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Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes a victory sign as he registers his name as a candidate for the June 28 presidential election at the Interior Ministry, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 2, 2024. Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country's top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation's president. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election
Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a … more
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FILE - In this photo provided by Jeonbuk Fire Headquarters, balloons with trash presumably sent by North Korea, hang on electric wires as South Korean army soldiers stand guard in Muju, South Korea, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. North Korea launched more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after a similar campaign earlier in the week, according to South Korea's military, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists flying anti-North Korean leaflets across the border. (Jeonbuk Fire Headquarters via AP, File)
North Korea is sending more trash-carrying balloons to South Korea
South Korea’s military says North Korea launched even more trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea, following a similar campaign earlier in the week as it continues to retaliate against … more
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Mourners gather at the house of Ousmane Sylla's mother after his burial in Matoto Bonagui, a suburb of Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. In Italy, he found despair. He spent months in a crowded, squalid migrant detention center, unable to contact his family. He died by suicide in February after other detainees said he became depressed and withdrawn. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
In Guinea's capital, a heartbroken family brings their son's body home
Ousmane Sylla’s final journey home came not with joyful celebration, but with mourning. The 21-year-old’s body was flown in a metal coffin from Rome to Conakry, Guinea’s coastal … more
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Tourists swim in the cenote "Dos Ojos," or Two Eyes, on the outskirts of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Saturday, March 9, 2024. These glowing sinkhole lakes, known as cenotes, are a part of one of Mexico's natural wonders: A fragile system of thousands of subterranean caverns, rivers, and lakes that wind beneath Mexico's southern Yucatan peninsula. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
In Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, a hidden underground world under threat by the Maya Train
Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly built a train system looping around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised the more than $30 billion Maya … more
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Buildings cover Gardi Sugdub Island, part of San Blas archipelago off Panama's Caribbean coast, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
May 24-30, 2024 Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of felonies as he was convicted in a hush money case in New York. A volcano in southwestern Iceland spewed red lava … more
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a joint news conference in Seoul, South Korea Monday, May 27, 2024. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP)
AP Week in Pictures: Asia
May 24-30, 2024 A Japanese town that erected a huge black mesh net last week to stop tourists from snapping photos of Mount Fuji discovered holes in the screen. South Korean President Yoon Suk … more
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FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro greets young supporters marching against U.S. sanctions, in Caracas, Venezuela, May 17, 2024. As Maduro seeks a third term, he has slowly transformed into a defender for migrants, challenging news reports linking some to criminal activities and accusing immigration authorities in other countries of abusing Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
As Maduro shifts from migration denier to defender, Venezuelans consider leaving if he is reelected
President Nicolás Maduro for years refused to admit that millions of people were leaving Venezuela to seek a better future abroad. But as he works toward reelection with a divided and disappointed … more
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A Buddhist devotee offers prayers during Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Purnima festival at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
May 17-23, 2024 Iranians attended the funeral of the late President Ebrahim Raisi and others killed in a helicopter crash. Police tried to stop a pro-Palestinian rally in Berlin, and Buddhists … more
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FILE - This photo taken and released by Basmanny District Court press service on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, shows Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov standing in a defendants' cage in court in Moscow, Russia. Ivanov was arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe. (Basmanny District Court press service via AP, File)
Top Russian military officials are being arrested. Why is it happening?
The arrests began last month when a Russian deputy defense minister was detained. Then the head of the ministry’s personnel directorate was hauled into court. This week, two more senior military … more
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A woman looks at the damage caused by fallen bricks from a building wall in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm Friday, May 17, 2024, in Houston, after thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
AP Week in Pictures: North America
May 17-23, 2024 Severe weather caused damage in Houston and Iowa this week. Boys held candles in a Catholic church in Connecticut at the start of a pilgrimage route to Indianapolis. The World … more
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Buddhist devotees stand in a queue to light butter lamps during Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Purnima festival at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
From South Korea to India, devotees mark the birthday of Buddha with lanterns and prayers
A devotee knelt and gently touched his head on the dome of the Boudhanath Stupa, an iconic Buddhist monument in Kathmandu, as a mark of reverence on Thursday, which marks the birth of Buddha. The … more
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French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks with the press upon arrival at Noumea ñ La Tontouta International airport, in Noumea, New Caledonia, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Macron has landed in riot-hit New Caledonia, having crossed the globe by plane from Paris in a high-profile show of support for the French Pacific archipelago wracked by deadly unrest and where indigenous people have long sought independence from France. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)
In riot-hit New Caledonia, French President Macron says priority is return to calm amid unrest
President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in riot-hit New Caledonia, after crossing the globe in a high-profile show of support for the French Pacific archipelago gripped by deadly unrest. Macron, who … more
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Israeli forces kill at least 7 Palestinians in a West Bank raid
Israeli forces have raided a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a doctor. That's according to local authorities. The raid on Tuesday sparked … more
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A railway guard shows the signal for the train to start, on board the Thirukkural Express at Nizamuddin railway station in New Delhi, Saturday, April 20, 2024. The Thirukkural Express stretches from New Delhi, the heart of India, to Kanyakumari, India's southernmost tip. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Indian voters dissect Modi's politics while traversing the country by train
The Associated Press rode one of the longest trains in India — 1,800 miles from New Delhi to Kanyakumari — to interview voters about an election that will be decided in June. The ruling Bharatiya … more
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Haitians cross the border into Dajabon, Dominican Republic, Friday, May 17, 2024. As violence and political turmoil grip neighboring Haiti, the Dominican Republic will hold elections Sunday that have been defined by calls for more crackdowns on migrants and finishing a border wall dividing the countries. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Dominicans to vote in general elections with eyes on crisis in neighboring Haiti
Voters in the Dominican Republic will take to the polls Sunday in general elections likely to reinforce the government’s crackdown on its shared border with crisis-stricken Haiti. Hundreds of … more
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FILE - Students from Thomas Leadership Academy play on the school's playground in Eatonville, Fla., Aug. 23, 2023. Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board, America is both more diverse — and more segregated. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
70 years after Brown v. Board, America is both more diverse — and more segregated
Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the impact of the decision is still up for debate. Have Americans truly ended segregation in fact, not just in law? The … more
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters gathered in Sabana de Mendoza, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Edmundo González Urrutia became the opposition Unitary Platform's candidate for president after Machado, who won the opposition's presidential primary in 2023, and her handpicked alternative were banned from registering for the July 28 election. (AP Photo/Regina Garcia Cano)
Venezuela's barred opposition candidate is now the fiery surrogate of her lesser-known replacement
At an intersection packed in four directions, rally-goers scream and light up cellphones in the evening as Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado climbs onto a flatbed truck like a … more
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Dawud Assad, 92, stands in front of Palestinian decor in his home in Monroe Township, N.J., on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Noreen Nasir)
Palestinians recount painful history with war in Gaza as a reminder
Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76 years ago, killing more than 100 people. That massacre, along with similar attacks … more
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FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. A new survey puts a number to how often medical providers in states with laws that seek to protect them from prosecution are prescribing abortion pills to women in states with abortion bans or limits on prescribing the bills by telehealth. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
Survey finds 8,000 women a month got abortion pills despite their states' bans or restrictions
A new survey says medical providers were prescribing abortion pills to about 8,000 women a month in states with abortion bans or bans on telehealth abortions by the end of 2023. The abortion-rights … more
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Pro-Israel supporters march outside the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
AP Week in Pictures: North America
May 3 - 9, 2024 People walk between rows of tulips in Canada, celebrities attend the Met Gala in New York City and new citizens take the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony in … more
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