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FILE - Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 19, 2022. The Palestinian Authority said Thursday, May 26, 2022, its investigation into the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh proves she was deliberately killed by Israeli forces. Israel is likely to reject the findings as biased and unfounded. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

UN names Palestinian media program for slain reporter

The United Nations says it is naming the annual training program for Palestinian broadcasters and journalists after Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead May 11 during an Israeli … more

5/31/22

UN condemns piracy in world's hotspot -- the Gulf of Guinea

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution strongly condemning piracy, armed robbery and hostage-taking in the Gulf of Guinea, the world’s top hotspot for attacks on shipping … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 5/31/22

Mexico agrees to review US workers' rights complaint

The Mexican government says it has agreed to review a labor complaint filed by the United States under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade pact. The complaint filed earlier this month says workers' … more

5/31/22

People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file image, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. North Korea launched three ballistic missiles toward the sea on Wednesday, its neighbors said, hours after President Joe Biden wrapped up his trip to Asia where he reaffirmed U.S. commitment to defend its allies in the face of the North's growing nuclear threat. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

US to seek new UN sanctions if North Korea holds nuke test

The United States says it will push for additional sanctionson North Korea if it conducts a new nuclear test explosion. U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials have said North Korea could soon … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 5/31/22

Ukraine's Oleksandr Zinchenko reacts, during a press conference, at Hampden Park, in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday May 31, 2022. Scotland will play Ukraine in a World Cup qualifier soccer match on Wednesday. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)

Ukraine star Zinchenko in tears ahead of World Cup playoff

Ukrainian soccer star Oleksandr Zinchenko couldn’t hold back the tears as he tried to explain what it means to represent his country’s national team at this moment, with a spot at the World Cup … more

5/31/22

Germany's Alexander Zverev celebrates as he defeats Spain's Carlos Alcaraz during their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Tuesday, May 31, 2022 in Paris. Zverev won 6-4-, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (9/7). (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Trevisan reaches 1st Grand Slam semifinal at French Open

Martina Trevisan has advanced to her first Grand Slam semifinal at the age of 28 by beating a hobbled Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3 at the French Open. Trevisan will next face either Coco Gauff … more

5/31/22

Russia's Navalny says he faces new criminal charges

Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is facing new accusations that could extend his current nine-year prison term. Navalny said on Instagram that an investigator visited him in prison … more

5/31/22

Lethal rocket strike in Sloviansk as Russia moves on Donbas

Blood smears the stairwell floor and the shards of glass strewn about while shrapnel pockmarks the walls. Outside, a crater between two apartment blocks marks the spot where the rocket hit in the … more

By ELENA BECATOROS | 5/31/22

UK Conservatives growing restive over Johnson's leadership

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it’s time for the government to “move on” after months of scandal. Some of his Conservative Party colleagues think it’s time he moved on instead. A … more

By JILL LAWLESS | 5/31/22

Workers are engaged in the construction of a coastal road in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. India’s economic growth, hit by pandemic curbs and price increases, slowed to 4.1% in the January-March quarter, according to figures released Tuesday by the government. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Hit by pandemic curbs, India's quarterly growth slows to 4%

India’s economic growth, hit by pandemic curbs and price increases, slowed to 4.1% in the January-March quarter, according to figures released Tuesday by the government. It was the slowest pace in … more

5/31/22

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida raises hand to speak at Budget Committee of the upper house of the Diet, Tuesday May 31, 2022 in Tokyo. Japan’s parliament on Tuesday enacted a 2.7 trillion yen ($21 billion) extra budget to tackle soaring fuel and food prices following Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan OKs $21B extra budget to tackle rising prices

Japan’s parliament has enacted a $21 billion extra budget to tackle soaring fuel and food prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The extra budget is for the current fiscal year that started … more

5/31/22

Serb president pledges EU course, hints Russia sanctions

Aleksandar Vucic has been sworn in for his second 5-yar term as Serbia’s president, pledging to keep the Balkan country on its European Union membership path and hinting that a new government might … more

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC | 5/31/22

China's foreign minister arrives in Tonga on Pacific tour

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Tonga on Tuesday as he continued his regional island-hopping tour a day after failing to ink an ambitious deal with 10 South Pacific nations. Wang fell … more

By NICK PERRY | 5/31/22

Erdogan discusses Turkey's Syria incursion plans with Putin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed Ankara’s planned military operation in northern Syria and the war in Ukraine with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. In recent days Erdogan has said … more

5/30/22

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. WHO's top monkeypox expert Dr. Rosamund Lewis said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

Monkeypox kills 9 in Congo; first death in Nigeria in 2022

Nigeria has recorded its first death from monkeypox in 2022 while Congo has confirmed nine deaths and 465 cases this year. The chief of the Sankuru health division in Congo said Monday that the … more

By CHINEDU ASADU and JEAN-YVES KAMALE | 5/30/22

Kozo Okamoto, 74, a member of the Japanese Red Army guerrilla group, who served 12 years in an Israeli prison for his part in the May 30, 1972 attack on Tel Aviv airport that killed 24 people, gives the victory sign to supporters as he arrives at a Palestinian cemetery to visit a memorial for four Japanese who died in support of Palestinians, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 30, 2022. The Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical Palestinian faction commemorated in Beirut Monday the 50th anniversary of an attack on Tel Aviv's airport in Israel that was carried out by members the Japanese Red Army guerrilla group. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Aging Japanese militant in Beirut marks 1972 Israel attack

An aging Japanese militant who spent more than a decade in an Israeli prison for his part in a deadly attack on the airport outside Tel Aviv showed up in Beirut at an event commemorating the 50th … more

By BASSEM MROUE | 5/30/22

Members of Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian protester near Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City as Israelis mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of the Old City during the 1967 Mideast war. Sunday, May 29, 2022. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital. But Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, see the march as a provocation. Last year, the parade helped trigger an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza militants. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli PM defends march marked by violence, racism

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has defended an annual march that celebrated Israel’s takeover of east Jerusalem and was marked by violence and anti-Palestinian racism. Authorities called up … more

By JOSEPH KRAUSS | 5/30/22

This undated photo provided by BFM TV shows reporter Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff. French news broadcaster BFM TV said the 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday May 30, 2022 in Ukraine, fatally hit by a shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation operation. (BFM TV via AP)

French 32-year-old journalist is killed in Ukraine

The French news broadcaster BFM TV says a 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday in Ukraine. It says the journalist was fatally hit by shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation … more

5/30/22

WHO: Monkeypox won't turn into pandemic, but many unknowns

The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns … more

By MARIA CHENG | 5/30/22

Cologne's police chief Falk Schnabel speaks at a news conference in Cologne, Germany, Monday, May 30, 2022. The public prosecutor's office and the police have informed about investigations against more than 70 suspects for sexual abuse of babies and small children. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)

Germany reports rise of child sex abuse, depiction of abuse

German police have recorded a significant increase of depictions of sexual abuse against children last year compared to the year before. The country’s top criminal police official said Monday that … more

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | 5/30/22