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Mexican authorities say thieves killed 2 Australians and an American to steal their truck

Mexican authorities say thieves killed two Australians and an American on a surfing trip in Baja California to steal their truck
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In this image made from video, Mexico's police officers stand guard at the Ensenada station in Ensenada, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned a few people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. (AP Photo)
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Brazil flooding: At least 75 people have died and 103 are missing, authorities say

Authorities said this is the worst flood to impact the area in over 80 years.
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Aerial view of flooded streets at the Navegantes neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil on May 4, 2024.
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Israeli strike kills 4 civilians in southern Lebanon, state media says

Lebanese state media and the town’s municipality report that an Israeli airstrike in the town of Mays al Jabal in south Lebanon has killed four civilians and wounded several others
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This is a locator map for Lebanon with its capital, Beirut. (AP Photo)
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Netanyahu uses Holocaust ceremony to brush off international pressure against Gaza offensive

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day
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Israeli students watch a virtual tour of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the Testimony House, a Holocaust museum in Nir Galim, Israel, on the eve of Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sunday, May 5, 2024. Israel holds the day of remembrance each year to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide during World War II. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Actor Bernard Hill, of 'Titanic' and 'Lord of the Rings,' has died at 79

Actor Bernard Hill who starred in “Titanic,” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy has died
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Actor Bernard Hill arrives for the TV BAFTA's, at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, on July 5, 2006. Hill, who delivered a rousing battle cry before leading his people into battle in “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and went down with the ship as captain in “Titanic,” has died. Hill, 79, died Sunday morning, May 5, 2024, agent Lou Coulson said. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
May 05

Togo’s ruling party wins a majority in parliament, likely keeping a dynasty in power

Togo’s ruling party has won a majority of seats in the West African nation’s parliamentary election
May 05
FILE - Togo's President, Faure Gnassingbé, centre, looks on, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting, in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. Togolese voters headed to the polls on Monday, April 29, 2024, to vote in the country's parliamentary elections that will test support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap future presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the president instead. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan, File)
May 05

Orbán challenger in Hungary mobilizes thousands at a rare demonstration in a government stronghold

A rising challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has held what he called the largest countryside political demonstration in the country’s recent history
May 05
Péter Magyar, a rising challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, addresses people at a campaign rally in the rural city of Debrecen, Hungary, on Sunday, May 5, 2024. Magyar, whose TISZA party is running in European Union elections, has managed to mobilize large crowds of supporters on a campaign tour of Hungary's heartland, a rarity for an Orbán opponent. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)
May 05

Floods in southern Brazil kill at least 60, with 101 people missing

Authorities say massive floods in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 75 people over the last seven days and another 103 are reported missing
May 05
People evacuate on a surfboard from a neighborhood flooded by heavy rains, in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Macedo)
May 05

China's president arrives in Europe to reinvigorate ties at a time of global tensions

Chinese President Xi Jinping is kicking off a three-country trip to Europe with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing’s growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry
May 05
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan wave as they arrive at Orly airport, south of Paris, Sunday, May 5, 2024. Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off a three-country trip to Europe on Sunday with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing's growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry. (Stephane de Sakutin, Pool via AP)
May 05

Israel's main cable provider halts Al Jazeera broadcasts, citing government ban

Israel's main cable provider halts Al Jazeera broadcasts, citing government ban
May 05
May 05

Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in 'very near future'

Hamas says the latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks has ended in Cairo
May 05
Israeli soldiers jump off a tank at a staging ground near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
May 05

German teen turns himself in over attack on European election candidate

A teenager has surrendered to police over an attack on a candidate from the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz that has fueled concern about intimidation and violence in the run-up to next month’s election for the European Parliament
May 05
May 05

Israel orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment

Israel has ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close
May 05
Al Jazeera cameraman Zaid Aqrat works at his network's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday, May 5, 2024. Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
May 05

Israel’s Netanyahu says his Cabinet has voted to shut down Qatar-owned Al Jazeera offices over tensions with the channel

Israel’s Netanyahu says his Cabinet has voted to shut down Qatar-owned Al Jazeera offices over tensions with the channel
May 05
May 05

Ukraine marks its third Easter at war as it comes under fire from Russian drones and troops

Russia has launched a barrage of drones on eastern Ukraine and claimed its troops took control of a village they had been targeting as Ukraine marks its third Easter at war
May 05
May 05

As Putin begins another 6-year term, he is entering a new era of extraordinary power in Russia

Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin starts another six-year term as president holding extraordinary power
May 05
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with a soldier and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stands next to him, smiling, during a visit at a military training centre of the Western Military District in Ryazan Region, Russia on Oct. 20, 2022. Putin begins his fifth term as Russian president in an opulent Kremlin inauguration on Tuesday after destroying his political opposition, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and consolidating power. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
May 05

A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7

Israel will start marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday evening
May 05
Judith Tzamir, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, poses for a portrait in the garden of her family home in Kibbutz Meflasim, southern Israel, Friday, May 3, 2024. On Monday, Tzamir will join 55 other Holocaust survivors from Israel and around the world for a memorial march in Poland, called March of the Living. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
May 05

Panamanians vote in an election dominated by a former president who was barred from running

Panamanians are voting in an election that has been consumed by unfolding drama surrounding the country’s former president, even though he's not on the ballot
May 05
Martin Torrijos, a former president and presidential candidate for the Popular Party leaves after voting during a general election in Panama City, Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Carmen Bernal)
May 05

What we learned from local votes ahead of looming UK general election

Millions of voters in England have voted in local elections, the last big test before a looming U.K. general election
May 05
Counting begins at the Blackpool South by-election at Blackpool Sports Centre in Blackpool, England, Thursday, May 2, 2024. The by-election was triggered after the resignation of Scott Benton. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
May 05

King Charles III’s openness about cancer has helped him connect with people in year after coronation

King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling coronation at Westminster Abbey
May 05
FILE - Britain's Queen Camilla poses for a picture with members of the Maiden Yachting Crew. Queen Camilla hosts the 'Maiden' Yachting Crew following their Global Ocean Race Win at Clarence House on April 29, 2024 in London. Camilla has emerged as one of the monarchy’s most prominent emissaries. Increasing her schedule of appearances, the queen played a crucial role in keeping the royal family in the public eye. (Chris Jackson, Pool Photo via AP, File)
May 05

They study next to one of Africa's largest trash dumps. They're planting bamboo to try to cope

Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo
May 05
The Dandora Secondary school in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Monday, April 22, 2024. Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo. They have planted more than 100 seedlings along the wall that separates the school from the trash dump that was declared full 23 years ago. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
May 04

Australian police shoot dead a boy, 16, armed with a knife after he stabbed a man in Perth

Australian officials say a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife has been shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the west coast city of Perth
May 04
May 04

Juro Kara, rebel playwright behind Japan's modern underground theater, dies at 84

Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan’s postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully transforming the essence of Kabuki aesthetics into modern storytelling, has died
May 04
Juro Kara speaks during a press conference in Osaka, western Japan in March, 2005 after he was appointed as a guest professor at a university. The playwright, director and troupe leader died late Saturday from a blood clot in the brain after he collapsed at home and was rushed to a Tokyo hospital on May 1, his theater group Karagumi said in a statement on Sunday, May 5, 2024. He was 84. (Kyodo News via AP)
May 04

Orthodox Russians mark Easter with nighttime service in Moscow cathedral

Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin have packed Moscow's landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter service
May 04
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin attend the Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 5, 2024. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
May 04

Georgian protesters against 'Russia-style' media law mark Orthodox Easter with candlelight vigil

Several thousand Georgians have marked Orthodox Easter with a candlelight vigil outside Parliament in the capital, Tbilisi
May 04
Demonstrators gather outside the Biltmore Hotel in Tbilisi where Asia Development Bank Annual set the 57th Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors which is held to denounce the "Russian Law" and make their protest heard internationally in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday, May 3, 2024. The parliament of Georgia has cancelled its plenary session following massive protests against a proposed law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country's bid for membership in the European Union. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
May 04

Man rescues puppy stuck between walls

A puppy who found itself stuck between two walls was rescued by a man and safely reunited with its mother.
May 04
VIDEO: Man rescues puppy stuck between walls
May 04

In Botswana, 44 victims of an Easter bus crash in South Africa are laid to rest

At least 44 people who died in a horrific bus crash during Easter weekend in South Africa were laid to rest in Botswana on Saturday
May 04
A mass funeral is held in Molepololefor, Gaborone, Botswana, Saturday May 4, 2024, for the 45 Botswana nationals who were killed in a bus crash en route to Moira City for Easter weekend services last month in neighbouring South Africa. The only survivor was an eight-year-old child. (AP Photo)
May 04

Bodies recovered likely those of surfers who went missing: Mexican prosecutors

The state prosecutor’s office says three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico's Baja California state are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip
May 04
In this image made from video, Mexico's police officers stand guard at the Ensenada station in Ensenada, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned a few people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. (AP Photo)
May 04

3 bodies recovered in Baja California likely the missing Australian and American surfers, Mexican authorities say

3 bodies recovered in Baja California likely the missing Australian and American surfers, Mexican authorities say
May 04
May 04

Japan and India reject Biden's comments describing them as xenophobic countries

Japan and India have decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants while he was speaking during a campaign fundraising event earlier in the week
May 04
FILE - President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, April 30, 2024.. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
May 04

Russia puts Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on its wanted list

Zelenskyy and his predecessor are on the list, wanted on unspecified charges.
May 04
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inspects the fortification lines in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
May 04

London, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Mayor Sadiq Khan wins historic third term

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has won a historic third term in office
May 04
Sadiq Khan makes a speech after he is re-elected for a record third time as Mayor of London, following the counting of votes, at City Hall in London, Saturday, May 4, 2024. Khan, the Labour Party's Mayor of London, has romped to victory, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.'s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
May 04

Cheers and flames as Orthodox worshipers greet the ancient ceremony of the 'Holy Fire'

Christian Orthodox worshippers in Jerusalem have thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in one of the most chaotic gatherings in the Christian calendar
May 04
A Christian Orthodox pilgrim holds a candle during the Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem. Saturday, May 4, 2024. In the annual ceremony that has been observed for over a millennium, a flame taken from Jesus' tomb is used to light the candles of fervent believers of Christian Orthodox communities near and far. The devout believe the origin of the flame is a miracle and is shrouded in mystery. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
May 04

A British Palestinian doctor was denied entry to France for a Senate meeting about the war in Gaza

A British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate
May 04
FILE - Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a Palestinian-British surgeon specializing in conflict medicine, speaks during an interview at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. Abu Sitta, who volunteered in Gaza hospitals, said he was denied entry to France on Saturday, May 4, 2024, to speak at a French Senate meeting about the Israel-Hamas war. Authorities wouldn't give a reason for the decision. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
May 04

Afghanistan's only female diplomat resigns in India after gold smuggling allegations

An Afghan diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resigned
May 04
May 04

A candidate for Germany's key party was beaten up while campaigning for European elections

A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party in next month’s European elections was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city
May 04
German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left and SPD lead candidate for the European elections, Katarina Barley, listen, during Party of European Socialists (PES) Democracy Congress, in Berlin, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
May 04

Pakistan records its wettest April since 1961 with above average rainfall

Pakistan's national weather center says the country has recorded its wettest April since 1961
May 04
Youngsters wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rain in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 15, 2024. Lightening and heavy rains killed dozens of people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities declared a state of emergency in the country's southwest following an overnight rainfall to avoid any further casualties and damages. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
May 04

Kevin Spacey denies new allegations of inappropriate behavior

Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week
May 04
FILE - Actor Kevin Spacey addresses the media outside Southwark Crown Court in London, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released on May, 6-7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
May 04

Progress reported in Gaza truce talks, but Israel hasn’t sent a delegation

A Hamas delegation is in Cairo, Egyptian state media cites "noticeable progress"
May 04
A Palestinian woman is walking past a destroyed building in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on April 21, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant Hamas group. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
May 04

Chinese driver praised for helping reduce casualties in deadly highway collapse

A Chinese truck driver has been praised in local media for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people
May 04
In this aerial photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers at the site of a collapsed section of a highway on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on May 2, 2024. (Wang Ruiping/Xinhua via AP)
May 04

Labour's Sadiq Khan reelected as London mayor as UK's ruling Conservatives face more electoral pain

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, has romped to victory, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election
May 04
Count Binface, a candidate in the London Mayoral election poses for the cameras at the count result in City Hall in London, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
May 04

Drone footage shows Ukrainian village battered to ruins as residents flee Russian advance

Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the devastation inflicted on the Ukranian village of Ocheretyne
May 04
This drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the village of Ocheretyne, a target for Russian forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military has acknowledged the Russians have gained a “foothold” in Ocheretyne, which had a population of about 3,000 before the war, but say fighting continues. No people could be seen in the footage, and no building in Ocheretyne appeared to have been left untouched by the fighting. (Kherson/Green via AP)
May 04

South Sudan removes newly imposed taxes that had triggered suspension of UN food airdrops

South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension of U.N. food airdrops
May 04
May 04

AP PHOTOS: Greek Orthodox mark Good Friday with solemn bier processions

The procession of “Epitaphios," symbolizing the bier that carried the body of Jesus to his grave, took place across Greece on Friday, which was Good Friday in the Orthodox Christian calendar. The solemn processions, with the flower-adorned biers followed by the clergy and the faithful, are often spectacular, especially in places where bier processions from each parish converge into a central square. The city of Nafpaktos, in western Greece, is one such city. Once part of the Byzantine Empire, it was later hotly contested between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetians, who called the town Lepanto. One of the largest ever naval battles, the Battle of Lepanto, involving nearly 450 ships, was fought in the nearby Gulf of Patras on Oct. 7, 1571. A coalition of Western states defeated the Ottoman fleet. Partly in commemoration of that event, local fishermen put their own stamp on the Good Friday bier procession by lighting fires on the battlements of the Venetian-built fortifications. The...
May 04
Fireworks explode over the Venetian port after the procession of "Epitaphios", the bier that carries the body of Jesus Christ to his grave, in Nafpaktos town, western Greece, on Good Friday, May 3, 2024. The solemn processions in Greece, with the flower-adorned biers followed by the clergy and the faithful, are often spectacular, especially in places where bier processions from each parish converge into a central square. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
May 04

Power blackouts hit Tanzania as Cyclone Hidaya intensifies

Tanzania's meteorology department says Cyclone Hidaya has significantly weakened as it approaches Tanzania’s coastline
May 04
FILE - Giraffes and zebras congregate under the shade of a tree in the afternoon in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania on March 20, 2018. The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
May 04

AP PHOTOS: South and Southeast Asian countries cope with a weekslong heat wave

South and Southeast Asian countries have been coping with a weekslong heat wave rendering record high temperatures that have posed a severe health risk. Umbrellas to shield against blazing sunlight are popular, air-conditioned malls are serving as urban oases, and schools in Cambodia have been cutting back their hours. In the Philippines, India and Bangladesh, officials have told students to stay home and do their lessons remotely. In April, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned that the sweltering weather could put millions of children’s lives at risk and asked caregivers to take extra precautions. A UNICEF statement said that in the Asia-Pacific region, “around 243 million children are exposed to hotter and longer heatwaves, putting them at risk of a multitude of heat-related illnesses, and even death.” The advice everywhere for everyone? Avoid outdoor activities and drink plenty of water. Meteorologists in Cambodia say the country is facing its hottest temperatures in 170...
May 04
Motorcyclists stop in the shade of a skytrain line on a hot day in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
May 04

Mexican officials say 3 bodies found in Baja California area where 2 Australians and American went missing

Mexican officials say 3 bodies found in Baja California area where 2 Australians and American went missing
May 04
May 03

Flood and landslide hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing 14

Officials say 14 people are dead after a flood and landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
May 03
In this Friday, May 3, 2024, photo released by the Wajo Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD Wajo), rescuers carry a victim of a flood in Wajo, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. A flood and a landslide hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing a number of people, officials said Saturday. (BPBD Wajo via AP)
May 03

Mexican officials say 3 bodies recovered in Baja California during search for missing

Mexican authorities say three bodies have been recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend
May 03
In this image made from video, Mexico's police officers stand guard at the Ensenada station in Ensenada, Mexico, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found tents and questioned a few people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing over the weekend in the Pacific coast state of Baja California. (AP Photo)
May 03

38% of Americans disagree with US policy in Israel-Hamas war

The new ABC News Ipsos poll reveals how Americans feel about U.S. policy toward Israel.
May 03
VIDEO: 38% of Americans disagree with US policy in Israel-Hamas war