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By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister announced his resignation Tuesday in the first formal step of what is expected to be a significant reshuffle of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government, which could also see the country’s ambassador to Washington replaced. “I am tendering my resignation from the post of the

By SAMUEL GETACHEW Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — International aid organization Doctors Without Borders on Tuesday released a report describing the gunning-down of three staffers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region four years ago as an “intentional and targeted killing” by members of Ethiopia’s military. Ethiopia’s government hasn’t commented on the new report and didn’t

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Malnutrition rates among children in the Gaza Strip have doubled since Israel sharply restricted the entry of food in March, the U.N. said Tuesday. New Israeli strikes killed more than 90 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children, according to health officials. Hunger has

By GIADA ZAMPANO and ANDREA ROSA Associated Press POMPEII, Italy (AP) — A mosaic panel on travertine slabs, depicting an erotic theme from the Roman era, was returned to the archaeological park of Pompeii on Tuesday, after being stolen by a Nazi German captain during World War II. The artwork was repatriated from Germany through

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the U.K. after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the Taliban could target them, the British government revealed Tuesday. The government said it is closing the program, which

By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BUSRA AL-HARIR, Syria (AP) — Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in southern Sweida province on Tuesday, a day after sectarian clashes killed dozens there. Neighboring Israel again launched strikes on Syrian military forces, saying it was protecting

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court on Tuesday rejected a case brought by Yemeni plaintiffs who argued the German government failed in a duty to protect relatives who they say were killed in a 2012 drone strike against an attack controlled with help from a U.S. military base in Germany. Ruling in a case that

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private spaceflight featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary came to a close Tuesday with a Pacific splashdown. Their SpaceX capsule undocked from the I nternational Space Station on Monday and parachuted into the ocean off

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is seeking updates — and more action — from Israel on implementing a new deal to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Tuesday. Foreign ministers from the EU’s 27 member nations were meeting in Brussels in the

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government suffered a serious blow on Tuesday when an ultra-Orthodox party announced it was bolting the coalition. While this doesn’t immediately threaten Netanyahu’s rule, it could set in motion his government’s demise, although that could still be months away. It

By HELI SIVUNEN Associated Press UTSJOKI, Finland (AP) — It was well past midnight when Mihkku Laiti appeared on stage to perform at an open-air music festival in the Finnish village of Utsjoki, north of the Arctic circle. Despite the time, Lapland’s famous midnight sun was still up. During the summer months the sun doesn’t

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MANRESA, Spain (AP) — Josep Lluís Iriberri helps celebrate Mass at a mountaintop basilica, swaps his priest’s robe for a hiking backpack and rallies his latest group of pilgrims literally following him in the footsteps of the 16th-century St. Ignatius. Iriberri is the do-it-all Jesuit who designed the pilgrimage route

By KEN MORITSUGU and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he complained to China’s President Xi Jinping during a meeting on Tuesday about a Chinese naval live-fire exercise off the Australian coast that forced commercial aircraft to change course. The exercise, held in February, saw a Chinese flotilla