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Prime Minister Narendra Modi — fresh from declaring victory in India’s election — offered few details on the agenda for his third term

ABC News' David Muir documents the journey of WWII heroes back to Normandy.

May 31-June 6, 2024 Supporters of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) dance in celebration of their party's showing in India's election. Police officers patrol in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay area on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown. People attend a candlelight vigil at Democracy Square in Taipei, Taiwan, to mark the Tiananmen crackdown. This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in the Asia-Pacific region made or published by the Associated Press in the past week. This selection was curated by AP photo editor Masayo Yoshida in Tokyo. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com

Nearly five decades after Uruguayan security forces seized Amelia Sanjurjo from the street, disappearing the newly pregnant woman into the maw of the military’s prison system, she received a proper burial in her hometown of Montevideo

A Guatemalan lawyer who worked closely with organizations representing farmworker and Indigenous groups has been killed in an apparent ambush

Amanda Knox told Italian TV that she was surprised by a Florence appeals court decision to convict her of slander for accusing a Congolese bar owner of murdering her British housemate

Mexican federal immigration authorities say they have cleared one of Mexico City’s largest downtown tent encampments of migrants

Gaza hospital says fewer women and children were killed in Israeli strike on UN school than earlier reported

Veterans from the U.S., Britain and Canada, more than two dozen heads of state and countless others took to the beaches of Normandy and elsewhere this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. In Sannerville, Normandy, spectators turned their eyes skyward as some 400 paratroopers from Britain, Belgium, the United States and Canada participated in a multinational parachute drop. Casts of veterans sat side-by-side in Sainte-Mere-Eglise during an American Airlines veterans parade — some sharing stories or shaking hands with passersby, and some perched quietly behind sunglasses with afternoon sunlight beating down from overhead. French and U.S. flags lined the blue-and-red walkway the led U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to the stage for opening ceremonies Thursday alongside France's President Emmanuel Macron and first lady Brigitte Macron. Meanwhile, Britain’s King Charles III joined Macron at the British Normandy...

United Nations special representatives on human rights have called on Belarusian authorities to investigate the torture and deaths of political prisoners

Four Russian ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing “historically friendly relations” between both nations and as tensions escalate over Western military support for Ukraine ...

Dutch final exit poll suggests big gains for Wilders' far right and tight race with center left group for EU elections

French President Emmanuel Macron says France will provide Ukraine with its Mirage combat aircraft

The U.N. says a fire at a displacement camp in eastern Congo has destroyed around 50 makeshift tents, leaving dozens of families without shelter

Prince Harry has been given permission to appeal the British government's rejection to provide him with police protection in the U.K. The Court of Appeal gave the Duke of Sussex the go-ahead to challenge a ruling earlier this year in the High Court

After an Israeli strike on a U.N. run school in Gaza, the IDF says they bombed the school because it had a Hamas compound "embedded inside" it. ABC News' Mick Mulroy and Marcus Moore report.

President Joe Biden spoke at a ceremony to commemorate D-Day to honor the service and sacrifice of the Allied troops who took back France 80 years ago.

"I've just been living with this open wound and with this incredible stigma."

It's been 80 years since Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny

Two British judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, deepening worries over the city’s rule of law under a Beijing-imposed national security law

Pope Francis pulled something of a switcheroo as he slipped out of the Vatican to meet with members of a local Roman parish

Hammocks have begun appearing this week in the doorways of 300 new houses built in what was previously a yucca field along Panama’s Caribbean coast

Russia’s foreign minister is visiting Africa's sub-Saharan region of the Sahel this week as Moscow seeks to grow its influence in the restive, mineral-rich region

President Joe Biden and European leaders are gathered at an international ceremony at one of the landing sites where allied troops helped change the course of World War II and world history.

Britain’s July 4 election is less than a month away

Australia's category 5 hurricane killed over 80% of seabirds on Bedout Island.

British paratroopers, who parachuted into the historic D-Day drop zone in Normandy to recreate the airborne part of the battle that started 80 years ago and had led to the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany have been met by French customs and passp...

North Macedonia’s president has formally asked center-right leader Hristijan Mickoski to form a new government following his victory in last month’s parliamentary elections

Russia’s top state criminal investigation agency says a French citizen has been arrested on charges of collecting information on military issues

Rescuers are searching for dozens of workers who were trapped when a gold mine collapsed in northcentral Nigeria

Israeli Defense Forces confirm the airstrike, saying the school had a Hamas compound "embedded inside" of it.

President Joe Biden is in Normandy, France, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-day.

RSF forces confirmed they attacked "three camps" at 5 a.m. on Wednesday.

At least seven people have drowned after a school bus in northwest Syria skidded off the road and plunged into a river

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Polish military says that a soldier stabbed last month from behind a barrier at the border with Belarus has died

World leaders are gathered in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a pivotal event in WWII.

Poland’s military says a soldier who was stabbed last month from behind a barrier at the border with Belarus has died

Greek authorities have confirmed that they are searching for Michael Mosley, a well-known British television doctor who popularized intermittent fasting for weight loss

When Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympics in 2016, videos of the extensive lagoon complex surrounding the Olympic Park were everywhere

Vatican police have detained a former employee after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th century manuscript back to the Holy See

President Joe Biden has marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day by pledging during a ceremony at the American cemetery in Normandy that “we will not walk away” from Ukraine

Around 80 migrants have been rescued at sea by British authorities after a small boat got into difficulty while crossing the English Channel from France

Biden marks D-Day anniversary by saying 'we will not walk away' from Ukraine's defense and allow 'surrender to bullies'

European Central Bank cuts interest rates by quarter point, moving ahead of US Fed to lower credit costs for consumers.

Japanese, U.S. and South Korean coast guard vessels have conducted their first three-way drill off Japan’s coast as the countries strengthen their maritime ties in response to increased assertiveness by China in pressing its territorial claims

Officials and resistance movements in Sudan say clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army in Gezira province early Wednesday morning killed at least 100 people and injured dozens

Eleven U.S. World War II veterans given Legion of Honor awards by French president on the 80th anniversary of D-Day

A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok has begun the trial of an American soldier arrested earlier this year on charges of stealing

King Charles III is in northern France to honor the 22,442 British troops who died in the Battle of Normandy