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By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The long-held secrets of the Kahlo family, including those of legendary artist Frida, are about to be unlocked for the world with the opening of the Casa Kahlo Museum this weekend. Although located very close to the iconic Casa Azul in Coyoacán’s historic center, the Casa

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang told a group of American business executives Thursday that the U.S. and his country need “to work in the same direction” to further what he called “the most important bilateral partnership in the world.” Li told the roughly 20 executives and others

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LEE KEATH Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Speaking over video after the United States denied his visa, the Palestinian leader told world leaders Thursday that his people reject the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and pledged that the militant group would have no role in governing the Gaza Strip after

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — There is an intimate portrait of a lesbian couple, a painting of young naked men enjoying themselves by the water and one of a flamboyantly dressed, androgynously looking person at a fairground. Queer art has often been neglected and marginalized in the past but a new

By WAFAA SHURAFA, DAVID RISING and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck houses and tents in central and southern Gaza Thursday, crushing families inside and killing at least 17 people, including 10 children and three women, local health officials said, as international pressure for a ceasefire continued to grow.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two major news agencies demanded that Israel explain what happened during a strike on a hospital in Gaza last month that killed five journalists, calling for concrete actions and accountability to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Reuters and The Associated Press — through their top

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world, an underground river that crisscrosses borders and continents and spills over into violence, addiction and suffering. Yet when nations’ leaders give the U.N. their annual take on big issues, drugs don’t usually

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Tattoo artists in South Korea will no longer need to worry about being punished for doing their jobs, as the country’s parliament on Thursday approved a landmark bill to end a requirement that anyone who gives a tattoo must have a medical license. South Korea

By SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya, a verdict that the still-influential conservative leader denounced as

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Ragasa weakened into a tropical depression early Thursday as it entered northeastern Vietnam, but it is still expected to bring heavy rains across the country’s northern provinces. By Thursday afternoon, the typhoon’s sustained winds had weakened to a maximum 55 kph (34

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Thursday as the Republican leader has indicated that the U.S. government’s hold on sales of advanced fighter jets to Ankara may soon be lifted. During Trump’s first term, the United

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was the victim of “three very sinister events” during his time at the United Nations on Tuesday and that the Secret Service will be looking into the issues. The president was attending the U.N. General Assembly, where he gave a

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used his speech at the United Nations General-Assembly to criticize the unilateral moves by his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump. He will leave with a pledge to discuss tariffs with the American leader — and a political

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Belarusian president, whose iron-fisted rule earned him the nickname of “Europe’s Last Dictator,” wants to fool President Donald Trump with gestures like prisoner releases, the exiled leader of Belarus’ opposition told The Associated Press on Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Trump

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JACK BROOK Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday named a successor to embattled New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million proposed settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse amid an ongoing bankruptcy process. Bishop James Checchio of

BY SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With China leading the way by announcing its first emission cuts, world leaders said Wednesday they are getting more serious about fighting climate change and the deadly extreme weather that comes with it. At the United Nations’ high-level climate summit, Chinese president Xi

By FATMA KHALED Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An aid worker and a local group in Sudan said a drone strike by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed 15 people at a bustling market in the besieged city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. The strike on Tuesday came only a few days

By JENNIFER PELTZ and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Turning the page on decades of distance, Syria’s president addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, marking the first time any president from his country has done so in almost 60 years. As he spoke, hundreds of people gathered in front of giant

By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN, SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday, according to medics. It was a rare breach of Israel’s sophisticated missile defenses, which have greatly limited casualties from such attacks. In the

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — It would have been natural for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to address the U.N. General Assembly in the 80th anniversary year of the founding of the United Nations. But he won’t. Instead, Premier Li Qiang is speaking at this week’s annual meeting in the latest example of

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told global leaders Wednesday that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in human history” and urged the international community to act against Russia now, asserting that Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe. In a bleak

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warned on Wednesday that Russia is spending hundreds of millions of euros to “take power” in a pivotal parliamentary election that could derail the country’s course toward the European Union. Recean’s remarks came days before the election on Sunday, when Moldovans

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Activists taking part in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza said Wednesday that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece. The Global Sumud Flotilla said it was attacked during the night by “unidentified drones and

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Addressing the world’s leaders, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday blamed the United States and Israeli attacks for “dealing a grievous blow” to peace negotiations as Tehran braces for the reinstatement of sanctions in the next week, barring a last-minute diplomatic breakthrough. Hours

By VOLODYMYR YURCHUK and ALEX BABENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians were cautious Wednesday in their response to a surprise pivot in U.S. President Donald Trump’s views on their prospects for defeating Russia’s invasion, after he said they could win the three-year war and retake land captured by Moscow. Russian officials, meanwhile, said

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone crashed into the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon but didn’t cause any casualties, the force said in a statement Wednesday. The force, known as UNIFIL, said that by flying drones over Lebanon Israel was violating a U.N. Security Council resolution that helped end the 14-month

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Soon people will be able to use satellite technology and artificial intelligence to track dangerous soot pollution in their neighborhoods — and where it comes from — in a way not so different from monitoring approaching storms under plans by a nonprofit coalition led by