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Security ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

NATO summit brings tight security and disrupts life in The Hague

Super-tight security is smothering The Hague around a summit of NATO leaders next week. Authorities are locking down parts of the city, closing off roads and shutting down airspace.

A dealer walks past near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Global shares decline as tensions simmer in the Middle East

Beachgoers leave during a missile alert from Iran, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

US starts evacuating some diplomats from its embassy in Israel as Iran conflict intensifies

A man looks at flames rising from an oil storage facility after it appeared to have been struck by an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As Israel strikes Iran, many wonder if the US will deepen its involvement

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as a flag pole is installed on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says supporters ‘more in love’ with him than ever, as MAGA world splits over Iran

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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza

American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press. Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. (Production: Luke Garratt)

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Israel’s Netanyahu says he’s going to Washington next week to meet with Trump and other officials

Extremist Jewish settlers attack Israeli army base, AP explains

Senators mixed on setback of Iranian nuclear program following briefing

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An injured man is taken to the Al-Ahli hospital following overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi).

PHOTO GALLERY:Israel’s wave of airstrikes on Gaza

Mourners gather around the bodies of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli army airstrikes as they are brought to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

After one of the deadliest days in Gaza, here’s the conflict in numbers

Israeli attack on Gaza shatters ceasefire and kills hundreds, AP explains

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Mideast Wars Gaza

The body of Muhannad Akrad, one of three people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, is carried for burial at the Omary mosque in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Mourners attend funeral of man killed in Israeli airstrikes on Syrian city of Daraa

Relatives of hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, stand by the Israe-Gaza border fence, calling for their release and expressing concerns that the resumption of fighting in Gaza puts their loved ones at risk, in southern Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Families of hostages in Gaza are terrified they won’t return after Israel resumes fighting

A Palestinian man holds the body of his 11 month-old nephew Mohammad Shaban, killed in an Israeli army airstrikes at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s surprise bombardment plunged Palestinians back into ‘hell’

In this image made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

Why did Netanyahu end the Gaza ceasefire?

The body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli army airstrikes is brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What to know about why Israel launched dozens of attacks across Gaza, raising fears of all-out war

Masih Alinejad blows a kiss to supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad testifies at the trial of two men accused of plotting to kill her

An injured man is taken to the Al-Ahli hospital following overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi).

Netanyahu says Israeli strikes across Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

A Palestinian man holds the body of his 11 month-old nephew Mohammad Shaban, killed in an Israeli army airstrikes at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Israeli attack on Gaza shatters ceasefire and kills hundreds

A dead person killed during an Israeli army strike is taken into the hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday March 18, 2025.(AP Photo/ Mohammad Jahjouh)

Israel launches deadly wave of airstrikes across Gaza after ceasefire talks stall

Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Trump warns Iran it will face ‘consequences’ of further attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels

Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu’s push to fire Israel’s domestic security chief sparks an uproar

Iranian Shiite cleric Mehdi Karroubi gestures during a news conference on Iran's parliamentary elections in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

A son says a leader of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests will be freed from house arrest

AP explains how US strikes on Yemen fit into wider Mideast tensions

Syrian troops maneuver in the village of Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, located 2 km (1.24 miles) from the Lebanon border, Syria, Monday, March 17, 2025. Lebanon's president ordered troops to retaliate for gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after renewed fighting broke out overnight along the frontier. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Lebanon and Syria agree to ceasefire after 2 days of border clashes, Syrian defense ministry says

Family members hold pictures of their relatives who disappeared in the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war, during a protest calling on the interim government to not give up on efforts to find them, in the city of Daraa, Syria, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Families of Syrians who disappeared during its civil war say the search must go on

Parade held in Jerusalem to celebrate Jewish holiday of Purim

In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, members of their team search through the debris of a four-story building after an ordnance from Syria's 13-conflict exploded in the coastal city of Latakia, Syria, early Sunday, March 16, 2025. 2025. The White Helmets said it worked overnight and recovered 16 bodies. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

At least 16 people killed after ordnance from Syrian civil war explodes in port city of Latakia

This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Trump orders strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and issues new warning

A Syrian army helicopter throws flowers and confetti on a group of demonstrators marking the 14th anniversary of the start of the uprising against Bashar Assad's regime in March 2011, in Umayyad square, Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrians mark 14th anniversary of civil war uprising by celebrating the ouster of Bashar Assad

Israel says it killed a Hezbollah member in a drone strike in south Lebanon

People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo//Oded Balilty)

Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli hostage if ceasefire deal is implemented

Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling, AP Explains

Palestinians perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Middle East latest: Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani, left, speaks during a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein following their meeting, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March.14, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly (C) speaks alongside, from left, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in La Malbaie, Canada, Friday March 14, 2025. (Saul Loeb, Pool Photo via AP)

Allies preserve unity even as Trump’s tariffs and Canada taunts overshadow G7 meeting

Palestinians cross from the Israeli military Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah to Jerusalem, to participate in the Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Hamas says it will release a US-Israeli hostage and 4 bodies, but Israel expresses immediate doubt