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FILE - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 9, 2023. The United Nations is calling for "a clear, transparent and credible investigation" of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

UN calls for investigation into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza hospitals raided by Israel

The United Nations is calling for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops.
 
Soldiers carry the coffins of two Ukrainian army sergeants during their funeral in Lviv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Ukraine gets a big boost of US aid. It still faces a long slog to repel Russia

 
FILE - Flores sit on a fence outside the Christ the Good Shepherd church in suburban Wakely in western Sydney, Australia, on April 16, 2024. Detectives and secret service agents investigating the stabbing of a bishop in the Sydney church last week executed search warrants in the city on Wednesday, April 24, as part of a major operation, officials said. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Australian police arrest 7 alleged teen extremists linked to stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church

 
Students protest for more public university funding and against austerity measures proposed by President Javier Milei, featured on the sign, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The posters read in Spanish "With fascism, there are no rights," center, and "Why so much fear to educate the people?," right, and "Defending the university is defending the country," left. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

With public universities under threat, massive protests against austerity shake Argentina

 
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, visit the Armourd Brigade barracks in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

UK puts its defense industry on ‘war footing’ and gives Ukraine $620 million in new military aid

 

ELECTION WATCH 2024

Election posters of Stevo Pendarovski, incumbent President and a presidential candidate backed by the ruling social democrats (SDSM), left and Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, a presidential candidate supported by the center-right main opposition VMRO-DPMNE coalition, center top, are pictured in a busy street in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Monday April 22, 2024. Voters go to the polls in North Macedonia on Wednesday April 24 for the first round of presidential elections, the seventh such election since the Balkan country gained independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991, where seven candidates are vying for the largely ceremonial position. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Longtime EU hopeful North Macedonia holds presidential polls centered on bloc accession, rule of law

Presidential elections are being held in North Macedonia. The small Balkan country has orbited the European Union for nearly two decades with little to show for its efforts to join the bloc.
 
FILE- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi listens to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda speak during an event organized to release their party's manifesto for the upcoming national parliamentary elections in New Delhi, India, April 14, 2024. India's main opposition party is accusing Modi of hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators" and used some of his most incendiary rhetoric to date about the minority faith.(AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Modi is accused of using hate speech for calling Muslims ‘infiltrators’ at an Indian election rally

India’s main opposition party has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators.”
 

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Presidential candidate Anies Baswedan, left, and his running mate Muhaimin Iskandar react during their election appeal hearing at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, April 22, 2024. The country's top court on Monday rejected appeals lodged by two losing presidential candidates who are demanding a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the February polls. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Prabowo Subianto seals victory as Indonesia’s next leader after a top court rejects rivals’ appeals

 
  1. FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk reacts during his and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting with students in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk is celebrating a victory on Monday April 22, 2024 after a series of candidates supported by his party won weekend races for mayor. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

    Poland’s prime minister celebrates after his party wins a string of cities in mayoral votes

  2. FILE - Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her opening campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, March 1, 2024. If elected, Sheinbaum would be Mexico's first leader with a Jewish background in a country that’s home to nearly 100 million Catholics. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

    Mexico’s likely next president would be its first leader with a Jewish background

Skies over southern Greece turn orange as winds blow dust across from North Africa

The Acropolis and other Athens landmarks took on Martian hues on Tuesday as stifling dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Greek capital.
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Europe

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich speaks with his lawyers standing in a glass cage in a courtroom at the First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. A court will considers an appeal against the arrest of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich who was detained on espionage charges in Yekaterinburg last year. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Moscow court rejects Evan Gershkovich’s appeal, keeping him in jail until at least June 30

 

  1. More deaths in the English Channel underscore risks for migrants despite UK efforts to stem the tide

  2. A Russian strike on Kharkiv’s TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says

  3. Complex stories of migration are among the finalists for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Asia

FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, meets Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress of China, in Pyongyang, North Korea on April 13, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea sends a delegation to Iran in a growing effort to break its diplomatic isolation

 

  1. Indonesia declares Prabowo Subianto president-elect after court rejects rivals’ appeal

  2. China to send three astronauts to Tiangong space station, part of its ambitious program

  3. As Blinken heads to China, these are the major divides he will try to bridge

Latin America

Police stop at a car to inspect in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Haiti’s government scrambles to impose tight security measures as council inauguration imminent

 

  1. The head of Mexico’s detective service says his country is the ‘champion’ of fentanyl production

  2. Villagers in Mexico organize to take back their water as drought, avocados dry up lakes and rivers

  3. Colombia rolls out new incentives to cut electricity consumption as dry weather persists

Middle East

FILE - Migrants wait in line for a distribution of blankets close to the Turkish-Greek border near Pazarkule, Edirne region, Turkey, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. European Union auditors said on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, they are unable to establish whether some of the billions of euros the bloc has given to Turkey to help it cope with Syrian refugees is actually having any impact. EU leaders and Turkey in 2016, committed to provide at least 6 billion euros ($6.4 billion) to Turkey to help it cope with migrants crossing in from Syria. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Auditors say it’s hard to tell how Turkey is using EU refugee funds. Some officials aren’t helpful

 

  1. The Latest | Germany will resume working with UN agency for Palestinians, following review

  2. Satellite photos suggest Iran air defense radar struck in Isfahan during apparent Israeli attack

  3. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to inaugurate Sri Lankan hydropower and irrigation project

Africa

FILE - Giraffes and zebras congregate under the shade of a tree in the afternoon in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania on March 20, 2018. The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project

 

  1. UK home secretary to visit Italy to discuss stopping migrants arriving on boats

  2. United Methodists open first top-level conference since breakup over LGBTQ inclusion

  3. As airplane makers struggle to meet demand, Morocco wants to become a manufacturing hub

  4. Tunisian Jews scale back annual pilgrimage to ancient synagogue because of security concerns

U.S. News

A TikTok content creator, speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington, as Senators prepare to consider legislation that would force TikTok's China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature

 

  1. US government agrees to $138.7M settlement over FBI’s botching of Larry Nassar assault allegations

  2. Biden tries to navigate the Israel-Hamas war protests roiling college campuses

  3. Arizona Democrats attempt to repeal the state’s 19th century abortion ban

  4. It began with defiance at Columbia. Now students nationwide are upping their Gaza war protests

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A currency traders walks near the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall Streets rally, led by a 2.4% jump in Tokyo

Asian shares have tracked Wall Street’s rally, led by a 2.4% advance for Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index. U.S. futures rose while oil prices also edged higher.
 
Students protest at an encampment outside the Kresge Auditorium on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Arrests follow barricades and encampments as college students nationwide protest Gaza war

Dozens of protesters have barricaded themselves inside two buildings on a Northern California campus in protest of Israel’s war with Hamas.
 
This image provided by SLIM official X account @SLIM_JAXA shows a part of the moon surface taken by Japan’s first moon lander called SLIM on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Wednesday, April 24, after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon. (SLIM official X account @SLIM_JAXA via AP)

Japan’s moon lander wasn’t built to survive a weekslong lunar night. It’s still going after 3

Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon.
 
Students protest at an encampment on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Pro-Palestinian student protests target colleges’ financial ties with Israel

Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza.
 
FILE - 155 mm M795 artillery projectiles are stacked during manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2023. The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days if Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That's because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already hold the ammunition and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs. The House approved $61 billion in funding for the war-torn country Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

A look at what’s in the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by Congress

The $95 billion foreign aid package approved by the U.S. Congress provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes U.S. weapons systems and gives humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.
 
EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 UTC APRIL 24,2024 Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, speaks at a press conference in London, ahead of the launch of 'The State of the World's Human Rights', its annual report on the global human rights situation, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The report will be published on Wednesday April 24, covering 155 countries and including regional and global analyses, it provides the most comprehensive overview of human rights trends and developments in the world today. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

World seeing near breakdown of international law amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine, Amnesty says

Amnesty International says the world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar.
 
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy attend a press conference at the U.S. ambassador's residence, in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Nelson and Melroy, both former astronauts, spent two hours chatting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Tuesday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

NASA leaders discuss global challenges, solutions with Mexico president, lawmakers and students

In a frequently tense relationship often defined by a shared border, the United States sent two officials with a different perspective to Mexico this week for a bit of space diplomacy.
 

Dominica joins other Caribbean islands in striking down laws prohibiting gay sex

A top court in the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica has struck down colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex.
 

Canadian police charge 2 former UN employees with conspiracy to sell military equipment in Libya

Canadian police say that two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged with participating in a conspiracy to sell Chinese-made drones and other military equipment in Libya.
 
This handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Thursday, Jan 11, 2024, shows Timur Ivanov, deputy defense minister, in Moscow. Ivanov, a top Russian military official was arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe, authorities said Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Ivanov, one of Russia's 12 deputy defense ministers, was sanctioned by both the United States and the European Union in 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP)

A top Russian military official reportedly linked to Ukraine’s Mariupol arrested for bribe-taking

Russian authorities say they have detained a top military official on suspicion of accepting a bribe.
 
Britain's Home Secretary, James Cleverly attends "Migration, a global challenge", a talk at Rome's International Affairs Institute (IAI), Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2024. Cleverly is visiting Italy as part of the U.K. government's efforts to crack down on migrants arriving by small boats. After meeting with Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi tomorrow, Cleverly will also visit Lampedusa, the southernmost island of Italy which receives the majority of migrants arriving in the country. The visit comes as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stepped up his calls for the U.K. Parliament to approve his plan to deport some asylum-seekers to Rwanda. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Britain’s home secretary touts UK-Rwanda migrant deportation deal during visit to Italy

Britain’s home secretary is touting Britain’s migrant deportation deal with Rwanda as a “new and creative” deterrent to an old and growing problem.
 
A worker carries a suitcase in the "baggage factory", where athletes' luggages for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be collected, are seen in Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy-en-France, north of Paris, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris main airport unveils new baggage handling system ahead of the 2024 Olympics

Officials at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport have unveiled a new security baggage system and a dedicated baggage handling area ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
 

Armenia and Azerbaijan move closer to normalizing ties as the first border marker goes up

Armenia and Azerbaijan have come a step closer toward normalizing relations after a bitter conflict over territory.
 
Tourists walk at the Lycabettus hill as the city of Athens with the ancient Acropolis hill is seen at the background, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The Acropolis and other Athens landmarks took on Martian hues Tuesday as stifling dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Greek capital. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Martian skies over Athens? Greece’s capital turns an orange hue with dust clouds from North Africa

Skies over southern Greece have turned an orange hue as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks.
 
Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder speaks during a press briefing on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Pentagon set to send $1 billion in new military aid to Ukraine once Biden signs bill

U.S. officials say the Pentagon is poised to send $1 billion in new military aid to Ukraine now that the Senate has approved long-awaited legislation to fund the weapons Kyiv needs to stall gains made by Russia.
 
GoFundMe Chief Executive Officer Tim Cadogan poses for a photo in Altadena, Calif. on Friday, April 19, 2024. Mexican fundraisers can now solicit donations on GoFundMe, the company announced Tuesday, under an expansion that the crowdfunding giant hopes is the first of additional entrances into untapped Latin American markets. Mexico marks the 20th country serviced by GoFundMe. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

GoFundMe expands into Mexico as part of for-profit crowdfunding platform’s international growth

GoFundMe is expanding into Mexico, the company announced Tuesday. That marks 20 countries now serviced by the crowdfunding giant.
 
Undated handout photo issued on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, by Kensington Palace of Prince Louis, taken by his mother Britain's Kate, Princess of Wales, earlier this week in Windsor, to mark his 6th birthday. Kensington Palace released the photograph of Prince Louis to celebrate his 6th birthday, the first image by the Princess of Wales it has distributed since news organizations, including The Associated Press, withdrew a photo edited by Kate over concerns about digital manipulation. (The Prince and Princess of Wales, Kensington Palace via AP)

Britain’s Kensington Palace releases image of Prince Louis to mark his 6th birthday

Britain’s Kensington Palace has released a photograph of Prince Louis to celebrate his 6th birthday, the first image by the Princess of Wales it has distributed since news organizations, including The Associated Press, withdrew a photo edited by Kate over concerns about digital manipulation.
 
FILE - Competitors swim in the Seine River during the Paris Triathlon competition in Paris Sunday, July 10, 2011. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo saidTuesday April 23, 2024 she was confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer _ and that she'll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File )

Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer.
 

A legal challenge over the UK’s role in arms sales to Israel will go ahead

A judge says a legal challenge over the British government’s role in allowing weapons to be sent to Israel can be heard at the High Court later this year.
 
FILE - A woman prays at the San Ramon Nonato church after an Easter Holy Week procession was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Spain has approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuses committed by people connected to the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Spain approves plan to compensate victims of Catholic Church sex abuse. Church will be asked to pay

Spain has approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuse committed by people connected to the Catholic Church.
 
President of Finland Alexander Stubb, left, is received by Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the government headquarters Rosenbad in Stockholm, on the occasion of Stubb's two-day visit to Sweden, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

NATO newcomer Finland is now a ‘front-line state’ for the alliance, Finnish president says

Finnish President Alexander Stubb says that joining the NATO alliance a year ago has transformed his country into a “front-line state,” given that it has doubled the military bloc’s border with Russia.
 
Erik Akerboom, director-general of the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service, AIVD, speaks during a press conference in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch intelligence sees the wars in Gaza and Ukraine as triggers for terrorist threats

The Dutch national intelligence agency says threats targeting the Netherlands are increasingly connected to worldwide turmoil, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
 

Spanish judge freezes a bank account of Piqué's company amid probe into Saudi deal to host Super Cup

A Spanish judge has ordered a bank account of a company run by former Barcelona player Gerard Piqué to be frozen while she investigates suspicions of corruption in the hosting of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.
 

The UK government finally passes bill to send migrants to Rwanda. What took so long?

The British Parliament has finally passed legislation to send some migrants to Rwanda under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan aimed at deterring risky English Channel crossings by people desperate to reach the U.K.
 

The European rights court rules Turkey’s jailing of a UN judge after a coup attempt was unlawful

The European Court of Human Rights says a United Nations judge was unlawfully jailed after he was arrested in Turkey following a coup attempt despite holding diplomatic immunity.
 

Spain reopens a probe into a Pegasus spyware case after a French request to work together

A Spanish judge has reopened a probe into the suspected spying on the cellphone of Spain’s prime minister after receiving a request to collaborate with a similar investigation in France.
 
Leonardo Favio Correa carries yerba mate to a truck in Andresito, in Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beneath the earthy drink’s mythical quality is grueling work, first performed by Indigenous tribes on Jesuit settlements in what is now Paraguay and today by low-paid laborers known as “tareferos,” in the steamy grasslands of Argentina’s northeast Misiones Province, center of the world's maté production. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AP PHOTOS: In northeastern Argentina, yerba mate is more than the national drink, it’s a way of life

ANDRESITO, Argentina (AP) — For millions across the heartland of South America, bitter-tasting yerba mate tea is a beloved staple of social gatherings and morning routines.
 
The Holocaust Memorial of Roma and Sinti is seen before the opening ceremony, in Lety, Czech Republic, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Lubos Pavlicek/CTK via AP)

A memorial opens on the site of a Nazi concentration camp for Roma after a pig farm was removed

A new memorial has opened in the Czech Republic on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp for Roma, capping a process that took decades and was made possible after a Czech government agreed to remove a communist-era pig farm from the site.
 
Nepal's President Ram Chandra Poudel checks his watch as he and Minister of Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha, wait for Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al arrival at Tribhuvan international airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The emir arrived on a two-days visit to the Himalayan nation. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shreshta)

Qatari emir in Nepal, expected to tackle migrant conditions and Nepali student held hostage by Hamas

The emir of Qatar has landed in Nepal on his first-ever visit to the South Asian country, after visiting Bangladesh and the Philippines, where improving migrant workers’ conditions in the Gulf state and a Nepali student still held hostage by Hamas are expected to be on the agenda.
 
Undated handout photo issued by Cambridge University of four Aboriginal spears that were brought to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago and have now been repatriated to Australia in a ceremony at Trinity College in Cambridge, Tuesday April 23, 2024. (Cambridge University via AP)

Aboriginal spears taken by Captain Cook in 1770 are returned to Australia’s Indigenous people

Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago have been returned to Australia’s Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge University.