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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts from its vast ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples from Canada, as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. Pope Leo XIV gave the artifacts, including an iconic Inuit kayak,

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The almighty eagle perched on a cactus while devouring a serpent on Mexico’s flag hints at the myth behind the foundation of the country’s capital. It’s a divine sign in an ancient legend, according to which the god Huitzilopochtli asked a group called the Mexica

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before the revelation of a multimillion dollar embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company brought his name to the forefront, Tymur Mindich was a shadowy presence — navigating deals and moving behind the scenes with unseen influence, known to many, yet rarely spoken

By WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he had successfully eased hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand, saying that he’d been able to preserve a previous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire that had appeared to be breaking down. “I stopped a war just today,” Trump told reporters aboard Air

By GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Rockets were fired at a home in Syria’s capital on Friday night, wounding several people and causing damage, state media reported. It wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the rocket attack in Damascus’ western neighborhood of Mazzeh 86. The Syrian defense ministry said in a statement

By ANTON L. DELGADO Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference on Friday to send a message to Japan: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and other regions of the Global South. The Stop Japan’s Dirty Energy Plans protest aligned

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THANASSIS STAVRAKIS Associated Press ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece (AP) — Under a low November sun, a hillside in rural Greece offered a glimpse of war in the near-future. Helicopters skimmed tree lines and infantry units scrambled across a firing range through bursts of smoke and thunderous explosions. Above them, a constellation of drones

PARIS (AP) — A man wielding a knife at the Montparnasse train station in Paris was shot and wounded by police on Friday, the city’s prosecutor’s office said. At least one shot was fired during the incident involving a man “known for domestic violence,” a statement said. It added that the man then apparently inflicted

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA AND MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The top court in the Central African Republic on Friday cleared President Faustin Archange Touadera to run in December’s election, a contest that will unfold amid a deepening security crisis and the leader’s growing reliance on Russia for protection. The

By ANTON L. DELGADO, SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil set out to host this year’s United Nations climate talks with a promise to spotlight Indigenous peoples whose way of life depends on the Amazon rainforest. Those groups are seizing the chance. For the second time this week, Indigenous

By DAVID KLEPPER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked

By NINIEK KARMINI and ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Jordan’s king and Indonesia’s leader on Friday held talks as the two longtime friends agreed to strengthen military cooperation and economic ties between the two Muslim-majority nations. King Abdullah II and President Prabowo Subianto share a long-standing personal relationship as alumni of the

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a major river, killing 19 people and devastating villages downstream. High Court Justice Finola O’Farrell said

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months in the strategic waterway. Iran did not acknowledge the

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (AP) — Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfilling the terms of the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement. The bodies were returned after militants late Thursday handed over the body

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China began sea trials of its most advanced amphibious assault ship on Friday, only a week after commissioning its latest aircraft carrier as part of the rapid modernization of its navy, which is already the world’s largest. The Sichuan Type 076 vessel, which set sail from Shanghai’s

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday after more than a week’s delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris. The team left their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in orbit and came back using the

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The BBC apologized Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his speech on Jan. 6, 2021 but said it had not defamed him, rejecting the basis for his $1 billion lawsuit threat. The BBC said Chair Samir Shah sent a personal letter to

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S. proposal to provide a United Nations mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza is facing opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries, which have expressed unease about a yet-to-be established board that would temporarily govern the territory and

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday designated four European left-wing groups as terrorist organizations, following through on his vow to crack down on leftists after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The networks targeted by Trump’s Republican administration all appear to be based in Europe, with no operations in

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s foreign minister officially reopened the country’s embassy in London on Thursday after more than a decade-long closure, the latest step in Syria’s reintegration into the international community after the ouster of former President Bashar Assad. The visit by Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani to the United Kingdom came after a historic visit

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Thursday that militants have handed over the body of one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza. Israel identified the returned body as that of Meny Godard, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel. His wife,

By KWIYEON HA and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British political commentator Sami Hamdi said Thursday on his arrival back in the U.K. that he was considering suing U.S. authorities for his detention in an immigration detention center over what he claims were his views on Gaza and Israel. Two days after revealing

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s interior minister said Thursday that Afghan nationals carried out two fatal suicide attacks this week — one targeting a cadet college near the Afghan border and the other outside a court in the capital, Islamabad. “In both of the suicide bombings, Afghan citizens were involved, and

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments calling for a halt to the flow of military support coming to Sudan’s paramilitary fighters from abroad may jeopardize global efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire, a senior adviser to the paramilitary group’s commander said on Thursday. Rubio said at

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As the man formerly known as Prince Andrew was drawn into the news surrounding sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he sought to distance himself from the scandal. “I can’t take any more of this,” a sender identified in Epstein’s contacts as “The Duke” wrote to him in 2011,