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Greek islands Rhodes and Lemnos declare state of emergency after deadly storm wreaks havoc

Authorities on the Greek islands Rhodes and Lemnos have declared a state of emergency after powerful storms caused extensive flooding and infrastructure damage
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Arms producers saw revenue up in 2023 with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a new report says

A new report says major companies in the arms industry saw a 4.2% increase in overall revenue in 2023 with sharp rises for producers based in Russia and the Middle East
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Namibia's female VP leads in presidential election marred by problems and opposition complaints

Namibia’s ruling party presidential candidate leads in early results of an election characterized by technical problems which caused voting to be extended for three days
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Namibians queue to cast their votes in a presidential election in Windhoek, Namibia Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich)
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Georgia at 'tipping point' as pro-West protesters clash with security forces

Thousands have taken to the streets to protest in favor of EU membership.
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Demonstrators stand against a water cannon during an anti-government protest in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Dec. 1, 2024.
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Stars, heads of state, solemn rituals and high-security celebrations for Notre Dame's reopening

The reopening of Notre Dame this coming weekend will be a high-security affair, with a repeat of some measures used during the Paris Olympics
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The main entrance of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral is pictured after French President Emmanuel Macron visited the restored interiors of the monument, Friday Nov. 29, 2024, in Paris. (Stephane de Sakutin, Pool via AP)
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BBC under scrutiny as 'Masterchef' host Gregg Wallace hits back at misconduct allegations

The British government’s culture secretary has held talks with the BBC as the broadcaster comes under growing scrutiny after one of its TV hosts drew an angry backlash for dismissing sexual misconduct allegations
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FILE - Gregg Wallace at Tramshed in London, Thursday Feb. 16, 2017. (Yui Mok/PA via AP, File)
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Romania's pro-Western parties win parliamentary election as far-right makes gains

Pro-Western parties have won the most votes in Romania’s parliamentary election and will look to form a coalition government as the European Union country faces a surge of support for far-right nationalists who made huge gains in the country’s legislature
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Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, of the Social Democratic Party or PSD, speaks after exit polls in the country's parliamentary elections, in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre)
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How to sum up 2024? The Oxford University Press word of the year is 'brain rot'

Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” its word of the year
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FILE- In this Aug. 29, 2010 file photo, an Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated Press in New York. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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China condemns Lithuania's expulsion of its diplomats

China has condemned Lithuania’s expulsion of three Chinese diplomats as relations between the two countries continue to sour
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December 02

Philippine navy shadows Russian submarine in the South China Sea

The Philippine military has deployed a navy ship and air force planes to shadow a Russian submarine, which passed through the South China Sea off the country’s western coast last week
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56 people died in a soccer stampede in southern Guinea, government says

56 people died in a soccer stampede in southern Guinea, government says
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December 02

Russia launches 110 attack drones into Ukraine amid high-level allied visits

Ukrainian authorities reported casualties in the western city of Ternopil.
December 02
Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Ternopil, Ukraine, on Dec. 2, 2024.
December 02

Volkswagen workers hold 2-hour strikes to push back against proposed pay cuts and plant closures

Volkswagen workers have launched rolling two-hour strikes at nine plants across Germany to underscore their resistance to pay cuts and factory closures
December 02
Volkswagen workers gather for a nationwide warning Volkswagen workers' strike, at the Zwickau plant, Germany, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. Sign at top reads in German ""Tradition meets future". (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)
December 02

Middle East latest: Israel says soldier thought to have been taken hostage is now presumed dead

The Israeli military say an Israeli American soldier who was believed to have been captured alive by Hamas in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack was killed that day and his body taken into the Gaza Strip
December 02
A Palestinian boy walks past destroyed building at a neighbourhood in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 02

More than 200 people detained in Georgia during protests over the suspension of EU talks

More than 220 people have been detained after four nights of protests in the Georgian capital following the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union
December 02
A woman helps a demonstrator up at a subway station during a rally against the government's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union for four years in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
December 02

Elton John says he has lost his eyesight and struggles to see his new stage musical

Elton John says he struggled to watch his new musical because he has “lost his eyesight” after contracting an infection
December 02
FILE - Elton John waves to the waiting media as he leaves the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
December 02

Iraqi militias bolster Syria’s government in counteroffensive against insurgents

Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have deployed in Syria to back the government’s counteroffensive against a surprise advance by insurgents who seized the largest city of Aleppo
December 02
This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defence White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian residents gather near destroyed buildings, after Syrian government forces hit Idlib city, Syria, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Syrian Civil Defence White Helmets via AP)
December 02

Impeachment filed against Philippine VP Duterte after threat to president

An impeachment complaint has been filed against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and fail...
December 02
House Secretary General, Reginald Velasco, left, receives an impeachment complaint filed Monday, Dec. 2, 2024 against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte by several prominent opponents and activists, including former Senator Leila de Lima, center, and Akbayan Partylist Representative Perci Cendana, right, at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
December 02

Impeachment complaint is filed against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte after she threatened president with death

Impeachment complaint is filed against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte after she threatened president with death
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December 02

Hong Kong launches panda sculpture tour as the city hopes for tourism boost

Thousands of giant panda sculptures will greet residents and tourists starting on Saturday in Hong Kong, where enthusiasm for the bears has grown since two cubs were born in a local theme park
December 02
A panda mascot poses for photographs in front of the panda sculptures displayed at the Hong Kong International Airport during the welcome ceremony of the panda-themed exhibition "Panda Go!" in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
December 02

Commodities firm Trafigura goes on Swiss trial over alleged bribes paid to win Angola oil contract

For the first time in Switzerland, a multinational company faces a criminal trial on charges of bribing a foreign public official, with alleged payments totaling about $5 million, to win lucrative oil industry contracts in Angola
December 02
FILE - Exterior view of The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, Monday, March 9, 2020. (Samuel Golay/Keystone via AP, File)
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Scientists gather to decode puzzle of the world's rarest whale in 'extraordinary' New Zealand study

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's rarest whale species
December 02
Oliver Dawson inspects a male spade-toothed whale ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Derek Morrison)
December 02

Landmark climate change case opens at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

The top United Nations court has taken up the largest case in its history, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change
December 02
Activists put up a billboard outside the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, as it opens hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations fight its devastating impact, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
December 02

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Ukraine for his first visit in 2 1/2 years

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is visiting Ukraine for the first time in more than 2 1/2 years
December 02
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz take a look at drones during Scholz's visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec.2, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives in Kyiv, Ukraine, for his first visit in 2 1/2 years

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives in Kyiv, Ukraine, for his first visit in 2 1/2 years
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A 2nd ceasefire is reached between warring Shiites and Sunni Muslims in Pakistan's restive northwest

Pakistani officials say authorities with help from community leaders brokered a second ceasefire between warring minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims in a troubled northwestern region bordering Afghanistan following a deadly sectarian violence that left ...
December 02
Local residents walk in a market, which closed due to strike called by traders as a protest against a gunmen firing incident, in Parachinar, main town of Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussain Ali)
December 02

Financial and community hurdles slow geothermal energy development in Southeast Asia

Positioned along the seismically active Ring of Fire, Indonesia and the Philippines have the second and third highest installed geothermal energy capacity in the world, after the United States
December 02
Farmers tend to their field in Dieng, Central Java, Indonesia, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Beawiharta)
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US Navy shoots down Houthi missiles targeting US-flagged ships in Gulf of Aden

Two Navy destroyers were escorting commercial ships off the coast of Yemen.
December 02
Protesters hold up weapons as people, mainly Houthi supporters, rally to show support to Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 29, 2024.
December 02

Dozens, including children, killed in stampede following clashes at soccer match

At least 56 people have died and dozens more are injured as security forces tried to quell clashes during a soccer match in southern Guinea’s largest city
December 02
In this grab taken from video provided by Nimba Sports Zaly, a man holds a chair on top of his head in a stampede, during a soccer match at the Stade de Nzérékoré, in Nzérékoré, Guinea on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (Nimba Sports Zaly via AP)
December 02

Several killed in a stampede after clashes at a Guinea soccer match, according to an official and local media

Several killed in a stampede after clashes at a Guinea soccer match, according to an official and local media
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Chief of International Criminal Court lashes out at US and Russia over threats and accusations

The president of the International Criminal Court has lashed out at the United States and Russia for interfering with its investigations and calls threats and attacks on the court “appalling.”
December 02
FILE - Exterior of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
December 02

Biden finally heads to Africa in an attempt to counter China. Will Trump take up his approach?

President Joe Biden is making his long-awaited visit to sub-Saharan Africa to showcase a U.S.-backed railway project across three countries
December 02
President Joe Biden is greeted by Cape Verde's Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva at Amilcar Cabral international airport on Sal island, Cape Verde Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, en route to Angola as he makes his long-promised visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
December 01

US Navy destroys Houthi missiles and drones targeting American ships in Gulf of Aden

U.S. Navy destroyers shot down seven missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels at the warships and three American merchant vessels they were escorting through the Gulf of Aden
December 01
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)
December 01

Australian police arrest 13 people and seize a record 2.3 tons of cocaine from a fishing boat

Australian police say they have seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine from a fishing boat off the coast of Queensland
December 01
Australian Federal Police officers stand with approximately 350 kilograms (770 pounds) of seized cocaine at a press conference at the AFP headquarters in Brisbane, Australia, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Jono Searle/AAP Image via AP)
December 01

Drone strikes by Mali's military regime kill 8 Tuareg leaders in the country's north

A rebel spokesman says drone strikes by Mali’s military regime have killed eight Tuareg rebel leaders in the north of the country
December 01
December 01

Catholic church calls on president of El Salvador not to lift ban on gold mining

The Roman Catholic Church has called on the president of El Salvador not to lift the country's ban on gold mining
December 01
FILE - San Salvador's Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas celebrates Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)
December 01

A bus crashed near a ski resort in southern France killing 2 people and injuring at least 33

Local authorities say a bus has crashed near a ski resort in southern France, killing at least two people and injuring 33 others
December 01
This photo provided on Dec. 2, 2024 by the regional rescue brigade show a bus that crashed Sunday evening, Dec. 1, 2024 near a ski resort in the Pyrenees mountains in southern France. (SDIS66 via AP)
December 01

8 dead in a mass shooting in a cartel-plagued town in central Mexico

Eight people are dead and two others are wounded after gunmen pulled up to a roadside stand in north-central Mexico and opened fire on customers and bystanders
December 01
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What to know about the plastic pollution treaty talks that have concluded in South Korea

Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution have concluded in Busan, South Korea without reaching an agreement
December 01
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP, gestures before the start of a plenary of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
December 01

Canada's ambassador says Trudeau told Trump the Canadian border can't be compared to Mexico's

Canada’s ambassador to the United States says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was successful in getting President-elect Donald Trump and some key cabinet nominees to understand that lumping Canada in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into t...
December 01
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks through the lobby of the Delta Hotel by Marriott, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
December 01

Talks fail to reach agreement on plastic pollution treaty, will resume next year

Negotiators were working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution crisis.
December 01
Chair of the International Negotiating Committee, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, on the screen, speaks during a plenary of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
December 01

Plastic pollution treaty talks are ending in South Korea with no agreement, negotiators plan to meet again next year

Plastic pollution treaty talks are ending in South Korea with no agreement, negotiators plan to meet again next year
December 01
December 01

Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, but tense ceasefire holds

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says Israeli jets have launched an airstrike over a southern Lebanese border village, while troops shelled other border towns and villages still under Israeli control
December 01
A man walks in a street between destroyed buildings as he returns to Qana village, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
December 01

A new Belgium law gives sex workers contracts, benefits and safety protection

Belgium is granting sex workers full labor rights, including health insurance, paid leave and pensions, starting Sunday
December 01
A view of an empty chair inside of a sex worker's booth, in Antwerp, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
December 01

Thousands march in Serbia to mark 1 month since a roof collapse killed 15 people

Thousands joined a protest march on Sunday in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad to mark one month since a concrete canopy on the outside of the city’s railway station crashed down, killing 15 people and injuring two
December 01
People leave hand imprints on the pavement with red paint during a protest following the collapse of a concrete canopy at the railway station that killed 15 people one month ago, in Novi Sad, Serbia, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
December 01

Sectarian violence has killed at least 130 people in Pakistan’s northwest in the last 10 days

Pakistani officials say sectarian clashes have killed at least 130 people in the northwest during the last 10 days
December 01
December 01

Bangladesh court acquits Zia’s son and 48 others convicted in 2004 deadly grenade attack

Bangladesh’s High Court acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son, Tarique Rahman, and 48 others, overturning their verdicts in a deadly 2004 grenade attack on a political rally
December 01
Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh's interim government speaks to members of the media at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
December 01

Serbia rejects responsibility for a water supply explosion in Kosovo as tensions rise

Serbia's president has rejected any responsibility for a powerful explosion that temporarily cut water and power supplies to large swathes of neighboring Kosovo
December 01
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a news conference with Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
December 01

Over 40 hospitalized in Georgia during protests over suspension of EU talks

A third night of protests in the Georgian capital against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union has left 44 people hospitalized
December 01
Police officers detain demonstrators at a subway station during a rally against the government's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union for four years in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
December 01

Ireland's incumbent parties look likely to hang on to power after a fractured election

Results from Ireland's election suggest the two dominant center-right parties look likely to form a new government
December 01
Fine Gael politician Paschal Donohoe celebrates with supporters at RDS, the Royal Dublin Society, after voters went to the polls during Ireland's election in Dublin, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)