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Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya speaks to delegates during a security council meeting at United Nations Headquarters, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Russia clashes with US and Ukraine supporters, ruling out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West

Russia’s foreign minister has clashed with the United States and Ukraine’s supporters at a U.N. meeting where Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West, and China warned that … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 1/22/24

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Cape Verde Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva, at the Government Palace in Praia, Cape Verde, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken begins Africa tour in Cape Verde, touting the U.S. as a key security and economic partner

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of four African countries, meeting with the leaders of Cape Verde and Ivory Coast and touting America as the continent’s key economic and … more

By CHINEDU ASADU | 1/22/24

FILE - A Spanish civil guard waits for migrants to arrive at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, near the border of Morocco and Spain, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that Spanish authorities acted illegally when they sent unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco in 2021. Hundreds of unaccompanied minors were among a surge of some 10,000 people who tried to enter Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, by scaling a border fence or swimming around it. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Spain's top court says the government broke the law when it sent child migrants back to Morocco

Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that Spanish authorities acted illegally when they sent unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco in 2021. Hundreds of unaccompanied minors were among a surge of … more

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FILE - Joseph Boakai, then Vice-President of Liberia, addresses the 64th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Liberia’s new President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has been sworn into office after a narrow win in the November elections to become the country's oldest-ever president. The 79-year-old Boakai has promised to unite and rescue Africa’s oldest republic from its economic woes, ranging from chronic corruption to an ailing economy. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Liberia’s new president takes office with a promise to ‘rescue’ Africa’s oldest republic

Liberia’s new President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has been sworn into office after a narrow win in the November elections to become the country's oldest-ever president. The 79-year-old Boakai has … more

By MARK N. MENGONFIA AND CHINEDU ASADU | 1/22/24

FILE - A dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is displayed at the Neighborcare Health clinics at Vashon Island High School in Vashon Island, Wash., on May 15, 2019. U.K. health officials are urging millions of parents to book their children in for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots amid a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest vaccination rates in a decade. The National Health Service is launching a publicity campaign after figures showed there have been 216 confirmed measles cases and 103 probable cases in parts of England since October. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Millions in the UK are being urged to get vaccinations during a surge in measles cases

U.K. health officials are urging millions of parents to book their children for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots during a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest … more

By SYLVIA HUI | 1/22/24

Iran's foreign minister will visit Pakistan next week after tit-for-tat airstrikes

Pakistan says Iran's foreign minister will visit the country next week. The trip follows unprecedented attacks on either side of the border that appeared to target Baluch militant groups with similar … more

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South Korea's presidential office's senior secretary for civil and social affairs Hwang Sang Moo briefs at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to extend its term by a year through late-May 2025. Investigators had been calling for more time to examine a broad range of human rights violations linked to Seoul’s past military governments, including a widespread falsifying of child origins that fueled a government-backed foreign adoption boom in the 1970s and '80s. (Jin Sung-chul/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea grants extension to truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases

South Korea’s presidential office says it has approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for a one-year extension after investigators sought more time to examine … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 1/22/24

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, right, speaks during a news conference at his office in Putrajaya, Malaysia Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Mahathir Mohamad said a graft probe into his son's wealth was politically motivated to undermine the opposition. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

As his son faces a graft probe, a Malaysian ex-PM says the government wants to prosecute its rivals

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad attacked a graft probe into his associates as politically motivated, a week after his eldest son was ordered to hand over information to investigators. … more

By EILEEN NG | 1/22/24

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk, centre, walks during his visit to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. The private visit was apparently in response to calls from some Jewish religious leaders for Musk to see with his own eyes the most symbolic site of the horrors of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Andrzej Rudiak)

Elon Musk privately visits Auschwitz-Birkenau site in response to accusations of antisemitism on X

Elon Musk has visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau World War II Nazi German death camp. The billionaire has faced criticism for subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory and allowing hate … more

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FILE - Newly elected 'International Organization for Migration' (OIM) director general Amy Pope, from the U.S. speaks during a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 15, 2023. The U.N.'s migration agency is launching its first “global appeal” that seeks $7.9 billion to help people on the move and ensure smoother pathways to migration at a time when the fallout from climate change, conflict and both economic and political distress and opportunity has caused millions to leave their homes. (Pierre Albouy/Keystone via AP, file)

UN migration agency seeks $7.9 billion to help people on the move and the communities that host them

The U.N.’s migration agency is launching its first “global appeal,” seeking $7.9 billion to help people on the move and ensure smoother pathways to migration. It comes at a time when the … more

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FILE - A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. A U.N. report says the Taliban are restricting Afghan women's access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don't have a male guardian, a mahram. The Taliban have banned women from education, most jobs and public spaces like parks since seizing control of Afghanistan in 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban enforcing restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, says UN report

A U.N. report says the Taliban are restricting Afghan women's access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don't have a male guardian, a mahram. The Taliban have banned women from … more

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FILE - U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf from a landing craft in the days following D-Day and the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France at Normandy in June 1944 during World War II. France is getting ready to show its gratitude towards World War II veterans who will come, many for the last time, on Normandy beaches for D-Day ceremonies that will come as part of a series of major commemorations this year and next marking eight decades since the defeat of the Nazis. (Bert Brandt/Pool via AP, File)

France gets ready to say 'merci' to World War II veterans for D-Day's 80th anniversary this year

France is getting ready to show its gratitude towards World War II veterans who will return to Normandy beaches this year for 80th anniversary commemorations of D-Day to mark the defeat of the Nazis. … more

By SYLVIE CORBET | 1/22/24

In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, rescue workers search through rubbles in the aftermath of a landslide in liangshui village in southwestern China's Yunnan Province on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. The landslide in southwestern China's mountainous Yunnan province early Monday buried dozens and forced the evacuation of hundreds. (CCTV via AP)

Landslide in mountainous southwestern China buries 47 people

A landslide in southwestern China's mountainous Yunnan province has buried 47 people and forced the evacuation of 200 more. The disaster struck just before 6 a.m. Monday in the village of Liangshui … more

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Workers decorate a temple dedicated to Hindu deity Lord Ram with flowers on the eve of the temple's grand opening in Ayodhya, India, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India's Modi is set to open a controversial temple in Ayodhya in a grand event months before polls

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to open a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of an ancient mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in a grand event that is expected to galvanize … more

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE | 1/21/24

FILE- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs rituals during the groundbreaking ceremony of a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Ram, in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Modi has been the face of an unprecedented, and unapologetic, fusion of religion and politics in India, with his Hindu nationalist party promising to build a Ram temple as part of its election strategy. Modi, who led the temple’s groundbreaking ceremony in 2020, has asked people to celebrate the consecration by lighting lamps at homes and temples. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

A temple to one of Hinduism's holiest deities is opening in India. What's its significance?

India’s top politicians, religious leaders and celebrities are gathering in the holy city of Ayodhya for the partial opening of a grand temple for one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, Lord … more

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and VINEETA DEEPAK | 1/21/24

In this image from a video, a migrants caravan leaves San Pedro Sula, Honduras early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. A caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States dissolved Sunday after crossing the border into Guatemala, the Guatemalan Migration Institute reported. (AP Photo)

A caravan of migrants from Honduras who were heading to the US dissolves in Guatemala

The Guatemalan Migration Institute reports that a caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States has dissolved after crossing the border into … more

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Indonesia's Mount Merapi unleashes lava as other volcanoes flare up, forcing thousands to evacuate

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has erupted, spreading searing gas clouds and avalanches of lava down its slopes as other active volcanoes flared up across the country, forcing the evacuation of … more

By SLAMET RIYADI | 1/21/24

A Lebanese army officer stands next of a destroyed car in the southern town of Bazouriyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. An Israeli drone strike on the car near the Lebanese southern port city of Tyre killed two people, the state-run National News Agency reported. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Strike kills Hezbollah official in Lebanon, amid apparent Israeli shift to targeted killings

Lebanese state media and health officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon. The reports say the attack Sunday killed a Hezbollah member … more

By MOHAMMED ZAATARI and ABBY SEWELL | 1/21/24

Thousands gather to demonstrate against right-wing extremism, in Cottbus, Germany, Sunday Jan. 21, 2024. Thousands of people are expected to protest the far right in cities across Germany. They come in the wake of a report that right-wing extremists recently met to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants, including some with German citizenship. (Frank Hammerschmidt/dpa via AP)

Across Germany, anti-far right protests draw hundreds of thousands - in Munich, too many for safety

German police say safety concerns caused a protest against the far right in the city of Munich Sunday afternoon to end early, after approximately 100,000 people showed up. The demonstration was one … more

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From second left, Denmark's King Frederik X, Queen Mary, Prince Vincent, Crown Prince Christian, Princess Isabella and Princess Josephine and greet the crowd after a service on the occasion of the change of throne in Denmark, in Aarhus Cathedral, Aarhus, Denmark, Sunday Jan. 21, 2024. Its the first public appearance in Jutland by Denmark's new King and Queen since the change of throne last Sunday. (Mikkel Berg Pederson/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Danish royals attend church service to mark King Frederik's first visit outside the capital

Denmark’s royal family has participated in a special “celebratory church service” at Aarhus Cathedral. The new King Frederik X, accompanied Sunday by wife Queen Mary and mother Queen Margrethe, … more

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