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Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second right, walk to a Joint Ministerial Meeting of the GCC-U.S. Strategic Partnership to discuss the humanitarian crises faced in Gaza, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday April 29, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

Blinken says Israel still must do more to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip.

Mourners carry the bodies of members of the Abu Taha family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral at Al-Salam cemetery, east of Rafah, Gaza Strip. Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)

Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah ‘with or without a deal’ as cease-fire talks with Hamas continue

FILE - Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Israeli officials sound increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court could issue arrest warrants for the country's leaders more than six months into the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

What is the International Criminal Court and why it has Israeli officials worried

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)

The Latest | Netanyahu vows to launch an offensive in Rafah

A building of the Odessa Law Academy is on fire after a Russian missile attack in Odessa, Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Victor Sajenko)

NATO chief chides members as Ukraine’s allies say slow arms deliveries have helped Russia

ELECTION WATCH 2024

A voter casts her ballot in Togo's regional elections in the capital Lome, Monday April 29, 2024. Togolese voters headed to the polls on Monday to vote in the country's parliamentary elections, which will test support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap future presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the president instead. (AP Photo/Erick Kaglan}

Togo votes in parliamentary election testing support for proposal that could keep dynasty in power

People in Togo have voted in parliamentary elections that tested support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the president.

FILE - Pemex oil workers set the drill on the Centenario deep-water drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, Nov. 22, 2013. The 1938 nationalization of Mexico's oil sector from U.S. and British companies is a point of pride for millions of Mexicans.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Mexico proudly controls its energy but could find it hard to reach its climate goals

Mexico’s taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year.

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Kishida acknowledged Tuesday that his governing party's major defeat in the weekend's by-elections was due to a slush fund scandal, but said he would not step down or replace party executives to take responsibility. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s PM Kishida denies he will step down over his party’s loss in special elections

Argentines protest over a tax bill while it is discussed in Congress

Protesters converged on downtown Buenos Aires on Monday as Argentina’s lower house began to debate a dramatically downsized version of President Javier Milei’s economic overhaul bill. In his drive to reach zero deficit, Milei is slashing spending across Argentina — shuttering ministries, defunding cultural centers, laying off state workers and cutting subsidies. Monday’s protest comes days after hundreds of thousands of Argentines demanded increased funding for the country’s public universities, in an outpouring of anger at Milei’s harsh austerity measures. (AP Video/Victor R. Caivano) (April 30)

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Britain’s Duchess Sophie makes a surprise visit to Ukraine

Fire rips through Odesa building after Russian missile strike

Europe

FILE - Judge Nawaf Salam, third right, speaks at the start of a two days hearing at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. The United Nations’ top court is set to rule on a request by Nicaragua for judges to order Germany to halt military aid to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, File)

The top UN court is set to rule on Nicaragua’s request for Germany to halt aid to Israel

Asia

Virologist Zhang Yongzhen speaks at a coffeeshop in Shanghai, China on Dec. 13, 2020. Zhang, the first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Zhang wrote in an online post on Monday, April 29, 2024, that he and his team were suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first published the sequence in early January 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab

Latin America

FILE - Police attempt to break into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024, following Mexico's granting of asylum to former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought refuge there. Police later forcibly broke into the embassy through another entrance. Mexico is taking Ecuador to the United Nations' top court on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming into the Mexican embassy in Quito and arresting former Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been holed up there seeking asylum in Mexico. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top UN court over the storming of the Mexican Embassy

Middle East

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the USNS Roy P. Benavidez, center, in the Mediterranean Sea off shore from the Gaza Strip on Monday, April 29, 2024. A U.S. Navy ship involved in the American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip is off shore from the enclave, slowly building out a floating platform for the operation, satellite photos analyzed Monday by The Associated Press show. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

US military ships are working to build a pier for Gaza aid. It’s going to cost at least $320 million

Africa

People try to clear the area after a dam burst, in Kamuchiri Village Mai Mahiu, Nakuru County, Kenya, Monday, April 29, 2024. Police in Kenya say at least 40 people have died after a dam collapsed in the country's west. (AP Photo)

At least 45 people die in western Kenya as floodwaters sweep away houses and cars

U.S. News

Students with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment block the entrance of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after taking over it on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in New York. Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine called for mobilization close to midnight. Students have been occupying part of campus since April 17, calling for the university to divest from institutions that have ties to Israel. (Marco Postigo Storel via AP)

Protesters take over Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in escalation of anti-war demonstrations

Abu Dhabi-backed fund pulls out of deal to take over UK’s Telegraph newspaper group

Britain’s Telegraph newspaper group is back up for sale after a takeover bid by a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium collapsed.

FILE - A police car on fire as riot police prepare to stop protesters in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with deadly unrest that gripped the country in 2022, Kazakh news media reported Tuesday April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov, File)

Kazakhstan arrests ex-interior minister in connection with unrest that left 238 dead

Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with deadly unrest that gripped the country in 2022, Kazakh news media reported Tuesday.

FILE - In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodian soldiers' relatives gather for the funeral procession to all who died during an ammunition explosion in an army base in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia, on April 28, 2024. A huge explosion in southwestern Cambodia over the weekend that killed 20 soldiers at an army base appears to have been an accident caused by mishandling of ammunition by troops, a senior military official said Tuesday, April 30. (AKP via AP, File)

Explosion in Cambodia that killed 20 at an army base was likely caused by mishandling of ammunition

A senior military official in Cambodia says the huge explosion over the weekend that killed 20 soldiers at an army base in the country’s southwest appears to have been an accident caused by mishandling of ammunition by troops.

FILE - Aleksandar Vulin, former director of Serbia's intelligence agency attends a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sept. 8, 2021. Serbia's new government will include a former intelligence chief, Aleksandar Vulin who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States, the prime minister - designate Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday April 30, 2024. The inclusion of Vulin into the new government suggests further shift toward Russia despite Serbia's proclaimed pro-EU path. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Serbia’s new government to include US-sanctioned ex-intelligence chief with close ties to Russia

Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States.

FILE - A multicolor 10 Polish Zloty coin marking Poland entering the European Union is presented by the National Bank of Poland in Warsaw, on April 14, 2004. The finance minister in Poland’s pro-European Union government says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency. The finance minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland joining the eurozone, the currency union of 20 EU members, is not justified at this time. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)

Poland is still not ready to adopt the euro, its finance minister says

Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency.

China says rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah made ‘encouraging progress’ in talks in Beijing

China’s Foreign Ministry says rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah made “encouraging progress” in recent talks in China’s capital on promoting reconciliation.

This image shows the front page of the March 19, 1938, edition of The El Paso Times with an AP story, "Mexico Seizes U.S., British Oil Interests." Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in 1938, in a move that's taught starting in first grade today and celebrated each year as a great patriotic victory. (The El Paso Times via AP)

AP WAS THERE: Mexico’s 1938 seizure of the oil sector from US companies

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught to schoolchildren and celebrated as a great patriotic victory.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during an event titled "Microsoft Build: AI Day" in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia — the single largest investment in Microsoft's 29-year history in the country — Nadella said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia

Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia — the single largest investment in Microsoft’s 29-year history in the country.

People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Tokyo. Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, as investors kept their eyes on potentially market-moving reports expected later this week.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Stock market today: Global shares mostly rise to start a week full of earnings, Fed meeting

Global shares are trading mostly higher as investors keep their eyes on potentially market-moving reports expected later this week.

FILE - Ashley Judd speaks during an event on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, spoke out Monday, April 29, on the right of women and girls to control their own bodies and be free from male violence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Ashley Judd speaks out on the right of women to control their bodies and be free from male violence

Actor Ashley Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, is speaking out on the right of women and girls to control their own bodies and be free from male violence.

People pass by a Samsung Gangnam store in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies drives a rebound in the markets for computer memory chips. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Samsung reports a 10-fold increase in profit as AI drives rebound in memory chip markets

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies drives a rebound in the markets for computer memory chips.

A Colombian army helicopter has crashed in a rural area of the country’s north, killing 9 soldiers

Nine members of Colombia’s military lost their lives when their helicopter crashed in a rural area of northern Colombia.

Luxury jewelry maker Cartier doesn’t give stuff away, but they pretty much did for one man in Mexico

Luxury jewelry maker Cartier isn’t known for giving stuff away, but in the case of one Mexican man, they pretty much did.

FILE - Two horses on the loose bolt through the streets of London, Wednesday April 24, 2024. One of the horses that broke away from their trainers and galloped through the streets of London last week is expected to make a full recovery while another remains under observation, the British Army said Monday. Quaker, a black horse, has shown "significant improvement'' on the way to what is expected to be a complete recovery, the army said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Vida, a gray, remains under "close and careful'' veterinary observation for his injuries. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP, File)

1 horse remains under observation and another is expected to recover fully after London rampage

Britain’s military says one of the horses that galloped through the streets of London last week is expected to make a full recovery while another remains under observation following its injuries.

IMF approves immediate release of final $1.1 billion tranche of $3 billion bailout to Pakistan

The IMF says it will immediately release the final $1.1 billion tranche of a $3 billion bailout to Pakistan.

FILE - The Chinese and the Olympic flag wave during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, file)

Chinese doping on their mind, US athletes send letter to America’s drug czar asking for answers

Two American athlete groups sent a letter to the top U.S. government anti-doping official calling for a “truly independent” investigation of the case that led to 23 Chinese swimmers not being sanctioned despite testing positive for a banned heart medication.

FILE - In this undated file photo made available Sept. 25, 2011, Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya. Leaked photographs of Hannibal Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns. Libyan authorities are demanding that Lebanon improves living conditions for Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)

Libya demands improvements after leaked photos show tiny cell of Moammar Gadhafi’s son in Beirut

Leaked photographs of the son of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns.

Belarus labels German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle ‘extremist,’ bans activities in the country

The Belarusian service of German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle has been declared an “extremist” organization by Belarusian authorities and its activities are being banned in the country.

President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, before departing on a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador discuss migration in latest call

President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke on Sunday about cooperating on migration policy.

From left, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, Tanaiste Micheal Martin, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Lord Caine arrive for the British-Irish intergovernmental Conference presser, at 100 Parliament Street, in London, Monday April 29, 2024. (Yui Mok/Pool via AP)

British and Irish officials meet as tensions rise over what to do with asylum seekers

British and Irish officials have met as tensions rise over the movement of asylum seekers from the U.K. to neighboring Ireland and Ireland’s proposal to send them back.

FILE - Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica, left, and his wife Lucia Topolansky enter La Moneda presidential palace for a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the military coup that toppled the government of late President Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 11, 2023. Mujica announced on April 29, 2024, that he has esophageal cancer after a tumor was detected during a medical check-up. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Iconic former Uruguayan President José Mujica is diagnosed with esophageal cancer

José Mujica, the former president of Uruguay known for his bold socially liberal agenda, says he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

50 migrants reported missing and 9 rescued after their boat overturns off Spanish Atlantic island

Spanish news reports say about 50 migrants are missing after their boat overturned in the Atlantic Ocean, some 100 kilometers south of Spanish Canary Island of El Hierro.

First United Methodist Church congregants pray for members attending the United Methodist General Conference, including Tracy Merrick, left, a delegate representing Western Pennsylvania, The Rev. Anais Hussian, a reserve delegate, and Joshua Popson, who is advocating for LGBTQ inclusion with the Love Your Neighbor Coalition, Sunday, April 14, 2024, in Pittsburgh. The 11-day conference is the denomination's first legislative gathering since a special session in 2019. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

United Methodists prepare for votes on lifting LGBTQ bans and other issues at General Conference

United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of a legislative gathering that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.

Students demonstrate outside La Sorbonne university, Monday, April 29, 2024 in Paris. About 100 Pro-Palestinian students demonstrate near the Sorbonne university in Paris. The demonstration came on the heels of protests last week at another Paris-region school, Sciences Po. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French police remove pro-Palestinian students from the courtyard of Sorbonne university in Paris

French police have removed dozens of students from the Sorbonne university after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the main courtyard of the elite institution in Paris.

FILE - A Finnair plane lands at the Helsinki International Airport in Vantaa, Finland, Monday April 19, 2010. Finland’s national carrier Finnair said Monday, April 29, 2024, it is suspending flights to Estonia’s second largest city for a month after two incidents of GPS disruptions last week prevented the company’s planes from landing in Tartu and had to return to Helsinki. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP, File)

Finnish carrier suspends Estonia flights after GPS interference prevents 2 landings

Finland’s national carrier Finnair is temporarily suspending flights to Estonia’s second largest city for a month after two of its planes were prevented from landing in Tartu last week because of GPS disruptions.

UN asks South Sudan to remove new taxes that led to a pause in food airdrops

The United Nations has urged South Sudan to remove newly imposed taxes and charges that led to the suspension of U.N. food airdrops for thousands of people who depend on outside aid.

FILE - Kurdish forces patrol al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group in Hasakeh province, Syria, on April 19, 2023. Iraq has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Iraq repatriates nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp

Iraqi and Syrian officials say Baghdad has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria.

Flowers and a small Ukrainian flag are laid at a shopping center in Murnau, Germany, Sunday, April 28, 2024. Police say two Ukrainian men have been stabbed to death in southern Germany and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings. German news agency dpa reported Sunday that the two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed on the premises of a shopping center in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. (Constanze Wilz/dpa via AP)

2 Ukrainians were stabbed in Germany. Prosecutors are examining a possible political motive

The public prosecutor general’s office in Munich has taken over the investigation into the stabbing deaths of two Ukrainian men in southern Germany because of a possible political motivation for the crime.

A vendor prepares his umbrella as hot days continue in Manila, Philippines on Monday, April 29, 2024. Millions of students in all public schools across the Philippines were ordered to stay home Monday after authorities cancelled in-person classes for two days as an emergency step due to the scorching heat and a public transport strike. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine students are told to stay home as Southeast Asia swelters in prolonged heat wave

Southeast Asia is coping with a weekslong heat wave as record-high temperatures have led to school closings in several countries and urgent health warnings throughout the region.

FILE -Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shake hands at the end of joint news conference, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Turkey has told its NATO allies that Ankara will back the Netherlands’ outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s candidacy for the military alliance’s secretary general position, a senior Turkish official said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Turkey says it backs outgoing Dutch prime minister Rutte’s candidacy for NATO chief

A senior Turkish official says Ankara will back the outgoing Dutch prime minister’s candidacy for the position of NATO secretary general.