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People fill water containers at a distribution point due to water outages in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed over 170 people in a week, officials say

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and sickened more than 2,500 over the past week.

Andrei Kozlov, an artist who was taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, speaks with The Associated Press during an interview Monday, May 19, 2025, at his studio in New York.

Freed from Hamas captivity, former hostage tells his story through his paintings

Israelis wave national flags during a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP PHOTOS: Israeli nationalists march through Jerusalem

Palestinians struggle to receive cooked food distributed at a community kitchen in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

How a US-backed body plans to handle Gaza’s food distribution and why aid groups oppose it

Israeli police officers assist a Palestinian man after he was pushed by Israelis as they mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Live updates: US-backed group starts aid operations in Gaza while Israeli strikes pound region

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Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza goes out of service following evacuation orders

Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza went out of service on Thursday following evacuation orders, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Patients and medical staff also evacuated Thursday evening over safety concerns, WHO said.

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This combo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 25, 2025 and Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, on March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)

Iran and US conclude a fourth round of negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program in Oman

Varda Ben Baruch holds a picture of her grandson Edan Alexander, who is held hostage in Gaza, gathers with other families to call out on loudspeakers in hopes that their loved ones will hear them, near the Gaza border in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Trump envoy confirms that Hamas has agreed to release the last living US hostage in Gaza

Saudi Aramco engineers and journalists look at the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant in Hawiyah, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia on June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi oil giant Aramco announces first-quarter profits of $26 billion, down 4.6% from a year earlier

People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli airstrikes kill 23 in Gaza as outcry over aid blockade grows

A student and a teacher carry study material at UNRWA Girls School run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem, Thursday, May 8, 2025. After Israeli forces ordered the closure of six of its schools in east Jerusalem Thursday. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel closes 6 UN schools for Palestinians in east Jerusalem

Iman Abu Shabab, 30, stands next to her 7-year-old son, Hamza, who lies in bed with third-degree burns caused when, frightened by an Israeli airstrike, he spilled a hot plate of rice and lentils on himself in the family's tent in southern Gaza last month, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Burn patients face excruciating recovery as medicines dwindle under Israeli blockade of Gaza

A boy rubs his eye after tear gas was fired by Israeli Police into the yard of the UNRWA Boys' School run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

AP PHOTOS: Israel police fire tear gas into Palestinian schoolyard in Jerusalem

Laith Shweikeh, 9, sits at his desk at the UNRWA Boys' School run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Palestinian children in east Jerusalem could lose their schools as Israeli-ordered closures loom

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Why is an end to the war in Gaza so elusive?

Smoke rises to the sky in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel says it will seize Gaza. Here’s a look at the Palestinian territory’s troubled recent history

An Israeli army tank maneuvers in the Gaza Strip is seen from southern Israel, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel plans to seize Gaza under a new plan, officials say

A Lebanese man checks a polling list for his name before voting at a polling station during municipal elections in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Battered by war and economic crisis, Lebanon holds first local elections in almost 10 years

Israeli security forces inspect the site where the Israeli military said a projectile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels landed in the area of Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

A missile from Yemen halts flights in Israel hours before vote on intensifying Gaza war

Wedad Abdelaal and her husband Ammar , feed their 9 month old son Khaled, in their tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Mawasi Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on child malnutrition in Gaza

Palestinian women mourn their relatives killed in an Israeli army strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Witnesses and aid groups report a surge in looting in desperate Gaza

Palestinians clamber to receive donated food at a distribution center in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Groups fear Israeli proposal for controlling aid in Gaza will forcibly displace people

FILE.- A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others try to get donated food at a distribution center in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana,File)

Desperate children and adults in Gaza struggle to get food as Israel blocks aid

Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is moored near Split, Croatia, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Hegseth keeps 2 aircraft carriers in Middle East for another week for battle with Yemen’s Houthis

Residents of the now evacuated Palestinian refugee camp of Tulkarem return to collect belongings before the destruction of their homes as Israeli forces prepare to carry out the demolition of 116 homes across the two refugee camps of the Israeli occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israeli forces to demolish more than 100 homes in Israeli-occupied West Bank, local governor says

Palestinians receive humanitarian aid distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

UN official urges Israel to lift aid blockade of Gaza and calls it ‘cruel collective punishment’

An Emirati man is seen in the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photos/Fatima Shbair, File)

Tariffs, oil prices and other uncertainties weighing down Mideast economies, IMF says

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a temporary checkpoint in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

India fired missiles into Pakistan, which has vowed to strike back. A look at the nuclear rivals

CORRECTS NAMES TO MOHAMMED ABED, REMOVING "SAMY," AND MASSA, NOT MASHA - Mohammed Abed, center, mourns his sister Massa Abed, 4, who was killed in an Israeli army airstrike on the Gaza Strip, at the morgue of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 12 overnight in Gaza, including kids

This combo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 and Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)

Iran’s foreign minister says next round of talks with US over nuclear program will be held in Rome

President Donald Trump arrives on Marine One at the White House, Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Inside The Atlantic magazine’s circuitous route to interviews with Trump

Civil defence workers and Lebanese soldiers gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah leader calls on government to work harder to end Israel’s attacks on Lebanon

Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is moored near Split, Croatia, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Fighter jet slips off the hangar deck of a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, one minor injury

Relatives mourn over the bodies of several members of the Abu Mahdi family, killed in an Israeli army airstrike, during their funeral at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 27 Palestinians

Pregnant Palestinian woman Yasmine Siam undergoes an ultrasound scan at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. She suffered a miscarriage a few days later. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

AP PHOTOS: A pregnant woman under Israel’s blockade in Gaza fears for her baby

Doctors weigh a Palestinian baby at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Muwasi, near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Takeaways from AP’s report on the growing dangers for pregnant women in Gaza’s ruins