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Osama Abu Mosabbah, mourns his wife and two children who were killed in an Israeli army airstrike on the Gaza Strip, during their funeral at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli strikes kill at least 85 in Gaza as Israel allows more aid into Palestinian territory

Israel is pressing ahead with its new military offensive in Gaza despite mounting international criticism. The Israeli military launched airstrikes Tuesday that health officials said killed at least 85 Palestinians.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a reception following the UK-EU summit, in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Hannah McKay/Pool via AP)

UK suspends free trade talks with Israel and announces sanctions over West Bank settlers

Farmers visit the Nampo agricultural fair, one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, near Bothaville, South Africa, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. White Afrikaner farmers reject that

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU defense ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

The EU says it will lift sanctions on Syria but leave those on the former Assad regime

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel is letting a trickle of aid into Gaza for the first time in 2 1/2 months. Here’s what to know

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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a statement, outside 10 Downing Street, London, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Sunak has set the date of July 4, 2024 for the national election to determine who governs the UK. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

British prime minister sets July 4 election as his Conservatives face biggest challenge in a decade

File — A photo of former South African President Nelson Mandela on display at the Nelson Mandela Legacy Exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 27, 2013. Today the ruling African National Congress (ANC) faces growing dissatisfaction from many who feel it has failed to live up to its promises. (AP Photo, File)

South Africa election: How Mandela’s once revered ANC lost its way with infighting and scandals

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FILE - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, right, and then Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, greet supporters at a rally in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, July 1, 2019. Sheinbaum, Mexico’s ruling party presidential candidate, slipped up during a campaign speech Friday, May 10, 2024, and said López Obrador was motivated by “personal ambition,” but later acknowledged the phrase “could be misinterpreted.” In Mexico it is used to describe a desire for personal economic gain. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s presidential front-runner walks a thin, tense line in following outgoing populist

Russia is waging a shadow war on the West that needs a collective response, Estonian leader says

UN says aid entering Gaza is ‘only a drop in the ocean’ of what is needed

Israel has begun allowing a trickle of food and medicine into the Gaza Strip after sealing the territory’s 2 million Palestinians off from all imports for more than 2 1/2 months.

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A boat, with gasoline to be taken to illegal mining machinery, maneuvers past an area that was mined near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Colombia lost huge area to deforestation in 6 months, public watchdog report warns

A lioness is carried to a transport cage at the animal refuge Ostok Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Culiacan, Mexico, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Tigers, jaguars and elephants are the latest to flee cartel violence in Mexico’s Sinaloa

Presidential candidate George Simion speaks to media after polls closed for the second round of the country's presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Hard-right candidate who lost Romania’s presidential race contests results at top court

Chef Jose Andres attends City Harvest Presents The 2025 Gala: Carnaval at Cipriani 42nd Street on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

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Sudanese army officers inspect a recently discovered weapons storage site belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo)

Sudan’s military says it took full control of Greater Khartoum region that includes the capital

Venezuela frees US Air Force veteran considered wrongfully detained, his family says

Ugandan lawmakers pass bill to try civilians before military courts, defying concern and criticism

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, center, rings a bell to signify the start of a meeting of EU defense ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat

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UN says no aid has reached Palestinians, two days after new supplies began entering Gaza

Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of State on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio, at Senate hearing, defends Trump foreign policy as Democratic senators ask pointed questions

University students and people protest in front of the government building, six months after the deadly train station tragedy that sparked mass demonstrations against corruption, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

A Serbian court swaps prison for house arrest for 3 out of 6 jailed activists after pressure

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after departing a House Republican conference meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump expected to announce ‘Golden Dome’ space missile defenses that would cost billions

Crime scene investigators work at the site where the personal secretary and an advisor to Mexico City's mayor were killed by gunmen on a motorcycle, in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Tristan Velazquez)

The personal secretary and adviser to Mexico City’s mayor are shot dead

Families mourn and call for probe after Malian soldiers accused of massacre

Migrants gather in an area near the Libyan-Tunisia border, as Libyan security forces and Libyan Red Cross workers distribute food aid to them on Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, file)

The EU is weighing whether to deport migrants to countries they have no obvious connection to

3 coal mine workers killed in China after water rushes in

Director Harris Dickinson poses for a portrait photograph for the film 'Urchin' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Harris Dickinson is one of the most in-demand actors, but he had to direct a film first

Elon Musk gestures as he arrives for a state dinner hosted by Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in honor of President Donald Trump at Lusail Palace in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Elon Musk says he’s committed to still be Tesla’s CEO in 5 years’ time

Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir promoted to field marshal after recent skirmishes with India

Elon Musk says he’s committed to being CEO of Tesla in five years’ time

The U.K. government says it is suspending free trade talks with Israel as it announces new sanctions over the West Bank

Honey bees are pictured in a beehive in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on the "world bee day" on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

On ‘World Bee Day,’ the bees did not seem bothered. They should be

President Donald Trump, center, is joined by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, as he departs the Capitol following a meeting with the House Republican Conference, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

The Latest: Trump tries to rally divided Republicans around his ‘big beautiful bill’

A London court sentences an Egyptian man to 25 years for smuggling people from Africa to Italy

The broken masts of the Cuauhtemoc, a masted Mexican Navy training ship, is seen after it collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mexico mourns naval cadet killed when training ship collided with Brooklyn Bridge

An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

New EU and UK sanctions target Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers illicitly transporting oil

EU imposes new sanctions on Russia, targeting almost 200 shadow fleet ships

Cambodian students from Royal University of Fine Arts perform the Victory Day dancing during their reign of terror in the 1970s in an event hosted by the ruling Cambodian People's Party to mark the annual of Remembrance Day at Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge "killing field," on the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia’s ‘Day of Remembrance’ marks the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge genocide

British citizen Thomas Parker, who is accused of drug offenses, walks to a holding cell after his trial hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

A British man on trial in Bali for a drug offense pleads for a lenient sentence