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A group of Dutch students has reimagined van life and is hitting the road to Portugal

Tens of thousands of environmental activists have rallied outside Germany’s parliament two days before the country holds a national election and demanded that politicians take stronger action to curb climate change

Hundreds gathered Friday in southeast London to light candles and to mourn for slain primary school teacher Sabina Nessa and demand an end to violence against women

President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday gave Israel one year to end its occupation of territories the Palestinians want for a future state

Brazil is in the throes of its worst drought in 91 years, which has returned the specter of power rationing

French authorities have launched an investigation into the asphyxiation death of a 37-year-old man after subway security agents detained him in the southern city of Marseille

A look at the week's top photos from around the globe.

In a story Sept. 23 about a top European Union legal adviser saying software in Volkswagen cars to alter pollutant emissions in hot or cold weather doesn’t conform to EU law, The Associated Press omitted an exception to the rule

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has been released from a jail in Sardinia after a judge ruled that he could go free ahead of an Oct. 4 extradition hearing

French President Emmanuel Macro has met with Lebanon’s new prime minister, wishing him success and promising France would continue to support the crisis-struck country

The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli troops shot and killed a protester during clashes in the occupied West Bank

Polish border guards say an Iraqi migrant has died near Poland's border with Belarus and another has been hospitalized with COVID-19

Judge in Sardinia tells AP Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont can leave jail, travel before Oct. 4 extradition hearing

Trying to dispel investor fears, some Chinese banks are disclosing what they are owed by a real estate developer that is struggling under $310 billion in debt

The British government is seeking a legal injunction against climate protestors who blocked the entrance to Britain’s busiest ferry port to highlight the climate crisis and fuel poverty

The European Union is warning Russia against allowing hackers to attack data bases or spread disinformation in the bloc just as Germans prepare to go the polls for parliamentary elections

Serbian state television is reporting that a public bus swerved off the road into a children’s playground in a residential area of Belgrade and injured several people

A volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands is keeping nerves on edge for a fifth day since it erupted, producing loud explosions, a huge ash cloud and cracking open a new fissure that spewed out more fiery molten rock

France’s defense minister says it is “not a mystery” that that the announcement of defense deal among the the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia came as a shock to French officials

Russian election authorities have officially announced the final results of last week’s parliamentary vote, in which the Kremlin’s party retained its supermajority amid widespread reports of violations and incidents of voter fraud

Italian lawyer says Catalan separatist leader to be freed soon from jail ahead of ruling on Spain's extradition request

Shortages of computer chips and other raw materials are continuing to hit Germany’s manufacturers, as bottlenecks leave companies in Europe's biggest economy struggling to fill orders

Britain doesn't have enough truck drivers

The car flipped, fell down a hill and crashed into a wall after the driver lost control on a bend but escaped with minor injuries.

The International Organization for Migration says migrant deaths along the Atlantic route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands reached a record high last month with 379 lives lost at sea

Geologists demonstrated how volcanic rock from the La Palma eruption’s lava flows can boil water instantly due to its blistering heat.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sought to smooth over tensions with France over a geopolitical submarine dispute

Travelers arriving at U.K. airports are facing delays after electronic passport gates have failed, forcing passengers to wait in line for border officers to inspect their documents

HNA Group, the Chinese airline operator that ran into financial trouble following a global acquisition spree beginning in 2014, says its chairman and CEO have been detained on suspicion of committing crimes

A French general handed the baton of a key NATO command center to a fellow French air force officer this week as tensions between France and the United States simmered over a defense deal that sank a multi-billion-dollar French submarine contract

Authorities say two assailants in lawyers’ black coats opened fire in a courtroom in the Indian capital, killing a notorious crime suspect before being fatally shot by police officers

Hundreds of Alitalia workers are blocking a highway exit outside Rome's main airport to demonstrate their anger that most of the airline's staff will soon lose their jobs

Pope Francis has decided to leave in office a prominent German archbishop who has faced criticism for his handling of the church’s sexual abuse scandal, but the cleric has decided to take a “spiritual timeout.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says recent talks with U.S. President Joe Biden have proved disappointing, and that his country, a NATO member, would seek closer ties with Russia

Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel provided a rare splash of color amid Germany’s staid election campaign while visiting a bird park

An Albanian court has reopened the case of a former defense minister who faced charges over a massive blast at a munitions disposal factory 13 years ago that killed 26 people

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says her country is willing to resume talks with South Korea if conditions are met, indicating it wants Seoul to persuade Washington to relax crippling economic sanctions

Greece’s coast guard says it has launched a search and rescue operation after a boat carrying around 150 people believed to be migrants ran into trouble off the country’s southwestern coast

Germany’s political parties are preparing to rally their supporters and win over undecided voters ahead of a national election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after 16 years in power

The cinematic escape of six Palestinians who tunneled out of an Israeli prison earlier this month has shone a light on Israel’s mass incarceration of Palestinians

Kim Jong Un’s sister says North Korea is willing to resume talks with South Korea if it lifts hostility on her country

A camp where more than 14,000 migrants had waited at U.S. border is now smaller.

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Pakistan's top diplomat has some ideas from his country on how to engage the new Taliban government in Afghanistan

Sept. 17-23, 2021 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific. The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama 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

The lawyer for Carles Puigdemont says the former Catalan leader has been detained in Sardinia, Italy

Wild boar sightings in the Monte Mario area of Rome have prompted residents to criticize local administrations for not effectively managing the animals.

Time-lapse footage captured a stunning view of the aurora borealis across the night sky in Donegal, Ireland.

Poland's Catholic Church authorities say that retired Bishop Edward Janiak has died at age 69

Carles Puigdemont’s lawyer says the former Catalan leader who is wanted by Spain has been detained in Sardinia, Italy