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A new report from the State Department states the Biden administration does not have “complete information” that Israel used U.S. weapons to violate international law.

Kuwait’s emir has again dissolved the small, oil-rich country’s parliament amid continuing political deadlock

South Africa has urged the United Nations’ top court to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in Gaza.”

Thousands of protesters angered by the government’s decision to hand over control of some border villages to Azerbaijan have demonstrated in the center of the Armenian capital for a second day to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

Hundreds of mothers of missing people, other relatives and activists have marched through downtown Mexico City to mark a sad commemoration of Mother's Day

Author Zarifa Adiba believes all the women in Afghanistan should be free.

Russian forces have launched a new push into the Kharkiv region in Northeastern Ukraine as the Biden administration announces a desperately needed $400 million aid package for Ukraine.

Israel has indicated it plans to push forward with war operations in Rafah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we will do what we have to do to protect our country…”

Acts from more than two dozen countries will take the stage in Malmo, Sweden, to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest

Prince William has offered a positive assessment of his wife’s health in one of his few statements about Kate’s condition since she announced that she was undergoing treatment for cancer

The Iraqi government has requested the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country by the end of 2025, the latest in a series of international bodies operating in the country that Iraq has sought to...

A Taliban official says that flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people

A court in Romania’s capital has extended geographical restrictions against online influencer Andrew Tate

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a $500 million fundraising campaign Friday to ensure long-term, global support for its Oscar prizes, museum, educational programming and screenings in view of its 100th anniversary in 2028

Peruvian authorities have arrested President Dina Boluarte’s brother and her lawyer over influence-peddling accusations

Authorities in Argentina say at least 90 people were injured in Buenos Aires when a passenger train struck an empty box car on the tracks and derailed

Malta’s deputy prime minister has resigned and ended his European Commission bid

Chinese President Xi Jinping has left Hungary, concluding a tour of three European nations meant to reinforce China’s growing influence on the continent

Police in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad have prevented a pro-Palestinian rally by a radical Islamist party from moving toward the U.S. Embassy, where demonstrators wanted to stage a sit-in against Israel’s strikes in Gaza

Israeli air strikes continue in Rafah as international criticism rises.

Mock coffins have filled one of Milan’s most famous squares in a protest organized by Italy’s second-largest union to raise awareness over workplace deaths

Gunmen have abducted at least nine students from a school in northern Nigeria's Kogi State

German police say they have prevented hundreds of demonstrators from storming Tesla’s factory near Berlin during protests against the pioneering electric car maker over its environmental footprint

A 75-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a British police officer who was shot dead during an armed robbery of a travel agency in northern England nearly two decades ago

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

Syria's U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led force has handed over to Baghdad two Islamic State group militants suspected of involvement in the 2014 massacre of Iraqi soldiers

Authorities in Russia say seven people were killed when a bus veered off a bridge in St. Petersburg, the country's second-largest city

A campaign video for South Africa’s opposition party showing the country's flag in flames has stoked tensions and led to accusations of treason

A top Philippine security official has demanded the immediate expulsion of Chinese diplomats allegedly behind a reported leak of a phone conversation between one of the diplomats and a Filipino admiral about South China Sea disputes that have strained ...

A European naval force has detained six suspected pirates after they opened fire on an oil tanker traveling through the Gulf of Aden

Two environmental activists have attacked a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library

Japan’s defense chief has called for the bolstering of its anti-drone capability after a drone footage posted on a Chinese social media site showed a Japanese aircraft carrier docked at a restricted navy port west of Tokyo

Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless warehouse in the Brazilian city of Canoas, one of the hardest hit by floods in southern Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state

Ukraine has rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defenses

Floods in South Kivu and Tanganyika provinces in eastern Congo have hit nearly half a million people, creating food shortages, displacements and risk of diseases, according to a World Food Program report released Wednesday

An Australian judge has extended a ban on social media platform X allowing videos of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop in his church last month after government lawyers condemned the company's free speech argument for keeping the graphic images circulating

The U.N. says heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 110,000 people to flee north

Eden Golan is in Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest

A top Indian opposition leader has been freed from jail on interim bail by the Supreme Court nearly seven weeks after his arrest in a bribery case

Croatian conservative leader Andrej Plenkovic has been formally appointed prime minister-designate for a third consecutive term after he forged an alliance with an extreme right party following an inconclusive election

South Korea has vowed to protect its companies operating in other markets after Japanese regulators told LY Corp., which runs the popular chat app Line, to reduce its dependence on Naver, the Korean partner in the venture

The U_N_ General Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a resolution to give Palestine more “rights and privileges.”

Pope Francis has pressed his campaign to urge Italians to have children

Hope is fading for dozens of workers buried for days in the rubble of a building that collapsed in South Africa

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans

Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Nigeria for the Invictus Games and to meet with wounded soldiers, an official says

May 3-May 9, 2024 General elections continue throughout India. Campus protests in the U.S. have influenced students in Bangladesh and South Korea. Buddhists monks clean Buddha statues before his birthday. Horse riders compete in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous region. Teams compete in rugby matches in Singapore. Animals, as well as people, in Asian countries try to avoid heat. 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. The selection was curated by AP photo editor Hiro Komae in Tokyo. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

Polish farmers have marched through downtown Warsaw to protest the European Union’s climate policies and to oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk

The British economy bounced back strongly in the first three months of the year, bringing to an end to what economists termed a “technical recession.”

May 3-9, 2024 Crowds of people welcomed the Olympic torch on its arrival to France before the Summer Olympics in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Xi Jinping at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the Chinese leader's visit to European countries. The mother of a Ukrainian serviceman who was killed in battle kisses the flag that covers her son’s coffin during a funeral. Music fans gathered in the Swedish city of Malmo for the Eurovision Song Contest. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by Associated Press photographers in Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by AP photographer Andreea Alexandru in Bucharest, Romania. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images