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Saga Saganla, 30, from Diawely, lies on his bed at Somine Dolo hospital in Mopti, Mali, Friday June 24, 2022. Saganla survived an attack by nearly 100 jihadis on motorbikes who had gathered in his village in central Mali Sunday June 19. At least 132 people were killed in several villages in the Bankass area of central Mali during the attack on Saturday and Sunday, according to the government which blames the Group to Support Islam and Muslims jihadi rebels linked to al-Qaida.(AP Photo/ Hamidou Saye)

Survivors recount Mali's deadliest attack since coup

Survivors have described how more than 100 people were killed in Mali in an attack by a Jihadi group just as villagers in central region were beginning to enjoy a peace deal signed last year in the … more

By BABA AHMED | 6/26/22

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives to pose for photos with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, June 14, 2021. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid. But host nation Spain and other members are quietly pushing the Western alliance to consider how mercenaries aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin are spreading Moscow’s influence in Africa. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

As summit host, Spain urges NATO to watch its southern flank

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid. But host nation Spain and other members are quietly pushing the Western alliance to consider how mercenaries … more

By JOSEPH WILSON | 6/26/22

FILE - Climate activists and others hold banners and signs as they march during a demonstration ahead of a G-7 meeting in Munich, Germany, June 25, 2022. At this year's G-7 summit, Germany will push its plan for countries to join together in a ‘climate club' to tackle global warming. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

EXPLAINER: Why Germany is pushing for a 'climate club'

At this year's G-7 summit Germany will push its plan for countries to join together in a ‘climate club' to tackle global warming. The idea was first floated by Yale economist William Nordhaus, who … more

By FRANK JORDANS | 6/26/22

Mazen Jaber and Dona-Maria Nammour, who had a civil marriage in Cyprus earlier this year, laugh as they speak during an interview with The Associated Press at their home in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, June 3, 2022. In Lebanon, the question of civil marriage is a contentious issue mired in fierce religious and political debates. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

In Lebanon, how to say 'I do' sparks fierce debate

In Lebanon, a debate over civil marriages is mired in religious and political entanglements. The controversy has flared up anew after a few recently elected lawmakers raised their hands in approval … more

By MARIAM FAM and BASSEM MROUE | 6/26/22

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. The Biden administration has started shipping testing kits for monkeypox to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnostic tests for suspected infections for the virus that has already infected at least 142 people in the U.S.(Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, file)

WHO panel: Monkeypox not a global emergency 'at this stage'

The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency. In a … more

By MARIA CHENG | 6/25/22

A man looks at information screens inside a much quieter than normal Waterloo railway station, in London, during a strike held by railway workers, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Train stations are all but deserted across Britain on the third day of a national strike that snarled the weekend plans of millions. Train companies said only a fifth of passenger services would run on Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Here we go again: Strike snarls UK trains for a third day

Train stations are all but deserted across Britain on the third day of a national strike that snarled the weekend plans of millions. Train companies said only a fifth of passenger services would run … more

By JILL LAWLESS | 6/25/22

Hundreds of people were slaughtered in a village and its surroundings this month in the latest explosion of ethnic violence in Ethiopia. (AP Graphic)

'Total bloodbath': Witnesses describe Ethiopia ethnic attack

Hundreds of people, mostly ethnic Amhara, were slaughtered in a village and its surroundings this month in the latest explosion of ethnic violence in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation. … more

6/25/22

2 killed in mass shooting in Norway; more than a dozen hurt

Norwegian police say two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting in Oslo. The shooting happened early Saturday outside a bar in the downtown area of the Norwegian … more

6/25/22

Andrea Prudente, 38, who suffered an incomplete miscarriage while vacationing in Malta lies in her bed at the Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta, comforted by her partner Jay Weeldreyer, left, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Prudente will be airlifted to a Spanish island on Thursday for a procedure to prevent infection because Maltese law prohibits abortion under any circumstances, the woman's partner said. (Jay Weeldreyer via AP)

Woman who had miscarriage in Malta taken to Spain to abort

A pregnant American woman who suffered an incomplete miscarriage while vacationing in Malta is receiving treatment in a hospital on the Spanish island of Mallorca because Maltese law prohibits … more

By FRANCISCO UBILLA | 6/24/22

FILE - The Warehouse nightclub, where needle attacks had been reported, is pictured Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Nantes, western France. In recent days, several suspects around France have been given preliminary charges of purposefully pricking people with a needle at nightclubs or concerts, in connection with a surge of mysterious needle attacks across France. Since January 1.004 people have filed formal complaints to authorities about such needle pricks, told the Ministry of Interior to the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)

Suspects charged over puzzling needle attacks in France

Several suspects around France have been detained or given preliminary charges of pricking people with a needle in nightclubs or at concerts. The arrests follow a surge in needle attacks that … more

By JADE LE DELEY | 6/24/22

FILE - People gather around flowers and candles after a man killed several people on Wednesday afternoon, in Kongsberg, Norway, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. A man was Friday, June 24, 2022 found guilty to murder and attempted murder for fatally stabbing five and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. (AP Photo/Pal Nordseth, File)

Norwegian man convicted of killing 5 in bow-and-arrow attack

A man has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder for killing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. … more

6/24/22

An Indian Air Force aircraft with earthquake relief consignment lands in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. India said it sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that state media reported killed 1,000 people. (India's Ministry of External Affairs via AP)

India flies tons of essentials to quake-rocked Afghanistan

India has rushed emergency relief assistance and a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. India’s … more

By ASHOK SHARMA | 6/24/22

India sends team to help with deadly Afghanistan earthquake

India has sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. India’s External Affairs Ministry said the team … more

By ASHOK SHARMA | 6/24/22

Lam Wing-Kee, a Hong Kong bookstore owner who fled to Taiwan in 2019, speaks during an interview inside his bookstore in Taipei, Taiwan on June 8, 2022. Taiwan just 400 miles from Hong Kong, is close not just geographically, but also linguistically and culturally. It offered the freedoms that many Hong Kongers were used to and saw disappearing in their hometown. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

Hong Kongers reflect on Taiwan, an imperfect exile

Coming to Taiwan was a logical step for Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookstore owner who was held by police in China for five months for selling sensitive books about the Communist Party. An island just … more

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU | 6/23/22

Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro, right, and running mate Francia Marquez, join hands during a ceremony that certifies their election victory, in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia: president-elect looks to build governing coalition

President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and disenfranchised, has won the support of an influential party of the establishment as he tries to build a majority … more

By ASTRID SUÁREZ | 6/23/22

FILE - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house in Oslo, Friday, June 15, 2012. Myanmar’s military government, Thursday, June 3, 2022, confirmed that ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from accommodations where she has been held for about a year to a prison compound, where she will have quarters separate from other detainees. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Myanmar says Suu Kyi held alone in new prison quarters

Myanmar’s military has confirmed that ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to a prison where she will have quarters separate from other detainees. Suu Kyi was arrested on Feb. 1, 2021, … more

By GRANT PECK | 6/23/22

FILE - National police search for escaped inmates on the perimeters of the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 25, 2021. The United Nations Security Council released a report in June 2022 saying 54 prison deaths related to malnutrition were documented in Haiti between January and April alone. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Official: 8 more die as Haiti prisons lack food, water

An official says at least eight inmates have died at an overcrowded prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago. That adds to dozens of similar deaths reported earlier this year as the … more

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO | 6/23/22

FILE - Alwande Ndlovu, stands where a neighbor's house once stood, after heavy rains caused flood damage in Umgababa, near Durban, South Africa, April 19, 2022. Commonwealth leaders are set to adopt the much-awaited “Living Lands Charter”, an action plan to address climate change, land degradation and biodiversity loss. Recent weather events and longer term climate trends, including heatwaves, extreme temperatures, drought, cyclones, floods and sea-level rise, afflict most of its member states. (AP Photo, File)

Commonwealth heads expected to endorse climate charter

Leaders of the Commonwealth's 54 nations are expected to call for increased momentum on climate action at a meeting in Rwanda this week, ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in the … more

By WANJOHI KABUKURU | 6/23/22

Jonathan Mpute ole Pasha, national coordinator of the Maa Unity Agenda group, is surrounded by tear gas thrown by police to break up a small demonstration of Maasai rights activists outside the Tanzanian high commission in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, June 17, 2022. Tanzania's government is accused of violently trying to evict Maasai herders from one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Tanzania's Masaai demand Indigenous rights in UN framework

Tanzania’s Maasai people, resisting government pressure to leave their ancestral homes in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, have presented their demands for Indigenous land rights to negotiators in … more

By WANJOHI KABUKURU | 6/23/22

Police set up cordons and search area around a suburb of Auckland following reports of multiple stabbings, in New Zealand, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Authorities say a man wounded some people in a stabbing rampage in a New Zealand city before bystanders brought him to the ground. (Michael Craig/New Zealand Herald via AP)

4 people wounded by man on stabbing rampage in New Zealand

Police say a man wounded four people in a stabbing rampage in a New Zealand city before bystanders brought him to the ground. Police District Commander Naila Hassan said the attack Thursday in … more

By NICK PERRY | 6/22/22