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From left to rigt, Liberal leader Mark Carney, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pose for a photo before the French-language federal leaders' debate, in Montreal, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)

Carney says Trump key issue in Canada's election, while Conservative rival says country needs change

Prime Minister Mark Carney says who will go up against U.S. President Donald Trump is the key question in Canada’s election while his Conservative rival argued Carney doesn’t represent change … more

By ROB GILLIES | 4/16/25

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following Russia's drones attack in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Russian glide bombs and artillery strike a Ukrainian city, killing 1

Russian glide bombs and artillery have struck a city in southern Ukraine, killing one and wounding five others as Moscow forces continued daily attacks across the country. The city of Kherson was … more

By ILLIA NOVIKOV | 4/16/25

In this photo, provided by South Korea Air Force, two U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber, top left, fly over the Korean Peninsula with South Korean Air Force F-35A fighter jet, F-16 fighter jets and U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets in South Korea during the joint aerial drills of South Korea and the United States, at an undisclosed location in South Korea, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (South Korea Air Force via AP)

North Korea threatens a response to US flying long-range bombers over South Korea

North Korea has threatened retaliation after the U.S. flew long-range bombers over South Korea during training with its forces. The U.S. flew the B-1B bombers Tuesday during an aerial drill that … more

By HYUNG-JIN KIM | 4/16/25

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the largely Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend, officials said.

Island-wide blackout hits Puerto Rico as residents prepare for Easter weekend

An island-wide blackout has hit Puerto Rico as the largely Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend. Hugo Sorrentini, a spokesman for Luma Energy, which … more

By DÁNICA COTO | 4/16/25

The ruling means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes, but the court added that its ruling “does not remove protection from trans people” against discrimination.

How did the UK Supreme Court define a woman and what happens now?

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition. Five judges ruled unanimously Wednesday that … more

By JILL LAWLESS | 4/16/25

Rachel Dancyg holds her dog, Billie, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Israeli soldiers found Billie in the Gaza Strip, 18 months after she disappeared during Hamas' attack on Dancyg's Kibbutz of Nir Oz, in Binyamina, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Dog reunites with Israeli family after disappearing for 18 months in Gaza

A dog has been reunited with an Israeli family after the pet vanished for 18 months in Gaza. Rachel Dancyg never thought she would see her Cavalier King Charles spaniel again after the dog named … more

By SAM MEDNICK | 4/16/25

UN peacekeepers patrol the street in Juba, South Sudan on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

UN envoy urges Security Council to try to prevent renewed civil war in South Sudan

The top United Nations official in South Sudan is urging the U.N. Security Council to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war. Nicholas Haysom warned … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 4/16/25

FILE - A mortuary worker disinfests a coffin carrying the body of a person who died of COVID-19 ahead of a funeral at Memora mortuary in Girona, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

WHO member countries agree on a draft 'pandemic treaty' to try to avoid COVID-19 mistakes

The World Health Organization's member countries have agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the international community might face the next global health crisis. After the … more

By MARIA CHENG | 4/16/25

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men participate in a blessing during the holiday of Passover, at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Tens of thousands of Jews gather for traditional blessing in Jerusalem

Tens of thousands of people have gathered at Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing prayer. The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ritual dating … more

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FILE - From left: Katrina Liebenberg,17, together with her cousin Natalie van Staden, Natalie's mother Maria, brother Chad, 11, sister Lee-Ann, 17, and grandmother Aletta, on the back verandah of the farm cottage, March 2, 2000, where they have been besieged for four days by Zimbabwe War Veterans. (AP Photo/Rob Cooper, file)

Zimbabwe farmers' group rejects compensation deal for past land seizures

A group representing many of the white farmers whose land was seized during Zimbabwe’s land reforms over two decades ago has rejected a compensation deal with the government. It wants to reopen … more

By FARAI MUTSAKA | 4/16/25

Belgian nationals Lornoy David, left, and Seppe Lodewijckx, right, who admitted to charges related to the illegal possession and trafficking of live queen ants to sell as exotic pets, appear at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, April. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trends

Two Belgian teenagers have been charged in Kenya with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in … more

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI | 4/16/25

FILE - Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif smiles during a meeting with students on a climate change forum at the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University, in Santa Cruz Bolivia, on July 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Iran's president accepts resignation of 2015 nuclear deal figure as UN atomic chief due in Tehran

Iran’s president formally has approved the resignation of one of his vice presidents who served as Tehran’s key negotiator in its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. That's just as the head of … more

By JON GAMBRELL and NASSER KARIMI | 4/16/25

FILE - Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council speaks at a ceremony in the capital Khartoum, Sudan, on Aug. 4, 2019. (AP Photo, File)

Sudanese paramilitary group says its forming a rival government

A notorious paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military says its forming a rival government, which will rule parts of the country controlled by the group including the western Darfur … more

BY SAMY MAGDY | 4/16/25

Lifejackets hang at the home of a local in Villa Caleta, Panama, Monday, April 7, 2025. The jackets were once used to ferry migrants after their trek across the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Migration once fueled an economic boom in the Darien Gap. Now that lifeline is gone

The Trump administration's crackdown on migration has ended the massive flow of people heading north through a treacherous jungle on the Colombia-Panama border called the Darien Gap. Local residents … more

By MEGAN JANETSKY and MATÍAS DELACROIX | 4/16/25

Smoke rose over the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Monday after it was hit by a Russian drone strike. It happened a day after at least 35 people celebrating Palm Sunday were killed when Russian missiles struck the heart of the city. (AP Video: Alex Babenko)

In the Ukrainian city of Sumy, life goes on despite the constant threat of attack

The humdrum of daily life in Sumy belies the constant threat of death its people have lived with since Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago. Days after Russia targeted the city’s center in … more

By SAMYA KULLAB and YEHOR KONOVALOV | 4/15/25

A person lights a candle at a makeshift memorial outside the Jet Set nightclub, in memory of the more than 200 people who died when its roof collapsed, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The first lawsuit is filed over the deadly nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic

The first known lawsuit has been filed against the owners of a legendary nightclub whose roof collapsed and killed 231 people in the Dominican Republic. The family of one victim also sued the … more

By MARTÍN ADAMES | 4/15/25

FILE - Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaks at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Attack by gunmen leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria, the country's president says

Nigeria’s president says that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian farming community in the north-central part of the country, the latest … more

By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN | 4/15/25

FILE - A police officer aims his weapon at protesters in Maputo, Mozambique, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Protesters dispute the outcome of the Oct. 9 elections that saw the ruling Frelimo party extend its 49-year rule. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio, file)

Mozambique carried out a brutal crackdown on post-election protests, Amnesty says

A leading international rights group has accused Mozambique's security forces of a brutal, three-month crackdown on protests after the country's election last year. The accusation came in Amnesty … more

By GERALD IMRAY and CHARLES MANGWIRO | 4/15/25

FILE - Algerian flags fly at half-staff along the seaside walk in Algiers, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum, File)

France expels 12 Algerian officials in tit-for-tat move amid diplomatic tensions

France says it is expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials, a day after Algeria announced the expulsion of the same number of French officials in escalating tensions between the two countries. … more

SYLVIE CORBET | 4/15/25

Russian journalists, Antonina Favorskaya, left, and Artyom Kriger, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand in a defendant's cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo)

Four journalists who were accused of working for Kremlin foe Navalny are convicted of extremism

A Russian court has convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to 5 1/2 years in prison … more

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