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Emperor Naruhito of Japan and his wife Empress Masako have arrived in the U.K. ahead of their long-awaited official state visit

Toomaj Salehi became famous for songs after Mahsa Amini in 2022 death

The curtain fell and the disco ball was raised celebrating 38 years and 150 collections of Dries Van Noten, who staged his final fashion show at Paris Fashion Week

The U.S. let Ukraine use Western-supplied arms to targeting border regions.

A water emergency has prompted the mayor of Capri — one of Italy’s most popular islands — to order a halt to the arrival of tourists, in a crisis that has deprived some areas of any water supply

The Russian group Qilin carried out a ransomware attack on London hospitals.

Three people are missing after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in southeastern Switzerland caused a landslide

North Macedonia’s parliament has begun a two-day debate leading up to a vote on the new government proposed by a center-right party that won May’s national elections

Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform U.K. party, is facing wide-ranging criticism over his claim that the West provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine

Ukraine's president says at least three people died in bomb attack on Kharkiv.

Palestinian and hospital officials said at least 39 people have been killed by Israeli strikes across northern Gaza

The Italian coast guard has recovered 14 more bodies from last week's shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 34 the number of known victims from the sinking

The Goma dance festival, the largest dance festival in Congo, has taken place each year for the past seven years, despite ongoing attacks by rebel groups

Ivory Coast health authorities have launched mobile enrollment centers for the country’s universal health coverage program

There appears to be a new escalation by Iranian-backed Houthis in their strikes.

On a lazy summer weekend a year ago, Russia was jolted by the stunning news of an armed uprising

South Africa’s new coalition government has brought a Black president and a white opposition leader together in an image of unity

In the video, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the U.S. of withholding weapons from Israeli forces to use in the war with Hamas. ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge reports from Tel Aviv.

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes on a tent camp outside the southern city of Rafah have killed at least 25 people and wounded another 50

Israeli strikes on tent camps near Rafah kill at least 25 people and wound 50, Gaza health officials and rescuers say

The International Criminal Court has unsealed an arrest warrant for a Malian accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the desert city of Timbuktu in 2012-13, where he is suspected of leading an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group

A law in Namibia criminalizing gay sex between men has been overturned and declared unconstitutional and illegal by a court, in a victory for LGBTQ campaigners in the southern African nation

A court in Belarus has sentenced a top opposition figure living in exile to 20 years in absentia

ABC News’ Patrick Reevell details the state of the war-torn city.

A Swiss court sentences 4 members of the wealthy Hinduja family to up to 4 1/2 years for exploiting domestic workers

A Ukrainian security official says that Ukraine’s military struck three oil refineries and a drone launch site inside Russia overnight

Ryan Watson, a father of two from Oklahoma, was arrested on April 12.

The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away

The population for the rare wild cat grew from 648 in 2022 to over 2,000 today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature found.

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Nigerien military authorities have withdrawn the operating permit for a large uranium mine from the French company Orano

Prosecutors in Germany say three men have been arrested on suspicion of trying to collect information on a person from Ukraine for a foreign intelligence agency

Zambian officials say a U.S. tourist has been killed by an elephant in the city of Livingstone, the second such attack in the country this year

The population of the rare cats grew from 648 in 2022 to over 2,000 today.

A major power outage has hit the Western Balkans as the region swelters in an early heat wave that has sent temperatures soaring to up to 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit

Kenya's police watchdog says it has begun an investigation into police conduct during protests against a government plan to impose new taxes

The European Union has agreed to start membership negotiations with embattled Ukraine and Moldova

An Indian-born billionaire and three family members have been sentenced to prison for exploiting domestic workers at their lakeside villa in Switzerland

EU nations approve opening of enlargement talks with Ukraine and Moldova next week

Armenia said it would recognize a Palestinian state, prompting Israel to summon its ambassador for what the Foreign Ministry described as a “severe reprimand.”

A Czech man has been detained in Croatia for allegedly allowing his 9-year-old child to take an explosive device from a military zone which later killed him

Police in northwestern Pakistan have registered a case against hundreds of people who attacked a police station and killed a man being questioned there on suspicion of desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book

Britain has become notorious as a place where a casual swim could lead to an extended visit to the toilet, if not the hospital

Officials say Japan’s space agency has suffered a series of cyberattacks since last year, but sensitive information related to rockets and satellites was not affected and it is continuing to investigate and take preventive measures

China appears to be keeping its distance as Russia and North Korea move closer to each other with a new defense pact that could tilt the balance of power among the three authoritarian states

Researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind parks far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood

Eleven people have been killed and dozens injured when a fire that apparently started in crop stubble spread through settlements in southeastern Turkey

June 13–19, 2024 Muslims celebrated Eid al-Adha in Istanbul, Turkey, French President Emmanuel Macron paid homage to World War II resistance fighters, and a group of Kurdish migrants failed in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by AP photographer Emilio Morenatti in Barcelona. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

South Korea summons Russian ambassador to protest defense pact with North Korea

Videos posted on social media show bodies of pilgrims scattered on the streets.