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A displaced woman sits with her daughter at a vocational training center run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, in the southern town of Sebline, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
The war in Gaza long felt personal for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Now they're living it
The war in Gaza was always personal for many Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Many in southern Lebanon live in camps set up after 1948. That's when their parents or grandparents fled their homes in … more
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Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Israel strikes Lebanon, hitting Beirut suburbs and the north
Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon, hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs with 12 airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in northern Lebanon for the first time. The attack on … more
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Tourists evacuate from a flood-hit area in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Wichai Tapriew)
Floods inundate Thailand's northern tourist city of Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai, Thailand’s northern city popular with tourists, has been inundated by widespread flooding as its main river overflowed its banks following heavy seasonal rainfall. Authorities on … more
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People pass by a sign calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas for nearly a year, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
One year in, war casts a shadow over every aspect of life in Israel
Across Israel, it can seem on the surface that much of life has returned to normal, but a year of war has cast a pall and is affecting nearly every facet of daily life. At bars and cafes, there's … more
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Gisele Pelicot arrives at the Avignon court house, in Avignon, southern France, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Her ex-husband admitted in court that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious. (AP Photo/Diane Jantet)
A French judge in a shocking rape case allows the public to see some of the video evidence
PARIS (AP) — A French judge in the trial of dozens of men accused of raping an unconscious woman whose now former husband had repeatedly drugged her so that he and others could assault her decided … more
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Maodo Faye, radio presenter at Sud FM, presents the afternoon Wolof program from the Sud FM studio in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)
In Senegal, the bastion of the region's Francophonie, French is giving way to local languages
For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet, is … more
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A car is submerged in flood waters outside an apartment building in the village of Kiseljak, northern Bosnia, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Rainstorms and heavy floods hit large parts of Bosnia, killing at least 14 people
A severe rainstorm struck Bosnia overnight Friday, killing at least 14 people and flooding several towns and villages in central and southern parts of the country. Rescue services in the south of the … more
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Palestinians examine the damage following an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, which Palestinian health officials say killed 18 people and the Israeli military says took out a Hamas leader, on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Relatives say a whole family was killed in Israel's deadliest West Bank strike since Oct. 7
Relatives say an Israeli airstrike on a West Bank cafe that the military said targeted Palestinian militants also killed a family of four, including two young children. The strike slammed into a … more
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FILE - Bianca Williams, of Britain, looks up at the results after qualifying in a women's 200 meters round 1 heat at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Two London police officers reinstated over stop and search of Black athletes
LONDON (AP) — Two former Metropolitan Police officers in London have been handed their jobs back and will receive back pay after winning an appeal against a ruling that they lied about smelling … more
FILE - A woman carries a bucket on her head as she wades through floodwaters in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan, on Nov. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Maura Ajak, File)
The Nobel Prizes will be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligence
Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes. Civil grassroot groups, and international organizations with missions to mitigate violence in … more
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Dozens of zoo tigers die after contracting bird flu in southern Vietnam
More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam. A caretaker at Vuon Xoai zoo in Bien Hoa city told State media VNExpress that the animals were fed with raw … more
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Massive blasts near Beirut airport
Israeli airstrikes rock southern suburbs of Beirut and cut off a key crossing into Syria
Israel has carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in the southern suburbs of Beirut. It had warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a United … more
A sanitation worker of Kaohsiung city government clears debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Krathon in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
Work and travel resumes across Taiwan after Typhoon Krathon finally dissipates
Work, classes and flights resumed across Taiwan after Typhoon Krathon brought torrential rainfall to the island but finally dissipated over a mountain range. Krathon brought much of the island to a … more
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Benny Briolly, a transgender woman running for city council, poses for a photo during a campaign event with supporters and members of her campaign team in Morro do Estado, in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hannah-Kathryn Valles)
Record-setting number of transgender candidates risk their lives in Brazil
Nearly 1,000 transgender politicians are running Sunday in every one of Brazil’s 26 states. The number of transgender politicans has tripled since the last elections. It’s a momentous social … more
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Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Middle East tensions weigh on Wall St
Asian shares are mixed after worsening tensions in the Middle East sent shares lower on Wall Street. Oil prices rose. Benchmarks advanced in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong but fell in other regional … more
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Kenneth Barthel, adopted from South Korea to Hawaii in 1979 at 6 years old, holds a tablet showing his childhood photo in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Barthel is looking for his birth family in Busan where he believes he was abandoned when his mother ordered soup for him in a restaurant and never returned. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
South Korea adoptees endure emotional, sometimes devastating searches for their birth families
They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done _ a long flight to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their … more
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Yooree Kim, who was sent to a couple in France by the Holt adoption agency when she was 11, displays some old photos of her and her brother in her apartment in Seoul, Saturday, May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Did this happen to me also? Korean adoptees question their past and ask how to find their families
Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on adoptions from South Korea. The … more
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FILE - Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Liz Cheney campaigns with Harris in Wisconsin while Trump holds a rally in Michigan
Liz Cheney is one of Donald Trump's fiercest Republican critics and now she's campaigning with Democrat Kamala Harris in Wisconsin. Their event Thursday is designed to get under Trump's skin and … more
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Women grieve at the port of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, after a ferry carrying hundreds capsized on arrival Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Boat capsizes on a lake in eastern Congo, killing at least 50 people, witnesses say
A boat has capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo, killing at least 50 people. That's according to witnesses who spoke to The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear exactly how many people … more
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Lebanese women stand in front an apartment in a multistory building hit by Israeli airstrike, in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israel extends evacuation warnings in Lebanon, signaling a wider offensive
The Israeli military on Thursday warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern Lebanon that are north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground … more
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