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People walk in the excavation site of the ancient Roman emperor Nero's theater, 1st century AD, backdropped by the church of Santo Spirito in Sassia, during a press preview, in Rome, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. The ruins of Nero's Theater, an imperial theater referred to ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the garden of the future Four Season's Hotel, steps from the Vatican, after excavating the walled garden of the Palazzo della Rovere since 2020, as part of planned renovations on the Renaissance building. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Ruins of ancient Nero's Theater discovered under garden of future Four Seasons near Vatican

Rome’s next luxury hotel has some very good bones. Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater have been discovered under the garden of the future Four Seasons Hotel. Ancient … more

By NICOLE WINFIELD | 7/26/23

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the CPC Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, attends the 13th Meeting of BRICS National Security Advisers and High Representatives on National Security in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. China removed its sometimes outspoken foreign minister Qin Gang on Tuesday and replaced him with his predecessor Wang Yi at an unusually scheduled meeting, a move that has fueled rumors about what might be going on with the nation's Communist Party elite. (Zhang Yudong/Xinhua via AP)

China's sharp-tongued foreign minister is ousted, but his combative style is expected to continue

China’s sharp-tongued foreign minister, Qin Gang, was something of an avatar for nationalist Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping, warning of “conflict and confrontation” with the … more

7/26/23

Iran gives 'detailed answers' to UN inspectors over 2 sites where manmade uranium particles found

Iran says it gave new details to the U.N. about two sites near Tehran that inspectors say bore traces of manmade uranium. The comments Wednesday by Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s civilian … more

By JON GAMBRELL | 7/26/23

Palestinians mourn around the body of Mohammed Nada, 23, at the hospital's morgue ahead of his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Israeli troops entered the Al-Ein refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday and arrested a man suspected of shooting at an Israeli bus earlier this week. During the incident, Nada was shot in the chest and later died of his wounds, the Palestinian health ministry said. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian man killed by Israeli troops during arrest raid in West Bank refugee camp

A Palestinian man was killed in a shootout with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, the latest bloodshed in one of the most violent stretches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years. … more

7/26/23

FILE - A man takes a nap as the central business district is shrouded by haze in Singapore, on Sept. 23, 2019. Singapore executed a man Wednesday, July 26, 2023, for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman Friday — the first in 19 years — prompting renewed calls for a halt to capital punishment. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Singapore hangs a man for drug trafficking. It will hang a woman on Friday — the first in 19 years

Singapore has executed a man for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman on Friday. She will be the first female hanged in the city-state in 19 years. The new executions have prompted renewed … more

7/26/23

FILE - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra welcomes his guests for the wedding of his youngest daughter Paetongtarn "Ing" Shinawatra at a hotel in Hong Kong on March 22, 2019. As Thailand grapples with the unexpectedly difficult task of naming a new prime minister, the most controversial former holder of the job, billionaire populist Thaksin Shinawatra, plans to return home next month from years of self-imposed exile, his daughter announced Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Thailand's divisive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra readies return during political turmoil

Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire populist who was ousted by a 2006 military coup, plans to return home next month from years of self-imposed exile, as Thailand … more

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI | 7/26/23

FILE - This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on June 14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The border and coast guard agency Frontex estimated that more than 50,300 attempts were made to enter the EU without authorization from January to May. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP, File)

EU watchdog opens probe in role of bloc's border agency in Mediterranean shipwreck tragedy

The European Union’s official watchdog says it has opened a probe into the role of the bloc’s Frontex border agency in the shipwreck off Greece last month that is feared to have killed hundreds … more

By RAF CASERT | 7/26/23

People walk along a pedestrian crossing at Ginza shopping street on March 31, 2023, in Tokyo. Japan's population declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, according to government data released Wednesday, July 26, 2023, highlighting the increasing role that non-Japanese people play in the shrinking and aging country. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high

Japan's population has declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its population of foreign residents reached a new high of almost 3 million people, highlighting … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 7/26/23

FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, watches a military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of North Korea's army at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea on April 25, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Rival Koreas mark armistice anniversary in two different ways that highlight rising tensions

The truce that stopped the bloodshed in the Korean War turns 70 on Thursday and the two Koreas are marking the anniversary in starkly different ways, underscoring their deepening nuclear tensions. … more

By KIM TONG-HYUNG | 7/26/23

Medical staff move a seriously wounded Ukrainian serviceman at the ICU department of Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, July 14, 2023. A surge of wounded soldiers has coincided with the major counteroffensive Ukraine launched last month to try to recapture its land from Russian forces. Surgeons at the Mechnikov Hospital, one of the country's biggest, are busier now than perhaps at any other time since Russia began its invasion 17 months ago. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

‘Our own front line’: Ukrainian surgeons see wave of wounded soldiers since counteroffensive began

A surge of wounded soldiers has coincided with the major counteroffensive Ukraine launched in June to try to recapture its land from Russian forces. Surgeons at the Mechnikov Hospital, one of the … more

By SAMYA KULLAB | 7/26/23

$FILE - Opposition lawmakers demanding a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the violence in Manipur state carry placards and a banner with name of "INDIA" outside the Parliament building in New Delhi, India, Monday, July 24, 2023. India’s fractured opposition parties have joined forces in a rare show of unity and formed an alliance called 'INDIA' to unseat the popular but polarizing prime minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Last week, more than two dozen parties joined the alliance, named the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance which is called INDIA for short. (AP Photo, File)$

An alliance of Indian opposition parties — called INDIA — joins forces to take on Modi

India’s fractured opposition parties have joined forces in a rare show of unity and formed an alliance to unseat the popular but polarizing prime minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist … more

By SHEIKH SAALIQ | 7/26/23

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, stranded passengers stay at passenger terminal after sea travel was suspended due to Typhoon Doksuri in Manila, Philippines on Tuesday July 25, 2023. The powerful typhoon blew closer to the northern Philippines on Tuesday, forcing thousands of evacuations and a halt to sea travel ahead of torrential rains and tidal surges up to 3 meters (nearly 10 feet). (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Typhoon blows off roofs, floods villages and displaces thousands in northern Philippines

Typhoon Doksuri has ripped tin roofs off of homes, flooded low-lying villages, knocked out power and displaced more than 12,000 people as it smashes into a small island and lashes northern Philippine … more

By JIM GOMEZ | 7/25/23

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Tonga's Prime Minister Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni in Nuku'alofa, Tonga Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Tupou Vaipulu/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken visits tiny Tonga as US continues diplomatic push to counter China in the Pacific

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the tiny kingdom of Tonga as the United States continues to increase its diplomatic efforts in the Pacific while China’s influence in the region grows. … more

By NICK PERRY | 7/25/23

In this photo provided by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, a pod of long-finned pilot whales gather closely near Cheynes Beach east of Albany, Australia, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Nearly 100 pilot whales stranded themselves on the beach in western Australia Tuesday, and about half had died by Wednesday morning, despite the efforts of wildlife experts and volunteers to save them. (DBCA via AP)

Nearly 100 pilot whales strand themselves on an Australian beach. Half have died despite efforts

Nearly 100 pilot whales have stranded themselves on a beach in western Australia, and about half had died by Wednesday morning, despite the efforts of wildlife experts and volunteers to save them. … more

7/25/23

FILE - Li Hongzhong, Communist Party secretary of Tianjin, attends a group discussion session held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in the Tibet Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Both Russia and China are sending government delegations to North Korea this week for events marking the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. China’s ruling Communist Party is sending a mid-level official, Li Hongzhong, in hopes of restoring exchanges between the allies. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Chinese and Russian officials to join North Korean commemorations of Korean War armistice

Both Russia and China are sending government delegations to North Korea this week for events marking the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The visits … more

7/25/23

FILE - In this handout image taken from a video released by Prigozhin Press Service on Friday, May 5, 2023, head of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin stands in front of multiple bodies lying on the ground in an unknown location. Britain has “underplayed and underestimated” the threat posed by Wagner and should ban the Russian mercenary group as a terrorist organization, a powerful committee of U.K. lawmakers said Wednesday, July 26. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP, File)

Lawmakers say the UK should ban Russia's Wagner as a terrorist group

British lawmakers say the U.K. has underestimated the threat posed by the Russian Wagner mercenary group and should ban it as a terrorist organization. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee … more

By JILL LAWLESS | 7/25/23

Ensconced in a glass cage lined with bamboo shoots, the first panda ever born in France bid ‘’adieu’’ to the French zoo where it grew up and set off Tuesday for its new home in China. (July 25)

First panda born in France says goodbye and heads to China

The first panda ever born in France bid farewell to the French zoo where it grew up and set off Tuesday for its new home in China. The 264-pound panda peered out of the cage as staff at the Beauval … more

7/25/23

Police check a vehicle and its driver during the start of a curfew decreed by Ecuador´s President Guillermo Lasso to try to reduce the ongoing wave of violence in Manta, Ecuador, Monday, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuador suspends rights of assembly in some areas, deploys soldiers to prisons amid violence wave

Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso is again making use of the executive’s power to suspend some of people’s rights and mobilize the military in an attempt to quell the most recent spike in … more

7/25/23

FILE - An elderly Kashmiri man walks on a road damaged by flash floods after a cloudburst on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, July 22, 2023. Such intense rainfall events, especially when more than 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) of rainfall occurs within a 10 square kilometers (3.86 square miles) region within an hour are called cloudbursts and have potential to wreak havoc, causing intense flooding and landslides that affect thousands in mountain regions. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

What are cloudbursts and is climate change making them more frequent?

Intense rainfall in the Himalayan regions of India’s Kashmir state and adjacent mountainous cold desert of Ladakh earlier this week destroyed roads and caused flooding of dozens of villages. Such … more

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and SIBI ARASU | 7/25/23

FILE - Candles and flowers surround an image of Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year-old who was found dead in a motel's water tank days after getting out of a taxi on a dark highway near the northern city of Monterrey, during a protest against Escobar's disappearance and other women who have gone missing at the Attorney General's office in Mexico City, April 22, 2022. The most reliable count shows that homicides in Mexico declined significantly for the first time in several years in 2022, Mexico’s National Statistics Institute said Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Mexico's homicide rate dropped in 2022, but appears to flatline in 2023, official figures show

The most reliable count shows that homicides in Mexico declined for the first time in several years in 2022, but the number appears to have flatlined in the first half of 2023. Mexico's National … more

7/25/23