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People gather around the coffin of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez during a mass at the main plaza in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)
Hundreds mourn Catholic priest and Indigenous peace activist killed in southern Mexico
Hundreds of people have turned out to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. Mourners … more
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An aerial view shows the area destroyed by a landslide in Donja Jablanica, Bosnia, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
International rescue teams arrive in Bosnia after devastating floods and landslides
Rescue teams from Bosnia’s neighbors and European Union countries are joining efforts to clear rubble and find people still missing after floods and landslides devastated parts of the Balkan … more
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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Flowers are laid at the statue of Russian mercenaries as a tribute to the late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in Bangui, Central African Republic, on March. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
Takeaways from AP's report on Russian and U.S. influence in Central African Republic
In the wake of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion, a deal was struck between a private U.S. security firm and Central African Republic. It's a nation where his shadowy Wagner … more
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Flowers are laid at the statue of Russian mercenaries as a tribute to the late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in Bangui, Central African Republic, on March. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
The US-Russia battle for influence in Africa plays out in Central African Republic
Hours after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against his country’s top military leaders, his private army’s biggest client in Africa panicked and turned for help to his foe in … more
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A woman uses a fan and protects herself from the sun with a towel as Pope Francis holds a holly mass at Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Pope to bring in a ton of humanitarian aid to remote Papua New Guinea as he celebrates periphery
Pope Francis is honoring the Catholic Church of the peripheries in Papua New Guinea. He is heading to a remote part of the South Pacific nation with a ton of humanitarian aid to deliver to the … more
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Pope Francis is presented with a wooden model of a traditional boat outside the APEC Haus in Port Moresby, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, as he arrives with Papua New Guinea's Governor General Bob Dadae, left. As a second leg of his 11-day trip to Asia and Oceania Pope Francis's visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millennia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope urges end to Papua New Guinea tribal conflicts and fair, sustainable extraction of resources
Pope Francis is calling for an end to tribal violence that has wracked Papua New Guinea for decades. And he's appealing for sustainable, equitable development of its natural resources. Francis made … more
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An explosion is seen during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Israeli forces appear to withdraw from a West Bank camp after a major military operation
Israeli forces appear to have withdrawn from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Israel's more-than weeklong military operation has left dozens dead and a trail of destruction. … more
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Cadets sing the national anthem on the first day at school in a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Children and students went to school despite the fact that Kyiv was hit by massive Russian missile barrage early in the morning, causing fires, damaged buildings and infrastructure objects. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
Aug. 30 - Sept. 5, 2024 Cadets sing the national anthem, an woman dances, a health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child and boys row on the Sava river in Serbia. Children visit a … more
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A man walks on a damaged road following an Israeli army raid in Jenin, West Bank, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
What to know about Israel’s major weeklong raid in the West Bank city of Jenin
Hundreds of Israeli forces have for more than a week carried out the deadliest operation in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began. Their focus has been the Jenin refugee camp — a … more
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A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck in the Pacific off the far eastern coast of Russia near a major naval base early Sunday, but there were no early reports of damage or injuries. The earthquake occurred 18 miles (29 kilometers) below the surface and its epicenter was about 63 miles (102 kilometers) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Powerful earthquake hits off far east coast of Russia, though no early reports of damage
A powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck in the Pacific off the far eastern coast of Russia near a major naval base, but there are no early reports of damage or injuries. The quake early Sunday … more
Palestinian boxer Muazzaz Abayat, 37, holds his 2-month-old son Mohammed and daughter Mira, 5, at home in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, days after his release from Israeli prison, frail, disoriented and with no initial memory of his family. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Beatings, overcrowding, hunger: Released Palestinians describe worsening abuses in Israeli prisons
Released Palestinians have described to The Associated Press worsening abuses in Israeli prisons crammed with thousands detained since the war in Gaza began 10 months ago. Israeli officials have … more
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Pascal Kanyemera is shown at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Kanyemera has no doubts: Back in 1994, when he survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, God had his back. (AP Photo/Justin Tang)
Surviving Rwanda: God, remembrance and reconciliation on the genocide’s 30th anniversary
Pascal Kanyemera has no doubts: Back in 1994, when he survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, God had his back. Thirty years after Hutu extremists slaughtered close to 800,000 Tutsi in … more
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In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, July 22, 2024, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher rolls from an hangar during a military exercise near Yoshkar-Ola, Russia. Hawks in Russia have called for revising the country's nuclear doctrine to lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons, and President Vladimir Putin said the doctrine could be modified. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Putin often cites Russia’s 'nuclear doctrine' governing the use of atomic weapons. But what is it?
In a blunt signal to discourage the West from increasing military support for Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin says Russia could revise its nuclear doctrine regarding the use of its atomic arsenal. … more
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President Nicolas Maduro displays a mini edition of Venezuela's constitution after voting in the presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 28, 2024. Maduro is seeking re-election for a third term. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
The Latest: Venezuela chooses between another presidential term for Maduro or a big change
Venezuelans are voting in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world’s worst peacetime … more
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Opposition supporters hold a rosary with a flyer showing presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez during a prayer event in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 21, 2024. Venezuela is set to hold presidential elections July 28. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
As Venezuela heads for July 28 presidential election, what does the religious landscape look like?
What do Venezuelans believe in? The government has not published official data for years, but academics rely on projections and field work to have a sense of the religious landscape. Religion may not … more
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FILE A demonstrator gestures trying to stop riot police during an opposition protest against "the Russian law" near the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Thousands of people rallied in Georgia for weeks against the foreign influence bill. Critics compared it to similar legislation Russia uses to stifle dissent, and they worried it would jeopardize Georgia's prospects of joining the European Union. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze, File)
As Georgia presses on with 'Russia-style' laws, its citizens describe a country on the brink
In Georgia, campaign groups and independent media say a new law purportedly to curb “foreign influence” represents an existential threat to them. The foreign influence law was passed by the … more
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
July 12-18, 2024 Just five days after an assassination attempt, a bandaged Donald Trump accepted the Republican party’s presidential nomination in Milwaukee. Kate, the Princess of Wales, … more
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Dr. Sarahí Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian Bellantta Lubin, at the Bassuary medical clinic in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, east of Mexico City, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Hernández Pacheco has turned her family-run clinic into a safe haven for Haitian migrants whether they are planning to stay in Mexico or continue the journey north toward the U.S. (AP Photo/Mariana Martínez Barba)
With Haitian migration growing, a Mexico City family of doctors is helping out
At a clinic in the working class neighborhood, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City, Doctor Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian migrants. She has turned her family-run clinic into … more
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump appears during the Republican National Convention Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
FACT FOCUS: Trump falsely claims babies can be seen to change 'radically' after vaccination
In an excerpt of a recent conversation between former President Donald Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted online, Trump suggested vaccines given to children to … more
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