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Turkey denies carrying out deadly strikes in northern Iraq

Turkey’s foreign minister is rejecting accusations that the Turkish military carried out deadly artillery strikes on tourists in northern Iraq. Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that Turkey was … more

7/21/22

Ukrainian mental health professionals learn how to treat trauma victims in a special three-week course run by the Israeli Metiv organization in Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Awareness for recognizing and treating mental trauma remains relatively low in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Ukrainian experts turn to Israel for mental trauma training

A group of Ukrainian mental health professionals has spent the last two weeks in a special course in Jerusalem aimed at giving them tools to treat victims of psychological trauma back home. The … more

By EMILY ROSE | 7/21/22

Laborers carry produce as they wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfall, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Death toll from weekslong rains in Pakistan rises to 282

Authorities say the death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods has jumped to 282 in Pakistan, as the latest downpours continued lashing the impoverished country. The country's … more

7/21/22

FILE - A baby from the Malawi village of Tomali is injected with the world's first vaccine against malaria in a pilot program, in Tomali, Dec. 11, 2019. As the World Health Organization announces Thursday July 21, 2022 the next step in its rollout of the world's first authorized malaria vaccine in several African countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will no longer financially support the shot. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

WHO moves to roll out first malaria vaccine in Africa

As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in three African countries, concerns about its value have come from an … more

By MARIA CHENG and GREGORY GONDWE | 7/21/22

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis. Some … more

By MARIA CHENG | 7/21/22

Chinese Giant panda An An celebrates his 29th birthday at the Ocean Park in Hong Kong on July 28, 2015. The world's oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity on Thursday, July 21, 2022 passed away after being euthanized in Hong Kong, following a deterioration in his health in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

World's oldest male giant panda dies at age 35 in Hong Kong

The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 after his health deteriorated. An An lived most of his life at a Hong Kong theme park after he and a female panda were gifted to Hong … more

By ZEN SOO | 7/21/22

FILE - Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation Mustafa Sanallah holds gives a press conference at the corporation's headquarters in Tripoli, Libya, July 11, 2022. Libya's National Oil Corporation said it resumed oil exports, ending a monthslong hiatus. It said a Malta-flagged tanker, Matala, docked Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the al-Sidra terminal to ship one million barrels of crude oil. The resumption of oil export has come after one of the country’s rival governments fired Sanallah the chairman of the state-run oil corporation (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

Libya says oil exports resumed after monthslong hiatus

Libya's National Oil Corporation says it resumed oil exports, ending a monthslong hiatus. It says a Malta-flagged tanker, Matala, docked Wednesday at the al-Sidra terminal to ship one million barrels … more

BY SAMY MAGDY | 7/20/22

Residents spray water with a hose as fire burns near houses in the area of Drafi east of Athens on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes late Tuesday as a wildfire threatened mountainside suburbs northeast of Athens. Firefighters battled through the night, struggling to contain the blaze which was being intensified by strong gusts of wind. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

As fires ease in southern Europe, blaze hits Greek capital

Nearly 500 firefighters are struggling to contain a large wildfire that threatens hillside suburbs outside Athens for a second day, after hundreds of residents were evacuated overnight. Greek … more

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS | 7/20/22

The site of a Jewish ritual bath or mikveh, left, discovered near the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, July 17, 2022. An excavation to build an accessible elevator from the Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall near the Temple Mount by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology has unearthed the mikveh that dates back to the 1st Century CE. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Elevator project in Old Jerusalem leads to surprising finds

A project that aims to increase access for disabled people to Jerusalem's Western Wall has turned into an extensive archaeological excavation into the city's history. Archaeologists from the Hebrew … more

By ILAN BEN ZION | 7/20/22

Rabbi Barbara Aiello reads prayers in her "Ner Tamid del Sud" (The Eternal Light of the South) synagogue in Serrastretta, southern Italy, Friday, July 8, 2022. From a rustic, tiny synagogue she fashioned from her family's ancestral home in this mountain village, American rabbi Aiello is keeping a promise made to her Italian-born father: to reconnect people in this southern region of Calabria to their Jewish roots, links nearly severed five centuries ago when the Inquisition forced Jews to convert to Christianity. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

US rabbi reviving Jewish roots in her family's Italian town

From a tiny synagogue she fashioned from her ancestral home in a southern Italian mountain village, an American rabbi is keeping a promise made to her Italian-born father. She is reconnecting people … more

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | 7/20/22

People from Mariupol and eastern Ukraine disembark from a train at the railway station in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Thursday, April 7, 2022, to be taken to temporary residences in the region. About 500 refugees from the Mariupol area arrived in Nizhny Novgorod on a special train organized by Russia from eastern Ukraine, about 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the border. (AP Photo)

"The mouth of a bear": Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia

Nearly 2 million Ukrainians refugees have been sent to Russia. Their journey starts not with a gun to the head, but with a poisoned choice: Die in Ukraine or live in Russia. Those who choose to live … more

By LORI HINNANT, CARA ANNA, VASILISA STEPANENKO and SARAH EL DEEB | 7/20/22

The aerial photo shows Pohnpei International Airport in Kolonia, Federated States of Micronesia, on Aug. 5, 2019. Micronesia has likely become the final nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to experience an outbreak of COVID-19. On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, the government announced it had become aware of multiple cases across two of the nation's four states.(Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Micronesia last of bigger nations to have COVID-19 outbreak

Micronesia has likely become the final nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to experience an outbreak of COVID-19. For more than two-and-a-half years, the Pacific archipelago … more

By NICK PERRY | 7/20/22

This photo taken in June/July 2022 and provided by Amnesty International shows a close-up of a landmine found by deminers in Kayah state, eastern Myanmar. Myanmar’s military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in Kayah, a conflict-affected region near the border with Thailand, Amnesty International said Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (Amnesty International via AP)

Amnesty Intl says Myanmar army has laid landmines in Kayah

Amnesty International says Myanmar’s military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in Kayah, a conflict-affected region near the border with Thailand. The … more

7/19/22

File - Coffins of 21 teenagers who died in a mysterious tragedy at a nightclub in the early hours of June 26, 2022 are lined up during their funeral held in Scenery Park, East London, South Africa, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a bar in the South African city of East London last month, authorities said at press conference in East London Tuesday. July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/File)

EXPLAINER: Methanol in South Africa teen deaths often fatal

According to a health official in South Africa, methanol was found in the blood of the 21 teenagers who died last month in a bar in South Africa’s city of East London. Final toxicology reports will … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 7/19/22

In this government handout photo provided by Mexico's Secretariat of the Navy, agents escort drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero, in Sinaloa state, Mexico, Friday, July 15, 2022, captured deep in the mountains of his home state. It was a 6-year-old bloodhound named “Max” who rousted Caro Quintero from the undergrowth. (Mexico's Secretariat of the Navy via AP)

EXPLAINER: 37 years later, Mexican drug lord to face justice

The capture of fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was hailed by U.S. authorities as an example of cooperation with Mexico in the fight against drugs. But in fact Caro Quintero had been the … more

By MARK STEVENSON | 7/19/22

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Thousands more doses of monkeypox vaccine are expected to soon begin shipping to the U.S. after federal health officials said Wednesday, July 13, 2022, that they had completed an inspection of the overseas plant where they were manufactured. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100

British officials have bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130. In a statement on Tuesday, Britain’s Health … more

7/19/22

In this undated photo released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH, scuba divers explore the Hoyo Negro underwater cave, or cenote, in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, where according INAH, a skeleton almost 13,000 years old of a prehistoric young woman was found, making it the oldest and most complete found in the Americas. The Mexican government invoked national-security powers on July 18, 2022 to forge ahead with a tourist train along the Caribbean coast, while activists warn the high-speed rail project will fragment the coastal jungle and run above the roofs of fragile limestone cenotes. (Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History via AP, File)

Train endangers some of Mexico's oldest pre-historic sites

The Mexican government has decided to invoke national security powers to forge ahead with a tourist train along the Caribbean coast known as the “Riviera Maya,” threatening extensive caves where … more

By MARK STEVENSON | 7/19/22

People offer flowers at a memorial area near the site where former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot in Nara, western Japan, Friday, July 15, 2022. Many people mourned the death of Abe at the site where he was gunned down during a campaign speech a week ago Friday, shocking a nation known for its low crime rate and strict gun control. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan extends detention for Abe's alleged assassin

Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination earlier this month for 10 more days until they file … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 7/19/22

FILE - A body is removed from a nightclub where 21 teenagers died in the early hours of the morning, in East London, South Africa, Sunday June 26, 2022. The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a bar in the South African city of East London last month, authorities said at press conference in East London Tuesday. July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/File)

Methanol in blood of teens who died in South African tavern

The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a bar in the South African city of East London last month. Methanol was found in all of their … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 7/19/22

Lebanese Judge Ghada Aoun, left, leaves the Central Bank following a raid to pursue embattled Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on corruption charges in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Judge and security forces raid Lebanon's central bank

A Lebanese investigative judge and security personnel have raided the Central Bank in a probe against the country's embattled governor. Judge Ghada Aoun did not find Governor Riad Salameh Tuesday and … more

KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 7/19/22