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'Every single day, I've watched small children die': American nurse works in Gaza
“It makes me cry every time."
April 30, 2024Asylum seeker who killed British retiree says he was seeking revenge for the people of Gaza
An asylum seeker from Morocco who went on a vicious rampage following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered the Israel-Hamas war has been convicted of murder for stabbing a 70-year-old man in the streets of an English seaside town
April 25, 2024Colombia's president says thousands of grenades and bullets have gone missing from army bases
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says that hundreds of thousands of pieces of ammunition have gone missing from two military bases in the South American country
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Serbia prepares to mark school shooting anniversary. A mother says 'everyone rushed to forget'
Serbia is preparing to mark the anniversary of a shooting shooting last year that killed 10 people
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At time of rising antisemitism, Holocaust survivors take on denial and hate in new digital campaign
Holocaust survivors are participating in a digital campaign called #CancelHate which features videos of them reading Holocaust denial posts from different social media platforms
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No safety in retreat: Ukrainian soldiers say rear defensive lines barely exist amid Russian advance
Ukrainian soldiers say they are worried fortifications are not being built quicky enough as Russian forces continue to advance along the front lines
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More money is going to African climate startups, but a huge funding gap remains
African climate-tech startups are increasingly raising money from private sources, but while those funds for climate solutions are growing, a huge gap remains in meeting the actual financial needs for climate action in Africa
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Solomon Islands lawmakers elect former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as new prime minister
Solomon Islands lawmakers have elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with China
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Solomon Islands lawmakers elect former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as the new prime minister (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert misspelled his surname as Manale.)
Solomon Islands lawmakers elect former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as the new prime minister (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert misspelled his surname as Manale.)
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Police say 5 people died in Mexico from drinking a poison potion in a Santeria 'power' ritual
Police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca say five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria ‘power’ ritual
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What to know about China’s lunar return mission
Chang’e-6 will be the first mission to return samples from the far side of the moon.
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Colombia's president says country will break diplomatic relations with Israel over war in Gaza
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel effective Thursday in the latest escalation of tensions between both countries over the Israel-Hamas war
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Anticipation builds for Hamas response to latest hostage deal
Hamas is expected to submit a response to Israel's current hostage and cease-fire deal proposal "within hours," a senior Egyptian official told ABC News.
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Police stop knife attack in central Oslo after man stabs 1 person and threatens others
Police in Norway say a man carrying two knives stabbed one person and threatened several others in the center of Oslo on Wednesday
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Armed groups besieging towns in northeastern Mali driving residents, many children, to hunger
A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups linked to Islamic State have besieged towns leaving residents including some 80,000 children vulnerable to disease and malnutrition
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Nonstop Mideast coverage of Israel-Hamas war pauses for protests and police action at US schools
After weeks of nonstop coverage of destruction and death across the Gaza Strip, media across the wider Middle East has latched onto the demonstrations roiling American university campuses over the Israel-Hamas war
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US says it will return to Chad for talks to keep troops in the country
The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there
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Antony Blinken meets with Benjamin Netanyahu
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is doubling down on efforts to stop Israel from invading Rafah, meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.
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Heavy rains in Brazil kill at least 8 people, leave 21 missing, civil defense says
Heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 10 people and left 21 missing since Monday
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'Large-scale massacre' threatens in Sudan city, US ambassador says
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., warned that El Fasher is "on the precipice of a large-scale massacre."
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After hunt for clandestine crematorium in Mexico City, police say bones found were 'animal origin'
Volunteers have searched on the fringes of Mexico City for what they thought could be a clandestine crematorium
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Tennis legend Boris Becker discharged from bankruptcy court in England
German tennis legend Boris Becker has been discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found he had done “all that he reasonably could do” to repay his creditors
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30 people are injured when a trailer overturns in southwestern Germany
Police say a trailer packed with people celebrating May Day has overturned in southern Germany, leaving 30 injured, 10 of them seriously
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5 reported killed as ‘Harry Potter Castle’ damaged in Odesa
At least five people were killed as a landmark building dubbed the “Harry Potter Castle” was damaged in a Russian attack on Monday, officials said.
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Bridge gets washed away as mayor delivers storm warning
Pictures spoke louder than words as raging floodwaters swept away a bridge behind a Brazilian mayor as she delivered a storm warning.
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Iran files charges over BBC report on teen girl allegedly killed by security forces in 2022 protests
Iranian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against activists and journalists following a BBC report that alleged security forces “sexually assaulted and killed” a 16-year-old girl during the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022
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Tourists evacuated from Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve amid flooding and heavy rains
Tourists have been evacuated by air from Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains continue to batter the country
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Japan's Kishida will stress rules-based global order, support for emerging nations at OECD meeting
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will stress the need for a rules-based international order when he attends a meeting of the Organizations for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris
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Warsaw synagogue attacked at night with 3 firebombs, no injuries reported
Poland's chief rabbi says that Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs during the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt
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The UN's nuclear watchdog chief will visit Iran next week as concerns rise about uranium enrichment
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran next week as Tehran’s nuclear program enriches uranium a step away from weapons-grade levels and international oversight remains limited
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Kremlin parades Western equipment captured from Ukrainian army at Moscow exhibition
An exhibition of Western military equipment captured from Kyiv forces during the fighting in Ukraine has opened in the Russian capital
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Accused teen linked to Sydney bishop's stabbing applies for release from custody
A 15-year-old boy who claims to be a friend of the teen accused of stabbing a Sydney bishop recently has applied to be released from custody on bail
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EU, UN reschedule launch of anti-human trafficking project in Cambodia after questions about venue
The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human trafficking program this week after being confronted with questions on the choice of venue: a Phnom Penh hotel owned by a Cambodian tycoon who has another property t...
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A man who failed to get asylum in the UK is said to have voluntarily flown to Rwanda
A Rwandan official says an unsuccessful asylum-seeker in the U.K. has arrived in Rwanda
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Drone footage shows devastation in Chasiv Yar, a Ukrainian city Russia is assaulting
Drone footage exclusively obtained by The Associated Press shows months of Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine
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17-year-old boy charged with attempted murder after assaulting 3 at school in England
Police say a 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were assaulted with a sharp object at a secondary school in Sheffield in northern England
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Ecuador defends raid on the Mexican Embassy and tells top UN court it acted to take in a criminal
Ecuador is defending its storming of Mexico’s Embassy in Quito last month
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British police officer faces terror charge for showing support for Hamas on WhatsApp
A police watchdog says a British constable is facing terror charges for showing support for Hamas on WhatsApp
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2 London police officers remain hospitalized after confronting sword-wielding suspect
London's police chief says two officers remain hospitalized after suffering “horrifically serious” injuries as they rushed to stop a sword-wielding attacker on a suburban street
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Saudi Arabia confirms a fitness influencer received an 11-year sentence over 'terrorist offenses'
Saudi Arabia has confirmed in a letter to the United Nations that a female fitness instruction popular online received an 11-year prison sentence over unspecified “terrorism offenses.”
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Georgian lawmakers move closer to passing 'Russian law' targeting the media. Protesters gather again
Georgia’s Parliament has moved a step closer to passing a law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country’s European Union membership bid
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'Large-scale massacre' looms in Sudan city surrounded by paramilitary, US warns
"A crisis of epic proportions is brewing," a U.S. ambassador said.
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Indonesia’s Ruang volcano spews more hot clouds after eruption forces closure of schools, airports
Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano is spewing more hot clouds after an eruption forced the closure of schools and airports, pelted villages with volcanic debris and prompted hundreds of people to flee
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Australian ministers won't comment on media reports that Indian spies were secretly expelled
A senior Australian government minister says the bilateral relationship with India is good and has improved in recent years, but declined to comment on reports that two Indian spies were secretly expelled from Australia four years ago
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Lebanese Christian leader says Hezbollah's fighting with Israel has harmed Lebanon
The leader of a main Christian political party in Lebanon has blasted the militant Hezbollah group for opening a front with Israel to back up Hamas saying it did not stop Israel’s crushing offensive on the Gaza Strip and brought huge harm to Lebanon
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Blinken presses Hamas to seal cease-fire with Israel, says 'the time is now' for a deal
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Israeli leaders in his push for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas to impress on them that “the time is now" for an agreement that would free hostages and bring a pause in the nearly seven mon...
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The Latest | In Israel, Blinken pushes Hamas to agree on Gaza cease-fire deal
U_S_ Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel to press for a cease-fire deal with Hamas, saying “the time is now.”
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South Korea considers joining alliance for sharing military technology
South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik says his government is considering sharing advanced military technology with the United States, United Kingdom and Australia through the so-called AUKUS partnership
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The Islamic State group claims Afghanistan mosque bombing that killed 6 people
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting targeting members of the country's minority Shiite community inside a mosque in western Afghanistan that killed six people
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Over 500 baby sea turtles washed ashore in a big storm off South Africa. Here's the rescue effort
A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public
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A highway collapse in China kills 36 people and sends more than 20 cars down a steep slope
A section of a highway collapsed after heavy rains in a mountainous area in southern China, sending cars tumbling down a slope and leaving at least 36 people dead
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The unexpected announcement of a prime minister divides Haiti's newly created transitional council
A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is dividing a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country
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