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Croatian conservative leader Andrej Plenkovic has been formally appointed prime minister-designate for a third consecutive term after he forged an alliance with an extreme right party following an inconclusive election

South Korea has vowed to protect its companies operating in other markets after Japanese regulators told LY Corp., which runs the popular chat app Line, to reduce its dependence on Naver, the Korean partner in the venture

The U.N. says about 110,000 people have fled Rafah in southern Gaza and food and fuel supplies in the area are critically low

Pope Francis has pressed his campaign to urge Italians to have children

Hopes are fading for 44 construction workers buried for days in the rubble of a building that collapsed in South Africa

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have arrived in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans

Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Nigeria for the Invictus Games and to meet with wounded soldiers, an official says

May 3-May 9, 2024 General elections continue throughout India. Campus protests in the U.S. have influenced students in Bangladesh and South Korea. Buddhists monks clean Buddha statues before his birthday. Horse riders compete in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous region. Teams compete in rugby matches in Singapore. Animals, as well as people, in Asian countries try to avoid heat. This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in the Asia-Pacific region made or published by The Associated Press in the past week. The selection was curated by AP photo editor Hiro Komae in Tokyo. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced changes in his Cabinet to replace four ministers running for the European Parliament next month

The British economy bounced back strongly in the first three months of the year, bringing to an end to what economists termed a “technical recession.”

May 3-9, 2024 Crowds of people welcomed the Olympic torch on its arrival to France before the Summer Olympics in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Xi Jinping at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the Chinese leader's visit to European countries. The mother of a Ukrainian serviceman who was killed in battle kisses the flag that covers her son’s coffin during a funeral. Music fans gathered in the Swedish city of Malmo for the Eurovision Song Contest. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by Associated Press photographers in Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by AP photographer Andreea Alexandru in Bucharest, Romania. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappointed Mikhail Mishustin as the country’s prime minister

Parliament speaker says Putin has reappointed Mikhail Mishustin as Russia’s prime minister for lower house's approval

Iranians are voting in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country’s parliament after hard-line politicians dominated March balloting

After the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders worldwide vowed to do better next time but are still struggling to finalize a global plan

A few weeks ago, Edmundo González Urrutia was just another grandfather visiting his daughter and grandchildren, who live abroad, enjoying two months of family time

Charred homes and cars dot the hilltop West Bank village of Duma, a searing reminder of Palestinians' vulnerability to rising violence from Israeli settlers

About 6 million Catalans are called to cast ballots in regional elections on Sunday that will surely have reverberations in Spain's national politics

May 3-9, 2024 A rare snowfall blankets Chile's capital, Madonna’s biggest-ever concert turns Rio’s Copacabana beach into a dance floor, and floods continue to ravage Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state. This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by photojournalist Fernando Llano based in Mexico City. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were once persecuted

Lithuania is holding a presidential election on Sunday at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears across all of Europe about Moscow's intentions

A top Baidu public relations executive has reportedly departed the Chinese technology company after she drew public outcry over comments that were seen as glorifying a culture of overwork

An annual survey of more than 500 European companies has found that slowing growth in China is weighing on company plans to expand their businesses in the world’s second largest economy

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a report about three cases of infections apparently linked to stem-cell treatments American patients received in Mexico

A Brazilian horse that garnered widespread attention after a TV news helicopter spotted it stranded on a rooftop has been rescued, officials say.

Air Vanuatu has filed for bankruptcy protection a day after it cancelled all international flights, stranding thousands of travelers

Akshaya Kumar of Human Rights Watch joins the show.

Egyptian officials say delegations for both sides left Cairo without a cease-fire deal and it remains unclear when negotiations will resume.

Guyana’s government says it gave permission for the U.S. military to fly two powerful F/A-18F Super Hornet jets over its capital to demonstrate the close military and other forms of cooperation between this oil-exporting South American nation and the U...

Aid workers say closing of the Rafah crossing is having a devastating impact.

The United Nations humanitarian agency on Thursday launched a $430 million appeal to avert a humanitarian disaster in drought-stricken Zimbabwe

Eden Golan advanced to the final on Saturday despite the controversy.

Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Deby Itno, has been declared the winner of this week’s presidential election

Chad's military ruler wins this week's presidential election, provisional results show, as opposition calls foul

A horse that was perilously stranded on a rooftop by Brazil's deadly floods has been rescued

The administration of Mexico’s president has accused the press and volunteer searchers who look for the bodies of missing people of “necrophilia.”

Police say suspected militants bombed a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure

High-level mediation talks for South Sudan have been launched in Kenya with African presidents calling for an end to a conflict that has crippled South Sudan’s economy for years

Militants are being accused of an ethnic cleansing amid a civil war, according to Human Rights Watch.

Hamas said earlier in the week that it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal, prompting celebration from both sides, but Israel soon after said the deal was not the one it had proposed.

Thousands of protesters gathered in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his government’s decision to hand over control of border villages to Armenia’s long-time rival Azerbaijan

Israeli military spokesman says army has weapons it needs for Rafah operation

Netanyahu says Israel "will stand alone" if it has to after threatened US arms holdup

Police in Vietnam say they have arrested a senior official of the country’s labor ministry for “deliberately disclosing state secrets.”

The 737 plane skidded off the runway at Blaise Diagne at about 1 a.m. Thursday.

A leading rights group says attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias that killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year constitute a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area’s non-Arab population

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s army is facing “a really difficult situation” in eastern regions

A disciplinary court in Poland has lifted the immunity of a judge who fled to Russia's autocratic ally Belarus

Their interactions appear more nuanced than once believed.

The research, which was published in the journal Communications Biology, studied semi-captive elephants within the Jafuta Reserve in Zimbabwe.