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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presents a medal to a serviceman in Trostianets in the Sumy region of Ukraine, Tuesday March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
IOC details advice to let Russia, Belarus athletes return
GENEVA (AP) — Some Russian athletes can soon return to international sports, although their status for next year's Paris Olympics is still up in the air. The International Olympic Committee … more
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Russia convicts father of teen who drew antiwar pictures
Officials say a Russian court has convicted a single father over social media posts criticizing the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to two years in prison. His lawyer and activists say the case was … more
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Police officers stand at the entrance of an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon, Portugal, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Portuguese police have shot a man suspected of stabbing two people to death at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon. Authorities said police were called to the center late Tuesday morning where they encountered a suspect armed with a large knife. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Portugal: 2 dead, several injured in Muslim center stabbing
Portuguese police have shot and injured a man suspected of stabbing two women to death at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon. Ismaili community leader Narzim Ahmad told Portuguese TV channel S.I.C. … more
Families leave a reunification site in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, March 27, 2023 after several children were killed in a shooting at Covenant School in Nashville. The suspect is dead after a confrontation with police. (AP Photo/John Amis)
What we know about the Nashville Christian school shooting
Here’s some of what we know and don’t know about the deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. Six people were killed at the small, private Christian school on Monday after a shooter … more
In this handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, The uncrewed Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft undocks from the International Space Station before heading back to Earth on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)
Uncrewed Russian spacecraft that leaked coolant lands safely
A Russian spacecraft has safely returned to Earth without a crew months after suffering a coolant leak in orbit. The Soyuz MS-22 crew capsule leaked coolant in December while attached to the … more
Image taken from a video showing ambulances and rescue teams staffers outside an immigration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. At least three dozen migrants have died in a fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico near the U.S. border, according to a newspaper report. Images from the scene showed rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue could also be seen. (AP Photo)
39 dead in fire at Mexico migrant center near US: official
A Mexican official says 39 people died and 29 were injured in a fire in an immigration detention center in northern Mexico. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not … more
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FILE - Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda" and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, Friday Feb. 26, 2021. Rwanda's government has commuted the sentence of Paul Rusesabagina was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial. Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press on Friday, March 24, 2023, that the 25-year sentence was commuted by presidential order after a request for clemency. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)
Freed 'Hotel Rwanda' hero in Qatar, heading to family in US
The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence has arrived in Qatar on his way to reuniting with family in the United States. A U.S. … more
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Britain's Prince Harry arrives at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Prince Harry is in a London court on Tuesday as the lawyer for a group of British tabloids prepared to ask a judge to toss out lawsuits by the prince, Elton John and several other celebrities who allege phone tapping and other invasions of privacy.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Prince Harry returns to court in tabloid phone hacking case
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry returned to a London court Tuesday for a second day of hearings to see if the phone hacking lawsuit he brought with Elton John and other celebrities can withstand a … more
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A phone sits on a paper sheet reading: "I believe in the human beings, today people judges you for the image that you have, they see only masks they don't know even who you are" inside the Chicco community of L'Arche, an International charity that helps people with intellectual disabilities, in Ciampino, near Rome, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. The findings of expert reports commissioned by L’Arche itself reveal that their founder, Jean Vanier, perverted Catholic doctrine to justify his own sexual compulsions and abuse women and that the movement he created had at its core a secret, a mystical-sexual “sect” founded for the precise purpose of hiding the sect’s deviant activities from church authorities. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder's lies
An internationally lauded federation that provides community care for people with intellectual disabilities is grappling with revelations that its late founder perverted Catholic doctrine to justify … more
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FILE - A view of the building of Russian Defense Ministry is seen in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 14, 2018. Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday, March 28, 2023, Moscow has test-fired anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russia says it test-fired anti-ship missiles in Sea of Japan
Russia's Defense Ministry says Moscow has test-fired anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan. The ministry said Tuesday that two boats launched a simulated missile attack on a mock enemy warship about … more
Family of US couple kidnapped in Haiti pleads for release
The family of a U.S. couple who has been kidnapped in Haiti is pleading for their release. Nikese Toussaint says that gangs kidnapped her brother, his wife and a third person traveling with them on … more
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A soldier carries a dog found among the rubble of buildings destroyed by a deadly landslide that buried dozens of homes in Alausi, Ecuador, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Landslide in Ecuador kills at least 7, with dozens missing
A huge landslide swept over an Andean community in central Ecuador, burying dozens of homes, killing at least seven people and sending rescuers on a frantic search for survivors. Authorities earlier … more
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This photo provided on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, rear, visits a hall displayed what appeared to be various types of warheads designed to be mounted on missiles or rocket launchers on March 27, 2023, in undisclosed location, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
Kim wants N. Korea to make more nuclear material for bombs
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his nuclear scientists to increase production of weapons-grade material to make bombs to put on his increasing range of weapons. The report in state … more
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Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
How Netanyahu judicial plan sparked massive unrest in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhaul unleashed the most intense social unrest in Israel in decades before he announced that he would delay the plan. Tens of thousands of … more
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FILE - International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach attends the opening of the Executive Board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Dec. 5, 2022. Bach defended his organization's efforts to create a pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to Olympic competition in a speech in his home country of Germany which took place amid a pro-Ukraine protest, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, (Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP, File)
UN expert advising IOC gives views on Russians at Olympics
GENEVA (AP) — Russian athletes who have actively served in the military invasion of Ukraine should be allowed to return to international sports if they did not take part in war crimes, according to … more
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Prince Harry in court for privacy suit against tabloid
Prince Harry is in a London court as the lawyer for a group of British tabloids prepared to ask a judge to toss out lawsuits by the prince, Elton John and several other celebrities who allege phone … more
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the street against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul the country’s judiciary. In Tel Aviv, protesters lit large bonfires and blocked a main highway after Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant who opposed the overhaul. (March 27) (AP video/Sam McNeil)
Opposition to Netanyahu's legal plan mounts after protests
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary is facing mounting opposition. On Monday, the country’s ceremonial president urged for an immediate halt to the legal changes, … more
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UK report: Black kids 6 times likelier to be strip-searched
A new report from England's children's commissioner has found that Black children in England and Wales were six times more likely to be strip searched by police. The report being released Monday … more
Local residents take part in a procession carrying a replica of the Our Lady of the Torrents, a virgin historically associated with drought, in l'Espunyola, north of Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, March 26, 2023. Farmers and parishioners gathered Sunday at the small hermitage of l'Espunyola, a rural village in Catalonia, to attend a mass asking the local virgin Our Lady of the Torrents for rain. Prayers and hymns were offered to ask for divine intervention in solving the earthly crisis. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Pray for rain: Spanish farmers hold unique Mass amid drought
In drought-stricken Spain, around 250 villagers brought back the faded practice of a special Mass and procession to pray for rain. It's been years since they reached out to Our Lady of the Torrents, … more
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President Joe Biden presents the 2021 National Medal of the Arts to Julia Louis-Dreyfus at White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
AP-Week in Pictures: Global / March 18-24, 2023
From protests in France following the President Macron's unpopular plan to raise retirement age from 62 to 64, to the start of Ramadan for millions of Muslims, to the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone … more
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