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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday March 5, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)
Israeli ministers approve bill on $270,000 gift to Netanyahu
Israeli Cabinet ministers have advanced a bill that would allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to keep a $270,000 donation he received from a relative to pay for his legal bills as he fights … more
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Family members sit in front of portrait Duangphet Phromthep during his funeral at Wat Phra That Doi Wao temple in Chiang Rai province Thailand, Sunday, March 5, 2023. The cremated ashes of Duangphet, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, arrived in the far northern Thai province of Chiang Rai on Saturday where final Buddhist rites for his funeral will be held over the next few days following his death in the U.K. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Funeral of Thai 'cave boy' who died in UK ends with prayers
Mourners have filled a temple chamber for a final prayer session in northern Thailand for one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in 2018 who died at school in England last month. … more
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Police officers stand guard where a cancelled march for women's rights was scheduled to take place in Hong Kong, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Organizers cancelled a demonstration at the last minute on Saturday in what would have been the first major civil rights protest in three years approved by police. Police noted a risk of "violent groups" joining the original protest and warned people who attend may be arrested for unauthorized assembly. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Hong Kong police stop activists from joining women's march
A Hong Kong pro-democracy group says the national security police stopped activists from joining a highly-anticipated protest that was canceled last minute by the organizer. The League of Social … more
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Rohingya refugees try to salvage their belongings after a major fire in their Balukhali camp at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, Sunday, March 5, 2023. A massive fire raced through a crammed camp of Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
Fire hits crowded Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
A massive fire has raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless. No casualties have been reported immediately at Balukhali camp in … more
Palestinian journalists run away from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers towards Palestinians after they attack Israeli cars in the West Bank town of Hawara, Friday, March 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Netanyahu calls comments to erase village 'inappropriate'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the remarks by a key Cabinet ally calling for a Palestinian village to be erased were inappropriate. In a Twitter thread posted in English shortly after … more
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A floating restaurant and bar drifts into the lake after being unmoored, on Lake Victoria near the Luzira area of Kampala, Uganda Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. Flowering plants rise from the water into the wooden hull of James Kateeba's boat, used as a floating restaurant and bar that can be unmoored to drift for pleasure, but the greenery emerges from an innovative recycling project which uses thousands of dirt-encrusted plastic bottles to anchor the boat. (AP Photo/Rodney Muhumuza)
Recycling lake litter, Ugandan makes innovative tourist boat
Africa's Lake Victoria is plagued by pollution and a decline in water levels partly due to climate change. Layers of plastic waste float near some beaches during the rainy season. The visible sign of … more
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Crisis over suspected Iran schoolgirl poisonings escalates
A crisis over suspected poisonings targeting Iranian schoolgirls is escalating as authorities now acknowledge over 50 schools had been struck in a wave of possible cases. It remains unclear who or … more
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FILE — A view of part of the wreckage of a capsized boat that was washed ashore at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Nearly 70 people died in last week's shipwreck on Italy's Calabrian coast. The tragedy highlighted a lesser-known migration route from Turkey to Italy for which smugglers charge around 8,000 euros per person. (AP Photo/Luigi Navarra, File)
Deadly shipwreck: How it happened, and unanswered questions
At least 70 people died in last week's shipwreck on Italy's Calabrian coast. The tragedy highlighted a lesser-known migration route from Turkey to Italy for which smugglers charge around 8,000 euros … more
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Doctor in embattled Somaliland city says at least 145 dead
The director of a hospital in a disputed city in the Somaliland region says at least 145 people have been killed in more than two months of fighting between anti-government fighters and Somaliland … more
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Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Israelis protest legal overhaul plans for 9th week
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the legal system in the country, as the government pressed on with the proposed changes … more
Demonstrators take part in a protest in front of the parliament, in Athens, Saturday, March 4, 2023. Supporters of the Greek Communist party gathered to protest the deaths of dozens of people late Tuesday, in Greece's worst recorded rail accident. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
Station master in Greece train crash delays court appearance
The station master involved in Greece’s deadliest train crash postponed his deposition and is now set to appear before a prosecutor and an examining magistrate on Sunday. His lawyer said the … more
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A Ukrainian APC drives towards frontline positions near Bakhmut, Ukraine, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Civilians flee embattled town as Ukrainian pullout looms
Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian troops holding out in Bakhmut, with the Ukrainian army trying to help civilians flee the beleaguered eastern town. A woman was killed and two men were badly wounded … more
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International Atomic Energy Organization, IAEA, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, center, arrives for a meeting with head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami as he is welcomed by the spokesman for Iran's atomic agency Behrouz Kamalvandi, second left, in Tehran, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
UN nuclear head meets with Iranians amid enrichment concerns
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog is meeting with officials in Iran. Rafael Mariano Grossi's meetings on Saturday come days after it was revealed that Iran had enriched particles of uranium to … more
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A worker welds part of a shelter in a plant of the Metinvest company, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Thursday, March 2, 2023. The plant, which is part of Renat Akhmetov's Metinvest metals and mining holding, ships metal shelters to the frontline. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Ukraine plant builds 6-person bunkers for war's front lines
The pops of welding torches and the piecing whine of angle grinders fill the spacious production floor at a steel plant in central Ukraine. Instead of producing and repairing mining equipment, a team … more
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A pet macaque stands on its owner's motorbike as people inspect the damage to a neighborhood affected by a fuel depot fire in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 4, 2023. A large fire broke out at the fuel storage depot in Indonesia's capital Friday, killing multiple people, injuring dozens of others and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents after spreading to their neighborhood, officials said. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
16 still missing after Indonesia oil depot fire kills 15
Indonesian rescuers and firefighters are searching for possible victims under the rubble of charred houses and buildings after a large fire broke out at a fuel storage depot in the capital, killing … more
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Firefighters inspect the ruins of houses destroyed in a fire in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, March 3, 2023. A large fire broke out at a fuel storage depot in Indonesia’s capital on Friday, killing several people, injuring dozens of others and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents after spreading to their neighborhood, officials said. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Fire at Indonesian oil depot kills 17; thousands evacuated
A large fire has broken out at a fuel storage depot in Indonesia’s capital, killing at least 17 people, injuring dozens of others and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents after … more
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FILE - Two Leopard 2 tanks are seen in action at the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks in Augustdorf, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Germany wants to buy back mothballed Leopard 2 tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and its Western allies are sending to Ukraine, the Swiss government said Friday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Germany seeks to buy mothballed Swiss Leopard 2 tanks
The Swiss government says Germany wants to buy mothballed Leopard 2 battle tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and its Western allies are sending to Ukraine. The Swiss Defense … more
Activists protest against the wind turbines at Fosen, in Oslo, Norway, Friday, March 3, 2023. (Alf Simensen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Norway's leader meets Indigenous Sami as protests end
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has met with Indigenous Sami reindeer herders after more than a week of protests against wind farms that activists say endanger the herders' way of life. … more
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FILE — Hippos float in the lake at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three female hippos and one male decades ago in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, Feb. 4, 2021. Colombia intends to undertake the task of trying to transfer to India and Mexico at least 70 hippos that live in the surroundings of the park as a measure to control its population, the manager of Animal Protection and Welfare at the Antioquia Environment Secretariat said Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
Colombia proposes shipping invasive hippos to India, Mexico
Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population. The hippos are … more
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Vehicles pass under billboards showing Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi with Arabic which reads, "Our common goal is Egypt: our dream and hope" at a new highway in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Egypt is in an economic crisis is partly caused by the yearlong grinding Russian invasion of Ukraine. But the conflict in Europe has also exposed the frailties of an economy suffering from decades of mismanagement, turmoil from its 2011 Arab Spring popular uprising, years of militant attacks and then, the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Egypt raises price of gasoline in latest hike amid inflation
Egypt has announced it's raising prices of some types of gasoline, the latest hike to beset the cash-strapped Middle East country. Egypt's petroleum ministry said the prices of regular, midgrade and … more
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