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In this photo provided by Israel Fire and Rescue Services, Israeli firemen and rescuers work in a sinkhole formed in a swimming pool in Karmi Yosef, Israel, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Israeli police say they placed a couple under house arrest, a day after a man attending a party at their villa died after being sucked into a sinkhole that formed at the bottom of their swimming pool. The incident happened during a private party the couple hosted at their house in the town of Karmi Yosef, 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Tel Aviv. (Israeli Fire and Rescue Services via AP)

Israeli couple arrested after man dies in pool sinkhole

Israeli police say they placed a couple under house arrest, a day after a man attending a party at their villa died after being sucked into a sinkhole that formed at the bottom of their swimming … more

7/22/22

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, left, is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, Friday, July 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France, Egypt pressed on missing backpacker as leader visits

The family of a French backpacker who went missing in Egypt have used a Paris visit by the Egyptian president to press for an investigation into the 27-year-old traveler's disappearance. Family … more

By ANGELA CHARLTON and NICOLAS GARRIGA | 7/22/22

FILE - Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, is led out a courthouse by military and civil police officers in Atalia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, June 15, 2022, after his arrest and that of his brother Amarildo, as a main suspect in the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Prosecutors presented their charges on July 21, 2022, outlining that two of the men — Amarildo da Costa Oliveira and Jefferson da Silva Lima — have confessed to the crime, while witness testimony indicates Oseney also participated, according to the statement. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Brazil prosecutors charge suspects in murder of Amazon pair

Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil’s Amazon … more

By DAVID BILLER | 7/22/22

General view of grain silos at Beirut port, Lebanon, Friday, July 22, 2022. The latest fire at the silos’ damaged north block, right part, was due to fermenting wheat and grains still trapped inside the building, outgoing Economy Minister Amin Salam told reporters. On Aug. 4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive material used in fertilizers that had been improperly stored for years in the giant silos exploded. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Smoldering Beirut port silo risks total collapse amid fire

Lebanon's government says one of the massive silos that withstood a deadly blast at Beirut's port two years ago risks collapsing. Lebanon's prime minister said Friday that an ongoing fire due to … more

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 7/22/22

FILE - Col. Assimi Goita meets with a high-level delegation from the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS, at the Ministry of Defense in Bamako, Mali on Aug. 22, 2020. Explosions and gunfire were heard Friday July 22, 2022 in the area of the Kati military base on the outskirts of Bamako, according to local residents, in a suspected attack by Islamic extremists. Goita frequently stays at the Kati camp, where he launched the 2020 coup that brought him to power. (AP Photo, File)

Jihadi rebels attack key military base near Mali's capital

Mali's ruling junta says that jihadi rebels attacked the Kati military base on the outskirts of the capital city Bamako. It’s the first time Kati, Mali’s largest military base, has been targeted … more

By BABA AHMED | 7/22/22

FILE- A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area. Judges at the International Court of Justice rule Friday July 22, 2022, on whether a case brought by Gambia alleging that Myanmar is committing genocide against the Rohingya can go ahead. Myanmar argues that the court does not have jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, file)

UN court to rule on jurisdiction in Rohingya genocide case

The United Nations’ highest court is set to rule on whether to proceed with a landmark case that accuses Myanmar’s rulers of genocide against the country’s mainly Muslim Rohingya minority. The … more

By MIKE CORDER | 7/22/22

FILE - A family sit on a rock in front of a cargo ship anchors in the Marmara Sea awaits to access to cross the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 13, 2022. Turkish officials say a deal on a U.N. plan to unblock the exports of Ukrainian grain amid the war and to allow Russia to export grain and fertilizers will be signed Friday, July 22, 2022, in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Deal for Ukraine grain exports due to be sealed in Istanbul

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are due to oversee the signing of a deal that would allow Ukraine to resume its grain shipments through the Black … more

7/22/22

FILE - Migrants heading to Europe are brought back to port after being intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea by the Libyan coast guard, in Gasr Garabulli, northwestern Libya, May 23 2022. Though migrants have long faced torture and extortion in the Libya, a crossroads for Africans and Middle Easterners trying to reach Europe, rights groups and half a dozen former detainees say the abuse is taking on a more organized and dangerous nature under a new government-funded body called the Stability Support Authority. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

A new Libyan force emerges, accused of abusing migrants

A powerful body headed by a militia leader accused of war crimes has been implicated in severe abuses against migrants in conflict-scarred Libya. Migrants say the government-funded Stability Support … more

By SAMY MAGDY | 7/22/22

FILE - A local resident fights a forest fire with a shovel during a wildfire in Tabara, north-west Spain, July 19, 2022. Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing more damage and getting harder to stop. And, scientists say, they’re probably going to get worse as climate change intensifies unless countermeasures are taken. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

EXPLAINER: What's behind Europe's spate of deadly wildfires?

Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing more damage and getting harder to stop. And, scientists say, they’re probably going to get worse as climate … more

By BARRY HATTON | 7/22/22

FILE - Scotland's First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, is interviewed, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Washington. The U.K. Supreme Court says it will hold hearings in October on whether Scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent of the British government. Pro-independence Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she intends to hold a plebiscite on secession on Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

UK Supreme Court to hear Scottish independence case in Oct

The U.K. Supreme Court says will hold hearings in October on whether Scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent of the British government. Pro-independence Scottish First … more

7/21/22

Turkey denies carrying out deadly strikes in northern Iraq

Turkey’s foreign minister is rejecting accusations that the Turkish military carried out deadly artillery strikes on tourists in northern Iraq. Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that Turkey was … more

7/21/22

Ukrainian mental health professionals learn how to treat trauma victims in a special three-week course run by the Israeli Metiv organization in Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Awareness for recognizing and treating mental trauma remains relatively low in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Ukrainian experts turn to Israel for mental trauma training

A group of Ukrainian mental health professionals has spent the last two weeks in a special course in Jerusalem aimed at giving them tools to treat victims of psychological trauma back home. The … more

By EMILY ROSE | 7/21/22

Laborers carry produce as they wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfall, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Death toll from weekslong rains in Pakistan rises to 282

Authorities say the death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods has jumped to 282 in Pakistan, as the latest downpours continued lashing the impoverished country. The country's … more

7/21/22

FILE - A baby from the Malawi village of Tomali is injected with the world's first vaccine against malaria in a pilot program, in Tomali, Dec. 11, 2019. As the World Health Organization announces Thursday July 21, 2022 the next step in its rollout of the world's first authorized malaria vaccine in several African countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will no longer financially support the shot. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

WHO moves to roll out first malaria vaccine in Africa

As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in three African countries, concerns about its value have come from an … more

By MARIA CHENG and GREGORY GONDWE | 7/21/22

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis. Some … more

By MARIA CHENG | 7/21/22

Chinese Giant panda An An celebrates his 29th birthday at the Ocean Park in Hong Kong on July 28, 2015. The world's oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity on Thursday, July 21, 2022 passed away after being euthanized in Hong Kong, following a deterioration in his health in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

World's oldest male giant panda dies at age 35 in Hong Kong

The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 after his health deteriorated. An An lived most of his life at a Hong Kong theme park after he and a female panda were gifted to Hong … more

By ZEN SOO | 7/21/22

FILE - Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation Mustafa Sanallah holds gives a press conference at the corporation's headquarters in Tripoli, Libya, July 11, 2022. Libya's National Oil Corporation said it resumed oil exports, ending a monthslong hiatus. It said a Malta-flagged tanker, Matala, docked Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the al-Sidra terminal to ship one million barrels of crude oil. The resumption of oil export has come after one of the country’s rival governments fired Sanallah the chairman of the state-run oil corporation (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

Libya says oil exports resumed after monthslong hiatus

Libya's National Oil Corporation says it resumed oil exports, ending a monthslong hiatus. It says a Malta-flagged tanker, Matala, docked Wednesday at the al-Sidra terminal to ship one million barrels … more

BY SAMY MAGDY | 7/20/22

Residents spray water with a hose as fire burns near houses in the area of Drafi east of Athens on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes late Tuesday as a wildfire threatened mountainside suburbs northeast of Athens. Firefighters battled through the night, struggling to contain the blaze which was being intensified by strong gusts of wind. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

As fires ease in southern Europe, blaze hits Greek capital

Nearly 500 firefighters are struggling to contain a large wildfire that threatens hillside suburbs outside Athens for a second day, after hundreds of residents were evacuated overnight. Greek … more

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS | 7/20/22

The site of a Jewish ritual bath or mikveh, left, discovered near the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, July 17, 2022. An excavation to build an accessible elevator from the Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall near the Temple Mount by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology has unearthed the mikveh that dates back to the 1st Century CE. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Elevator project in Old Jerusalem leads to surprising finds

A project that aims to increase access for disabled people to Jerusalem's Western Wall has turned into an extensive archaeological excavation into the city's history. Archaeologists from the Hebrew … more

By ILAN BEN ZION | 7/20/22

Rabbi Barbara Aiello reads prayers in her "Ner Tamid del Sud" (The Eternal Light of the South) synagogue in Serrastretta, southern Italy, Friday, July 8, 2022. From a rustic, tiny synagogue she fashioned from her family's ancestral home in this mountain village, American rabbi Aiello is keeping a promise made to her Italian-born father: to reconnect people in this southern region of Calabria to their Jewish roots, links nearly severed five centuries ago when the Inquisition forced Jews to convert to Christianity. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

US rabbi reviving Jewish roots in her family's Italian town

From a tiny synagogue she fashioned from her ancestral home in a southern Italian mountain village, an American rabbi is keeping a promise made to her Italian-born father. She is reconnecting people … more

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | 7/20/22