AP World News

By JOSEPH WILSON and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Italians and Spaniards marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid on Saturday against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in a show of growing international anger over the two-year-old war. The protests in almost every major Spanish city had been planned

By BASSEM MROUE and ADAM GELLER Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Minutes after journalists gathered outside a Gaza hospital to survey the damage of an Israeli strike, Ibrahim Qannan pointed his camera up at the battered building as the others climbed its external stairs. Then Qannan watched in horror — while broadcasting live — as

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in Georgia used water cannons and pepper spray on Saturday to push back protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace, as the South Caucasus country held a municipal election boycotted by the main opposition blocs amid a sweeping crackdown on dissent. Tens of thousands rallied in the capital, Tbilisi,

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli army vehicle rumbles through the empty streets of a shattered neighborhood in Gaza City, and with help from a video camera, a soldier spots people standing inside a blasted out nearby building. The armored personal carrier revs its engine and moves on.

By AMANUEL GEBREMEDHIN BIRHANE Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Thousands gathered in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival, which is celebrated annually by the largest ethnic group, the Oromos, who were donning mostly white traditional attire. The Irreecha festival is held to thank God, whom the

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press JABLANICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A year after a flood and landslide swept through a tiny village in southern Bosnia, killing 19 people, residents of Jablanica say their lives will never be the same again. “It’s all deserted, it’s not like it was before,” Adisa Maslo said as the village marked

By The Associated Press Russian drones struck a Ukrainian railway station on Saturday, killing one and wounding dozens, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s rail and power grids before the fourth winter since its all-out invasion. At least 30 people were wounded in the “savage” attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said following the attack

By JAMES ROBSON Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester is coming to terms with the latest tragedy to befall the city. The attack on Thursday at a synagogue came eight years after a suicide bomber targeted an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena venue, killing 22 people and injuring many others. In 1996,

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Billionaire Andrej Babiš became another populist leader in Central Europe to stage a political comeback by winning big in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election, according to nearly complete results Saturday. That result could steer the country away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia, which have

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. police on Saturday were questioning six people arrested on suspicion of terror offenses after an attack on a synagogue in northwest England that left two people dead and Britain’s Jewish community shocked and grieving. Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police on Thursday outside the

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States accused Colombia’s president on Friday of undermining progress to lasting peace and urged its government to make combating violence and drug trafficking by “narco-terrorist groups” a priority. U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz told a U.N. Security Council meeting that President Gustavo Petro’s policies

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to health care, education, infrastructure and other services funded by Washington under treaties struck more than a century ago. Tribal nations with casinos, oil and gas leases and other independent revenue sources said

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Pro-Palestinian Protesters approached the gates of the Italy soccer team’s training center on Friday to demand an upcoming World Cup qualifier against Israel is not played because of the war in Gaza. The protest was part of a national strike by more than two million people up and down the peninsula,

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize has drawn added attention to the annual guessing game over who its next laureate will be. Longtime Nobel watchers say Trump’s prospects remain remote despite a flurry of high-profile nominations and some notable foreign policy

By DANICA KIRKA, KWIYEON HA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — One of the two Jewish men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in the English city of Manchester appears to have been accidentally shot by a police officer, according to detectives who said Friday that the attacker

By DANICA KIRKA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Bishop of London Sarah Mullally shattered a stained-glass ceiling Friday when she was announced as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the Church of England’s spiritual leader. Mullally, 63, a former cancer nurse who became England’s

By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN and RENATA BRITO Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Friday intercepted the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel’s sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza as cities around the world erupted into more protests against Israeli actions in Gaza and the arrests of some 450 activists who were

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The highest court in the Netherlands on Friday ordered the Dutch government to reevaluate its currently suspended license for exporting parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel, in response to concerns they could be used in breaches of international law. The Supreme Court said an

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Matmo weakened into a storm after barreling Friday across Philippines’ mountainous north, where thousands were evacuated, in the latest emergency for a country still dealing with a deadly earthquake and two recent storms. Matmo blew into the South China Sea before nightfall with sustained winds

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Grand Duke Guillaume swore an oath to ascend to the throne of Luxembourg on Friday in a traditional ceremony attended by royals and European heads of state. Church bells rang out just before hundreds crowded outside the Grand Palace began chanting “Guillaume, Guillaume!” as the new grand

By NINIEK KARMINI and DAVID RISING Associated Press SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Recovery crews on Friday pulled multiple bodies from beneath the rubble of a school that collapsed in Indonesia, with dozens of students still unaccounted for and the death toll expected to rise. Rescuers had been initially working by hand after the building being

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The annual march to commemorate the 1968 massacre of protesting students in Mexico’s capital was eclipsed Thursday by demands to end a humanitarian crisis halfway around the world in Gaza. The Oct. 2 march that has regularly been used not only to remember

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Almost every day for nearly a year, Gota Chanturia has joined rallies at Georgia’s parliament against the government and its increasingly repressive policies. He’s done this despite mass arrests and police violence against demonstrators. And the civics teacher keeps marching even though he’s