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Malian army says it killed an Islamic State group commander who attacked U.S., Niger forces

Mali's army says a senior Islamic State group commander wanted in connection with the deaths of U.S. forces in Niger has been killed in an operation by Malian state forces
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Finnish hacker gets prison for accessing thousands of psychotherapy records and demanding ransoms

A Finnish court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to more than six years in prison for hacking thousands of patient records at a private psychotherapy center and seeking ransom from some patients over the sensitive data
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The top UN court rejects Nicaragua’s request for judges to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel

The top UN court rejects Nicaragua’s request for judges to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel
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The top UN court opens a hearing to deliver its decision in Nicaragua's request to order Germany to halt aid to Israel

The top UN court opens a hearing to deliver its decision in Nicaragua's request to order Germany to halt aid to Israel
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Iranian-French artist Marjane Satrapi wins Spanish Asturias award for communication

Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French filmmaker and cartoonist, has won the 2024 Princess of Asturias Foundation award for communication and humanities
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FILE - Director, illustrator and author Marjane Satrapi poses for photographers as she arrives to present the movie "La Bande des Jotas" at the 7th edition of the Rome International Film Festival in Rome, on Nov. 16, 2012. Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French filmmaker and artist, has won the 2024 Princess of Asturias Foundation award for communication and humanities, the foundation announced Tuesday April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
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Former Italian foreign minister convicted for role in sale of Monte Carlo apartment

A former Italian foreign minister has been convicted and sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for his role in the sale of an apartment in Monte Carlo inherited by his right-wing party
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Chinese coast guard fires water cannons at Philippine vessels in the latest South China Sea incident

Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, damaging both, in the latest flareup in an increasingly tense territorial conflict
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In this image made from video provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, Philippine Coast Guard vessel, BRP BAGACAY (MRRV-4410) is water cannoned by Chinese Coast Guards as it tried to approach the waters near Scarborough Shoal locally known as Bajo De Masinloc at the South China Sea on Tuesday April 30, 2024. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)
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Boy, 13, has died after a man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in east London

Boy, 13, has died after a man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in east London
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Chinese astronauts return to earth after six months in space

China's Shenzhou-17 spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who have completed a six-month mission aboard the country's orbiting space station
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the capsule of Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship carrying astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin touches down at the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The return capsule of China's Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship landed back on Earth Tuesday with three astronauts who have completed a six-month mission aboard the country's orbiting space station. (Bei He/Xinhua via AP)
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Gunmen kill a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in northwest Pakistan

Pakistani police say gunmen have fatally shot a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in the northwest
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Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah 'with or without a deal' as cease-fire talks with Hamas continue

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah “with or without a deal” as cease-fire talks with Hamas continue

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah “with or without a deal” as cease-fire talks with Hamas continue
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Abu Dhabi-backed fund pulls out of deal to take over UK's Telegraph newspaper group

Britain’s Telegraph newspaper group is back up for sale after a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium pulled out of a takeover bid
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Kazakhstan arrests ex-interior minister in connection with unrest that left 238 dead

Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with deadly unrest that gripped the country in 2022, Kazakh news media reported Tuesday
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FILE - A police car on fire as riot police prepare to stop protesters in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with deadly unrest that gripped the country in 2022, Kazakh news media reported Tuesday April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov, File)
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Explosion that killed 20 at army base was likely caused by mishandling of ammunition

A senior military official in Cambodia says the huge explosion over the weekend that killed 20 soldiers at an army base in the country's southwest appears to have been an accident caused by mishandling of ammunition by troops
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FILE - In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodian soldiers' relatives gather for the funeral procession to all who died during an ammunition explosion in an army base in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia, on April 28, 2024. A huge explosion in southwestern Cambodia over the weekend that killed 20 soldiers at an army base appears to have been an accident caused by mishandling of ammunition by troops, a senior military official said Tuesday, April 30. (AKP via AP, File)
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Serbia's new govt to include US-sanctioned chief with close ties to Russia

Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States
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FILE - Aleksandar Vulin, former director of Serbia's intelligence agency listens during a press conference of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, on Oct. 8, 2022. Serbia's new government will include a former intelligence chief, Aleksandar Vulin who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States, the prime minister - designate Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday April 30, 2024. The inclusion of Vulin into the new government suggests further shift toward Russia despite Serbia's proclaimed pro-EU path. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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Poland is still not ready to adopt the euro, its finance minister says

Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency
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FILE - A multicolor 10 Polish Zloty coin marking Poland entering the European Union is presented by the National Bank of Poland in Warsaw, on April 14, 2004. The finance minister in Poland’s pro-European Union government says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency. The finance minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland joining the eurozone, the currency union of 20 EU members, is not justified at this time. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)
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China says rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah made 'encouraging progress' in talks in Beijing

China's Foreign Ministry says rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah made “encouraging progress” in recent talks in China's capital on promoting reconciliation
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King Charles III returns to public duties with a trip to a cancer charity

King Charles III is returning to public duties with a visit to a cancer treatment charity, beginning his carefully managed comeback after the monarch’s own cancer diagnosis sidelined him for three months
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Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive for a visit to University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The King, Patron of Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support, and Queen Camilla visited the University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre, meeting patients and staff. This visit is to raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis and will highlight some of the innovative research, supported by Cancer Research UK, which is taking place at the hospital. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Boy, 13, dies after man with sword stabs multiple people near London tube station

"This must have been a terrifying incident for those concerned," police said.
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The area in London where police say a man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and two police officers on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in the east London community of Hainault before being arrested.
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Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall

Paris police have evicted migrants from a makeshift tent camp next to City Hall, the latest clear-out that aid groups allege is a campaign of ’’social cleansing″ ahead of the Summer Olympics
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Miigrants are being evicted from a makeshift camp, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Paris. Similar operations are carried out by the police authorities on a daily basis in the months leading to the Olympics. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring 4 others

A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others, authorities said Tuesday
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Police at the scene in Hainault, north east London, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 after reports of several people being stabbed at a Tube station. Police say a man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and two police officers on Tuesday in the east London community of Hainault before being arrested. The incident is not being treated as terror-related. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
April 30

The Latest | Netanyahu vows to launch an offensive in Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch an offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza despite calls for restraint
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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 stages protest after being locked out of lab

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility
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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)
April 30

Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top UN court over its storming of the Mexican Embassy

Mexico has accused Ecuador of a violation of international law before the top U.N. court, asserting that there was no legal defense for storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president who had just been granted asylum in Mexico
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Ecuador's ambassador Andres Teran Parral, left, and agent Ana Maria Larrea, second left, wait for judges to enter the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, where Mexico is taking Ecuador to the United Nations' top court 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/Peter Dejong)
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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)
April 30

The top UN court rejects Nicaragua's request for Germany to halt aid to Israel

The top United Nations court has rejected a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to the U.N. aid agency in Gaza
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Nicaragua's Ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, center, waits for judges to enter the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, where the United Nations' top court is ruling on a request by Nicaragua for judges to order Germany to halt military aid to Israel, arguing that Berlin's support enables acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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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
April 29
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)