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Chinese President Xi Jinping is kicking off a three-country trip to Europe with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing’s growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry

Israel's main cable provider halts Al Jazeera broadcasts, citing government ban

Israel has closed its main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid for Gaza after Hamas militants attacked it

A teenager has surrendered to police over an attack on a candidate from the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz that has fueled concern about intimidation and violence in the run-up to next month’s election for the European Parliament

Israel has ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close

Israel’s Netanyahu says his Cabinet has voted to shut down Qatar-owned Al Jazeera offices over tensions with the channel

Russia has launched a barrage of drones on eastern Ukraine and claimed its troops took control of a village they had been targeting as Ukraine marks its third Easter at war

Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin starts another six-year term as president holding extraordinary power

Israel will start marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday evening

Panamanians are voting in an election that has been consumed by unfolding drama surrounding the country’s former president, even though he is not on the ballot

Millions of voters in England have voted in local elections, the last big test before a looming U.K. general election

King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling coronation at Westminster Abbey

Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo

Australian officials say a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife has been shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the west coast city of Perth

Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan’s postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully transforming the essence of Kabuki aesthetics into modern storytelling, has died

Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin have packed Moscow's landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter service

Several thousand Georgians have marked Orthodox Easter with a candlelight vigil outside Parliament in the capital, Tbilisi

A puppy who found itself stuck between two walls was rescued by a man and safely reunited with its mother.

At least 44 people who died in a horrific bus crash during Easter weekend in South Africa were laid to rest in Botswana on Saturday

The state prosecutor’s office says three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico's Baja California state are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip

3 bodies recovered in Baja California likely the missing Australian and American surfers, Mexican authorities say

Japan and India have decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants while he was speaking during a campaign fundraising event earlier in the week

Zelenskyy and his predecessor are on the list, wanted on unspecified charges.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has won a historic third term in office

Christian Orthodox worshippers in Jerusalem have thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in one of the most chaotic gatherings in the Christian calendar

A British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate

An Afghan diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and says she was the only woman in the country’s diplomatic service has resigned

A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party in next month’s European elections was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city

Pakistan's national weather center says the country has recorded its wettest April since 1961

Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behavior from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week

A Hamas delegation is in Cairo, Egyptian state media cites "noticeable progress"

A Chinese truck driver has been praised in local media for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, has romped to victory, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election

Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the devastation inflicted on the Ukranian village of Ocheretyne

South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension of U.N. food airdrops

The procession of “Epitaphios," symbolizing the bier that carried the body of Jesus to his grave, took place across Greece on Friday, which was Good Friday in the Orthodox Christian calendar. The solemn processions, with the flower-adorned biers followed by the clergy and the faithful, are often spectacular, especially in places where bier processions from each parish converge into a central square. The city of Nafpaktos, in western Greece, is one such city. Once part of the Byzantine Empire, it was later hotly contested between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetians, who called the town Lepanto. One of the largest ever naval battles, the Battle of Lepanto, involving nearly 450 ships, was fought in the nearby Gulf of Patras on Oct. 7, 1571. A coalition of Western states defeated the Ottoman fleet. Partly in commemoration of that event, local fishermen put their own stamp on the Good Friday bier procession by lighting fires on the battlements of the Venetian-built fortifications. The...

Tanzania's meteorology department says Cyclone Hidaya has significantly weakened as it approaches Tanzania’s coastline

South and Southeast Asian countries have been coping with a weekslong heat wave rendering record high temperatures that have posed a severe health risk. Umbrellas to shield against blazing sunlight are popular, air-conditioned malls are serving as urban oases, and schools in Cambodia have been cutting back their hours. In the Philippines, India and Bangladesh, officials have told students to stay home and do their lessons remotely. In April, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned that the sweltering weather could put millions of children’s lives at risk and asked caregivers to take extra precautions. A UNICEF statement said that in the Asia-Pacific region, “around 243 million children are exposed to hotter and longer heatwaves, putting them at risk of a multitude of heat-related illnesses, and even death.” The advice everywhere for everyone? Avoid outdoor activities and drink plenty of water. Meteorologists in Cambodia say the country is facing its hottest temperatures in 170...

Mexican officials say 3 bodies found in Baja California area where 2 Australians and American went missing

Officials say 14 people are dead after a flood and landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island

Mexican authorities say three bodies have been recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend

The new ABC News Ipsos poll reveals how Americans feel about U.S. policy toward Israel.

A military court in eastern Congo has sentenced eight soldiers to death for cowardice and other crimes linked to fleeing the battlefield, as the government struggles to contain violence and attacks in the mineral-rich area where many armed groups operate

Officials say at least 13 people died in northern Haiti following two days of heavy rains

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has welcomed Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on his first visit to the country, with the two meeting in Brasilia and the South American leader pushing his counterpart to buy his beef

Canadian police say they arrested three suspects in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India, and are investigating possible ties between the detainees and the Indian government

Canadian police say they have made three arrests in the June 2023 slaying of a Sikh separatist in suburban Vancouver

The proposed truce would free some of the remaining hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a pause in the fighting and Palestinian prisoners are also expected to be released as part of the deal.

The families of four Americans charged in Turks and Caicos for carrying ammunition continued to claim on Thursday that their loved ones were “unjustly detained” on the island awaiting legal proceedings

Turkish state-run news agency says the son of Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan has died two months after he was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in the Turkish capital, Ankara