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Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022. The yearlong war in Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides, disrupted energy and food supplies, and reduced whole cities to ruins. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

As the Ukraine war reaches its 3-year mark, Russia seems to have time on its side as talks start

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago has turned into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II.
 
This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)

Israel confirms 4 dead hostages who will be returned from Gaza include young family

 
A militant stands next to the coffins containing the bodies of hostages, from right to left, Shiri Bibas, her two children, Ariel and Kfir and Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was abducted before their are handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel grieves as Hamas turns over the remains said to be of a mother and her 2 young children

 
This undated photo provided by Hostage's Family Forum shows Israeli hostage Oded Lifshitz who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostage's Family Forum via AP)

Who are the hostages freed by Hamas as part of the ceasefire in Gaza?

 
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Trump’s freeze on foreign aid could give China an opening on the world stage

 

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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

 

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

     
    Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, center, speaks to Brig. Giles Harris, commander of British forces in Estonia, left, and Ross Allen, British ambassador to Estonia, at an undisclosed location in Estonia on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Kallas was visiting the country's largest defense exercises. (AP Photo/Hendrik Osula)

Emergency services at scene as official says Russian strike hits residential building in Kherson

A Russian strike hit a residential high-rise building in Kherson overnight, the region’s head said on Thursday. Six people suffered injuries in the attack, including twins aged 14, according to Oleksandr Prokudin.
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In this photo provided to the media by the Guardian Civil, a drug smuggling tunnel stretching from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in north Africa is seen in Ceuta, Spain, Thursday Feb. 20, 2025. (Guardia Civil via AP)

Police discover drug-smuggling tunnel linking Morocco and Spanish enclave of Ceuta

 
FILE -A Birkenstock sandal is pictured in Birkenstock store in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Can sandals be art? Birkenstock says yes, but a German court says no

 
Police officers stand guard in a shopping area in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, at the site where two women have died in a knife attack, Thursday, Feb 20, 2025. (Josef Costarek/CTK via AP)

Teenager detained after 2 killed in a knife attack at shopping center in Czech Republic

 

Officials say 2 people were killed in a knife attack in a store in Czech Republic

 
A bus, believed to be carrying Chinese nationals who have worked at scam centers in eastern Myanmar, crosses the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province before being flown back to China on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Sarot Meksophawannakul)

China begins repatriation from Thailand of more than 1,000 online scam workers rescued from Myanmar

 
In this photo provided by the South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber, top second from left, F-16 fighter jet and South Korean Air Force F-15K fighter jets, right bottom, fly over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea during a joint aerial drill between South Korea and the United States, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)

South Korean and US forces conduct combined exercise involving B-1B bomber

 
In this photo released by The State Duma, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to lawmakers during a session at the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (The State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament via AP)

Russia’s Lavrov joins top European diplomats at G20 meeting in South Africa

 

Outlawed Pakistani separatist group claims killing of 7 in bus attack in restive southwest

 

Israel says it has received remains of captives handed over by Hamas as part of Gaza ceasefire

 
People walk in front of the main entrance of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope is sitting up out of bed at hospital as he recovers from pneumonia

 

Hamas displays 4 black coffins on a stage in Gaza ahead of handover of hostage remains

 

Red Cross vehicles arrive at Gaza location where Hamas is to hand over remains of 4 hostages

 
South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (Yonhap via AP)

Kim Sae-ron’s death underscores the huge pressure on South Korean celebrities

 
Election posters showing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and CDU top candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Germany votes Sunday for a new government that will shape Europe’s response to an assertive Trump

 
This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)

Hamas returns bodies of 4 Israeli hostages said to include a mother and her 2 young children

 

Outrage over Indian YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia raises social media regulation concerns

 
In this photo provided by the Australian Defense Force, the People's Liberation Army-Navy Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang travels in the Torres Strait off Australia's coast, on Feb. 11, 2025. (Australian Defense Force via AP)

The Australian and New Zealand militaries are monitoring 3 Chinese warships off Australia

 
Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Stock market today: Global shares trade mixed amid uncertainty over Trump’s policies

 
President Donald Trump arrivals at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump signs order aimed at ending federal benefits for some immigrants

 
U.S. first lady Melania Trump walks along the Mutianyu Great Wall section in Beijing on Nov. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

As Melania Trump returns to the White House, she’s winning Chinese fans

 
A protester wearing a mask of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends with his fellow protesters during a rally calling for Yoon to step down in front of the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. The signs read "Impeach Yoon Suk Yeol quickly." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Yoon appears in 2 different South Korean courts while defending his martial law decree

 
Canada fans cheer on their team as they take to the ice ahead of their 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game against the United States in Montreal, Saturday, February 15, 2025. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP)

U.S. and Canada want to put the new Cold War on ice and play a 4 Nations hockey final for the ages

 
Tears run down Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's face as he becomes emotional while speaking during a community gathering to celebrate a land title agreement with the Haida Nation, in Skidegate, British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian government pledges billions for high-speed rail network linking Quebec City and Toronto

 
Migrants deported from the United States wave to the press from inside a hotel in Panama City, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera)

Panama sends 97 deportees from US to the Darien camp after they refused to return to their countries

 
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cisse films the arrival of mourners at a memorial service for Senegalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane in Dakar, Senegal, June 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, pioneer of African cinema, has died at age 84

 
People board the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was taken by M23 rebels Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)

Advance of Rwanda-backed rebels in Congo threatens regional peace, UN officials warn

 
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa, running for re-election, waves after accompanying his running mate, Maria Jose Pinto, to cast her ballot during the presidential elections in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Carlos Noriega)

Ecuador will seek foreign military aid to combat drug cartels as violence surges

 
Walt Traywick uses an axe to break up frozen water in a stock tank while working on his farm Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Luther, Okla. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold

 
This image taken from video released by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, shows the crashed plane of Delta flight 4819 at Toronto Pearson International Airport, in Mississauga, Ontario, on Tuesday, Feb. 18. (Transportation Safety Board of Canada via AP)

What’s the key to surviving a plane crash? Skilled crew, strong seats and wings that detach

 
Cargo containers sit stacked as cranes load and unload containers from cargo ships at the Cristobal port, operated by the Panama Ports Company, in Colon, Tuesday, Panama, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Labor unions call on Trump to boost US shipbuilding against increasing Chinese dominance