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FILE - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already facing calls to step down over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars in U.S. currency that was hidden inside furniture at his game farm. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht, File)

EXPLAINER: The scandal engulfing South Africa's president

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already facing calls to step down over claims that he tried to cover up the theft of millions of dollars in U.S. currency … more

By GERALD IMRAY | 6/17/22

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Bara Lahlouh, 24, at his family home, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Friday, June 17, 2022. Israeli forces shot dead Lahlouh and another two Palestinians and wounded eight others early Friday during a military operation in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The military said the troops traded fire with militants. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinians say 3 killed during Israeli raid in West Bank

The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians and wounded eight others during a military operation in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin. The military says the … more

6/17/22

FILE - Israeli police confront with mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, Friday, May 13, 2022. An Israeli police investigation reveals that police engaged in misconduct during the funeral of Abu Akleh. Those who supervised the event will not face serious punishment, according to an Israeli daily newspaper report published on Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Levin, File)

Report: Israeli police clear officers at reporter's funeral

An Israeli newspaper says that a police investigation has found that officers engaged in misconduct during the funeral of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last month. But the Haaretz … more

By EMILY ROSE | 6/16/22

FILES - This combination of photos shows Colombian presidential candidates: Gustavo Petro, left, on June 17, 2018; and Rodolfo Hernandez, on June 2, 2022, in Bogota, Colombia. Polls show Petro and Hernandez, both former mayors, practically tied since advancing to the June 19th presidential runoff following the first-round election in which they beat four other candidates. (AP Photos/Martin Mejia, Fernando Vergara, Files)

Colombia faces presidential choice between leftist, populist

Colombians can count on one thing: The country’s presidential politics will drastically change after Sunday’s runoff election. The contest in the South American country lacks a front-runner and … more

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and ASTRID SUAREZ | 6/16/22

FILE - People walk on the road near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as they flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu, Tuesday May 24, 2022. Decades-old tensions between Rwanda, one of Africa's most effective militaries, and Congo, one of its largest and most troubled countries, have spiked anew along their shared border a few hours' drive from Rwanda's capital, Kigali. Alarm has reached the point where Kenya's president is urging the immediate deployment of a newly created regional force to eastern Congo to keep the peace. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

EXPLAINER: Why Rwanda and Congo are sliding toward war again

The threat of war with neighboring Congo is simmering under the tidy surface of Rwanda’s capital as the East African nation hosts the British prime minister and other world leaders next week for … more

By CARA ANNA | 6/16/22

File - The exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. A Dutch intelligence agency said Thursday, June 16, 2022 that it prevented a Russian spy using a false Brazilian identity from working as an intern at the International Criminal Court, which is investigating allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch agency prevented Russian spy from working at ICC

A Dutch intelligence agency says it prevented a Russian spy using a false Brazilian identity from working as an intern at the International Criminal Court, which is investigating allegations of … more

By MIKE CORDER | 6/16/22

U.S. Secretary for Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, left, shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during opening remarks prior to a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 16, 2022. NATO defense ministers on Thursday will discuss beefing up weapons supplies to Ukraine, and Sweden and Finland's applications to join the transatlantic military alliance. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

NATO ministers discuss boosting eastern flank forces

NATO defense ministers are discussing ways to bolster forces and deterrence along the military alliance’s eastern borders to dissuade Russia from planning further aggression. The war by the Kremlin … more

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN | 6/16/22

People wearing face masks stand in line as they wait for mass COVID-19 tests at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

WHO: COVID-19 deaths rise, reversing a 5-week decline

After five weeks of declining coronavirus deaths, the number of fatalities reported globally increased by 4% last week, according to the World Health Organization. In its weekly assessment of the … more

6/16/22

FILE - The Rwandan capital of Kigali is seen from one of the overlooking hills on April 6, 2014. Expectations are high in Rwanda as the East African nation prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in June 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

As Rwanda hosts Commonwealth summit, bloc's role questioned

Expectations are high in Rwanda as the East African nation prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit. The meeting of world leaders from June 20 to 25 will highlight the legacy of a … more

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA | 6/16/22

Demonstrators walk towards the border with Rwanda, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday June 15, 2022. Congo’s military is accusing Rwanda of “no less than an invasion” after a rebel group captured a key town in eastern Congo. The military confirmed late Monday that Bunagana had fallen into rebel hands earlier in the morning. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo official: Rwanda will have war if it wants war

A spokesman for a top military official in eastern Congo said Wednesday that if Rwanda “wants war, it will have war." The comments by Gen. Sylvain Ekenge came as thousands of protesters took to the … more

By JUSTIN KABUMBA | 6/15/22

This May 2022 handout photo released by Operation Underground Railroad shows Hidu, an electronics detection dog, trained to sniff out a certain chemical used in the manufacture of small memory devices like flash drives, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The anti-sex-trafficking group loaned Hidu to help Mexico City prosecutors search the apartment of a suspected Dutch child pornography promotor arrested in early June. Hidu sniffed out a hidden cell phone and hard drives that authorities said were filled with child porn images. (Operation Underground Railroad via AP)

Electronic-sniffing dog helps in pedophilia arrest in Mexico

An unusual alliance of international activist groups, Mexican prosecutors and a dog trained to sniff out memory devices joined forces this month to catch a high-profile suspected pedophile in Mexico … more

By MARK STEVENSON | 6/15/22

Pope Francis arrives to his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope cracks down on new Catholic religious start-ups

Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in and regulate new religious groups in the Catholic Church. Francis is taking action after the proliferation of these groups in recent decades led to … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 6/15/22

FILE - Amal el-Halabi holds her grandson Fares while her grandson Amro, 7, holds a picture of his father Mohammed el-Halabi, Gaza director of the international charity World Vision, who is detained and accused by Israeli security of diverting sums to Hamas that exceed its total budget, at his family house in Gaza City, Aug. 8, 2016. The Israeli district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba found Mohammed el-Halabi guilty of several terrorism charges on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. He has not yet been sentenced. Arabic on the picture reads, " the man of humanity." (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Israeli court finds Gaza aid worker guilty on terror charges

An Israeli court has found a Gaza aid worker guilty of several terrorism charges. Mohammed el-Halabi, who was the Gaza director for the Christian charity World Vision from 2014 until his arrest in … more

6/15/22

Firefighters arrive at a camp set up by Indigenous people to search for Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The search for Pereira and Phillips, who disappeared in a remote area of Brazil's Amazon continues following the discovery of a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged in a river. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Brazil police arrest 2nd suspect for Amazon's missing pair

Brazil’s federal police say they have arrested a second suspect in connection with the disapperance of an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a remote area of the Amazon. The suspect is a … more

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE | 6/14/22

This image provided by GHGSat shows methane emissions observed and measured with the company's satellite at the Raspadskaya mine in the west Siberian region of Kemerovo, on Jan. 14. The private company uses satellites to spot sources of methane around the globe and detected one of the largest releases of the potent greenhouse gas ever seen coming from the coal mine. (GHGSat via AP)

Satellite spots huge burst of methane from Russian coal mine

A private company that uses satellites to find sources of methane emissions around the globe said Wednesday that it detected one of the largest releases of the potent greenhouse gas ever seen, coming … more

By FRANK JORDANS | 6/14/22

This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows a rocket preparing to be erected at a launch pad at Imam Khomeini Space Center southeast of Semnan, Iran on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Iran appeared to be readying for a space launch Tuesday as satellite images showed a rocket on a rural desert launch pad, just as tensions remain high over Tehran's nuclear program. The images from Maxar Technologies showed a launch pad at Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran’s rural Semnan province, the site of frequent recent failed attempts to put a satellite into orbit. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Satellite images suggest Iran preparing for rocket launch

Iran appears to be readying for a space launch as satellite images showed a rocket on a rural desert launch pad, just as tensions remain high over Tehran’s nuclear program. The images Tuesday from … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 6/14/22

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido shows an image of a member of the ruling party that he claims was one of the persons that attacked him last Saturday, during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan opposition to file complaint for attack on leader

The Venezuelan opposition group backed by the United States will file a formal complaint with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the physical attack its leader suffered over the weekend … more

By REGINA GARCIA CANO | 6/14/22

FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears on a video link from prison provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service at Moscow City Court, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Allies of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny say the Kremlin critic is missing from the prison where he has been serving his time. Most likely he is being transferred to another prison, his close associates say, but in Russia prison transfers take days, if not weeks, and are shrouded in secrecy, prompting concerns about Navalny's safety. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Kremlin critic Navalny moved, supporters don't know where

Allies of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny say the Kremlin critic is missing from the prison where he has been serving his time. Most likely he is being transferred to another prison, … more

6/14/22

Danish-Canadian deal ends 49-year-old feud over Arctic isle

A decades-old dispute between Denmark and Canada over a tiny, barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic has come to an end. A border will be drawn across the 1.3 square-kilometer (half-square-mile) … more

6/14/22

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)

WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency

The World Health Organization will convene its emergency committee to determine if the monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread beyond Africa warrants being declared a global health emergency. … more

By JAMEY KEATEN | 6/14/22