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This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows a wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Sunday July 17, 2022. Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in France and Spain on Sunday as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities in Madrid blamed for hundreds of deaths. (SDIS 33 via AP)

France fights spreading wildfires as heat wave fries Europe

France is scrambling more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to combat spreading wildfires being fed by hot swirling winds from a searing heat wave broiling much of Europe. With … more

7/18/22

FILE - Deputy General Secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) Jesse Duarte,left, listens as Secretary General of the African National Congress, (ANC) Ace Magashule, makes a statement at a briefing at the ANC headquarters in downtown Johannesburg, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to Duarte, who died Sunday, July 17, 2022 after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Leading official of South Africa's ruling ANC party dies

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the long-serving deputy secretary-general of his ruling African National Congress party Jessie Duarte, who died Sunday after a long battle … more

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME | 7/17/22

Dry, cracked land is visible in The Boca reservoir that supplies water to the northern city of Monterrey is almost dry as the northern part of Mexico is affected by an intense drought, in Santiago, Mexico, Saturday, July 9, 2022. Local authorities began restricting water supplies in March, as a combination of an intense drought, poor planning and high use has left the three dams that help supply the city dried up, with thousands of homes not receiving any water for weeks. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Drought in northern Mexico threatening livelihoods

Restaurant owner Leticia Rodríguez celebrated the construction late last year of a new lakeside boulevard in this northern Mexico town that she hoped would draw more people to her business. But now … more

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ | 7/17/22

FILE- Minister for regional relations Caroline Cayeux poses before the Bastille Day parade Thursday, July 14, 2022 in Paris. Pressure is mounting on a French government minister to quit over comments stigmatizing homosexuality and LGBTQ people, in the latest challenge to President Emmanuel Macron's leadership. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

'Those people': French minister's LGBTQ remarks spark anger

Pressure is mounting on a French government minister to quit over comments stigmatizing homosexuality and LGBTQ people. The issue is the latest challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership. … more

By ANGELA CHARLTON | 7/17/22

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope seeks prayers for his 'penitential' Canadian pilgrimage

Pope Francis has asked for prayers to accompany him on what he is calling his “penitential” pilgrimage to Canada, to apologize to Indigenous groups for abuses inflicted by Catholic institutions. … more

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | 7/17/22

This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows a Canadair plane fighting wildfire near La Teste-de-Buch, southwestern France, Saturday, July 16, 2022. Strong winds and hot, dry weather are frustrating French firefighters' efforts to contain a huge wildfire that raced across pine forests in the Bordeaux region Saturday for a fifth straight day, one of several scorching Europe in recent days. (SDIS 33 via AP)

Fires scorch France, Spain; temperature-related deaths soar

Firefighters are struggling to contain wildfires in France and Spain as Europe wilts under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities link to a rise in excess mortality. Two blazes that have … more

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JOSEPH WILSON | 7/17/22

A memorial is pictured near a train car symbolizing the Drancy camp, at the Shoah memorial Tuesday, July 12, 2022 in Drancy, outside Paris. The Paris mayor and head of the French Holocaust Memorial will mark the 80th anniversary of the round-up of the Vel d'Hiv, the biggest Nazi roundup of Jews in France, visiting the site used as an internment camp during World War II for tens of thousands of people who were then sent on to Auschwitz and other death camps. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris roundup

France is holding ceremonies Sunday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of a mass roundup of Jews in Paris under the Nazi occupation. French police rounded up 13,000 people on two terrifying days in … more

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JADE LE DELEY | 7/17/22

Zimbabwean high school World and European moot court competition champions arrive back at the Robert Mugabe International airport in Harare, Thursday, July, 7, 2022. A history-making team of Zimbabwean high school students that became world and European moot court competition champions has been widely praised in a country where the education system is beset by poor funding, lack of materials and teachers’ strikes. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe students scoop international awards for moot court

A history-making team of Zimbabwean high school students that became world and European moot court competition champions has been widely praised in a country where the education system is beset by … more

By FARAI MUTSAKA | 7/17/22

FILE Pokrovsk mayor Ruslan Trebushkin, throws dirt on the coffin of 40-year-old Volodymyr Miroshnychenko who was killed on the frontlines of Marinka, after his funeral procession, in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 15, 2022. Ukrainians living in the path of Russia's invasion in the besieged eastern Donetsk region are bracing themselves for the possibility that they will have to evacuate. The mayor of Pokrovsk is mentally preparing for a military-ordered evacuation in which he would be among the last to leave. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

'I worry about this place': A day in Ukraine's Donetsk

Ukrainians living in the path of Russia's invasion in the eastern Donetsk region are also fighting personal battles as the front line moves closer. The mayor of Pokrovsk is mentally preparing for a … more

By CARA ANNA | 7/17/22

Flames are seen at the site of a plane crash, a few miles away from the city of Kavala, in northern Greece, Saturday, July 16, 2022. An Antonov cargo plane operated by a Ukraine-based air carrier crashed Saturday near the city of Kavala in northern Greece, authorities said. Greek Civil Aviation authorities say the flight was heading from Serbia to Jordan, but have not been able to confirm how many people were on board or what the plane's cargo was. (Ilias Kotsireas/InTime News via AP)

Cargo plane operated by Ukraine carrier crashes in Greece

An Antonov cargo plane operated by a Ukraine-based airline has crashed near the city of Kavala in northern Greece. Civil Aviation authorities say the flight was heading from Serbia to Jordan, but … more

By COSTAS KANTOURIS | 7/16/22

Passengers queue for ferries at the Port of Dover, during the hot weather, in Kent, England, Saturday July 16, 2022. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

UK to holds emergency response meeting ahead of record heat

The British government is set to hold an emergency response meeting Saturday to plan for record high temperatures after authorities issued their first ever “red” warning for extreme heat early … more

7/16/22

FILE - Paola e Claudio Regeni, the parents of tortured and killed student Giulio Regeni, with their lawyer Alessandra Ballerini, left, walk outside the courthouse in Rome, on April 29, 2021. The Court of Cassation ruled in Rome on Friday evening there were no grounds to appeal a lower court decision that held the trial couldn't go forward because the defendants hadn't received official notification of the charges. Twenty-eight-year-old Giulio Regeni was doing doctoral research on Egyptian labor unions in Cairo in 2016 when he was abducted, tortured and slain. Family lawyer Alessandra Ballerini called Friday's decision a “wound for justice for all Italians.” (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy's top court: murder trial of Egyptians can't proceed

Italy's top criminal court has rebuffed prosecutors' efforts to revive the trial of high-level Egyptian security officials in the torture and slaying of an Italian student. The Court of Cassation … more

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | 7/16/22

FILE - A field of sunflowers is within sight of the Mehrum coal-fired power station, wind turbines and high-voltage lines in Mehrum, Germany, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany’s decision to reactivate coal and oil-fired power plants to relieve energy shortages because of the war in Ukraine is only temporary and his government remains committed to doing “everything” to combat the climate crisis. (Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP, File)

Scholz: Germany's increased coal, oil use will be temporary

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany’s decision to reactivate coal and oil-fired power plants to relieve energy shortages because of the war in Ukraine is only temporary and his government remains … more

7/16/22

Sparks from an explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ali)

Israel strikes Gaza target in response to rocket fire

The Israeli military says it has attacked a Hamas military site in the Gaza Strip in response to a pair of rocket attacks overnight. Saturday’s exchange took place hours after U.S. President Joe … more

7/16/22

This photo provided Friday July 15, 2022 by the fire brigade of the Gironde region (SDIS 33) shows a wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Thursday, July 14, 2022. Several hundred firefighters struggled Friday to contain two wildfires in the Bordeaux region of southwest France that have forced the evacuation of 10,000 people and ravaged more than 7,000 hectares of land. High temperatures and strong winds have complicated firefighting efforts in the region, one of several around Europe scorched by wildfires this season. (SDIS 33 via AP)

Bordeaux blazes rage, firefighting pilot killed in Portugal

Strong winds and hot, dry weather are frustrating French firefighters’ efforts to contain a huge wildfire that raced across pine forests in the Bordeaux region Saturday for a fifth straight day. … more

7/16/22

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi talks during a meeting with US President Joe Biden, Saturday, July 16, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iraq's PM to push for regional dialogue at Mideast summit

Iraq’s caretaker prime minister, whose country is mired in political crisis, says it is in Iraq’s interest to keep pushing for a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to ease regional … more

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | 7/16/22

South Korean police officers walk during the 23rd Seoul Queer Parade in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 16, 2022. Thousands of gay rights supporters celebrated under a heavy police guard in the South Korean capital on Saturday as they marked the city’s first Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korean capital celebrates 1st Pride parade in 3 years

Thousands of gay rights supporters are celebrating under a heavy police guard the South Korean capital's first Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus. Police are on alert Saturday as … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 7/16/22

FILE - Britain's Mo Farah poses for the media at a photocall near Tower Bridge in London, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. It is hard to be first. Mo Farah this week went from being a gold medal-winning runner to the most prominent person ever to come forward as a victim of people trafficking. The four-time Olympic champion’s decision to tell the story of how he was exploited as a child gives a face to the often faceless victims of modern slavery, highlighting a crime that is often conflated with illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, FILE)

Mo Farah's story draws horror, understanding in Somalia

Many Somalis are reacting with horror — and a sense of understanding — at British runner Mo Farah’s tale of being trafficked to Britain as a child and forced to look after other children. … more

By OMAR FARUK | 7/16/22

Children play in a park as air raids go off, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 14, 2022. It’s well known that many of the residents of eastern Ukraine who refuse to heed authorities’ calls to flee are older ones. It’s jarring, then, to explore the streets of communities close to the front line and spot children. Unlike the adults who decide to stay, the children have their fate tied to the wishes of their parents. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

'Bang, bang': Children live and play near Ukraine front line

In eastern Ukraine's Kramatorsk, a few children still can be seen on mostly empty playgrounds as artillery sounds in the distance against Russian invaders. Authorities plead with residents of the … more

By CARA ANNA | 7/16/22

FILE - A Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at St Charles' Centre for Health and Wellbeing in London, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. Everyone in Britain who is 50 or over will be offered a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in the fall it was announced Friday, July 15, 2022, lowering the age threshold from the previously announced 65. The Department of Health said it had accepted advice from the U.K.’s independent vaccines adviser about the autumn booster program. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)

UK to offer 4th COVID-19 vaccine shot to all 50 and over

Everyone in Britain who is 50 or over will be offered a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in the fall, lowering the age threshold from the previously announced 65. The Department of Health said it … more

7/15/22