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Social divisions and hostile rhetoric in Slovakia provide fertile ground for political violence

When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the Central European country — even though the pro-Russia leader himself warned that the country was so divided that an assassination attempt was possible
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A child walks next to a banner that reads "Violence is Not the Way" and " No Violence" in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, Friday, May 17, 2024. When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the Central European country — even though the pro-Russia leader himself warned that the country was so divided that an assassination attempt was possible.(AP Photo/Denes Erdos)
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Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo were meeting Friday in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration
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FILE - Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo addresses a regional meeting on irregular migration at the National Palace, in Guatemala City, May 7, 2024. Arevalo and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel López Obrador, met Friday, May 17, 2024, in the Mexican border city of Tapachula, to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
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Some of the Catholic Church's best-known approved, and not approved, reports of apparitions of Mary

The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral
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Pilgrims walk on a rocky terrain to say their prayers on the Hill Of Appearance in Medjugorje,100 km south of Sarajevo, Monday, June 25, 2012, where it is believed that the Virgin Mary showed herself and conveyed messages of peace to six children on June 25, 1981. On Friday, May 17, 2024, the Vatican will issue revised norms for discerning apparitions "and other supernatural phenomena," updating a set of guidelines first issued in 1978. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)
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Gunmen open fire and kill 4 people, including 3 foreigners, in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province

A Taliban spokesman says that several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan, killing at least four people, including three foreign nationals
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This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)
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US, international volunteer doctors trapped in Gaza hospital by Israeli assault

Teams of 35 international doctors, including 22 Americans, are trapped in Gaza after Israel's seizure of the main crossing into Egypt sealed off their way out
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Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, left, poses with his family in Orlando, Fla., late Feb. 2024. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel’s seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
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Gaza girl with rare neurological disease enjoys music at children’s event

Julia, who was diagnosed with alternating hemiplegia of childhood, was able to enjoy music at a children’s event after receiving life-saving medication.
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Julia, who was diagnosed with alternating hemiplegia of childhood, was able to enjoy music at a children’s event after receiving life-saving medication.
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King Charles III to travel to France for UK ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day

King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, while skipping the larger international event a few miles away as he continues to be treated for cancer
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FILE - Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla leave The London Clinic in central London, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, while skipping the larger international event a few miles away as he continues to be treated for cancer. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
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Subway commuters in Buenos Aires see fares spike by 360% as part of austerity campaign in Argentina

Commuters in Buenos Aires are being hit by an abrupt 360% increase in subway fares
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Commuters wait to board a subway car, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 17, 2024. Argentine commuters in Buenos Aires on Friday were hit by an abrupt 360% increase in subway fares, as part of President Javier Milei's budget austerity campaign. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Iran arrests 260 people for spreading 'satanism and nudity'

Iran's state media say police arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism
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IDF recovers bodies of 3 hostages in overnight operation

The hostages had escaped from the Nova Music Festival and were killed in the area of Kibbutz Mefalsim before their bodies were taken to Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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VIDEO: IDF recovers bodies of 3 hostages in overnight operation
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Humanitarian aid trucks move into Gaza through temporary pier built by US military

Some people were seen reportedly trying to stop the aid trucks from entering Gaza.
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Humanitarian aid trucks move into Gaza through temporary pier built by US military
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Philippines arrests Australian suspect, reportedly the father of a rugby star, for drugs trafficking

Officials say one of Indonesia’s most-wanted drug suspects has been arrested in the Philippines after an international manhunt
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In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration, Australian national Gregor Johann Haas poses for a mugshot following his arrest in Cebu province, Central Philippines on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. One of Indonesia's most-wanted drug suspects has been arrested in the Philippines after an international manhunt and efforts were underway to have the suspect, reportedly the father of an Australian rugby star, extradited to Jakarta to face charges, Indonesian and Philippine officials said Friday. (Philippine Bureau of Immigration via AP)
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Haiti is seeking a new prime minister. Dozens of candidates jostle for the key job

A weeklong search for a new prime minister has flooded the inboxes of a transitional presidential council with dozens of candidates jostling to become Haiti’s next leader
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People displaced by gang violence listen to health instructions at a school that's housing them in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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The US ambassador to Japan visits southern islands at the forefront of China tension

The U.S. Ambassador to Japan has stressed the importance of increased deterrence and his country’s commitment to the alliance with its key ally as he visited two southwestern Japanese islands at the forefront of Tokyo's tension with Beijing
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, left, and Ishigaki Vice Mayor Eiichiro Chinen, front right, visit a bay on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Friday, May 17, 2024. Emanuel visited two southwestern Japanese islands at the forefront of tension with China's increasingly assertive actions in the regional waters. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival

The Israeli military says its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk
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People gather in the plaza known as Hostages Square after Israel's announcement that its military had recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. Israel said that the hostages, identified as Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter, were killed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack and their bodies were then brought to Gaza. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Protests against powerful group persist in Syria's last major rebel stronghold

Members of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group in the country’s rebel-held northwest have fired bullets in the air and beaten up protesters with clubs, injuring some of them
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A Syrian protester holds up a placard during a protest against al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group in Binnish town, in Idlib province, Syria, Friday, May 17, 2024. Members of Syria's most powerful insurgent group in the country's rebel-held northwest fired bullets in the air and beat up protesters with clubs Friday injuring some of them as weekslong protests demanding release of detainees and an end to the group's rule intensified. The placard shows drawings of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the late Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abu Mohammed al-Golani leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, once linked to al-Qaida and the Arabic writing reads: "Assad = Baghdadi = al-Golani. The faces are different but the crime is one." (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
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Kosovo criticizes Council of Europe for not holding a vote on its membership, blames Serbia lobbying

Kosovo has criticized the Council of Europe’s decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent’s top human rights body
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President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Dominique Hasler, center, opens the 133rd session of the Committee of Ministers at the European Council in Strasbourg, eastern France, Friday, May 17, 2024. Kosovo on Friday criticized the Council of Europe's decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent’s top human rights body. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
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Israeli military says it found the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza, including German-Israeli Shani Louk

Israeli military says it found the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza, including German-Israeli Shani Louk
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Georgia's prime minister joins tens of thousands in a march to promote 'family purity'

Georgia's prime minister has joined tens of thousands of people on march through the country's capital to mark the Day of Family Purity
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze attends a celebration of the Day of Family Purity in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, May 17, 2024. Tens of thousands of people including the prime minister on Friday marched through the Georgian capital to mark the Day of Family Purity, which celebrates so-called traditional family values in the country where animosity toward sexual minorities is strong. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
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Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
May 17

Mayoral candidate, five others killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in Mexico

A mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed in a shooting at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas
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English village told to boil water after outbreak from parasite sickens more than 45

A scenic fishing village in southwestern England is on its third day under instructions to boil its tap water after a parasite sickened more than 45 people
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Sally Dart, who runs Flotsam 50 near Brixham Harbour, a shop that sells artwork, furniture, and flowers poses in Brixham, Friday May 17, 2024. Around 16,000 homes and businesses in the Brixham area of Devon were told to boil water after cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite that causes diarrhea, was found in the water. Sally Dart, who runs a housewares shop near Brixham Harbor, said people in town first began feeling ill two weeks ago during a pirate festival. "No one was checking the quality of the water and we’ve all got sick and it’s stupid,” she said. (Piers Mucklejohn/PA via AP)
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Ukraine's president signs two laws to enable prisoners to join the army's ranks and to increase fines for draft dodgers

Ukraine's president signs two laws to enable prisoners to join the army's ranks and to increase fines for draft dodgers
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EU bans 4 more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the bloc, citing disinformation

The European Union has banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the 27-nation bloc for what it calls the spread of propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine and disinformation as the EU heads into elections in three weeks
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German parliament approves plans to relax strict restrictions on family names

The German parliament has approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names — clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children
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FILE - A family walk through the fields in the village of Gaiberg, Germany, June 14, 2008. The German parliament on Friday, May 17, 2024, approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names — clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland, File)
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Moroccan asylum-seeker gets life sentence for killing UK retiree in attack motivated by war in Gaza

A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas has been sentenced to at least 45 years in prison
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This screen grab taken from PA Video shows judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, during a live broadcast from Teesside Crown Court, sentencing Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid, 45, who was found guilty of murdering Terence Carney, attempting to murder his own housemate and assaulting two police officers, to life with a minimum term of 45 years, at the court in London, Friday May 17, 2024. (PA Video/PA via AP)
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Why climate migration in Brazil is a global issue

The force of climate migration comes in many forms.
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View of the mud-covered Sao Jose neighbourhood following the devastating floods, in Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 16, 2024.
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French Interior Minister says suspected synagogue attacker was Algerian and wasn’t flagged as a suspected extremist

French Interior Minister says suspected synagogue attacker was Algerian and wasn’t flagged as a suspected extremist
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A man is convicted in Malawi over a TikTok video showing a caricature of the president dancing

A man in Malawi has been convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video that shows an animated figure with Chakwera’s face superimposed on it doing some wacky dance moves
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FILE - Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera attends the swearing-in ceremony for Kenya's new president William Ruto, at Kasarani stadium in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. A man in Malawi was convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video that shows an animated figure with Chakwera’s face superimposed on it doing some wacky dance moves. Sainani Nkhoma was found guilty by a court on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
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Violence in New Caledonia subsides slightly as France sends reinforcements for security

The number of violent incidents reported in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has fallen slightly after France imposed a state of emergency
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Burnt cars are lined up after unrest that erupted following protests over voting reforms in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Nicolas Job)
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FILE - Paul McCartney performs at Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle. The former member of the Fab Four is the first British musician to be worth 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), according to figures released Friday, May 17, 2024. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
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AP PHOTOS: For the first time India's elderly and disabled are able to vote from home

Vijay Lakshmi, 85, stood beaming at the entrance of her house as she welcomed a team dispatched by the Election Commission of India. They were here to collect her vote. The team visiting Vijay lakshmi’s neighbourhood comprised of 5 people in total, including a policeman and a cameraperson to document the process. The octogenarian had just gotten the dressing changed on her injured arm when the team arrived. She didn’t need to be briefed as she was all prepared and excited to vote. “It would not have been possible for me to cast my vote had the team not visited my house,” she said. The election commission for the first time has provided the facility of home voting for the elderly and persons with disabilities in the 2024 national elections. Voters at or above the age of 85 and those with 40% disability have been given the option to vote from home. More than 17 million such voters have registered across the country, the commission said. Nearly 970 million people — or over 10% of the...
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Polling officers prepare a ballot paper for an elderly person to cast his vote in his home, in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 17, 2024. To encourage and assist elderly persons to cast their votes, the Election Commission of India initiated the home voting facility for the ongoing general parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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Abu Dhabi, once an untapped desert city, sees its first brewery open as UAE relaxes its alcohol laws

In 2018, Chad McGehee opened Side Hustle Brews and Spirits, an Abu Dhabi-branded brewery and distillery with funky camels on its cans and playful names familiar to anyone living in the United Arab Emirates
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Mitchell Dougherty, the brewmaster at Side Hustle Brews and Spirts, carries a sack at their brew pub in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, May 13, 2024. Abu Dhabi has overhauled its laws to allow for the micro and craft breweries that have taken the rest of the world by storm, part of a wider reconsideration of alcohol policies in this Islamic nation increasingly drawing tourists. (AP Photo/Malak Harb)
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South Africa ends rescue efforts at collapsed building with 33 dead, 19 still missing

Authorities say an exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa has ended and revised figures show they don't believe any more people are missing
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Rescue personnel search the site of a building collapse in George, South Africa, Thursday, May 9, 2024. Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in the coastal city have not brought out more survivors in the past 24 hours. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other's ‘expansionism’

Russia and China helped each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Asso...
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Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his ministry in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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Putin says Russian offensive in Ukraine's Kharkiv region aims to create buffer zone but no plans to capture city

Putin says Russian offensive in Ukraine's Kharkiv region aims to create buffer zone but no plans to capture city
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Taiwan foreign minister: Russia and China are helping each other expand their reach, and democracies must push back

Taiwan foreign minister: Russia and China are helping each other expand their reach, and democracies must push back
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Vatican overhauls process to evaluate claims of apparitions, weeping statues to adapt to Internet age, punish hoaxers

Vatican overhauls process to evaluate claims of apparitions, weeping statues to adapt to Internet age, punish hoaxers
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Amid Israel-Hamas war, Gaza experiencing a 'catastrophic' mental health crisis

UNICEF said nearly all children need mental health and psychosocial support.
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Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) psychologist Marwa Abu Al Nour holds a session for children at Martyrs Clinic in southern Gaza in 2023.
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German council approves a revised plan by Tesla to expand its plant near Berlin

A local council in Germany has approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, a proposal which has drawn persistent protests this year
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FILE - Activists occupy an area in the forest in Gruenheide, Germany, March 1, 2024. A local council in Germany on Friday May 17, 2024, approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, which has drawn persistent protests this year. (Cevin Dettlaff/dpa via AP, File)
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Japan passes a revised law allowing joint child custody for divorced parents for the first time

Japan’s parliament has passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many other countries
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Japan’s lawmakers pass a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, at the parliament in Tokyo Friday, May 17, 2024. The revision, the first to custody rights in nearly 80 years, is to take effect by 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Turkey's Erdogan pardons elderly generals imprisoned over 1997 'postmodern coup'

Turkey's president has pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the ouster of an Islamic-led government in 1997
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FILE - Turkish Gen. Cevik Bir, then-deputy chief of staff, speaks to journalists during a meeting with a visiting foreign commander in Ankara, March 12, 1997. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, May 17, 2024, pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the ouster of an Islamic-led government in 1997. Those pardoned and expected to be released from prison later on Friday include Cetin Dogan, 83, who was head of military operation at the time. Former Gen. Cevik Bir, 85, who was deputy chief of military staff, was released along with other officers earlier due to ill-health. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)
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8 EU members say conditions in Syria should be reassessed to allow voluntary refugee returns

The governments of eight European Union member states say the situation in Syria should be re-evaluated to allow for the voluntary return of Syrian refugees back to their homeland
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Cyprus' interior minister Konstantinos Ioannou, left, talks with his counterparts Austria's Gerhard Karner, right, Czech's Vít Rakusan, second right, and Greece's Minister Of Immigration and Asylum Dimitris Kairides, second left, during the Ministerial Summit Migration and Syria Dynamics in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 17, 2024. The governments of eight European Union member states say the situation inside Syria should be re-evaluated to allow for voluntary returns of Syrian refugees back to their homeland. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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Slovak prime minister underwent another operation, remains in serious condition

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation two days after as assassination attempt and remains in serious condition, the country’s deputy prime minister and defense minister says
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Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Slovakia Robert Kalinak speaks during a media briefing outside the F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured on May 15, is treated, in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, Friday, May 17, 2024. Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times and gravely wounded Wednesday, but his deputy prime minister said he believed Fico would survive. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)
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Yemen's Houthi rebels claim shooting down another US MQ-9 Predator drone

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting-down of an American drone, hours after footage circulated online of what appeared to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone
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This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)
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The Latest | Israel finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, as first aid unloaded by sea

Israeli troops have recovered the bodies of three hostages in the Gaza Strip
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Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Protests are planned in Serbia against a real estate project financed by Trump's son-in-law Kushner

Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.-led NATO ...
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FILE- A woman walks in front of the destroyed former Serbian army headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, March 24, 2010. Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999. The Serbian government earlier this week signed a deal with a Kushner-related company for the 99-year lease of land in central Belgrade for the "revitalization" of the bombed-out buildings. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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Suspected militants bomb a girl's school overnight in northwest Pakistan

Police say suspected militants have bombed a girl's school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure
May 17
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)
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Man kills 2 officers at police station in Malaysia in suspected terror attack

Police say a man has stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two officers in what's being investigated as a Jemaah Islamiyah terror attack
May 17
A police forensic member takes a picture outside of a police station where a man has stormed in Ulu Tiram, Johor state, Malaysia, Friday, May 17, 2024. National police chief Razarudin Husain said the attack appeared to have been planned and could have been an attempt to take firearms. (AP Photo)
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French police say a man shot and killed outside a synagogue came at officers with a knife and a metal bar

French police say a man shot and killed outside a synagogue came at officers with a knife and a metal bar
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