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A U.N. human rights expert says that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission targeting criminals remains underfunded and understaffed

Ibrahim Aqil, the leader, was planning an attack on Israel, the IDF said.

As Italian prime minister, Alcide De Gasperi oversaw the post-World War II return to Greece of Rhodes and the other Dodecanese islands

New Zealand’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Rose King, has highlighted the challenges Pacific Island nations face with foreign military training in an interview with The Associated Press

Following a deadly attack in Mali's capital by al-Qaida linked militants, authorities there have temporarily closed livestock markets that typically are run by an ethnic group that authorities associate with the militants

The fashion palate cleanser of the season: white

Authorities say a rare polar bear spotted in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat

A Greek Coast Guard boat's pursuit of an inflatable dinghy to within a few dozen yards of the Turkish coast threatens a diplomatic incident between the neighbors

Israel says its airstrike on Beirut killed senior Hezbollah official Ibrahim Akil; Hezbollah has not confirmed this

The Israel Defense Forces invited ABC News into Gaza to see Hamas' tunnels.

ABC News’ Diane Macedo speaks with Maria Corina Machado about Venezuela’s ongoing fight for democracy and President-elect Edmundo Gonzalez’s exile.

Lebanon's Health Ministry reports at least 8 killed, 59 wounded in Israeli strike on Beirut

Israeli official says senior Hezbollah military official Ibrahim Akil was targeted in Israel's strike on Beirut

Pakistani authorities have suspended policemen who opened fire and killed a blasphemy suspect earlier this week, only to be applauded and showered with rose petals by local residents after the killing

Japan and China said Friday they have reached a deal toward resolving their disputes over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea and Beijing’s ban on Japanese seafood

ABC News' Marcus Moore and former CIA field operative Darrell Blocker on the significance of the latest military actions playing out in southern Lebanon.

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, who stunned her country by abdicating earlier this year, has been discharged from a hospital after a fall earlier this week

Pakistani security officials say nine troops have died in separate militant attacks

Mohamed Al-Fayed, whose business interests included the luxury department store Harrods, died last year at age 94.

ABC News’ Matt Rivers on the escalation in violence, which some fear could spread to the U.S.

Iran has expressed its deep displeasure over a Taliban delegate’s failure to stand during the Iranian national anthem at an event in Tehran

Czechs are voting in a two-day vote for a third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the Senate, and to select their representatives in regional elections

Russia’s space agency says two Russians have set a record for the longest continuous stay on the International Space Station

Lebanon's Health Ministry says at least 3 killed, 17 wounded in Israeli strike on Beirut's suburbs

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

The mother of the woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria says her daughter is under the protection of the Hungarian secret services

Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb

The mayor of a French town making headlines for the trial of dozens of men accused of rapes that occurred there for almost a decade has apologized for comments that appeared to downplay the case

China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced labor, a Philippine senator who led an investigation into the centers said Friday

Ukraine has banned government officials, military personnel and other defense and critical infrastructure workers from installing the popular Telegram messaging app on state-issued devices

An Australian judge has given prosecutors until December to finalize their case alleging that an army private and her husband are Russian spies

Israel says it has carried out an airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern neighborhood of the Lebanese capital

Hezbollah launches 140 missiles into northern Israel in 3 strikes, damage not immediately known

An Israeli airstrike in Beirut has killed at least nine people and wounded nearly 60 others, according to Lebanese health officials The strike Friday was the first such Israeli attack on Lebanon’s capital in months

Lawyers in Britain representing dozens of women say that Mohamed Al Fayed — the former boss of Harrods — was a “monster” who raped and sexually abused young women throughout his time at the helm of the world-renowned London department store

Authorities in Ukraine have advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city

Iran’s top leader has pardoned thousands of prisoners, including foreigners and people accused of anti-state crimes

Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some had rabies

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region

Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have warned that military attacks in recent days to rescue a New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage over a year ago could instead threaten his safety

A huge king penguin chick named Pesto, who weighs as much as both his parents combined, has become a social media celebrity and a star attraction at an Australian aquarium

Dutch prosecutors say that a 22-year-old man arrested after a stabbing in Rotterdam that left one person dead and another seriously wounded is suspected of murder and attempted murder with terrorist intent

Shohei Ohtani's feat of becoming the first major leaguer with at least 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season was met with extra editions of newspapers for fans to read on their way to work

The European Union is ready to lend Ukraine up to $39 billion as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations

The döner kebab is beloved in Berlin

For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies and the bloody aftermath are painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found

Brazilian coffee farmers are grappling with above-average temperatures as the country, the world’s largest coffee producer, faces its worst drought in more than seven decades

Sept. 13-19, 2024 Demonstrators in Peru demanded more action from their government to combat fires in the Amazon. Mexicans celebrated Independence Day in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square. Youths attended a march for religious freedom Rio de Janeiro. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photo editor Ramón Espinosa, based in Havana. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images