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France's President Emmanuel Macron attends the Africa Forward Summit at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

French president announces billions in African investments at summit focused on partnership

Read full article: French president announces billions in African investments at summit focused on partnership

Calls for mutual respect dominated the Africa Forward Summit as French President Emmanuel Macron announced new investments.

Philippine Senator Ronald dela Rosa speaks to reporters at the Philippine Senate in Pasay, Philippines on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine senator vows to fight International Criminal Court order to arrest him over killings

Read full article: Philippine senator vows to fight International Criminal Court order to arrest him over killings

A Philippine senator who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for an alleged crime against humanity, says he will fight any attempt to send him to the global tribunal for prosecution and adds he never condoned extrajudicial killings when he led the country’s police force.

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

Spain reports new hantavirus case in passenger evacuated from cruise ship as outbreak grows to 11

Read full article: Spain reports new hantavirus case in passenger evacuated from cruise ship as outbreak grows to 11

Spain's health ministry says a Spanish passenger evacuated from the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer enters his car to leave after delivering a speech at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre in Waterloo, London, Monday, May 11, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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The Latest: Starmer fights for political survival as calls for his resignation grow in UK

Read full article: The Latest: Starmer fights for political survival as calls for his resignation grow in UK

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his political survival after a disastrous set of results in local elections for his Labour Party last week.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking to the media after meeting Labour Party members during a visit to AFC Wimbledon in south London, Saturday May 9, 2026. (Maja Smiejkowska/PA via AP)
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UK's Starmer defiant as calls for his resignation grow and several ministers quit

Read full article: UK's Starmer defiant as calls for his resignation grow and several ministers quit

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told his Cabinet he has no intention of resigning, despite growing calls within his Labour Party for him to step down.

FILE - Ukraine's Head of the Office of the President Andrii Yermak speaks at a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Ukraine officials say Zelenskyy's ex-chief of staff is a suspect in a money-laundering probe

Read full article: Ukraine officials say Zelenskyy's ex-chief of staff is a suspect in a money-laundering probe

Two national agencies fighting corruption in Ukraine have named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff as an official suspect in a major graft investigation.

Local residents examine damage at the site of a bomb explosion at a market in Sarai Norag in Lakki Marwat, a district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Farhat Ullah)

Bomb rigged to rickshaw explodes in Pakistan bazaar, killing 9 and wounding more than 2 dozen others

Read full article: Bomb rigged to rickshaw explodes in Pakistan bazaar, killing 9 and wounding more than 2 dozen others

Police in Pakistan say nine people were killed and more than two dozen others wounded when a bomb rigged to a rickshaw exploded in a bazaar.

President Donald Trump speaks at a dinner for members of his administration and law enforcement organization leaders, during National Police Week, in the White House Rose Garden, Monday, May 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump and Xi appear intent on keeping deep differences over Iran war from overshadowing China summit

Read full article: Trump and Xi appear intent on keeping deep differences over Iran war from overshadowing China summit

President Donald Trump is set to leave for Beijing for high-stakes talks with President Xi Jinping.

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, shake hands after their U.S.-China summit talk at Gimhae International Airport Jinping in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trump and Xi dialed down the trade war, but challenges lurk at their China summit

Read full article: Trump and Xi dialed down the trade war, but challenges lurk at their China summit

President Donald Trump claims America is profiting from trade with China despite tensions over rare earth minerals, tariffs and emerging technologies like AI.

This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)

Israeli lawmakers set up a special tribunal and allow for death penalty for Hamas-led 2023 attackers

Read full article: Israeli lawmakers set up a special tribunal and allow for death penalty for Hamas-led 2023 attackers

Israeli lawmakers have approved a bill setting up a special tribunal that would try and have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza.

FILE - Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez waves after bidding farewell to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright following their meeting at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Venezuela's acting president defends country's territory and rejects Trump's 51st state remarks

Read full article: Venezuela's acting president defends country's territory and rejects Trump's 51st state remarks

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez tells journalists that her country has no plans to become the 51st U.S. state after President Donald Trump said he was “seriously considering” the move.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, right, speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU targets Russians with sanctions over the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children

Read full article: EU targets Russians with sanctions over the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children

The European Union has imposed sanctions on 16 officials accused of helping Russia abduct tens of thousands of children from Ukraine.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at an event about maternal healthcare, Monday, May 11, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says Iran ceasefire is on 'life support' and proposes gas tax pause as strait stays closed

Read full article: Trump says Iran ceasefire is on 'life support' and proposes gas tax pause as strait stays closed

U.S. President Donald Trump says the Iran ceasefire is on “life support” after he rejected Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war.

France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Kenya's President William Ruto, right, participate in the youth session "Africa Forward, Creation in Motion" during the Africa Forward Summit at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

France woos Anglophone Africa at a summit in Kenya

Read full article: France woos Anglophone Africa at a summit in Kenya

France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has been widely seen as marking declining influence on the continent.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer enters his car to leave after delivering a speech at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre in Waterloo, London, Monday, May 11, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Starmer pledges to prove his doubters wrong but faces a wave of resignation calls

Read full article: Starmer pledges to prove his doubters wrong but faces a wave of resignation calls

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to prove his doubters wrong as he faces calls to step down after poor local election results for his Labour Party.

Passengers are sprayed with disinfectant by Spanish government officials before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)

Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

Read full article: Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

The last remaining passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have disembarked and boarded flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine.

Hanna Petersson, a member of Andon Labs technical staff, uses a telephone handset to speak with Andon Caf's AI agent 'Mona' in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/James Brooks)

The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe

Read full article: The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe

The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm.

FILE - Director Jafar Panahi, winner of the Palme d'Or for the film "It Was Just an Accident," appears at the awards ceremony photo call at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 24, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
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Neon, winner of 6 straight Palmes d'Or, comes into the Cannes Film Festival an unlikely heavyweight

Read full article: Neon, winner of 6 straight Palmes d'Or, comes into the Cannes Film Festival an unlikely heavyweight

It’s one of the most unparalleled streaks in movies.

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trump-Xi summit comes with high stakes for Taiwan, the island democracy that China claims as its own

Read full article: Trump-Xi summit comes with high stakes for Taiwan, the island democracy that China claims as its own

President Donald Trump has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan in his second term.

Former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, center, gestures to his supporters following his release on parole from a Bangkok prison in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Thailand's Thaksin released from prison after serving 8 months for abuse of power

Read full article: Thailand's Thaksin released from prison after serving 8 months for abuse of power

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been released from a Bangkok prison after serving eight months on a corruption-related charge.

FILE - The Essequibo River flows through Kurupukari crossing in Guyana, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Juan Pablo Arraez, File)
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Venezuela's leader to defend her country's claim over mineral-rich Guyana region before UN court

Read full article: Venezuela's leader to defend her country's claim over mineral-rich Guyana region before UN court

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has arrived in the Netherlands to defend her country’s claim to a mineral- and oil-rich region in western Guyana before the United Nations highest court in a dispute that has spanned decades.

France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Kenya's President William Ruto stand during the national anthem at State House in Nairobi, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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Changing geopolitics are in focus as France's Macron kicks off Kenya visit for an Africa summit

Read full article: Changing geopolitics are in focus as France's Macron kicks off Kenya visit for an Africa summit

French President Emmanuel Macron has kicked off a visit to Kenya ahead of a two-day Africa Forward Summit.

In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers carry the body of a victim of the eruption of Mount Dukono, on Halmahera Island, Indonesia, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (BASARNAS via AP)
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Bodies retrieved from Indonesian volcano after eruption kills 3 hikers

Read full article: Bodies retrieved from Indonesian volcano after eruption kills 3 hikers

Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Mount Dukono on Indonesia’s remote island of Halmahera have found the bodies of two Singaporean hikers two days after they were caught in a volcanic eruption.

Russian servicemen march as they attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Saturday, May 9, 2026, during celebrations of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, Pool)
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Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating US-brokered 3-day truce

Read full article: Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating US-brokered 3-day truce

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, with both sides saying that people had been killed or wounded by drone and artillery strikes carried out in the past 24 hours.

Brazilian activist Thiago vila, center, a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, is escorted by prison service guards to a hearing at the District Court in Ashkelon, Israel, on Sunday, May 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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Israel deports 2 activists detained for leading an aid flotilla to Gaza

Read full article: Israel deports 2 activists detained for leading an aid flotilla to Gaza

Israel has deported two activists detained for over a week after leading an aid flotilla attempting to break the naval blockade of Gaza.

A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officer and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aamad Khattak)
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Death toll rises to 14 in a Pakistan suicide attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban splinter group

Read full article: Death toll rises to 14 in a Pakistan suicide attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban splinter group

Authorities say the death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan has risen to 14 police officers.

Passengers are disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home

Read full article: One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands.

Vehicles drive past banners showing portraits of the school children who were killed during a strike on a school in southern town of Minab on Feb. 28, at Tajrish square in northern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Iran responds to US ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as 'unacceptable'

Read full article: Iran responds to US ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as 'unacceptable'

Iran has sent its response to the latest U_S_ ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators, but U_S_ President Donald Trump quickly rejected it as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”.

UCLA professors Karen Umemoto, left, and Kelly Fong pose for a picture at UCLA's Asian American Studies Center, in Los Angeles Monday, April 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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UCLA online textbook gives voice to Asian American, Pacific Islander history and cultures

Read full article: UCLA online textbook gives voice to Asian American, Pacific Islander history and cultures

A new digital textbook from UCLA aims to change stereotypes about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders by teaching their history.

Security forces and emergency responders gather around a damaged vehicle at the scene of an Israeli airstrike that hit a car in the coastal town of Saadiyat, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Israeli drone strikes near Beirut kill 4 and southern airstrikes kill at least 13

Read full article: Israeli drone strikes near Beirut kill 4 and southern airstrikes kill at least 13

Three Israeli drone strikes on vehicles south of Beirut have killed four people.

A cleric speaks on his cellphone holding an Iranian flags for a pro-government campaign in downtown Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Iran warns the US against attacks on its oil tankers and other ships but ceasefire appears to hold

Read full article: Iran warns the US against attacks on its oil tankers and other ships but ceasefire appears to hold

Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy has warned of a “heavy assault” on one of the U.S. bases in the region if Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels are attacked.

Spanish Civil Guard officers stand guard in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed

Read full article: WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

FILE - Members of the LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families who joined a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome walk through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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Vatican sending new signals of openness but limitations in outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics

Read full article: Vatican sending new signals of openness but limitations in outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics

The Vatican is sending new signals about how it intends to minister to LGBTQ+ Catholics in the Pope Leo XIV era.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre foreground, attends a ceremony to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall inMoscow, Saturday, May 9, 2026, during celebrations of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP)
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Moscow marks Victory Day with a scaled down Red Square parade under tight security

Read full article: Moscow marks Victory Day with a scaled down Red Square parade under tight security

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed confidence in a victory in Ukraine during a military parade in Moscow marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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China says April exports jump 14.1% from a year ago ahead of Trump-Xi summit

Read full article: China says April exports jump 14.1% from a year ago ahead of Trump-Xi summit

China says exports have risen 14.1% in April from a year earlier, despite the Iran war and lingering impacts from higher U.S. tariffs.

FILE - Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, center, leaves the museum during a ceremony marking the 215th anniversary of revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture's death, at the National Pantheon museum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)
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4 people convicted of conspiracy in US trial tied to 2021 assassination of Haiti's president

Read full article: 4 people convicted of conspiracy in US trial tied to 2021 assassination of Haiti's president

A Florida jury has convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
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The Latest: Stricken cruise ship heads for the Canaries as authorities rush to identify contacts

Read full article: The Latest: Stricken cruise ship heads for the Canaries as authorities rush to identify contacts

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

FILE - This undated image provided by the U.S. Justice Department and contained in the affidavit in support of a criminal complaint, shows Manuel Rocha during a meeting with a FBI undercover employee. (Justice Department via AP, File)
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Prosecutors seek to strip U.S. citizenship from diplomat-turned-Cuban spy

Read full article: Prosecutors seek to strip U.S. citizenship from diplomat-turned-Cuban spy

Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba.

FILE - Firefighters work to put out a blaze in the Amazon forest during a drought and high temperatures in the rural municipality of Careiro Castanho, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat

Read full article: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012.

Ukrainian army officers lay flowers at a monument to pilots to mark Victory Day in World War II, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 8, 2026, as the Russian attack on Ukraine continues. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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What Russia’s low‑key Victory Day celebrations reveal about Putin and the war in Ukraine

Read full article: What Russia’s low‑key Victory Day celebrations reveal about Putin and the war in Ukraine

A three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, has eased tensions over a potential Ukrainian attack on a Red Square parade in Moscow.