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Plus, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under fire for not disclosing luxury vacations paid for by a Republican donor, and the search for who fatally stabbed a tech executive in San Francisco.

Six men in Congo were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the murder of Italy’s ambassador and two others

Plus, the latest jobs report shows that job growth slowed in March, and understanding the science behind mood boosting music.

Russian forces have bombarded the regions of Ukraine it has illegally annexed but doesn’t fully control, resulting in casualties, building damage and power outages

ABC News’s Marcus Moore joins from Vatican City where Good Friday events are underway.

Paul Cattermole, a member of early-2000s British pop group S Club 7, has died at the age of 46

Two Russian news agencies says jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been formally charged with espionage in Russia and has entered an official denial

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich formally charged with spying in Russia, enters denial

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

A Belarusian opposition leader and former ally of President Alexander Lukashenko has received a 17-year prison sentence in absentia on charges that included forming an extremist group and discrediting Belarus

Farmers in Romania and Bulgaria are protesting over the European Union’s response to a glut of agricultural products from Ukraine that they say are flooding local markets and undercutting prices

A religious freedom activist says more than 60 asylum-seeking members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained last week in Thailand are en route to the United States

The Vatican says Pope Francis won’t go to the Colosseum for the traditional Good Friday Way of the Cross procession

Vatican says Pope Francis will miss Colosseum Good Friday event due to cold weather in Rome

Russia's top diplomat says Moscow may pull out of a wartime deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain to global markets if the West fails to remove obstacles to Russian agricultural exports

Police in Cambodia say 19 Japanese men detained on suspicion of taking part in organized phone and online scams will be deported to their homeland

Police have warned that armed dissident groups are planning violent attacks over the Easter holiday weekend as Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the peace accord that ended three decades of bloodshed

A retired senior prosecutor in Greece has been named as the new leader of a far-right party as it seeks to sidestep a ban on its participation in an upcoming general election

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he believes he will overcome a lung infection caused by chronic leukemia that has hospitalized him in intensive care

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to nine years in prison for abusing and unlawfully detaining a woman who was shown chained in a viral video that sparked an outcry in China last year

British police have charged a 12-year-old boy with murder after a car plowed into a woman on a city street in northern England

Months after hundreds of French troops left Burkina Faso, ousted by the ruling military junta, speculation is mounting that the war-torn nation will fill the void with fighters from Russia’s shadowy mercenary outfit, the Wagner Group

Israeli medics: Palestinian shooting attack in West Bank kills 2 people, hours after Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Gaza

Pakistan's military has arrested a high-value target in an operation against Baluch insurgent group in the country’s southwest

Israel has unleashed rare airstrikes on Lebanon and bombarded the Gaza Strip after a large rocket barrage fired at Israel from southern Lebanon

MARCH 31-APRIL 6, 2023 From protests against raising the retirement age in France, to Premier League football in England and Holy Week celebrations across Europe and Africa, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by AP photographer Gregorio Borgia in Rome. 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 drum beat rises on a packed Seville street as Jose Maria Segura opens his mouth and begins the wail of the “saeta,” a pained, mournful ode to Jesus Christ in death. His voice carries along a line of “nazarenos,” or penitents, with tall conical hats, monkish robes and facial hoods. The members of the El Cerro brotherhood are shouldering a sculpture of the Virgin Mary out of a church. Millions of Spaniards take to the road in the days leading up to Easter, traveling to see family or for a holiday break. For many, seeing traditional processions with painted religious icons that can weigh over a ton is a cathartic annual ritual, a time to reflect on past sorrows and current ills. A procession by the La Sed brotherhood this week passed Seville's San Juan de Dios Hospital. Medical workers stepped outside to receive the tribute, some with tears pricking their eyes. It was the first Easter week since 2019 when masks, or any sign of the COVID-19 pandemic, were virtually...

A women-run radio station in northeastern Afghanistan has resumed its broadcasts, after officials shut it down for a week for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan

It’s become something of a grim, springtime tradition in the Holy Land

South Korea, the U.S. and Japan have called for stronger international support of efforts to ban North Korea from sending workers abroad and curb the North’s cybercrime

Eight Filipinos have been nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that is rejected by the Catholic church

March 31-April 6, 2023 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP photojournalist Fernando Llano in Mexico City. 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

China retaliates for Taiwan president's U.S. visit by sanctioning Reagan library, Hudson Institute think tank

Some 200 firefighters are battling a huge blaze in Mexico City’s sprawling wholesale market without any reported injuries

An unused lifeboat, a door and other fragments believed to be from a Japanese army helicopter have been found after the Black Hawk carrying 10 crew members was presumed to have crashed at sea

China is imposing sanctions against the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and other U.S.- and Asian-based organizations in retaliation for the closely watched meeting this week between the U.S. House speaker and Taiwan’s president

Burrowed between mangroves and a bustling skyline, 70-year-old Rajan, who only uses one name, reminisces about his old home

Samsung Electronics is cutting the production of its computer memory chips in an apparent effort to reduce inventory

Israel military says it launched strikes in Lebanon, and Lebanese TV station reports explosions in southern city of Tyre

March 31-April 6, 2023 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and the 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

Israel's Netanyahu says enemies will pay 'heavy price'

Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who was held captive in Iran, talks about the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

Air raid sirens sound in southern Israel, signaling renewed rocket fire from Gaza

The Jorge Newbery International Airport in Argentina's capital has practically become a homeless shelter at night

Plus, the latest unrest in Israel and Jerusalem, and a report in ProPublica alleges Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury trips from a Republican megadonor.

Violence continues as Israel and Palestine both fire counter attacks following multiple attacks of places of worship.

Authorities say at least 50 people have died after two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria

The Republican-controlled Tennessee state House of Representatives convened to vote on ousting three Democratic lawmakers.

The duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying mammal can only be found in Australia.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu vows 'aggressive response' after rockets fired from Lebanon and Gaza