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Emilia Budskaya, a local resident who decided to stay in the city breaks dead tree branches to heat her basement in the frontline city of Vuhledar, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
On Ukraine front, civilians cling on as troops repel Russia
On the largely static front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces that stretches over hundreds of kilometers (miles), Vuhledar has become one of the deadliest hotspots. Its ruins have joined … more
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FILE - Palestinian demonstrators clash with the Israeli army while forces carry out an operation in the West Bank town of Nablus, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. A high-level Palestinian delegation will meet with top Israeli officials in Jordan on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023, the Palestinian president's office said, in an attempt to reduce surging tensions ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
Israel, Palestinian officials to meet over surge in violence
The Palestinian president’s office says a high-level Palestinian delegation will meet with top Israeli officials in Jordan. The meeting on Sunday is an attempt to reduce surging tensions in the … more
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FILE - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses his statement, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 24, 2020. Guterres will help kick off the latest and longest-ever session of the U.N.'s top human rights body on Monday Feb. 27, 2023, with Iran's foreign minister, a senior Russian envoy, and the top diplomats of France and Germany among scores of leaders set to take part.(Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
Russia, Iran sending top envoys to UN's human rights council
The latest session of the Human Rights Council opens Monday with the U.N. secretary-general joining three presidents to speak, and foreign ministers from countries including France, Germany and Iran … more
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Rescuers recover a body at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Rescue officials say an undetermined number of migrants have died and dozens have been rescued after their boat broke apart off southern Italy. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Pipita)
Migrant boat breaks apart off Italy; many dead, 58 survivors
Authorities say the Italian coast guard and firefighters have recovered more than 30 bodies after a wooden migrant boat broke apart in rough seas near the southern coast of Italy’s mainland. State … more
Israelis protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. On Tuesday, Netanyahu's government for the first time advanced the plan by securing a preliminary vote at the Knesset, defying a mass uproar among Israelis and calls for restraint from the United States. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)
Mass protests in Israel as controversial overhauls advanced
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting their far-right government’s plans to overhaul the legal system, three days after parliament advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a … more
United Nations Security Council members stand for a moment of silence at the urging of Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, after his address to the Council, Friday Feb. 24, 2023 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Russia, Ukraine face off at UN with rival tributes to dead
Russia and Ukraine faced off at the U.N. Security Council on the first anniversary of their war _ with their confrontation even extending to dueling moments of silence for the dead. The showdown … more
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Palestinians protest a deadly Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, as well as a crackdown on Palestinian prisoners by Israel's right-wing government, following Friday prayers at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli settlers shoot, wound 2 Palestinians in West Bank
Palestinian health officials say Israeli settlers have shot and seriously wounded two Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank, in what officials describe as the latest incident in a wave of … more
A police officer runs to detain a man who lays flowers to the monument of Ukrainian author Taras Shevchenko to mark one year since the start of the Russian campaign in Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. OVD-Info, a group that tracks political arrests, said that several people were detained in St. Petersburg after bringing flowers to the Shevchenko monument. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Russians mark Ukraine war anniversary with flowers, arrests
Russians in Moscow and other cities brought flowers to Ukrainian poets and held one-person pickets with antiwar slogans to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian media … more
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In this photo released by the Cambodia Ministry of Health, Cambodia local authority meet health experts before spraying disinfectant at a village in Prey Veng eastern province Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The father of an 11-year old girl in Cambodia who died this week after contracting bird flu has tested positive for the virus, but has not displayed any major symptoms, health authorities said Friday. (Cambodia Ministry of Health via AP)
Experts say bird flu threat small despite Cambodian fatality
Health authorities in Cambodia say the father of an 11-year-old girl who died this week after contracting bird flu has tested positive for the virus but has not displayed any major symptoms. The … more
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This image from Meteosat-9 satellite shows Tropical Cyclone Freddy, center right, and Mozambique on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. The damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique as the long-lasting weather system continues to wreak havoc across southern Africa, the United Nations weather agency said. (NOAA via AP)
Cyclone Freddy slams Mozambique with 'dangerous' rainfall
A damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique Friday as the long-lasting weather system continued to wreak havoc across southern Africa. The … more
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FILE - Forensic experts collect a dead body after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 13, 2022. Turkish forces have killed the alleged mastermind behind a deadly Istanbul street bombing in an operation in northern Syria, Turkey's state-run news agency reported on Friday Feb. 24, 2023. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP, File)
Report: Istanbul bomb suspect killed in operation in Syria
Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish forces have killed the alleged planner of a deadly Istanbul street bombing, in an operation in northern Syria. The man, identified as Halil Menci, was … more
FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a flag flies at half-staff in honor of the U.S. service members and other victims killed in the terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, at Marine Corps Security Force Company, Aug. 27, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba have returned two Pakistani brothers, Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani, to their home country. The U.S. move on Feb. 23, 2023, comes after holding them two decades without charges at Guantanamo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
2 Pakistanis reach home after being freed from Guantanamo
Officials say two Pakistani brothers who were held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay military prison for two decades have been freed and returned home. Pakistan's announcement Friday said … more
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U.S. First lady Jill Biden, arrives at Windhoek's International Airport, Namibia, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. Dancers, drummers and Namibia's president and first lady welcomed U.S. first lady Jill Biden on Wednesday as she opened a five-day, two-country visit to Africa aimed at highlighting the challenges facing women and young people and the food insecurity plaguing the Horn of Africa. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich)
Jill Biden to Namibian youth: Protect your democracy
U.S. first lady Jill Biden has told the young people of Namibia that the democracy their parents and grandparents fought for is now theirs to defend and protect. She also has encouraged them to … more
Iran calls 84% uranium enrichment allegation a 'conspiracy'
Iranian state television has offered an extended defense against an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity. An official interviewed by state TV's … more
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New video footage shot on Feb. 19, 2023 from the air with a drone for The Associated Press shows how particularly intense fighting since the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion has left no building in Marinka intact. Russian tank fire further added to the destruction, pounding what appeared to be Ukrainian positions amid the ruins. (AP Photo)
Ukraine: Drone video shows cost of intense fighting in east
Although Friday marks the grim first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, fighting between Russian-backed forces and Ukrainian troops has raged in the country’s east since … more
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FILE - Internally displaced people look out from a bus at a refugee center in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict. Estimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an complete picture of the deaths and suffering. Precise figures may never emerge for some of the categories international organizations are attempting to track. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
The calculus of war: Tallying Ukraine toll an elusive task
Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict. Estimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an incomplete … more
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Anastasiia Morhun, 29, comforts her one-year-old son Roman, born on Feb. 24, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. The anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women who gave birth and men who became fathers a year ago on Feb. 24, 2022, as bombs began to fall. Bringing forth new life just as the Russian onslaught snatched other lives away entwined joy and terror together into a sour-sweet mix for people who became parents that day. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)
Joy amid sorrow: 1st birthdays muted for Ukrainian parents
The anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women who gave birth and men who became fathers a year ago, on Feb. 24, 2022, as bombs began to fall. Bringing forth new … more
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A baby Chinese pangolin is being weighed at the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. A female baby of Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo on Feb 2, 2023, as the first birth of the critically endangered animal on the European continent, and was doing well, the park said. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
1st baby pangolin in Europe born in Prague zoo, doing well
A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in Europe. The park says it is doing well after initial troubles. For the first few days after … more
A man poses for a picture as he stands next to the coffin containing the remains of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, during his reburial ceremony in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. Sankara, was reburied, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. The revolutionary leader and twelve others were gunned down in the capital, Ouagadougou, during a 1987 coup and buried hastily, their bodies only allowed to be dug up in 2015, after the ousting of former President Blaise Compaore, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 30 years and prevented the exhumation. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)
Iconic West African leader Sankara reburied in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, has been reburied, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation. Sankara and 12 others were gunned down in the capital, … more
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FILE - This handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Oct. 4, 2022, shows a Grad multiple rocket launcher firing at Ukrainian troops at an undisclosed location. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP, File)
Eurojust to support probes into aggression in Ukraine war
The European Union’s judicial cooperation agency is setting up a new center to support efforts to gather evidence of the crime of aggression in Ukraine. The announcement Thursday by Eurojust came … more
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