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The Latest | Hamas officials leave Cairo after talks on a cease-fire proposal

Officials from Hamas have left Cairo after talks with Egyptian officials on a new proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza
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Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)
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A gunman kills 6 worshippers inside a Shiite mosque in western Afghanistan, the Taliban say

A Taliban official says a gunman opened fire inside a mosque in western Afghanistan, killing at least six people as they were praying
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This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)
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Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence protests after being locked out of his lab

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab
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Virologist Zhang Yongzhen, the first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus, walks down a street in Shanghai, China on Dec. 13, 2020. Zhang was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Zhang wrote in an online post on Monday, April 29, 2024, that he and his team were suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first published the sequence in early January 2020.(AP Photo/Dake Kang)
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The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China protests after being locked out of his lab

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China protests after being locked out of his lab
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Mexico proudly controls its energy but could find it hard to reach its climate goals

Mexico's taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year
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FILE - Pemex oil workers set the drill on the Centenario deep-water drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, Nov. 22, 2013. The 1938 nationalization of Mexico's oil sector from U.S. and British companies is a point of pride for millions of Mexicans.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
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AP WAS THERE: Mexico's 1938 seizure of the oil sector from US companies

Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught to schoolchildren and celebrated as a great patriotic victory
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Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia

Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia — the single largest investment in Microsoft’s 29-year history in the country
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In this photo released by Indonesian Presidential Palace, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, center left, meets with Indonesia President Joko Widodo, center right, at Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia, the single largest investment in Microsoft’s 29-year history in the country, said Nadella, on Tuesday. (Vico/Indonesian President Palace via AP)
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Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top UN court over the storming of the Mexican Embassy

Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president who had just been granted asylum in Mexico
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FILE - Police attempt to break into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024, following Mexico's granting of asylum to former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought refuge there. Police later forcibly broke into the embassy through another entrance. Mexico is taking Ecuador to the United Nations' top court on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming into the Mexican embassy in Quito and arresting former Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been holed up there seeking asylum in Mexico. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Indonesia's Mount Ruang erupts again, spewing ash and peppering villages with debris

Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano has erupted for a second time in two weeks, spewing ash more than a mile into the sky, closing an airport and peppering nearby villages with debris
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This photo provided by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) shows a part of a village on Tagulandang island covered by ash from eruptions of Mountt Ruang in the Sulawesi island, Indonesia, Friday, April 19, 2024. More people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island were evacuated on Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami. (National Search and Rescue Agency via AP)
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Japan's PM Kishida denies he will step down over his party's loss in special elections

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his governing party’s major defeat in last weekend's by-elections was largely due to a political fundraising scandal and that he will not resign or replace party executives to take responsibility
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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Kishida acknowledged Tuesday that his governing party's major defeat in the weekend's by-elections was due to a slush fund scandal, but said he would not step down or replace party executives to take responsibility. (Kyodo News via AP)
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The top UN court is set to rule on Nicaragua's request for Germany to halt aid to Israel

The United Nations’ top court is set to rule on a request by Nicaragua for judges to order Germany to halt military aid to Israel
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FILE - Nicaragua's Ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, right, and Alain Pellet, center, a lawyer representing Nicaragua, arrive for the start of a two days hearing at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. The United Nations’ top court is set to rule on a request by Nicaragua for judges to order Germany to halt military aid to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, File)
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The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan

A Taliban-run tourism and hotel management institute has opened its doors to students
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Afghans take selfies at the renovated Darul Aman Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)
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A medical report on soccer legend Maradona's death aims to undercut homicide case against medics

A medical examiner’s report into the death of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has injected uncertainty into the criminal negligence case brought against those involved in his care
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FILE - Former soccer great Diego Maradona acknowledges fans below at the Casa Rosada government house after his meeting with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. A medical examiner's report into the death of Maradona injected uncertainty Monday, April 29, 2024, into a case of criminal negligence brought against eight medical workers involved in his care, raising new questions just a month before the staffers are set to stand trial for homicide. (AP Photo/Marcos Brindicci, File)
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El Salvador's congress approves changes to reform constitution, a move critics call anti-democratic

El Salvador’s Congress, which is controlled by President Nayib Bukele New Ideas party, approved a change to an article of the Constitution to facilitate larger constitutional reforms without having to wait until after the election of a new legislature
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FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks to the press at Mexico's National Palace in Mexico City, March 12, 2019. Authorities confirmed on April 17, 2024 that Bukele released the father of a Salvadoran soccer player Marcelo “El Chiky” Díaz from prison after the athlete from Salvador's national team published a plea for his release on social media, saying his father was wrongfully arrested as a suspected gang member on the way to see him play. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
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Samsung reports a 10-fold increase in profit as AI drives rebound in memory chip markets

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies drives a rebound in the markets for computer memory chips
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People walk by an advertisement of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S24 and S24+ at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies drives a rebound in the markets for computer memory chips.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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The Catholic Church says a missing Mexican bishop has been found and is hospitalized

The Catholic Church says a missing Mexican bishop has been found and is hospitalized
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Abducted retired Catholic bishop who mediated between cartels in Mexico is located, hospitalized

A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was apparently kidnapped but was later located and taken to a hospital
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Monsignor Salvador Rangel, bishop of the Chilpancingo-Chilapa diocese, arrives to meet with people displaced by violence in Los Morros, Guerrero, Mexico, July 18, 2018. The retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)
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A Colombian army helicopter has crashed in a rural area of the country's north, killing 9 soldiers

Nine members of Colombia’s military lost their lives when their helicopter crashed in a rural area of northern Colombia
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Catholic Church calls for the release of a missing bishop who mediated among cartels in a conflictive Mexican state

Catholic Church calls for the release of a missing bishop who mediated among cartels in a conflictive Mexican state
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Secretary of State Blinken leads new push to reach a hostage release deal in Gaza

Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls for a cease-fire in Gaza while on his seventh trip to the Middle East. Blinken also urging Hamas to accept Israel’s latest proposal to release hostages.
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VIDEO: Secretary of State Blinken leads new push to reach a hostage release deal in Gaza
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Luxury jewelry maker Cartier doesn't give stuff away, but they pretty much did for one man in Mexico

Luxury jewelry maker Cartier isn't known for giving stuff away, but in the case of one Mexican man, they pretty much did
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1 horse remains under observation and another is expected to recover fully after London rampage

Britain's military says one of the horses that galloped through the streets of London last week is expected to make a full recovery while another remains under observation following its injuries
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FILE - Two horses on the loose bolt through the streets of London, Wednesday April 24, 2024. One of the horses that broke away from their trainers and galloped through the streets of London last week is expected to make a full recovery while another remains under observation, the British Army said Monday. Quaker, a black horse, has shown "significant improvement'' on the way to what is expected to be a complete recovery, the army said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Vida, a gray, remains under "close and careful'' veterinary observation for his injuries. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP, File)
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IMF approves immediate release of final $1.1 billion tranche of $3 billion bailout to Pakistan

The IMF says it will immediately release the final $1.1 billion tranche of a $3 billion bailout to Pakistan
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Suspected al-Qaida explosion kills 6 troops loyal to secessionist group in Yemen

An explosive device has killed six troops loyal to a United Arab Emirates-backed secessionist group in southern Yemen
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This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)
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Actor Gérard Depardieu will face criminal trial in October over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, prosecutors say

Actor Gérard Depardieu will face criminal trial in October over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, prosecutors say
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What is the International Criminal Court and why it has Israeli officials worried

Israeli officials sound increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court could issue arrest warrants for the country’s leaders more than six months into the Israel-Hamas war
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FILE - Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi delivers his speech during a meeting with hundreds of prominent Italian women in a concert hall, June 12, 2009, in Rome. The former Libyan leader was captured and killed by rebels shortly after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on charges linked to the brutal suppression of anti-government protests in 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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Libya demands improvements after leaked photos show tiny cell of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Beirut

Leaked photographs of the son of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns
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FILE - In this undated file photo made available Sept. 25, 2011, Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya. Leaked photographs of Hannibal Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised concerns. Libyan authorities are demanding that Lebanon improves living conditions for Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)
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Sec. Antony Blinken calls latest hostage deal 'extremely generous'

Blinken said that with the latest negotiations, Hamas is the only thing standing in the way of a deal over a cease-fire being reached.
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VIDEO: Sec. Antony Blinken calls latest hostage deal 'extremely generous'
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Belarus labels German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle ‘extremist,’ bans activities in the country

The Belarusian service of German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle has been declared an “extremist” organization by Belarusian authorities and its activities are being banned in the country
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Talks advance on a treaty to end plastic pollution

Nations have made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution at talks that have concluded in Canada
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FILE - Activist Dianne Peterson places a sign on an art installation outside a United Nations conference on plastics, April 23, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP. File)
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Ecuador files complaint against Mexico at top UN court in spat over embassy raid

Ecuador has filed a complaint at the top U.N. court over what it called Mexico’s illegal decision to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to Ecuador’s highly criticized raid on the Mexican Embassy earlier this month
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FILE - Supporters of former Vice President Jorge Glas cheer after an Ecuadorian court of justice declared that his arrest inside Mexico's embassy was illegal, in Quito, Ecuador, April 12, 2024. Ecuador announced on Monday, April 29, that it is suing Mexico before the International Court of Justice for granting political asylum to Glas who was later imprisoned after a break-in at the country's embassy in Quito, triggering the rupture of diplomatic relations between Ecuador and Mexico. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)
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Ecuador announces complaint against Mexico at top UN court over asylum granted to former vice president

Ecuador announces complaint against Mexico at top UN court over asylum granted to former vice president
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Lawyer says Gérard Depardieu no longer in police custody after reported questioning on sexual assault allegations

Lawyer says Gérard Depardieu no longer in police custody after reported questioning on sexual assault allegations
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British and Irish officials meet as tensions rise over what to do with asylum seekers

British and Irish officials have met as tensions rise over the movement of asylum seekers from the U.K. to neighboring Ireland and Ireland’s proposal to send them back
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Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, left, and Tanaiste Micheal Martin hold a joint press conference during the British-Irish intergovernmental conference at 100 Parliament Street in London, Monday April 29, 2024. Established under Strand 3 of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference is a bilateral forum, aiming to take place three times per year, to bring together the British and Irish Governments to promote cooperation at all levels on all matters of mutual interest within the competence of both Governments. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
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Iconic former Uruguayan President José Mujica is diagnosed with esophageal cancer

José Mujica, the former president of Uruguay known for his bold socially liberal agenda, says he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer
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FILE - Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica, left, and his wife Lucia Topolansky enter La Moneda presidential palace for a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the military coup that toppled the government of late President Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 11, 2023. Mujica announced on April 29, 2024, that he has esophageal cancer after a tumor was detected during a medical check-up. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
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Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica says has esophageal cancer

Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica says has esophageal cancer
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Cease-fire and hostage talks underway in Cairo

ABC News national security and defense analyst Mick Mulroy and ABC News contributor and former hostage negotiator Brad Garrett analyze the progress of cease-fire talks in Cairo.
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VIDEO: Cease-fire and hostage talks underway in Cairo
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50 migrants reported missing and 9 rescued after their boat overturns off Spanish Atlantic island

Spanish news reports say about 50 migrants are missing after their boat overturned in the Atlantic Ocean, some 100 kilometers south of Spanish Canary Island of El Hierro
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Power of US: ABC News Earth Week coverage

The collective power of the masses can move the needle on climate change.
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A bomb attack in northern Kenya kills 5 people near the border with Somalia

Kenya's interior ministry says five people have been killed in a bomb attack in the remote north of the country near the border with Somalia
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People gather at the site of a blast, after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded in Elwak Town within Mandera County, Kenya Monday, April 29, 2024. Five people have been killed, five others injured. The bomb was laden on a donkey cart to avoid detection, a statement from the Kenya interior ministry said. (AP Photo/Adan Shukri)
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King Charles set to resume some public duties

King Charles is set to resume some public duties this week as he undergoes cancer treatment.
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French police remove pro-Palestinian students from the courtyard of Sorbonne university in Paris

French police have removed dozens of students from the Sorbonne university after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the main courtyard of the elite institution in Paris
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Students demonstrate outside La Sorbonne university with a huge Palestinian flag, Monday, April 29, 2024 in Paris. About 100 Pro-Palestinian students demonstrate near the Sorbonne university in Paris. The demonstration came on the heels of protests last week at another Paris-region school, Sciences Po. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Finnish carrier suspends Estonia flights after GPS interference prevents 2 landings

Finland’s national carrier Finnair is temporarily suspending flights to Estonia’s second largest city for a month after two of its planes were prevented from landing in Tartu last week because of GPS disruptions
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FILE - A Finnair plane lands at the Helsinki International Airport in Vantaa, Finland, Monday April 19, 2010. Finland’s national carrier Finnair said Monday, April 29, 2024, it is suspending flights to Estonia’s second largest city for a month after two incidents of GPS disruptions last week prevented the company’s planes from landing in Tartu and had to return to Helsinki. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP, File)
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UN asks South Sudan to remove new taxes that led to a pause in food airdrops

The United Nations has urged South Sudan to remove newly imposed taxes and charges that led to the suspension of U.N. food airdrops for thousands of people who depend on outside aid
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US military ships are working to build a pier for Gaza aid. It's going to cost at least $320 million

A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore from the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation
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This undated photo released early Tuesday, April 30, 2024, by the U.S. military's Central Command shows construction off a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Strip. A U.S. Navy ship involved in the American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip is off shore from the enclave, slowly building out a floating platform for the operation, satellite photos analyzed Monday, April 29, 2024, by The Associated Press show. (U.S. military's Central Command via AP)
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International headlines from ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
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Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
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Iraq repatriates nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp

Iraqi and Syrian officials say Baghdad has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria
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FILE - Kurdish forces patrol al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group in Hasakeh province, Syria, on April 19, 2023. Iraq has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)
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2 Ukrainians were stabbed in Germany. Prosecutors are examining a possible political motive

The public prosecutor general's office in Munich has taken over the investigation into the stabbing deaths of two Ukrainian men in southern Germany because of a possible political motivation for the crime
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Flowers and a small Ukrainian flag are laid at a shopping center in Murnau, Germany, Sunday, April 28, 2024. Police say two Ukrainian men have been stabbed to death in southern Germany and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings. German news agency dpa reported Sunday that the two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed on the premises of a shopping center in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. (Constanze Wilz/dpa via AP)
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NATO chief chides members as Ukraine’s allies say slow arms deliveries have helped Russia

NATO's secretary general says the alliance's member countries have failed to deliver in time what they promised to Ukraine
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
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EU tightens visa requirements for Ethiopians over a lack of government cooperation on deportations

The European Union is tightening visa requirements for people from Ethiopia
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FILE - A passport of an Ethiopian fighter pilot on display at a residence, in Tok Mok, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The European Union is tightening visa requirements for people from Ethiopia, it was reported on Monday, April 29, 2024. It says the government there is not cooperating on the deportation of citizens found to be living illegally in the bloc. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett, File)