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Palestinian medics treat a girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Israel says it reopened a key Gaza crossing after a rocket attack but the UN says no aid has entered

The Israeli military says it has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza but a United Nations agency says no aid has yet entered.
 
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Palestinians flee chaos and panic in Rafah after Israel’s seizure of border crossing

 
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Why the US paused the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel ahead of a possible Rafah attack

 
Cars sit on a submerged road in an area flooded by heavy rain in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Southern Brazil is still reeling from massive flooding as it faces risk from new storms

 
Aboard a small fishing boat, Rohingya refugees faced abuse and other horrors. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

‘They tortured us': Rohingya survivors of fatal capsize say captain raped girls, purposely sank boat

 

ELECTION WATCH 2024

Franziska Giffey Berlin's top economic official speaks to media after an event about solar energy in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Giffey, the former Mayor of Berlin was violently assaulted at an event in a Berlin library and had to be treated in the hospital on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, adding to the list of the elected officials who have been exposed to brutal attacks in Germany recently. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Another German politician is attacked as concerns rise over violence ahead of EU elections in June

A prominent Berlin politician has been violently assaulted and suffered injuries to her head and neck in the latest attack on elected officials that raises concern over rising political violence in Germany.
 
Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, presidential candidate backed by the opposition center-right VMRO-DPMNE party, casts her ballot at a polling station in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Voters in North Macedonia were casting ballots on Wednesday in a parliamentary election and a presidential runoff dominated by issues including the country's path toward European Union membership, corruption and the economy. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

North Macedonia elects first woman president as center-left incumbents suffer historic losses

North Macedonia has elected its first woman president as the governing Social Democrats suffered historic losses in twin presidential and parliamentary elections.
 

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FILE - Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe waves before a working lunch at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 9, 2021. Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that eliminates presidential elections, a statement from his office said late Monday, April 6, 2024. It's a move that opponents say will allow him to extend his family's six-decade-long rule. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

Togo’s longtime leader signs a new constitution that eliminates presidential elections

 
  1. FILE - Migrants walk in Lampedusa Island, Italy, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Europeans focus more on curbing immigration than on climate change and less than 15% of those interviewed across the globe consider climate change to be among the top three priorities for their government, a global study revealed on Wednesday.(AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro, File)

    Europeans want governments to focus more on curbing migration than climate change, a study says

  2. FILE - Former President Boris Yeltsin, left, smiles as he talks to Russian acting President and Premier Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Russia, Dec. 31, 1999. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

    Key events of Vladimir Putin’s 24 years in power in Russia

Kenya flooding persists, wiping away livelihoods and lives

As heavy rains persist in Kenya, the nation grapples with the catastrophic consequences of flooding triggered by the incessant downpour wreaking havoc on livelihoods. In Kiambu, Charles Otieno, owner of a car repair shop, wades through pools of water to attend to customers in a determined effort to provide for his family of two. (AP Video/Desmond Tiro)
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Israeli military video said to show aid at the Kerem Shalom crossing

Rape, terror and death at sea: How a boat carrying Rohingya children, women and men capsized

Israel-Hamas war

Israeli soldiers are seen near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli tanks have rolled into Rafah. What does this mean for the Palestinians sheltering there?

 
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike east of Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

US paused bomb shipment to Israel to signal concerns over Rafah invasion, official says

 
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 24, 2024, in Washington. The Biden administration is due to deliver a first-of-its-kind formal verdict on whether Israel's conduct of its war in Gaza complies with international and U.S. laws. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Has Israel followed the law in its war in Gaza? The US is due to render a first-of-its-kind verdict

 

Russia-Ukraine war

Kosovo's foreign minister and deputy prime minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday May 8, 2024. Kosovo's foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine in order for conflict not to spread further in Europe, stressing that her young nation's support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo's independence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says

 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers work at a damaged building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Photo)

Russia hits Ukraine’s power grid with a ‘massive’ attack on a day marking the WWII defeat of Nazism

 
FILE - Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, right, addresses journalists at the end of the Arraiolos Group meeting in Porto, Portugal, Oct. 6, 2023. Italy’s president told the General Assembly on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding its aggression and peace can only come when Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored. (AP Photo/Miguel Angelo Pereira, File)

Italy’s president says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding Moscow’s aggression

 

Regions

Europe

Ukrainian Anastasiya Sereda paints a canvas in an art class for women bereaved by war, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Grit, humor, grief and gloom mix as Ukrainians face a dangerous new phase in the war

 

  1. EU reaches a tentative deal on Ukraine aid coming from profits of frozen Russian assets

  2. AstraZeneca pulls its COVID vaccine from European market

  3. Police break up another protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam

Asia

FILE - Solar panels work near the small town of Milagro, Navarra Province, northern Spain, Feb. 24, 2023. Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources, according to a report published Wednesday, May 8, 2024, by Ember, a think tank based in London. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)

Global clean energy just set a record. These 5 charts show how

 

  1. Protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ now banned in city after appeals court overturns ruling

  2. China and EU-candidate Serbia sign an agreement to build a ‘shared future’

  3. Chinese warships have been docked in Cambodia for 5 months, but government says it’s not permanent

Latin America

File - A worker counts money at a grocery store in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 21, 2023. Prices have surged so dramatically that the government has multiplied the size of its biggest banknote in circulation to 10,000 peso note, five times the value of the previous biggest bill, according to the central bank on May 8, 2024, and the new bill is expected circulate in June. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

With inflation soaring, Argentina will start printing 10,000 peso notes

 

  1. Spanish prosecutors recommend 2nd investigation into Shakira’s taxes be thrown out

  2. Too much water, and not enough: Brazil’s flooded south struggles to access basic goods

  3. Mexico tightens travel rules on Peruvians in a show of visa diplomacy to slow migration to US

Middle East

Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. The Israeli army has ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate Rafah as it conducts a ground operation there. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest | Rafah’s hospitals will run out of fuel in 3 days, WHO says

 

  1. Scenes from Israel and Gaza reflect dashed hopes as imminent cease-fire seems unlikely

  2. Scores of Syrians return home after years at camp housing people linked to the Islamic State group

  3. UN food agency fears an escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli border can cripple aid efforts in Lebanon

Africa

People gather in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Monday, May 6, 2024, to mourn the victims of the Mugunga Camp attack three days earlier. The signs read: 'Yes to peace, No to war' and 'Attacking civilians is a war crime.' (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Families of the victims of attacks on displaced people in Congo mourn their dead

 

  1. Dozens still missing after South African building collapse; 7 confirmed dead

  2. Algeria’s leader demands justice over French colonial-era wrongdoing

  3. Kenya declares public holiday to mourn flood victims

  4. Survivors rescued but dozens still trapped after a deadly building collapse in South Africa

U.S. News

Officers of the Metropolitan Police Department pepper spray demonstrators at George Washington University in Washington, early Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the university and arrested demonstrators early Wednesday, hours after dozens marched to the home of the school’s president. (Sage Russell/GW Hatchet via AP)

Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing is canceled

 

  1. The Rev. Al Sharpton calls for justice in eulogy for Ohio man who died last month in police custody

  2. K-12 school leaders reject allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant

  3. Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case

  4. Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who once challenged Nixon, dies at 96

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Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The image was part of a series by Associated Press photographers Ivan Valencia, Eduardo Verdugo, Felix Marquez, Marco Ugarte Fernando Llano, Eric Gay, Gregory Bull and Christian Chavez that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

An AP photographer covers the migrant crisis at the border with sensitivity and compassion

Gregory Bull started covering the U.S.-Mexico border in 1994 as a newspaper photographer at the Brownsville Herald in Texas.
 
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attends a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council of the Eurasian Economic Union at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the economic alliance's performance, saying that it helped boost the members' economic potential. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

Armenia’s prime minister in Russia for talks amid strain in ties

Armenia’s prime minister has visited Moscow and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid spiraling tensions between the estranged allies.
 
Chinese national flags are placed next to Hungarian flags on the Elisabeth Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

China’s Xi arrives in Hungary for talks on expanding Chinese investments

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hungary, the final stop on his five-day European tour. During his two-day visit from Wednesday to Friday, he’s expected to finalize a number of agreements with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that will deepen China’s economic footprint in the region.
 

Nicaragua cancels a controversial Chinese interoceanic canal concession after nearly a decade

After nearly a decade, Nicaragua’s congress has finally canceled a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered the environment and threatened to displace rural communities.
 
Nemo of Switzerland performs the song The Code during the dress rehearsal for the second semi-final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Nemo, among the favorites at Eurovision, is finding acceptance onstage and off

No matter whether Nemo wins the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend — which would make them the first nonbinary contestant to take home the crystal microphone — the Swiss singer is already a success.
 
FILE - Doctors and other medical staff take part in a protest, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Kenya's public hospital doctors union on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, signed a return to work agreement with the government, ending a national strike that began in mid-March and had left patients in limbo. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Kenya’s public hospital doctors sign agreement to end national strike after almost 2 months

Kenya’s public hospital doctors union has called off a national strike that had left patients in limbo for almost two months.
 

64 people charged in sexual abuse investigations in Canada, Ontario police say

Canadian police say more than 60 people have been arrested and hundreds of charges filed in a series of investigations into child sexual abuse in Ontario.
 

Kosovo prime minister deplores new condition ahead of Council of Europe’s membership vote next week

Kosovo’s prime minister has deplored the fact that some Western powers reportedly have set another condition ahead of Kosovo’s joining the Council of Europe.
 

Bomb in northeastern Afghanistan kills 3 officers who were part of convoy handling poppy eradication

A Taliban official says A sticky bomb exploded in northeastern Afghanistan, killing at least three police officers.
 
Knitwear created by Italian artisans for the Prada and Miu Miu brands sit on a desk at a recently expanded factory in the Perugia province of Italy, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Prada Group is expanding its production footprint in Italy, including dozens of new jobs at brand's knitwear factory near Umbria, leaning into Made in Italy as integral to the brand's ethos as it develops new artisanal talent to ease the luxury group through a generational shift in its workforce, alongside the management and creative transitions already under way. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)

Prada focuses generational transition on artisans, expanding production and workforce in Italy

The Prada Group is expanding its production footprint in Italy, including dozens of new jobs at its knitwear factory in Umbria, leaning into “Made in Italy” as integral to the brand’s ethos.
 

Pakistani security forces kill 6 militants in twin raids in volatile northwest near Afghanistan

Pakistan’s military says its security forces have killed six militants in twin raids in the volatile northwest region bordering Afghanistan.
 
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike east of Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

Biden says US won’t supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally

President Joe Biden says he will not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there.
 

Mexico hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation

Mexico has been hit by hours of rolling blackouts late Tuesday due to high temperatures and temporary drops in electrical power generation.
 

Lithuania defends banning Russian and Belarusian observers from monitoring upcoming election

Lithuania has defended the decision not to allow Russian and Belarusian observers to monitor its upcoming presidential election, accusing both countries of spearheading campaigns that “pose a threat to our national security.”
 
Prime Minister incumbent Andrej Plenkovic celebrates after claiming victory in a parliamentary election in Zagreb, Croatia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Croatia's governing conservatives convincingly won a highly contested parliamentary election Wednesday, but will still need support from far-right groups to stay in power, according to the official vote count. The election followed a campaign that centered on a bitter rivalry between the country's president and prime minister. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Croatia ruling conservatives will form government with a far-right group after inconclusive election

Croatia’s ruling conservatives have agreed to form a coalition with an extreme party, which would push the country further to the right ahead of next month’s European parliamentary election.
 

A Cambodian court sentences a union leader to 18 months in prison for comments on Facebook

A Cambodian labor union leader has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in connection with comments he made in a live broadcast on Facebook two years ago that criticized the arrest of a casino worker.
 
In this photo released by Russian Embassy in London/Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Colonel Maxim Elovik, Russia's military attaché to the United Kingdom and Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrey Kelin, right, attend a laying wreaths ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe, at the Soviet war memorial in London, Britain, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Britain says it is expelling the attaché after accusing him of being a spy. The move announced Wednesday was one of several measures taken by the U.K. against Moscow over what it said were malicious activities. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Britain to expel Russian attaché in response to ‘reckless and dangerous activities’ by Moscow

Britain says it is expelling Russia’s defense attaché after accusing him of being a spy. The move announced Wednesday was one of several measures taken by the U.K. against Moscow over what it said were malicious activities.
 
FILE - This photo taken and released by Basmanny District Court press service on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, shows Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov standing in a defendants' cage in court in Moscow, Russia. A Moscow court on Wednesday rejected an appeal of the bribery arrest of Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, whose lawyers sought to have him released from jail into house arrest. Ivanov, who was in charge of military construction projects, was arrested on April 23 and charged with accepting bribes on a large scale. (Basmanny District Court press service via AP, File)

Moscow court rejects appeal to move to house arrest a deputy defense minister facing bribery charges

A Moscow court rejected an appeal filed by a Russian deputy defense minister’s lawyers who sought to have him moved from prison to house arrest as he faces bribery charges.
 
FILE - Rattapon Sanrak founder of the Highland Cafe prepares a flower bud of marijuana for a customer, at Highland cafe shop in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. The Prime Minister of Thailand said Wednesday, May 8, 2024 that he wants cannabis to be officially classified as a narcotic drug, a rollback from the complete decriminalization of the plant two years ago. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand’s prime minister wants to outlaw cannabis, 2 years after it was decriminalized

The prime minister of Thailand says he wants to outlaw the cannabis over concerns the lack of regulation had made it available to children and increased crimes.
 

Poland detains and questions Russian man who illegally crossed from Belarus

Poland’s security officials say that a 41-year-old man from Russia has been detained and is being questioned after illegally crossing in from Russia’s ally Belarus.
 

Malaysian soccer player splashed with acid, two others attacked in a week of rare violence

A Malaysian international footballer has been splashed by acid and two other top players were attacked within a week by unknown assailants, in a rare outbreak of violence targeting athletes in the country.
 
Labour leader Keir Starmer, left, speaks with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday May 8, 2024. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was accused Wednesday of leading a “chaotic” government as another one of his Conservative lawmakers defected to the main opposition Labour Party ahead of a looming general election. In a stunning move just ahead of weekly prime minister's questions, Elphicke crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the ranks of Starmer's Labour Party, which appears to be heading to return to power after 14 years in opposition. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

UK Prime Minister Sunak suffers further blow as another Conservative lawmaker defects to Labour

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of leading a “chaotic” government as another one of his Conservative lawmakers defected to the main opposition Labour Party ahead of a looming general election.
 
FILE - Eike Bretschneider exits the Seabird aircraft after flying for nearly six hours before running low on fuel over the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, as a storm approaches the island of Lampedusa, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean, in the government’s latest crackdown on their activities. (AP Photo/Renata Brito, File)

Italy bars NGO migrant rescue flights from Sicilian airport, says they interfere with coast guard

Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean.An ordinance from ENAC’s western Sicilian office said the flights interfered with the Italian coast guard’s exclusive role in coordinating
 

An extremist group and ethnic militias committed atrocities in Mali, Human Rights Watch says

Human Rights Watch says an extremist group linked to al-Qaida carried out mass killings in two villages in central Mali in January.
 

Taliban reject claims of Afghan involvement in recent attacks in Pakistan

The Taliban has rejected claims of Afghan involvement in recent attacks in Pakistan, calling it “irresponsible and far from the reality.”
 

A cargo plane make an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after front landing gear fails

A cargo aircraft has made an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after its front landing gear failed.
 
Steam rises from a vent at a work site near the New York Stock Exchange, center, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in New York. World shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Stock market today: Wall Street’s lull stretches to a second day as indexes finish mixed

Stock drifted to a mixed close as Wall Street remains in a lull. The S&P 500 closed little changed Wednesday, after a big three-day winning streak gave way to a slight gain the prior day.
 
FILE - The Toyota Motor Corp. logo is seen, May 11, 2022, at a dealer in Tokyo. Toyota doubled its net profit in the fiscal year that ended in March, as strong vehicles sales and a favorable exchange rate lifted results for Japan’s top automaker. Toyota Motor Corp.'s annual profit totaled 4.9 trillion yen ($31.9 billion), up from 2.45 trillion yen the year before, while its sales jumped 21% to 45 trillion yen ($290 billion), the company said Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Toyota racks up booming profit, vows to invest to keep growth going

Toyota has reported that its profit for the fiscal year that ended in March doubled over a year earlier, as strong vehicles sales and a favorable exchange rate lifted results for Japan’s top automaker.
 
Workers prepare for the arrival of the Olympic flame in the Old Port of Marseille in southern France, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Olympic torch will finally enter France when it reaches the southern seaport of Marseille on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Olympic torch begins journey across France after festive welcome in port city of Marseille

Tens of thousands welcomed the Olympic torch in the southern French city of Marseille, marking another milestone in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Paris.
 
Guatemalan Foreign Minister Carlos Ramiro Martinez Alvarado, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a group photo at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Blinken is in Guatemala for a two-day visit where he will attend a regional meeting on irregular migration. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Western Hemisphere nations pledge to continue coordinating response to historic regional migration

Representatives from 22 Western Hemisphere countries gathered in Guatemala have renewed their commitment to continue offering legal pathways to enter their countries, to provide aid to communities most affected by migration and to coordinate their response to manage immigration flows.