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This undated photo supplied by Canberra Health Services, shows a parasite in a specimen jar at a Canberra hospital in Australia. A neurosurgeon investigating a patient's mystery neurological symptoms in an Australian hospital has been surprised to pluck a 3-inch wriggling worm from her brain. (Canberra Health Services via AP)

Neurosurgeon investigating patient's mystery symptoms plucks a worm from woman's brain in Australia

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital has plucked an 8-centimeter (3-inch) wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Hari Priya Bandi was performing a … more

By ROD McGUIRK | 8/29/23

In this photo released on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, by Suwayda24, people stage a protest as they wave the Druze flags in the southern city of Sweida, Syria. Anti-government protests have rocked south Syria for the past week. Demonstrators initially took to the streets over surging inflation but are now calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad, echoing the beginnings of a 2011 uprising that sparked Syria's brutal civil war. (Suwayda24 via AP)

Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising

Anti-government protests in southern Syria have entered their second week, with demonstrators waving the colorful flag of the minority Druze community, burning banners of President Bashar Assad, and … more

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 8/29/23

FILE - United Nations forces patrol the streets of Timbuktu, Mali, on Sept. 26, 2021. The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency. (AP Photo/Moulaye Sayah, File)

The UN is undertaking an unprecedented 6-month withdrawal of nearly 13,000 peacekeepers from Mali

The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which … more

By EDITH M. LEDERER | 8/28/23

A member of South Korea's Army Special Warfare Command takes part in a joint maritime infiltration training with U.S. Special Operations Command Korea, as part of the Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise, at a shore in Yangyang, northern South Korea, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. (Kim Hong-ji/Pool Photo via AP)

Kim calls for North Korean military to be constantly ready to smash US-led invasion plot

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for his military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart plots to invade his country, as he accused the U.S. of conducting “more frantic” naval … more

By HYUNG-JIN KIM | 8/28/23

Presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo speaks during a press conference after preliminary results showed him the victor in a presidential run-off election in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala's electoral registry has suspended the party of the presidential election winner

Guatemala’s electoral registry has suspended the Seed Movement, the party of Bernardo Arévalo, the progressive candidate who won Guatemala’s presidential elections this month. The elimination of … more

Associated Press | 8/28/23

A demonstrator holds up a Haitian flag during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti police probe killings of parishioners who were led by a pastor into gang territory

The director of Haiti’s National Police is vowing to hold accountable those who encouraged hundreds of parishioners to take up machetes and sticks over the weekend to rid a community of gang … more

By EVENS SANON | 8/28/23

FILE - Women wait in line before voting for the first round of the presidential election at a polling station Sunday, April 10, 2022 in the Malpasse northern district of Marseille, southern France. France's education minister announced on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023 that long robes in classrooms would be banned starting with the new school year, saying that secularism in the nation's schools is being "tested" via the garments, worn mainly by Muslims. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

France's education minister bans long robes in classrooms worn mainly by Muslims

France’s education minister has announced a ban on long robes in classrooms starting with the new school year, saying the garments worn mainly by Muslims are testing secularism in the nation’s … more

By ELAINE GANLEY | 8/28/23

A Russian who worked at a US consulate is accused of collecting information for US diplomats

Russia’s top domestic security agency says a detained former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok is accused of collecting information about Russian action in Ukraine and related issues on … more

8/28/23

People burn photos showing Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. Cohen and Mangoush met in the Italian capital, Rome, last week, according to the Israeli foreign ministry. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Libya’s foreign minister suspended after meeting with Israel’s chief diplomat

One of Libya’s rival prime ministers says he has suspended his foreign minister after Israel revealed that its chief diplomat met with her last week. The news of the meeting prompted scattered … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 8/28/23

Natalia Rosolova poses for a portrait inside her house in Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Residents of the war-ravaged settlement close to the northeast frontline are ignoring calls from Ukrainian authorities to evacuate as the fighting inches closer. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

An evacuation order finds few followers in northeast Ukraine despite Russia's push to retake region

Neighborhood children frolic in a playground in the village of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, seemingly immune to the war unfolding a short distance away on a front line where Russia has assembled combat troops. … more

By SAMYA KULLAB | 8/28/23

FILE - Mexican National Guards protect local farmers as they plant pine saplings in a recently deforested area in the San Miguel Topilejo borough of Mexico City, Aug. 13, 2023. Illegal logging is particularly acute in San Miguel Topilejo, which, because it has forests and is crossed by highways, makes it an attractive place for gangs to cut logs and move them to sawmills. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Illegal logging thrives in Mexico City's forest-covered boroughs, as locals strive to plant trees

In the forest-covered mountains of Mexico City a brigade of farmers and forest rangers plant inches-high pine saplings in a recently cut stand of trees, even as the sound of chainsaws rings out … more

By MARIA VERZA | 8/28/23

Thick smoke from the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire fills the air around a Canadian flag fluttering in the wind as Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers on a boat patrol Shuswap Lake, in Scotch Creek, British Columbia, on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Some wildfire evacuations end in British Columbia, but fire threatens community farther north

The wildfire situation has showed some improvement in British Columbia, with more people being allowed to return to their homes over the weekend, but blazes continue to threaten communities in … more

By JIM MORRIS | 8/27/23

Competitors take part in the Rude Health World Bog Snorkelling Championships at Waen Rhydd peat bog in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, Sunday, Aug, 27, 2023. Bog snorkelling is a sporting event where competitors aim to complete two consecutive lengths of a 60 yards water-filled trench cut through a peat bog in the shortest time possible, wearing traditional snorkel, diving mask and flippers. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Competitors get down and dirty at Britain's bog snorkeling championships

Intrepid athletes have donned snorkels and slithered through slime during the World Bog Snorkeling Championships in Britain. The quirky annual competition in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells, sees … more

8/27/23

In this image made from video, South Korean lawmakers from left, Kang Eun-mi, Woo Wonshik and Yang Jung-suk, hold placards which reads "Withdraw the discharge of the wastewater from Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean" during a protest in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. South Korean lawmakers attended a protest in Iwaki in Fukushima prefecture against the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the region's crippled nuclear plant into the ocean. (AP Photo)

At Japanese nuclear plant, controversial treated water release just the beginning of decommissioning

The sound of treated radioactive water flowing down to an underground secondary pool could be heard from beneath the ground during a media tour of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 8/27/23

FILE - In this image from video provided 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. Yevgeny Prigozhin's armed revolt against Russia's military leadership posed the greatest challenge to Vladimir Putin's authorities in his 23-year rule. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP, File)

Russia says it has confirmed Prigozhin died in the plane crash

Russia’s Investigative Committee has confirmed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash. The committee said in a statement Sunday that after forensic testing, all 10 bodies … more

8/27/23

A man sells balloons next to piles of sandbags blocking windows of an old building in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Ukraine investigates incident that killed 3 pilots while Russia attacks with cruise missiles

Ukrainian authorities have launched an investigation after a midair collision between two warplanes in the west of the country killed three pilots. According to the air force’s Telegram page, two … more

8/27/23

Firetrucks are seen on a road in burned forest near the Fyli suburb, northwest Athens, Greece, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Authorities battling a major wildfire in northeastern Greece that has been described as the European Union's largest single fire recorded have recovered another body, the fire department says, bringing the total death toll of wildfires in Greece this week to 21. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

More than 600 firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft struggle to control wildfires in Greece

More than 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries, backed by a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters are battling three persistent major wildfires in … more

By ELENA BECATOROS | 8/27/23

FILE - In this image from video provided by the Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company speaks to a camera at an unknown location. The final two months of Yevgeny Prigozhin's life are shrouded in mystery. When the Russian mercenary leader staged a mutiny against the country's military in June, President Vladimir Putin decried it as “treason” and vowed punishment. But then he cut a a deal not to prosecute the chief of the Wagner group. Two months later, Prigozhin’s business jet plummeted from the sky. (Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel via AP, File)

Prigozhin's final months were overshadowed by questions about what the Kremlin had in store for him

The final two months of Yevgeny Prigozhin's life are shrouded in mystery. When the Russian mercenary leader staged a mutiny against the country's military in June, President Vladimir Putin decried it … more

By DASHA LITVINOVA | 8/27/23

FILE - This aerial view shows the treated water diluted by seawater flowing into a secondary water then into a connected undersea tunnel for an offshore discharge at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing radioactive water held in more than 1,000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since the meltdown in March 2011. The start of treated wastewater release Thursday marked a milestone for the decommissioning, which is expected to take decades. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

At Fukushima Daiichi, decommissioning the nuclear plant is far more challenging than water release

For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since the meltdown in … more

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | 8/26/23

A gang in Haiti opens fire on a crowd of parishioners trying to rid the community of criminals

A powerful gang in Haiti has opened fire on a large group of parishioners led by a pastor as they marched through a community armed with machetes to rid the area of gang members. The attack Saturday … more

By EVENS SANON | 8/26/23