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People wearing bear fur costumes prepare to take part in a parade showcasing regional winter traditions in Comanesti, northeastern Romania, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. Centuries ago, people in what is now northeast Romania would don bear fur and dance to fend off evil spirits. Nowadays, the custom lives on as a popular festival that has been drawing crowds of tourists. The so-called 'dancing bears festival' takes place every December, starting in the days before Christmas and ending with the New Year's Eve.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
AP PHOTOS: Bear costumes, dance at popular Romanian festival
COMANESTI, Romania (AP) — Centuries ago, people in what is now northeastern Romania would don bear fur and dance to fend off evil spirits. Nowadays, the custom lives on as a popular festival that … more
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FILE - Attorney Alan Dershowitz arrives for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 29, 2020. Prominent U.S. lawyer Dershowitz, long a staunch defender of Israel's policies on the international stage, said Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, he cannot defend sweeping judicial reforms planned by Israel's new government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Famed US lawyer, defender of Israel, opposes legal overhaul
A Prominent U.S. lawyer says he cannot defend sweeping judicial reforms planned by Israel’s new government. Alan Dershowitz, long a staunch defender of Israel’s policies on the international … more
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A subway passenger, injured when two subway trains collided, is taken on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance, in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Authorities announced at least one person was killed and dozens were injured in the Saturday accident on Line 3 of the capital's subway. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Subway train collision in Mexico City kills 1, injures 57
Authorities in Mexico City say two subway trains have collided  between stations, killing at least one person and injuring 57. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum says on her Twitter account that … more
A protester holds a Palestinian flag in Tel Aviv, Israel, at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Thousands of Israelis protested plans by Netanyahu's government that opponents say threaten democracy and freedoms. (AP Photo/ Tsafrir Abayov)
Thousands of Israelis protest new government's policies
Thousands of Israelis are protesting plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that opponents say threaten democracy and freedoms. The protesters gathered in the central city of Tel … more
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This photo provided by Taliban Higher Education Ministry, UN officials meet with Taliban Higher Education Minister in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. The U.N. envoy met with the Taliban-led Afghan government’s higher education minister to discuss the ban on women attending universities. (Taliban Higher Education Ministry via AP)
UN envoy meets with Afghan higher-ed chief over ban on women
The U.N. says one of its top officials has met with the Taliban-led government's higher education minister, who ordered a ban on women in Afghan universities last month. The minister says the ban is … more
A motorist navigates his way through a crack on a road in Joshimath, India, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Authorities have stopped all construction activity and started shifting hundreds of people panicking after seeing a temple collapse and cracks in over 600 houses due to subsidence of land in a northern Indian hilly town, officials said on Saturday. (AP Photo)
Sinking land forces hundreds to leave Indian temple town
Authorities in an Indian Himalayan town have stopped construction activities and started moving hundreds of people to temporary shelters after a temple collapsed and cracks appeared in over 600 … more
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FILE - Ambulances wait outside the Royal London Hospital in east London, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gathered government ministers, medics and health service managers in 10 Downing St. on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023 for talks aimed at fixing a health care crisis that has seen thousands of patients stranded outside overflowing hospitals. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
UK leader calls crisis meeting over struggling health system
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is gathering government ministers, medics and health service managers in 10 Downing St. for talks aimed at fixing a health care crisis that has seen thousands of … more
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Kurdish activists hold a banner reading: We want justice, of three Kurdish activists killed 10 years ago, Fidan Dogan, Sakine Cansiz, and Leyla Soylemez, during a protest in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Kurdish groups from around France and Europe are marching in Paris to show their anger over the unresolved killing of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital 10 years ago and also mourning three people killed outside a Kurdish cultural center in Paris two weeks ago in what prosecutors called a racist attack. ( AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
Kurds from around Europe demonstrate over killings in Paris
Thousands of Kurds from around France and Europe are marching in Paris to show their anger over the unresolved killing of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital 10 years ago. The … more
FILE - People ski on a cross country slope in Ramsau, Austria, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm weather in much of Europe is allowing green grass to blanket many mountaintops across the region where snow might normally be. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
AP PHOTOS: Snow is a no-show as Europe feels the winter heat
Mild weather has left many regions of Europe that would normally be blanketed in snow at this time of year bare, and winter sports resorts are fearing for the future. Many are using snow machines to … more
FILE - Women protest the death of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini who was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. in this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran. Iran said it executed two men Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer during a demonstration, the latest executions aimed at halting the nationwide protests now challenging the country's theocracy. (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)
Iran executes 2 more men detained amid nationwide protests
Iran says it has executed two men convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer, the latest executions aimed at halting the nationwide protests now challenging the country’s theocracy. … more
FILE - Lawyer Harry Durimel, right, stands next to an activist with a sign that reads in French "No to Chlordecone poison," as they protest during the arrival of the French government's Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot in Raizet Abymes, Guadeloupe, Nov. 18, 2007. Nearly 20 years after Caribbean islanders sued to hold the French government criminally responsible for the banana industry’s extended use of a banned pesticide in Martinique and Guadeloupe, a panel of judges dismissed their case on Jan. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte, File)
Paris court deals blow to French Caribbean pesticide fight
A nearly 20-year fight to hold the French government criminally responsible for using a banned pesticide in the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe has received a serious blow. A court in … more
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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his New Year speech to medical workers at the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien Hospital in the southern Paris suburban city of Corbeil-Essonnes, Friday Jan. 6, 2023. Emmanuel Macron visits a pediatric hospital and gives a new year's speech to medics, amid protests and anger over long-unresolved funding and hiring issues in France's health care system.( Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)
Macron to overhaul France's struggling health care system
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced an overhaul of France’s struggling health system, including new funding methods for doctors and hospitals, more hiring and other organizational … more
FILE - Anti-government demonstrators set a barricade on fire during clashes in N'Djamena, Chad, Thursday Oct. 20, 2022. Chad’s government foiled an attempt to destabilize the country and undermine the constitution, said Aziz Mahamat Saleh, government spokesman in a statement Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo, File)
Chad's government says it foiled 'destabilization' attempt
Chad’s government says it has foiled an attempt to destabilize the country and undermine the constitution. The government spokesman said Thursday that 11 people conspired in the plot including … more
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FILE -- Soldiers follow a Marder infantry fighting vehicle during a demonstration event held for the media by the German Bundeswehr in Bergen near Hannover, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed in a joint statement Thursday that the U.S. would provide Bradleys to Ukraine while Germany would provide Marder armored personnel carriers. The statement did not give the number of vehicles or the total cost of the aid package. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn,file)
Germany to supply around 40 armored carriers to Ukraine
The German government says Berlin aims to supply around 40 Marder armored personnel carriers to Ukraine in this year's first quarter. Officials gave more details of the plan, which marks another … more
FIle - Kenyan members and supporters of the LGTB community wear masks to preserve their anonymity as they stage a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. Police in Kenya are investigating the death of LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba, whose body was found on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, stuffed in a metal box on a road in Uasin Gishu County, in the west of the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Kenyan LGBTQ activist's body found in metal box
Police in Kenya are investigating the death of a local LGBTQ activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box. The body of Edwin Chiloba was found on Wednesday on a road in Uasin Gishu County in … more
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Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, walks with other clergy where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Israel's foreign ministry called the attack an "immoral act" and "an affront to religion." Police officers were sent to investigate the profanation. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
Israel police arrest 2 teens in attack on Christian cemetery
The Israeli police have arrested two teenagers who they said vandalized over two dozen Christian graves in a historic Jerusalem cemetery earlier this week. The graves of Christian figures at the … more
A view of an apartment building, damaged during a heavy fighting, in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
Kremlin-ordered truce is uncertain amid suspicion of motives
The impact of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for his forces in Ukraine to observe a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire is in doubt. Kyiv officials dismissed the move as a ploy but didn’t … more
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A body in a coffin is carried out of a mortuary of a hospital in Beijing, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. China is seeking to minimize the possibility of a major new COVID-19 outbreak during this month’s Lunar New Year travel rush following the end of most pandemic containment measures.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)
EXPLAINER: Is China sharing enough COVID-19 information?
As COVID-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data. Some even say many of the numbers it's reporting are … more
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FILE - This Oct. 17, 2019 frame grab from video provided by the Mexican government shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez at the moment of his detention, in Culiacan, Mexico. Mexican security forces were forced to release the son of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman that day after his gunmen shot up the western city of Culiacan. (CEPROPIE via AP File)
Violence paralyzes Mexican stronghold of Sinaloa drug cartel
Organized crime has paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Alleged cartel members carjacked residents and set vehicles ablaze, apparently responding … more
Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16 during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata, Nablus, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Abu Zeitoun was killed Thursday by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Palestinians say teen killed by army in West Bank clashes
The Palestinian Health Ministry says that a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. It said that Amer Abu Zeitoun died from … more
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