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Police officers calm an injured dog while a dead body lies near a multi-story building damaged by a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

Russia batters Ukraine's Odesa and Zaporizhzhia as Kremlin warns peace talks will take time

Authorities in Ukraine say Russian drones battered the port city of Odesa and glide bombs hit Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday. The Kremlin again is warning that negotiators are unlikely to obtain a swift … more

By ILLIA NOVIKOV | 4/22/25

FILE - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media as he arrives at the Brasilia International Airport in Brasilia, Brazil, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Nova, File)

Brazil Supreme Court reviews charges against key Bolsonaro allies in coup proceedings

A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices have started proceedings to determine whether federal officers, retired military officers and an aide of former President Jair Bolsonaro will also stand … more

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA | 4/22/25

FILE - Georgian and Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli poses during the opening ceremony of the 41st Moscow International Film Festival in Moscow, Russia, on April 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Georgian-Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, known for his gigantic and controversial work, dies at 91

Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian and Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, has died at 91. His assistant Sergei Shagulashvili told Russia’s state news agency … more

4/22/25

Members of the funeral home carry the body of one of those killed in the helicopter crash two weeks ago in New York, during a funeral in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (Alberto Paredes/Europa Press via AP)

Hundreds mourn Spanish family killed in New York City helicopter crash

Hundreds of people packed into a Barcelona church to mourn a Spanish family of five who died earlier this month in a sightseeing helicopter crash in New York City. Mourners gathered and wept quietly … more

By JOSEPH WILSON and SUMAN NAISHADHAM | 4/22/25

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo, Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gives a Mass outside the San Cayetano church where an Argentine flag hangs behind in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, file)

In Argentina, debates over Pope Francis' legacy lead to one question: Why didn’t he return?

Pope Francis never set foot in his native Argentina during his papacy. That left many of the faithful in his homeland feeling puzzled and snubbed by the world’s first Latin American pope. Analysts … more

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and ISABEL DEBRE | 4/22/25

Paramedic carries a wounded tourist on a stretcher at a hospital in Anantnag after assailants indiscriminately fired at tourists visiting Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Many feared dead in gun attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Many are feared to have died after gunmen indiscriminately fired at tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Police described Tuesday's incident as a “terror attack" and blame militants fighting … more

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN | 4/22/25

A woman reaches to a shark swimming in Mediterranean Sea in Hadera, Israel, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Sharks drew crowds who chased and fed them off Israel's coast — until one man disappeared

Israeli police are looking for a swimmer who they fear was attacked by a shark. A shiver of endangered sharks has been swimming close to Israel’s Mediterranean Sea shore for years, attracting … more

By ARIEL SCHALIT and TIA GOLDENBERG | 4/22/25

People arrive at a polling place as early voting begins in Sydney, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, for a national election to be held on May 3. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australians start voting in general elections as pope's death overshadows campaigning

Australians have begun voting at general elections as campaigning is overshadowed by the death of Pope Francis. Polling stations opened Tuesday to voters who for a variety of reasons will be unable … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 4/22/25

FILE - Pope Francis gives a thumbs up to the faithful as he arrives in Tacloban, Philippines, Jan. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

Pope Francis saw environmental and climate issues as moral concerns

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern. The document accused the “structurally perverse,” profit-driven … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 4/22/25

FILE.- Pope Francis, surrounded by shells of destroyed churches, listens to Mosul and Aqra Archbishop Najib Mikhael Moussa during a gathering to pray for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, in Mosul, Iraq, once the de-facto capital of IS, Sunday, March 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini,FIle)

For Iraqi Christians, Pope Francis' visit was a rare moment of hope

The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history. His 2021 … more

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and STELLA MARTANY | 4/22/25

Faithful gather for a rosary prayer for the late Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday April 21, 2025 (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Cardinals meet Tuesday at Vatican to choose date for Pope Francis' funeral

Cardinals are meeting at the Vatican to make the first decisions about running the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. They need to decide when Francis' body will be moved into St. … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY | 4/22/25

FILE - General view of the Memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe, the so called Holocaust Memorial in central Berlin, Germany, June 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows

Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years. Currently, the survivors’ median … more

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | 4/22/25

FILE - U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, left, meet at an hotel in Vienna, July 9, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool Photo via AP, File)

What do 'expert level' talks signal for the progress of the Iran-US nuclear negotiations?

Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move Wednesday to what’s known as the “expert level” — a sign analysts say shows that … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 4/22/25

FILE - A wooden statue portraying a pregnant woman is seen in the foreground as members of Amazon Indigenous populations prepare for a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession from St. Angelo Castle to the Vatican, Oct. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope Francis' conservative critics had a unique way to oppose him: a retired pontiff

Every pope has his critics. But Pope Francis’ conservative opponents were unique in that they actually had a living alternate as a point of reference. Pope Benedict XVI lived as a pope emeritus in … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 4/22/25

Sudan’s paramilitaries kill more than 30 in a new attack on a Darfur city, activists say

A Sudanese activist group says the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked a city in the western Darfur region, killing more than 30 people. It says the RSF attack on el-Fasher, the … more

BY SAMY MAGDY | 4/21/25

Haitian army soldiers patrol during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti could face 'total chaos' without more international support, UN envoy warns

The top U.N. official in Haiti is sounding an alarm to the U.N. Security Council that escalating gang violence is liable to lead the Caribbean nation to “a point of no return.” María Isabel … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 4/21/25

FILE.- Mourners carry the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana,File)

Gaza rescue service dismisses Israeli probe into killing of medics as a 'fabricated investigation'

The main Palestinian rescue service in Gaza has condemned Israel’s probe into the killings of 15 medical workers last month, calling it a “fabricated investigation.” The army announced the … more

4/21/25

FILE - Filipino and U.S. soldiers participate during a joint military drill called Salaknib at Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines on March 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

US general says allied forces can repel Asia aggression as Philippines combat drills open

Thousands of allied American and Filipino forces have opened annual combat drills that will include simulating the defense of the Philippine archipelago and seas in a battle scenario that has … more

By JIM GOMEZ | 4/21/25

FILE - Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo is interviewed by The Associated Press, in Budapest, on Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, file)

Which cardinals are seen as contenders to be the next pope?

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next pope. These candidates, known as “papabile,” have what are regarded to … more

4/21/25

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

What to know about the death of Pope Francis

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Francis' death was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell. The Irish-born Vatican camerlengo's position will be important in the election of the next … more

By VANESSA GERA and NICOLE WINFIELD | 4/21/25