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King Philippe of Belgium, right, greets 100-year-old corporal Albert Kunyuku, the last surviving Congolese veteran of World War II during a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday June 8, 2022. King Philippe is on the second day of his six-day visit. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Belgian king starts Congo visit, gives award to WWII veteran

Belgium’s King Philippe has given an award to the last known surviving Congolese veteran of World War II. The Belgian king and queen are making a six-day visit to the former colony amid ongoing … more

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE | 6/8/22

Bola Tinubu, centre , pays a visit at the St Francis Catholic Church following a gunmen attacked in Owo, Nigeria, Monday, June 6, 2022. A former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, has been nominated to be the ruling party’s presidential candidate in next year’s presidential election. Bola Tinubu, widely referred to as the “godfather” of Lagos because of his influence in the southwestern state which he governed from 1999 to 2007, polled a majority of the votes on Wednesday at the convention of the All Progressives Congress party. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Lagos ex-governor wins Nigerian ruling party's nomination

A former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, has been nominated to be the ruling party’s presidential candidate in next year’s presidential election. Bola Tinubu is widely referred to as … more

By CHINEDU ASADU | 6/8/22

FILE - Saudi health worker, Wedad Modaifen collects a swab sample for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at drive-through testing center, at King Abdulaziz University in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally fell everywhere except the Middle East and Southeast Asia, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

WHO: COVID cases and deaths falling nearly everywhere

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally fell everywhere last week except the Middle East and Southeast Asia. That's according to the World Health Organization. In its latest … more

6/8/22

FILE - Ajmal Haqiqi, right, watches as Mahal Wak, center, practices modeling, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 3, 2017. The Taliban have detained a famous Afghan fashion model along with three colleagues, including Haqiqi, accusing them of disrespecting Islam and the Holy Quran. Haqiqi — known among Afghans for his fashion shows, You Tube clips, and modeling events — appeared handcuffed in videos posted to Twitter on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, by the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence, DCI. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Taliban arrest Afghan fashion model, say he 'insulted' Islam

The Taliban have detained a popular Afghan fashion model and three of his colleagues, accusing them of disrespecting Islam and the Quran, the Muslim holy book. Ajmal Haqiqi is known among Afghans for … more

By RAHIM FAIEZ | 6/8/22

FILE - A health worker takes sample from a man for COVID-19 test in Hanoi, Vietnam on Friday, Jan. 6, 2022. Vietnam’s health minister and the mayor of the capital Hanoi have been arrested as part of an expanding investigation into massive price gouging of COVID-19 tests, state media reported Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (AP Photo/ Hau Dinh, File)

Vietnam's health minister arrested over COVID test gouging

State media say Vietnam's health minister and the mayor of the capital Hanoi have been arrested in an investigation into massive price gouging of COVID-19 tests. An online news outlet says the … more

6/8/22

Migrants, many from Central American and Venezuela, walk along the Huehuetan highway in Chiapas state, Mexico, early Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The group left Tapachula on Monday, tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Migrant caravan on the move in southern Mexico

Several thousand migrants have started walking through southern Mexico, covering ground before the heat of the day — and while authorities show no signs yet of trying to stop them. The largest … more

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE and FERNANDA PESCE | 6/7/22

A victim of St. Francis Catholic Church attack receives treatment at St Louis Catholic Hospital in Owo, Nigeria, Monday, June 6, 2022. Lawmakers in southwestern Nigeria say more than 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives at a church. Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole with the Ondo State House of Assembly said the gunmen targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state on Sunday morning just as the worshippers gathered for the weekly Mass. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria church: 38 killed in attack during Sunday service

Thirty-eight persons have been confirmed dead after the attack on a church in southwestern Nigeria, according to the Catholic church in Ondo state where the incident happened. The church said the … more

By CHINEDU ASADU | 6/7/22

FILE - Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries arrives for a live TV show in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday Jan. 31, 2008. The trial with the suspects accused of killing Dutch investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries was scheduled to start in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008. De Vries, a renowned Dutch crime reporter was shot in a brazen attack in Amsterdam, and died Thursday July 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Trial resumes of suspects in slaying of Dutch crime reporter

A court is examining evidence and prosecutors are expected to make sentencing demands in the trial of two suspects in the fatal shooting of Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries. The journalist was … more

By PETER DEJONG | 6/7/22

FILE - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a ceremony marking Army Day at Army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, April 19, 2022. Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday, May 24, 2022 that creates stricter rules against environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest, such as fraud in timber licensing. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Biden, Bolsonaro to hold first meeting amid election worries

U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lead the two largest democracies in the Western Hemisphere, but they haven't met since Biden took office last year. They are supposed … more

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and CHRIS MEGERIAN | 6/7/22

A carriage is being lifted on the site of a train crash in Burgrain, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Saturday, June 4, 2022. Authorities say a train accident in the Alps in southern Germany on Friday left at least four people dead and many more injured. Police said the regional train headed for Munich appears to have derailed shortly after noon in Burgrain — just outside the resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, from where it had set off. Three of the double-deck carriages overturned at least partly, and people were pulled out of the windows to safety. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

German prosecutors probe 3 rail workers over fatal crash

German prosecutors say they are investigating three rail workers on suspicion of negligent homicide over a train crash last week that killed five people and injured dozens more. The double-deck … more

6/7/22

FILE - President Truman's envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor, left, has an audience with Pope Pius XII at Castelgandolfo near Rome, on Aug. 26, 1947. The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked quietly behind the scenes to save lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer’s “The Pope at War,” which comes out Tuesday, June 7, 2022 in the United States, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican worked hardest to save were Jews who had converted to Catholicism or were children of Catholic-Jewish “mixed marriages.” (AP Photo/Luigi Felici, File)

Vatican's Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope

The first scholarship is beginning to emerge about the World War II-era Pope Pius XII, two years after the Vatican opened its archives. For the Vatican, Pius worked quietly behind the scenes to save … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 6/7/22

Pilgrims walk in the Donana National Park on their way to the shrine of El Rocio in Almonte, Spain, on Friday June 3, 2022, during the annual pilgrimage in which hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin del Rocio converge in and around the shrine. After a two-year hiatus forced by the pandemic, tens of thousands of pilgrims – many of them outfitted in tiered flamenco dresses, crisp riding suits and wide-brimmed Cordoba hats – descended on the tiny Spanish village of El Rocío to take part in riotously colorful and ancient festival, la Romería del Rocío, or the Rocío virgin pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)

Spain's Rocío pilgrimage party returns after COVID hiatus

After a two-year hiatus forced by the pandemic, tens of thousands of pilgrims — many of them outfitted in tiered flamenco dresses, crisp riding suits and wide-brimmed Cordoba hats — descended on … more

By JOAN MATEU PARRA | 6/7/22

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman speaks to media after a meeting with South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (Jung Yeon-je /Pool Photo via AP)

US official vows 'forceful response' if N. Korea tests nuke

The U.S. deputy secretary of state warned of a forceful response if North Korea carries out its first nuclear test explosion in nearly five years. Wendy Sherman traveled Tuesday to Seoul to meet with … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 6/7/22

FILE - A portrait of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan and Turkish flags are seen on a building in the Turkish occupied area at the Turkish Cypriot breakaway north part of divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The president of ethnically divided Cyprus says he will lodge a complaint with the United Nations over Turkey’s new financial assistance deal with breakaway Turkish Cypriots. (AP Photo/Nedim Enginsoy, File)

Cyprus to UN: Turkey seeks full control of breakaway north

The president of ethnically divided Cyprus says he will lodge a complaint with the United Nations over Turkey’s new financial assistance deal with breakaway Turkish Cypriots. He claims the deal … more

6/6/22

Pastor Harry Knoesen, appears in the Magistrates court, in Middelburg, South Africa, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. A South African court has convicted a pastor of plotting to overthrow the government and to kill thousands of Black people in the country. Harry Johannes Knoesen, 61, a leader of the National Christian Resistance Movement, was on Monday found guilty of high treason, incitement to carry out violence, and recruiting people to commit attacks. (AP Photo/Leon Sadiki)

South African pastor found guilty of treason, racist plot

A South African court has convicted a pastor of plotting to overthrow the government and to kill thousands of Black people in the country. Harry Johannes Knoesen, 61, a leader of the National … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 6/6/22

FILE - A group of women's rights activists protest against Poland's strict anti-abortion law, outside the top constitutional court, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 26, 2022. The government of Poland, where a near-total abortion ban is in place, faced accusations Monday, June 6, 2022, of creating a “pregnancy register” as the country expands the amount of medical data being digitally saved on patients. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland, with near-total abortion ban, to record pregnancies

The right-wing government in Poland, where a near-total abortion ban is in place, now faces accusations it is creating a “pregnancy register.” Poland is expanding the amount of medical data being … more

By VANESSA GERA | 6/6/22

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. British health officials reported 73 more monkeypox cases on Monday, June 6, 2022, raising the total to more than 300 across the country. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

UK: 73 new monkeypox cases, biggest outbreak outside Africa

British health officials have reported another 73 cases of monkeypox. That raises the U.K. total to more than 300. The U.K. has the biggest identified outbreak of the disease beyond Africa, with the … more

By MARIA CHENG | 6/6/22

Spain honors Penélope Cruz for contribution to cinema

Penélope Cruz has won one of Spain’s top cinema awards for her contribution to Spanish film. The jury of the 2022 National Cinema award was unanimous in its decision to honor the Madrid-born star. … more

6/6/22

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi speaks during a news conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi at the Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo, on May 19, 2022. Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on June 3, 2022, paid a brief visit to Israel, which has long accused Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons and is opposed to any return to the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers.(AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

UN nuclear watchdog urges Iran to comply with monitoring

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has urged Iran to cooperate with his inspectors amid a standoff over its atomic program and a threat by Western nations to censure Tehran over its … more

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS | 6/6/22

FILE - FIFA president Sepp Blatter is greeted by UEFA President Michel Platini, right, after Blatter's re-election as president at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 29, 2015. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini enter a criminal court Wednesday charged with defrauding world soccer body FIFA. It's an 11-day trial of two men once the most powerful in the world's favorite sport. (Patrick B. Kraemer/Keystone via AP, File)

Blatter, Platini finally going to court in FIFA fraud trial

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini’s 11-day trial on charges of defrauding soccer governing body FIFA starts Wednesday. The case finally brings the epic downfall of soccer’s former world leaders … more

By GRAHAM DUNBAR | 6/6/22