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FILE - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses members of the defence force during the Armed Forces Day in Richards Bay, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the highly anticipated national election will be held on May 29. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
South Africa sets May 29 elections that could be the most pivotal since apartheid ended
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the highly anticipated national election will be held on May 29. Ramaphosa’s ruling African National Congress, the party once led by … more
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FILE Haiti's President Jovenel Moise sits with his wife Martine during his swearing-in ceremony at Parliament in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2017. A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Moïse issued a final report on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, that indicts his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, among others. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)
A widow and two powerful officials indicted: Takeaways from the probe into Haiti’s slain president
A judge who investigated the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has indicted some 50 suspects in the case. Among them is the slain president’s widow, the former prime minister … more
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FILE-- In this file photo, a Somali baby receives a polio vaccine, at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. Zimbabwe has started an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio after health authorities detected 3 cases caused by a rare mutation of the weakened virus used in oral vaccines, including a 10-year-old girl who was paralyzed in January. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Zimbabwe starts an emergency polio vaccination drive after detecting cases caused by a rare mutation
Zimbabwe has started an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio after health authorities detected three cases caused by a rare mutation of the weakened virus used … more
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Spanish police suspect bullet-riddled body may be Russian who defected with army helicopter
Spanish police say they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in an eastern town is that of Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov, who flew a Russian army helicopter on his escape across the … more
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted from the Lefortovsky court after the hearing in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. A Moscow court extended the pretrial detention of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, through March in a Friday ruling. A 32-year-old United States citizen, Gershkovich was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip to Russia in late March 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A Russian court extends pretrial detention for an American reporter accused of spying
A court in the Russian capital has ruled to keep Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in custody pending his trial on espionage charges that he denies. The Moscow City Court on Tuesday … more
A demonstrator holds a Julian Assange mask outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Julian Assange’s lawyers will begin their final U.K. legal challenge to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges. The 52-year-old has been fighting extradition for more than a decade, including seven years in self-exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and the last five years in a high-security prison. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Timeline of the Assange legal saga as he makes a final bid to avoid extradition to the US
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for more than a decade to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of … more
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Pro-Palestinians demonstrators wave flags as they protest outside the United Nations' highest court during historic hearings, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. The Palestinian foreign minister has accused Israel of apartheid and urged the United Nations’ top court to declare that Israel’s occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state is illegal. If the situation endures, the Palestinians say that any hope for a two-state future will die. The allegation came at the start of historic hearings into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
South Africa tells top UN court that it's accusing Israel of apartheid against Palestinians
South Africa has argued at the United Nations’ top court that Israel is responsible for apartheid against the Palestinians and that Israel’s occupation of land sought for a Palestinian state is … more
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A Ukrainian soldier launches a drone attack against Russians APC on the frontline near Klishchiivka the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 19, 2024. (Iryna Rybakova via AP)
Ukraine's Zelenskyy says foreign aid delays are making life 'very difficult' on the front line
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says delays in weapons deliveries from Western allies are opening a door for Russian battlefield advances. He says the delays are making the fight “very … more
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FILE - Houthi supporters attend a rally against the U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen and in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Feb. 09, 2024. Despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes, Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have launched attacks seriously damaging a ship in the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait and apparently bringing down an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)
Ship attacks and downing US drones. Yemen's Houthis still put up a fight despite US-led airstrikes
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are still able to launch attacks despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes. This week they seriously damaged a ship in a strategically important strait and apparently … more
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his annual "State of Hungary" speech in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. The message on lectern reads: "For us Hungary is the first!" (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
Hungary's governing party says it's ready to approve Sweden's NATO accession on Monday
A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as early as Monday. That's according to a senior member of the country’s governing Fidesz party. It would bring … more
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FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pauses as he makes a statement to the media gathered outside the High Court in London, Dec. 5, 2011. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing what could be his final court hearing in England over whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. The High Court will hear two days of arguments next week over whether Assange can make his pitch to an appeals court to block his transfer to the U.S. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
WikiLeaks founder Assange starts final UK legal battle to avoid extradition to US on spy charges
Julian Assange’s lawyers will begin their final U.K. legal challenge to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges. The 52-year-old has been fighting … more
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Taiwan protests after China boards a tourist boat near Kinmen Island
Taiwan is protesting China’s boarding of a tourist boat as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies just off the Chinese coast but is controlled by Taiwan. Taiwanese media reported … more
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FILE - Pope Francis prays at the beginning of the third day of a Vatican's conference on dealing with sex abuse by priests, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Five years ago this week, Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and they needed to address it, but now, five years later, despite new church laws to hold bishops accountable and promises to do better, the Catholic Church's in-house legal system and pastoral response to victims has proven again to be incapable of dealing with the problem. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool, file)
Long after pope's abuse summit, victims still traumatized by the system meant to address their cases
Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and that they needed to do something … more
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, left, accompanied by his wife Gabriela Rodriguez, wave to supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, after polls closed for general elections on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. El Salvador President Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday, Feb. 19. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases. Electoral officials announced the results Monday after a … more
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Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron visits San Carlos Cemetery on the Falkland Islands, during his high-profile visit to demonstrate they are a "valued part of the British family" amid renewed Argentinian calls for talks on their future, in Stanley, Falkland Islands, Britain, on Monday Feb. 19, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
Britain's top diplomat says he hopes the Falkland Islands will wish to stay in the UK family forever
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has toured battle sites of the Falklands War during a visit meant to underline that the Falkland Islands are a “valued part of the British family.” Cameron … more
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FILE - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, arrives for a German and Brazil governments meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Israel on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, condemned Brazil's president for comparing the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Naza genocide of European Jews during World War II. The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Lula returned to office last year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
Israel says Brazil's president unwelcome until he apologizes for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust
Israel’s foreign minister says Brazil’s president will not be welcome in Israel until he apologizes for comments he made comparing Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of a … more
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FILE - Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 20 kms ( 12 miles) North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 29, 2022. Eastern Congo has been beset by conflict for years, with M23 one of more than 100 armed groups vying for a foothold in the mineral-rich area near the border with Rwanda (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
What's happening in eastern Congo and why aid groups are warning of a new humanitarian crisis
Aid organizations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo region, where the renowned armed rebel group M23 is in the midst of a new advance that threatens to cut off a major city … more
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FILE - Inter Miami's Lionel Messi, center, looks on after the first half of the friendly football match between Hong Kong Team and US Inter Miami CF at the Hong Kong Stadium in Hong Kong, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Inter Miami's global tour of exhibition games, thought they are about promotion and marketing, hope to build a new brand by using stars like Messi and Uruguayan Luis Suarez. Instead, the tour is getting mostly bad PR and results that have not been much better. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)
After fallout in China, Messi insists politics had nothing to do with missing game in Hong Kong
Lionel Messi has made another conciliatory gesture to fans in Hong Kong and mainland China by releasing a video on social media to explain why he didn’t play in an exhibition match this month, and … more
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CORRECTS TO DELETE THE DEATH TOLL AS THE NUMBER HAS LOWERED AFTER MORE REPORT - FILE - Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22, 2022, at U.N. headquarters. Multiple people were massacred in a major escalation of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea, Australian media reported Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Tribal violence in the Enga region has intensified since elections in 2022 that maintained Prime Minister James Marape's administration. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
Tribal bloodshed shines spotlight on strategically vital Papua New Guinea's domestic security issues
A tribal clash in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands in which more than 20 people were shot and killed has put a growing internal security problem under the microscope in the strategically vital … more
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A mural of Argentine former first lady María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva Perón, or Evita, depicting her with a saint's halo, adorns a wall inside the Peron Peron restaurant in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A prayer for Evita: Here's why many Argentinians are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952
Far from Argentina, few people may know much about Eva Perón, widely known as “Evita." But the former first lady, who died in 1952, is a constant presence in her home country. Her face is printed … more
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