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FILE - Joaquim Mendes da Silva, 73, walks with his dog on the dry bed of Puraquequara lake amid a drought, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 5, 2023. He said this drought is the worst he can recall. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future

The extreme drought sweeping across Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is already impacting hundreds of thousands of people and killing local wildlife. And with experts predicting the drought could last … more

By EDMAR BARROS | 10/8/23

Policeman in Egypt kills 2 Israelis and 1 Egyptian at tourist site

An Egyptian policeman opened fire on Israeli tourists in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing at least two Israelis and one Egyptian, according to Egypt’s Interior Ministry. Extra News … more

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FILE - Top candidate and leader of Christian Social Union party, CSU, Markus Soeder, arrives the podium for a final election campaign in Munich, Germany, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, ahead of Bavaria's state election on Oct. 8, 2023. Two German states hold elections on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023 at the half-way mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular national government, with polls showing the center-right opposition well ahead and Germany's interior minister facing long odds in a bid to become governor of her home region. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Two German state elections expected to bring wins for conservative national opposition

Two German states are holding elections at the halfway mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular national government. Polls show the center-right opposition well ahead and suggest that Germany’s … more

By GEIR MOULSON | 10/8/23

Palestinians ride on an Israeli military vehicle taken by an army base overrun by Hamas militants near the Gaza Strip fence, in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Abu Reash)

Gunfire, rockets and carnage: Israelis are stunned and shaken by unprecedented Hamas attack

Israelis living in the country’s south near the volatile frontier with Gaza have grown so used to rounds of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants that they hardly bat an eye when the air raid … more

By ISABEL DEBRE | 10/7/23

Relatives and friends mourn near the coffins of Tetiana Androsovych, 60, and Mykola Androsovych, 63, killed by a rocket strike, at a graveyard in the village of Hroza, near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The Ukrainian village of Hroza has been plunged into mourning by a Russian rocket strike on a village store and cafe that killed more than 50 people on Thursday, Oct. 5. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Days after deadly missile strike on Ukrainian cafe, grief and a search for answers

U.N. and local investigators are searching for answers at the site of a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian village. The strike on Thursday turned its sole cafe to rubble and killed nearly 52 … more

By HANNA ARHIROVA and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA | 10/7/23

Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

5 things to know about the Hamas militant group's unprecedented attack on Israel

Without warning on Saturday, Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers attacked Israel by air, land and sea. Millions of Israelis in the country’s south awoke to the searing sound of incoming rockets. Air … more

By ISABEL DEBRE | 10/7/23

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and other members of the delegation arrive at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (Aly Song/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. lawmakers led by Senate Majority Leader Schumer arrive in China on first such visit since 2019

A delegation of U.S. lawmakers led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has arrived in China on Saturday in the first congressional visit to the country since 2019. The trip comes amid a sharp … more

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A memorial made with candles and flowers, which were brought by local residents, in the village of Hroza near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Ukrainian officials say at least 51 civilians were killed in a Russian rocket strike on a village store and cafe in the eastern part of the country in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Precision missile strike on cafe hosting soldier's wake decimates Ukrainian village

The Ukrainian village of Hroza has been plunged into mourning by a missile strike that killed more than 50 people. Almost every household in the village, sent someone to a soldier’s wake that was … more

By HANNA ARHIROVA and LORI HINNANT | 10/6/23

Alejando Colmenares, from Venezuela, carries his dog on his back as he lines up with other migrants to take a boat in Bajo Chiquito, Darien province, Panama, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Migrating Venezuelans undeterred by US plan to resume deportation flights

Some migrants say that the U.S. government’s plan to restart deportation flights to Venezuela in the coming days won't stop them from continuing their journeys. The U.S. government hopes the threat … more

By JUAN ZAMORANO and GISELA SALOMON | 10/6/23

FILE - Smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, on June 8, 2023, as fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces continues. Four Western countries have floated a proposal on Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023 for the U.N.'s top human rights body to appoint a team of experts to monitor and report on abuses and rights violations in war-wracked Sudan. (AP Photo, File)

Artillery fire has killed 11 people and wounded 90 in a major Sudanese city, aid group says

An aid group says heavy artillery fire killed at least 11 people and wounded 90 in a major city in conflict-torn Sudan. Doctors Without Borders said the attack took place in the city of Omdurman, … more

By JACK JEFFERY | 10/6/23

FILE - Nobel Commitee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland sits next to an empty chair with the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma during a ceremony honoring Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo at city hall in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2010. The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December. Such appeals have had little effect in the past. Liu Xiaobo was serving an 11-year sentence for inciting subversion by advocating sweeping political reforms and greater human rights in China when the Norwegian Nobel Committee selected him for the peace prize in 2010. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)

For imprisoned Nobel laureates, the prize did not bring freedom

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December. Such appeals have … more

By KARL RITTER | 10/6/23

Riders wear mask as they pass through the haze from forest fires in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Indonesia denied Friday that forest and peat fires on Sumatra and Borneo islands were causing the haze in Malaysia, after the neighboring government sent a letter complaining about the air quality and asking to work together to deal with the fires. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hatta)

Indonesia denies its fires are causing blankets of haze in neighboring Malaysia

Indonesia has denied that forest and peat fires on Sumatra and Borneo islands are causing the haze in neighboring Malaysia. The Malaysian government sent a letter to Indonesia’s environment and … more

By EDNA TARIGAN | 10/6/23

FILE - Tino Chrupalla, right, co-leader of the 'Alternative For Germany' (AfD) party, and Alice Weidel, left, the party's second co-leader, are pictured after a news conference in Berlin Tuesday, May 25, 2021 .The prosecution office of the city of Ingolstadt has launched an investigation against “unknown persons” who allegedly assaulted Tino Chrupalla, one of the leaders of the German far-right Alternative for Germany party. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP, File)

German prosecutors say witness evidence so far doesn't suggest a far-right leader was assaulted

German news agency dpa is reporting that prosecutors have said that testimony from witnesses hasn’t revealed any indication so far that a co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party … more

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FILE - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 31, 2023. Fidan warned on Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023 that Kurdish militants behind a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital face robust retaliation against their group’s positions in Syria and Iraq. (Maxim Shemetov/ Pool Photo via AP, File)

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria after US downed Turkish armed drone

Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. The strikes late on Thursday came after the U.S. military shot down an … more

By SUZAN FRASER | 10/6/23

Li Kwai-wah, senior superintendent of Police National Security Department holds up three children's books on stories that revolve around a village of sheep which has to deal with wolves from a different village, before a press conference in Hong Kong, Thursday, July 22, 2021. A Hong Kong man was sentenced to four months in prison Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books about sheeps and wolves that were deemed seditious. Title of the book at right reads "“Defenders of the Sheep Village”. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

A Hong Kong man gets 4 months in prison for importing children's books deemed to be seditious

A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.” Kurt Leung was sentenced on Friday after … more

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A small boat with migrants arrives at La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023. EU conversations came as Spain's Marine Rescue service reported Friday Oct. 6, 2023 it had intercepted 262 migrants in three boats approaching the Canary Islands located off the northwest coast of Africa. This week alone, the seven-island archipelago's tiny El Hierro Island, which has a population of some 10,000, has taken in more than 1,200 migrants arriving in open wooden boats that are believed to have departed from Senegal. (Europa Press via AP)

Rifts in Europe over irregular migration remain after 'success' of new EU deal

The leaders of the European Union are once again taking up the divisive issue of migration when they meet in Granada, Spain. The meeting comes just days after envoys of the 27 members struck a deal … more

By JOSEPH WILSON and RENATA BRITO | 10/6/23

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Police Press Office, emergency workers search for victims of the Russian rocket attack that damaged a multi-storey building in central Kharkiv, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Ukrainian Police Press Office via AP)

A Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine kills a 10-year-old boy, a day after a rocket killed 51

A Russian missile strike has killed a 10-year-old boy and injured two dozen other people in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kkarkiv. The attack came a day after a strike in the same region killed … more

By HANNA ARHIROVA | 10/6/23

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles as he answers a question during the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian lawmakers will consider rescinding ratification of global nuclear test ban, speaker says

The speaker of the Russian parliament says lawmakers will consider revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban. Friday's statement follows President Vladimir Putin's warning a day earlier … more

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A bear at a cage is seen on a truck in Misato town, Akita prefecture, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. The bears, believed to be a parent and two cubs, were spotted by a patrolling town official as they walked into a tatami factory Wednesday morning in the Misato town. On Thursday morning, the bears were trapped in cages, two cubs in one and the adult in another. (Kyodo News via AP)

3 bears are captured after sneaking into a tatami factory as northern Japan faces a growing problem

Three bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory and holed up inside for nearly a day have been captured. Misato town in the northern prefecture of Akita said the bears were captured in a cage and … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 10/6/23

FILE - The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature medal presented to Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born novelist and emeritus professor who lives in the UK, is displayed before a ceremony to present to him at the Swedish Ambassador's Residence in London, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly awards. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

The Nobel Peace Prize is to be announced in Oslo. The laureate is picked from more than 350 nominees

The winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize is being announced. The laureate unveiled Friday is chosen by a panel of experts in Norway from a list of just over 350 nominations. Last year’s … more

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