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By SAMY MAGDY, WAFAA SHURAFA and MARIAM FAM Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians in Gaza were following the latest effort to stop the war there and release the hostages with a mix of anticipation, cautious optimism and skepticism as Israeli and Hamas officials met Monday for indirect talks in Egypt. “We’re

By MATTHEW LEE, LISA MASCARO and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugees into the U.S. this year — as few as 7,500, and mostly white South Africans, officials say — a dramatic new low as the administration is conducting sweeping immigration raids as part of

By MELANIE LIDMAN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities said Monday they deported to Greece and Slovakia another 171 people detained for taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, including prominent Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X that “the deportees were citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland,

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in a campaign of atrocities committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur more than 20 years ago. It was the first time the court has convicted

By ANSELM GIBBS Associated Press PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Kenrick Modie finished untangling his fishing net in a quiet Caribbean village. As he slipped into a hammock at his home overlooking the sea, he worried that his life and livelihood could be wiped out by a U.S. military strike. Modie lives

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Long-range Ukrainian drones and missiles hit a major Russian ammunition plant, a key oil terminal and an important weapons depot behind the front line, Ukraine’s president and military said Monday, as Kyiv cranked up pressure on Moscow’s military logistics. The Sverdlov ammunition plant in the Nizhny

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank. Leo completely abrogated the 2022 law that had decreed that management of the Holy See’s assets was

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after less than a month in office on Monday and less than 24 hours after naming a new government that prompted a key coalition ally to withdraw support. The move deepened the country’s political crisis and left President

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers were scouring India’s northeastern tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling on Monday for those reported missing a day after landslides triggered by heavy downpours killed at least 24 people, officials said. Teams of Indian army personnel and members of the disaster response force were searching for people who are feared trapped

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister. Takaichi, 64, immediately needs to seek ways to get her long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party to stay in power

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press One child was shot while sitting on her mother’s lap. Another, hit by an airstrike as he stepped inside his home. Two others, killed while playing outside with friends. Israeli gunfire has killed at least 18 children under the age of 15 in the occupied West Bank this year, according

By MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — UNESCO is slated to have its first director from the Arab world after an Egyptian former tourism and antiquities minister, Khaled el-Anani, was nominated by the agency’s executive board Monday. If confirmed by UNESCO’s general assembly next month, el-Anani will inherit an agency reeling from the Trump

BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers were helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, Chinese state media said. About 350 hikers had reached a meeting point in Tingri country and rescuers were in contact with another 200, state broadcaster CCTV said late Sunday. There was

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The leaders of Australia and Papua New Guinea signed a major bilateral defense treaty Monday that China believes targets it unfairly. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape described the agreement as a mutual defense treaty that will enable unprecedented

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Priscilla has formed in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Mexico, with heavy rain and gusty winds affecting coastal areas. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Sunday that Priscilla’s maximum sustained winds were 75 mph (120 kph) and that the storm was located about 285 miles (460 kilometers) south-southwest

The Associated Press Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, starts at sundown Monday and continues through Monday, Oct. 13. Sukkot is considered one of the most joyful festivals on the Jewish calendar — distinctive in that it explicitly encourages Jews to rejoice and discourages public mourning. Descriptions of these

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s new prime minister named a government Sunday, bringing back former finance minister Bruno Le Maire to serve at the defense ministry, where he’ll help oversee French military support for Ukraine and address threats to European security posed by Russia. Other key positions in the new cabinet,

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali government forces successfully ended a six-hour siege by militants at a major prison located near the president’s office in the capital, Mogadishu, killing all seven attackers, the government said Sunday. The government said no civilian or security officers were killed in the Saturday attack, which

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities marched Sunday in support of Palestinians and an aid flotilla ’s attempt to reach Gaza. Istanbul held the largest of multiple demonstrations being staged in Turkey. Footage showed crowds walking from the iconic Hagia Sophia to the banks

By OMAR SANDIKI and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria on Sunday held its first parliamentary elections, nearly a year after a rebel-led offensive unseated longtime autocratic leader Bashar Assad. The People’s Assembly will be tasked with passing a new elections law and constitution as the country moves through its post-Assad

By SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Hamas prepared for indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday, as hopes for a possible ceasefire in Gaza grew after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a hostage release could be announced this week. Tuesday marks two years since the Hamas attack that sparked

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Landslides, a lighting strike and floodings triggered by severe rainfall killed at least 44 people in Nepal on Sunday, with five others reported missing, authorities said. Those killed included at least 37 people in the eastern mountain district of Illam, where whole villages were swept away

By TRISNADI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers searching for missing students after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed last week recovered the bodies of dozens of students over the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 49. Using heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers, circular saws and

By VERONICA ANDREA SAUCHELLI and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Some of the activists detained while trying to reach Gaza by sea have returned to their home countries to describe mistreatment at the hands of Israeli guards, claims that Israel denies. Some 450 activists were arrested as Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud

By The Associated Press At least five civilians died after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight into Sunday, in a major nighttime attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure. Moscow sent over 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones into nine regions across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on