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In this photo taken from video and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russia's Far East, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon. Russia’s unmanned robot lander crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported on Sunday, Aug. 20. 2023. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)

The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon.

The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit. The country’s space agency Roscosmos said in a statement on Sunday, that it … more

8/20/23

From left; President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mousa Tourey, ECOWAS Special Envoy to Republic of Niger, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Niger ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Saad Abubakar III, pose in Niamey, Niger, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. An official present at talks between Niger's mutinous soldiers and a delegation from West Africa's regional bloc tells The Associated Press that talks Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, yielded little and that the soldiers are under pressure from regional sanctions as they refuse to reinstate the country’s president whom they toppled nearly a month ago while being fearful of attacks from France.. (AP Photo, File)

Talks between regional bloc and Niger's junta yield little, an official tells The Associated Press

An official present at talks between Niger’s mutinous soldiers and a delegation from West Africa’s regional bloc tells The Associated Press that talks Saturday yielded little and that the … more

By SAM MEDNICK | 8/20/23

FILE - Shah Mahmood Qureshi, center, a top leader of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan's "Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf" party, leaves after appearing in court in his case, in Lahore, Pakistan, on Aug. 8, 2023. Pakistan’s top investigation agency has arrested an opposition leader, who is a close aide of convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan, for exposing official secrets and harming state interests, according to case documents revealed Sunday, Aug. 20. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistan arrests opposition leader accused of exposing official secrets, harming national interest

Pakistan’s top investigation agency has arrested an opposition leader, who is a close aide of convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan, alleging he exposed official secrets and harmed state … more

By ZARAR KHAN | 8/20/23

Bangladeshi police and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clash in Habiganj, Bangladesh, Saturday, Aug.19, 2023. (AP Photo/Sahibur Rahman)

Bangladesh police clash with opposition activists ahead of elections, leaving hundreds injured

Police in northeastern Bangladesh have used batons and tear gas to disperse opposition activists amid a political dispute over who will oversee the next election, which is expected to be held in … more

8/20/23

Indian police stop a conference of activists and academics discussing G20 issues ahead of summit

Indian police have intervened to stop a meeting of prominent activists, academics and politicians discussing global issues ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations … more

By ASHOK SHARMA | 8/20/23

FILE - In this image made from video released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. Roscosmos, said Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, that the spacecraft ran into trouble while trying to enter a pre-landing orbit arounthe moon. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP, File)

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch in pre-landing maneuver

Russia reported an “abnormal situation” Saturday on its moon-bound Luna-25 spacecraft, which launched earlier this month. The country’s space agency, Roscosmos, said the spacecraft ran into … more

8/19/23

FILE - Activist Ahmed Douma, left, chants slogans as activist Khaled ElSayed, right, supports him, during a march to Tahrir Square demanding the prosecution of members of former President Hosni Mubarak's regime in Cairo, Egypt, April 1, 2011. The leading Egyptian activist, behind the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, walked free from prion Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, following a presidential pardon after spending nearly 10 years behind bars. (AP Photo/Sarah Carr, File)

One of the Egyptian activists behind the 2011 uprising freed from prison after presidential pardon

One of the Egyptian activists behind the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak has walked free from prison under a presidential pardon after spending nearly 10 years behind bars. … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 8/19/23

FILE - General Jean-Louis Georgelin who is to oversee reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral, attends an interview in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. The decorated French general in charge of big-budget restoration work on fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has died on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. Jean-Louis Georgelin was 74. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French general overseeing restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, Jean-Louis Georgelin, dies at 74

The decorated French general in charge of the ambitious, big-budget restoration of fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has died. Jean-Louis Georgelin was 74. President Emmanuel Macron called … more

8/19/23

A Ukrainian soldier holds an anti-tank missile in his position in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.(AP Photo/Libkos)

Zelenskyy visits NATO candidate Sweden for 1st time since full-scale war with Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Sweden for the first time since the full-scale Russian invasion of his country. In a statement, the government says Zelenskyy on Saturday will meet … more

8/19/23

Ghana's Vice Admiral Seth Amoama, center, flanked by Lieutenant General Yankuba Drammeh of Gambia, left, and Ivory Coast General Lassina Doumbia listen during the Extraordinary Meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of the Defence Staff in Accra, Ghana, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Eshun Nanaresh)

A scramble of last-ditch diplomacy aims at finding a peaceful solution to Niger's deepening crisis

A delegation from regional nations is expected to arrive in Niger in a last-ditch diplomacy effort to reach a peaceful solution with mutinous soldiers who ousted the country’s president last month. … more

By SAM MEDNICK | 8/19/23

FILE - Taiwan's Vice President William Lai Ching-te waves after landing at Silvio Pettirossi airport in Luque, Paraguay, on Aug. 14, 2023. The Chinese military launched drills around Taiwan on Saturday, Aug. 19 as a "stern warning” over what it called collusion between “separatists and foreign forces,” its defense ministry said, days after the island's vice president stopped over in the United States. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Chinese military launches drills around Taiwan as 'warning' after top island official stopped in US

China’s defense ministry says its military has launched drills around Taiwan as a “stern warning” over what it calls collusion between “separatists and foreign forces,” days after the … more

8/19/23

FILE - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media upon arriving at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, June 29, 2023. Brazil’s federal police on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, alleged Bolsonaro received cash from the sale of two luxury watches he received as gifts from Saudi Arabia while in office. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil's Bolsonaro accused by ex-aide's lawyer of ordering sale of jewelry given as official gift

A lawyer for an aide to then Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says the leader ordered the aide to sell undeclared luxury jewelry received as a gift and funnel the money to him. Attorney Cezar … more

By CARLA BRIDI | 8/18/23

FILE - A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Turkish Cypriots attack UN peacekeepers trying to halt road work inside divided Cyprus' buffer zone

Angry Turkish Cypriots have punched and kicked a group of international peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided … more

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS | 8/18/23

This undated handout issued by Cheshire Constabulary shows of nurse Lucy Letby. A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of killing seven babies and trying to kill six others. Lucy Letby was charged with murder in the deaths of five baby boys and two girls, and the attempted murder of five boys and five girls, when she worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England between 2015 and 2016. (Cheshire Constabulary via AP)

A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of killing 7 babies

A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of killing seven babies and trying to kill six others. Lucy Letby was charged with murder in the deaths of five baby boys and two girls, … more

By SYLVIA HUI and BRIAN MELLEY | 8/18/23

Iran's foreign minister has traveled to Saudi Arabia, marking the first trip to the kingdom by Tehran's top diplomat in years after the two nations reached a détente with Chinese mediation.

Iran's foreign minister visits Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince as tensions between rivals ease

Iran’s foreign minister has met with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as part of his visit to the kingdom, a sign of how the two countries are trying to ease tensions after years of … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 8/18/23

FILE - Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 2, 2021. Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into a scandal that brought down his first government, prosecutors said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. An indictment against Kurz, his former chief of staff, Bernhard Bonelli, and another unidentified person was filed at the state court in Vienna, the prosecutors' office that investigates corruption cases said in a statement. The court said Kurz will go on trial on Oct. 18. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

Former Austrian leader Kurz charged with giving false evidence to a corruption inquiry

Prosecutors say Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his first government, which collapsed … more

By GEIR MOULSON | 8/18/23

Boubacar Sabo, deputy secretary general for the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism, poses for a photo in Niamey, Niger, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Sabo said that If mutinous soldiers who ousted Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum succeed, it will threaten democracy and security across the region and the continent. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Leading politician says victory for Niger's coup leaders would be 'the end of democracy' in Africa

A high-ranking member of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum’s political party is warning that if mutinous soldiers succeed in their coup, it will threaten democracy and security across the region … more

By SAM MEDNICK | 8/18/23

Police officers stand guard at the scene of the wreckage of a drone at the "Moscow City" business district after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. (AP Photo)

Drone shot down over central Moscow, no injuries reported

Officials say Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian drone over central Moscow and some fragments fell on an exposition center. The Defense Ministry said the drone was shot down about 4 a.m. … more

8/18/23

Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the voting system ahead of 2022 vote

A Brazilian hacker claims then-President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to hack the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the 2022 presidential election. Walter … more

By DIANE JEANTET | 8/17/23

Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks via video call after Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, sitting president of the United Nations Security Council, gavels in a meeting of the council to discuss the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UN: North Korea is increasing repression as people are reportedly starving in parts of the country

The U.N. rights chief says North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and people are becoming more desperate and reportedly starving in parts of the country as the economic situation … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 8/17/23