez. Instead, the tour is getting mostly bad PR and results that have not been much better. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)
After fallout in China, Messi insists politics had nothing to do with missing game in Hong Kong
Lionel Messi has made another conciliatory gesture to fans in Hong Kong and mainland China by releasing a video on social media to explain why he didn’t play in an exhibition match this month, and … more
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CORRECTS TO DELETE THE DEATH TOLL AS THE NUMBER HAS LOWERED AFTER MORE REPORT - FILE - Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22, 2022, at U.N. headquarters. Multiple people were massacred in a major escalation of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea, Australian media reported Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Tribal violence in the Enga region has intensified since elections in 2022 that maintained Prime Minister James Marape's administration. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
Tribal bloodshed shines spotlight on strategically vital Papua New Guinea's domestic security issues
A tribal clash in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands in which more than 20 people were shot and killed has put a growing internal security problem under the microscope in the strategically vital … more
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A mural of Argentine former first lady María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva Perón, or Evita, depicting her with a saint's halo, adorns a wall inside the Peron Peron restaurant in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A prayer for Evita: Here's why many Argentinians are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952
Far from Argentina, few people may know much about Eva Perón, widely known as “Evita." But the former first lady, who died in 1952, is a constant presence in her home country. Her face is printed … more
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A 31-year-old American man accused of murder is led into the courtroom at the regional court in Kempten, Southern Germany, Monday Feb. 19, 2024. An American man on Monday admitted to charges of murder and rape after he allegedly pushed two U.S. women down a ravine, fatally injuring one of them near Germany's Neuschwanstein castle last year. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa via AP)
American man admits to attacking 2 US tourists and killing one of them near a famous German castle
An American man is on trial Kempten, Southern Germany for murder and other offenses after he allegedly pushed two women from the U.S. into a ravine near Neuschwanstein castle in June last year, … more
This photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, shows an aerial view of the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant, eastern Ukraine. Russian forces have taken complete control of the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told the Kremlin on Saturday that Russian forces were now working to clear the final pockets of resistance at the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant, officials said in a statement. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Russia says it has crushed the last pocket of resistance in Avdiivka to complete the city's capture
The Russian military says its forces have completed their takeover of Avdiivka by eliminating the last pocket of resistance at the eastern Ukraine city’s huge coke plant. Monday's announcement … more
Prefect of the Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Bishop Sergio Pagano speaks in his office at The Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, during an interview with The Associated Press. In a new book-length interview with Italian journalist Massimo Franco, “Secretum”, Pagano divulges some of the unknown or behind-the-scenes details of well-known sagas of the Holy See and its relations with the outside world over the past 12 centuries. From Napoleon’s sacking of the archive in 1810 to the Galileo affair and the peculiar conclave of 1922 that was financed almost entirely by donations from U.S. Catholics. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is retiring. Here’s what he wants you to know
The longtime prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive is spilling the beans for the first time. He is revealing some of the secrets he has uncovered in the 45 years he has worked in one of the world’s … more
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FILE - Maryam al-Khawaja poses for a photograph outside Heathrow airport, in London, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain said Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, she had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, again calling for her father's release. Maryam al-Khawaja again called on Denmark, where both al-Khawajas have citizenship, to do more to free her father, 62-year-old Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
Daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has cancer, urges his release
The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and again called for his release. Maryam al-Khawaja on Monday urged Denmark, where … more
FILE - A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Jan. 26, 2024. The United Nations' highest court opens historic hearings Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, File)
Top UN court to open hearings into Israel’s occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state.
Historic hearings are opening at the United Nations' top court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. Palestinian representatives will speak first … more
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FILE - Prominent Russian opposition figure and chess champion Garry Kasparov speaks in an interview with The Associated Press at the conclusion of the fifth Vilnius Russia Forum at the Esperanza hotel in Trakai district,some 50 kms (31 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, May 25, 2018. Alexei Navalny was the most well-known Russian opposition leader and his death in a prison colony has dealt it a heavy blow as President Vladimir Putin’s biggest political foe has been silenced forever. There is no anti-war candidate on the ballot to give Putin even a token challenge in next month’s election for a sixth term, and most of the opposition is scattered abroad in exile, or in prison at home. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)
The Russian opposition just lost its brightest star. What does it do now?
The Russian opposition lost its brightest star when politician Alexei Navalny died Friday in an Arctic penal colony. He joined a long list of Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and … more
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A woman walks down a street in the village of Callac, on Dec.15, 2023. The far right cried victory in January 2023, when mayor Jean-Yves Rolland of Callac gave up his plan to house seven to 10 refugee families. (AP Photo/Mathieu Pattier)
French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups
Mayors have long been highly appreciated among elected officials in France. But they are under attack as never before from far-right political groups. The groups' opposition to immigration is the … more
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FILE - Passengers leave the baggage handling hall at the Dubai International Airport terminal 3, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Oct. 25, 2022. The number of passengers flying through Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel, surged in 2023 beyond its total for 2019 — just before the coronavirus pandemic grounded global aviation, officials said Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
Dubai International Airport had 86.9 million passengers last year in a post-pandemic surge
The number of passengers flying through Dubai International Airport surged last year beyond its total for 2019 — just before the coronavirus pandemic grounded global aviation. The airport is the … more
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FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida listens to a speaker at the 50th anniversary of the ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation luncheon meeting at KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation) in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2023. Japan is hosting a reconstruction conference for Ukraine on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, just ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion as Tokyo seeks to showcase its commitment to supporting the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)
Japan will host Ukraine reconstruction conference to showcase support for war-torn country
Japan is to host a reconstruction conference for Ukraine ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion as Tokyo seeks to showcase its commitment for the support of the war-torn country. … more
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Houthi rebels suspected in attack that damaged a Belize-flagged ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are suspected in an attack on a Belize-flagged ship traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The ship targeted in the assault … more
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Police say 53 men massacred in Papua New Guinea tribal violence, Australian state media reports
Australian state media reports police say 53 men have been massacred in tribal violence in Papua New Guinea.Australian Broadcasting Corp reported on Monday the men had been shot dead in an ambush in … more
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