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FILE - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink speaks in Taguig, Philippines on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. On Saturday, June 22, 2024, the senior U.S. diplomat held talks in Vietnam and said that the trust between the two countries was at an “all time high,” just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin's state visit to Hanoi. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
A U.S. envoy visits Hanoi days after Putin, saying US-Vietnam trust is at 'all-time high'
A senior U.S. diplomat has held talks in Vietnam and said that the trust between the two countries is at an “all-time high,” just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to … more
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FILE - Israeli forces remove a body of a man killed during a military operation in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, Thursday, June 13, 2024. An Israeli national was found shot dead in a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank Saturday morning, Israel's army said, as violence surges in the occupied territory. Violence has flared in the the West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last October. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
Israeli national found dead after being shot in West Bank Palestinian town
The Israeli army says a man was shot dead in a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank on Saturday morning, while deadly strikes rocked northern Gaza. The army said the Israeli national was … more
The bodies of some of the 64 migrants missing in the Mediterranean Sea after their ship wrecked off Italy's southern coast are disembarked at the Italian southern port-city of Roccella Ionica, early Wednesday, June 19, 2024. U.N. agencies said the boat that wrecked off Calabria had set off from Turkey eight days earlier and caught fire and overturned. Eleven people were rescued Monday, but one died soon after they were brought to land. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro)
Italian coast guard recovers 14 more bodies of shipwreck victims off Calabria, dozens still missing
The Italian coast guard has recovered 14 more bodies from last week's shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 34 the number of known victims from the sinking. … more
An F-18 fighter aircraft sits in the hanger of the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, anchored in Busan Naval Base in Busan, South Korea Saturday, June 22, 2024. (Song Kyung-Seok/Pool Photo via AP)
US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as a show of force against nuclear-armed North Korea
A nuclear-powered United States aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea ahead of a three-way exercise involving South Korean and Japanese forces. The countries are stepping up their military training … more
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FILE - South Africans gather ahead of the inauguration of South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa as President at the Union Buildings South Lawns in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 19, 2024. In a country where racial segregation was once brutally enforced, South Africa's new coalition government has brought a Black president and a white opposition leader together in what is on the face of it a picture of unity. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
South Africa's new government brings Black and white together. It's also reviving racial tensions
South Africa’s new coalition government has brought a Black president and a white opposition leader together in an image of unity. But the power-sharing agreement between the African National … more
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A relative stands outside the home where two girls died when their home was buried in a landslide, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, June 21, 2024. The torrential rains hitting El Salvador caused more deaths on Friday. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador death toll rises to 19 as heavy rains continue
The death toll from torrential rains and landslides in El Salvador has risen to 19. The number includes six victims from Friday when two girls and four adults died after being buried in their homes. … more
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FILE - Palestinians loot a humanitarian aid truck as it crossed into the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. A persistent breakdown in law and order is rendering an aid route in south Gaza unusable, the UN and NGOs say, days after Israel's military said it would pause combat there to help aid reach desperate Palestinians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)
Israeli strikes on tent camps near Rafah kill at least 25 and wound 50, Gaza health officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50, … more
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FILE - A man pours cold water onto his head to cool off on a sweltering hot day in the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon, July 16, 2023. As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.
When dangerous heat waves strike, what happens inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. Raising a person's ordinary core temperature by just 7 degrees … more
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A man a public fountain before sunset in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, June 20, 2024 as temperatures exceeded 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit). The national weather forecaster issued a orange warning for western and southern Romania where temperatures are expected to reach 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) in the coming days. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Balkan countries swelter in early summer heat wave with people warned to take extra care
Authorities in Western Balkan countries are warning citizens to be cautious, drink water and avoid sunshine as an early heat wave this summer gripped the region, sending temperatures soaring to … more
The River Thames is one of Britain's many waterways contaminated with sewage. The number of untreated sewage discharges last year set a record with 464,000 spills that occurred for 3.6 million hours, double the length of the year before, according to the Environment Agency. (AP Video by Brian Melley)
Bather, beware: British beaches and rivers have a sewage problem. It has seeped into election talk
Britain has become notorious as a place where a casual swim could lead to an extended visit to the toilet, if not the hospital. A torrent of news on dirty water has spilled over into next month’s … more
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FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, drives a car with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sitting in front passenger seat at a garden of the Kumsusan State Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, June 19, 2024. China appears to be keeping its distance as Russia and North Korea move closer to each other with a new defense pact that could tilt the balance of power between the three authoritarian states. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
Russia-North Korea pact could dent China's influence, but Beijing still holds sway over both
China appears to be keeping its distance as Russia and North Korea move closer to each other with a new defense pact that could tilt the balance of power among the three authoritarian states. Experts … more
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A masked protester shouts to his colleagues as they block a street with burning tires as part of the national strike by the construction union, SUNTRACS, in Panama City, Thursday, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
June 14-20, 2024 People protested during a general strike in Panama, Muslim pilgrims gathered in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea and Vietnam. Kurdish … more
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FILE - People march through downtown Amarillo to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas. Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a nationwide right to abortion, travel and pills have become big parts of the issue.(AP Photo/Justin Rex, File)
Here’s the landscape 2 years after the Supreme Court overturned a national right to abortion
Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion access is playing out in elections and the courts. The 2022 ruling has opened the door for implementing bans in most … more
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FILE - A North Korean military guard post, top, and a South Korean post, bottom, are seen from Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. South Korea’s military said Friday, June 21, 2024, that it again fired warnings shots to repel North Korean soldiers who temporarily crossed the rivals’ land border on Thursday for the third time this month.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
South Korean troops fire to repel North soldiers' 3rd border incursion. Activists fly more leaflets
South Korea’s military says it fired warning shots for the third time this month to repel North Korean soldiers who temporarily crossed the rivals’ land border. The announcement Friday came as an … more
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FILE - Trucks, carrying humanitarian supplies for the Gaza Strip, wait in line on the Egyptian side, at the Kerem Shalom Crossing border as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, April 25, 2024. A persistent breakdown in law and order is rendering an aid route in south Gaza unusable, the UN and NGOs say, days after Israel's military said it would pause combat there to help aid reach desperate Palestinians. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
Israel's pledge to guard an aid route into Gaza falls flat as lawlessness blocks distribution
Israel has established a corridor for the delivery of aid into southern Gaza but a declared ‘tactical pause’ in its war with Hamas has brought little relief to desperate Palestinians. The United … more
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FILE - Framed images of Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales, left, and Joaquin Cesar Mora Salazar are displayed on an altar during a memorial Mass in Mexico City, June 21, 2022. Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and shot the two Jesuit priests to death on June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
Peace must be a priority, say Catholic leaders on anniversary of priests' violent deaths in Mexico
Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. Among other … more
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Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat this week. Meteorologists are talking about heat waves and heat domes. They say it’s helpful to think of a heat dome as what’s happening in the atmosphere. And a heat wave is how it affects people on the ground.
Millions sweating it out as heat wave nears peak from Midwest to Maine
A heat wave is moving closer to the breaking point from the Midwest to New England as millions of people sweat it out for another day. The National Weather Service says the heat will peak Thursday in … more
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The trial of a woman with dual US-Russian citizenship on charges of treason opened on Thursday in Yekaterinburg, Russia, amid rising tensions between Washington and Moscow.
Treason trial of Russian American woman opens as tensions rise between Washington and Moscow
The trial of a Russian American dual citizen whom Russia accuses of treason has opened as tensions rise between Washington and Moscow. The trial began behind closed doors on Thursday in … more
Two climate protesters were arrested after orange paint was sprayed on the ancient Stonehenge monument in southern England. The incident came just a day before thousands were expected to gather at the 4,500-year-old stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice — the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice.
Stonehenge monuments that have stood for thousands of years appear unscathed after climate protesters were arrested for spraying orange paint on them. Nick Merriman, the chief executive of English … more
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An Iberian lynx walks with a rabbit in its mouth after having captured it in the surroundings of the Doñana National Park, in Aznalcazar, Spain on Thursday, April 5, 2019. Things are looking up for the Iberian lynx. Just over two decades ago, the pointy-eared wild cat was on the brink of extinction, but as of Thursday, June 20, 2024, the International Union for Conservation of Nature says it’s no longer an endangered species. (AP Photo/Antonio Pizarro)
The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction, thanks to conservation efforts
Things are looking up for the Iberian lynx. Just over two decades ago, the pointy-eared wild cat was on the brink of extinction, but as of Thursday the International Union for Conservation of Nature … more
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