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Beirut legislator Cynthia Zarazir speaks on the phone as she walks inside a Byblos Bank branch near the capital Beirut, demanding $8,500 from her savings to cover expenses for a surgery, in Antelias, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Cash-strapped Lebanon in recent weeks has witnessed a surge in depositors storming bank branches to forcefully withdraw their locked savings, as the country's economy continues to spiral. On Tuesday, depositors stormed at least four banks, two of which were armed. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese lawmaker demands trapped bank savings

A Lebanese member of Parliament has entered a bank branch near Beirut demanding some of her trapped savings to cover medical expenses. Lawmaker Cynthia Zarazir on Wednesday entered a Byblos Bank … more

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 10/5/22

FILE - Rail workers are seen next to derailed cars at the site of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on July 25, 2013. A trial has begun in Spain on Wednesday Oct. 5, 2022 for the 2013 train accident that killed 80 passengers and injured 145 others. Prosecutors are seeking four-year prison sentences for the train driver and for a former security director at the rail infrastructure company, ADIF after the long-distance train derailed and crashed against a concrete wall while traveling over the speed limit. (AP Photo/Lalo Villar, File)

Trial begins over 2013 train crash that killed 80 in Spain

A trial has begun in Spain over a 2013 train accident that killed 80 passengers and injured 145 others. Prosecutors are seeking four-year prison sentences for the train driver and for a former … more

10/5/22

Baquer Namazi, an 85-year-old Iranian-American held by Iran over internationally criticized spying charges leaves the country Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, for Oman, officials said, after increasing pressure to free him amid his struggles with poor health. His 50-year-old son, however, remains in Iran. (The Namazi family via AP)

Detained Iranian-American, 85, leaves Iran for major surgery

Iran says an 85-year-old Iranian-American held by Iran has left the country for Oman. The state-run IRNA news agency published video of Baquer Namazi boarding a Royal Oman air force jet in Tehran. It … more

By MATTHEW LEE and JON GAMBRELL | 10/5/22

Belarus exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya delivers a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Belarus opposition hopeful at Russian setbacks in Ukraine

Belarus’ opposition leader says she believes that Russian military setbacks in Ukraine could shake the hold on power of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said at a … more

10/5/22

EXPLAINER: A look at famine and its toll as Somalia at risk

Within weeks, a famine could be declared in Somalia, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Such a declaration is rare and a sign of the dire consequences from the worst drought in decades in the … more

By CARA ANNA | 10/5/22

Serhiy Shvets, an employee at Europe's largest Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, talks to the Associated Press in his apartment in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Shvets is among workers from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant recounting their fears of being abducted and tortured or killed by Russian forces occupying the facility and the city of Enerhodar. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

Ukraine nuclear workers recount abuse, threats from Russians

Workers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are recounting fears of being abducted and tortured or killed by Russian forces who seized control of the facility and the city of Enerhodar. Ukrainian … more

By HANNA ARHIROVA | 10/5/22

FILE - Presidential election campaign flags hang for sale, featuring the faces of both current President Jair Bolsonaro, left, and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, outside the Supreme Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 5, 2022. Bolsonaro will face da Silva in the Oct. 30 runoff for president. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Bolsonaro, Lula fight for endorsements before Brazil runoff

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are starting to bring centrist allies to their camps as they campaign for their runoff election. Former President Da Silva … more

By MAURICIO SAVARESE | 10/4/22

Family and friends of inmates wait for news of their jailed loved ones after a deadly prison riot in Latacunga, Ecuador, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. A clash between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the prison has left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Drug capo among 16 dead in bloody Ecuador prison riot

The death toll from a bloody fight among prison inmates has risen to 16. And Ecuadorian authorities say one of the dead was an alleged drug gang boss who had evaded charges in Peru by faking his … more

10/4/22

FILE - A relative wearing a T-Shirt with an image of a disappeared boy, inspects an area where the group suspects there are interred bodies of missing persons, just outside of Cuautla, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. Activists said Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, that Esmeralda Gallardo, who led efforts to find her missing 22-year-old daughter, was killed in Mexico, the fourth murder of a volunteer search activist in Mexico since the start of 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mother of missing Mexico woman killed, 4th since early 2021

Yet another mother searching for her disappeared child has been killed in Mexico. It's the fourth murder of a volunteer search activist in Mexico since the start of 2021. Activists on Tuesday … more

10/4/22

Antonio Garcia, of the Colombian guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN), left, shakes hands with Ivan Danilo Rueda, High Commissioner for Peace on behalf of the Colombian government, after signing an agreement to resume peace talks, at the Casa Cultural Aquiles Nazoa in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. The agreement comes after more than four years of suspension, and will start in November. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Colombia and ELN rebels to restart peace talks

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018. After meeting in Venezuela’s … more

By MANUEL RUEDA | 10/4/22

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