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FILE - A family enters a tent set aside for cholera patients at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Nov. 18, 2023. The World Health Organization has approved a new version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile. In a decision last week, WHO authorized a new vaccine by EuBiologics, the only maker of the oral cholera vaccine for a global stockpile managed by the U.N. health agency and partners. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
UN approves an updated cholera vaccine that could help fight a surge in cases
The World Health Organization has approved a version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile and left poorer countries … more
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Prisoners gather inside Chikurubi Maximum prison before their release on the outskirts of the capital Harare, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted amnesty to more than 4,000 prisoners in an independence day amnesty. The amnesty coincided with the country's 44th anniversary of independence from white minority rule on Thursday and included some prisoners who were on death row. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe frees prisoners, including those sentenced to death, in an independence day amnesty
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. … more
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A demonstrator holds up a poster of the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020 in Iraq, during an anti-Israeli gathering in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 14, 2024. Iran launched its first direct military attack against Israel on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran's attack on Israel raised fears of a wider war, but all sides in the conflict also scored gains
The unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel early Sunday ratcheted up regional tensions. It confirmed long-held fears about the Israel-Hamas war spiraling into a broader conflagration. But Iran, … more
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A Ukrainian serviceman from the Azov brigade known by call sign Chaos, right, carries mortar shell, while he waits for a command to fire, at positions of 122 mm HM 16 mortar around one kilometer away from Russian forces on the frontline in Kreminna direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, April 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
More civilians die in Ukraine as a think tank warns delays in US aid will hamper Kyiv's forces
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More civilians died across Ukraine Sunday as analysts warned that delays in U.S. military assistance would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives. One man was … more
Cardinal Alvaro Ramazzini, center back, waits for the start of a religious procession, in Guatemala City, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Elevated by Pope Francis in 2019 to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Ramazzini has continued his focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poor
Elevated by Pope Francis to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini has kept up his unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant in Central America. That … more
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NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center, speaks to reporters in the Italian resort island of Capri, Thursday, April 18, 2024, where he's attending a G7 foreign Ministers meeting. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
NATO secretary-general says some allies have air defense systems they could give to Ukraine
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday pressed member countries to give more Patriot missile systems to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated Kyiv's almost … more
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A cemetery is seen from above at Kato Tritos village on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. After years of neglect, a primitive burial ground for refugees who died trying to reach Greece's island of Lesbos has been cleaned up and redesigned to provide a dignified resting place for the dead. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)
A neglected burial ground for migrants on Greek island of Lesbos has been given a drastic overhaul
LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Most drowned making the hazardous sea crossing from nearby Turkey, while others died of natural causes in migrant camps on the Greek island of Lesbos. After years of … more
Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder" on Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Has Salman Rushdie changed after his stabbing? Well, he feels about 25, the author tells AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two years after the knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears both changed and very much the same. Interviewed this week at the Manhattan offices of his … more
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Israeli honor guard soldiers salute during the funeral Israeli reserve Major Dor Zimel in Even Yehuda, Israel, Monday, April 22, 2024. Zimel , 27, died of his wounds after Iran-backed Lebanese militant Hezbollah group fired a volley of rockets and drones on northern Israel on April 17. The attack wounded at least 14 Israeli soldiers, six seriously, the army said. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Another ex-State Department official alleges Israeli military gets 'special treatment' on abuses
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said Wednesday that he … more
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FILE - Ecuador President Daniel Noboa attends a ceremony to deliver equipment to police, at the Gral. Alberto Enriquez Gallo police school in Quito, Ecuador, Jan. 22, 2024. Ecuadorians head to the polls Sunday, April 21, 2024, in a referendum touted by Noboa as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)
Ecuadorians head to polls to toughen fight against gangs behind wave of violence
Ecuadorians head to the polls in a referendum touted by the country’s fledgling leader as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence. The majority of 11 questions … more
Indigenous people dance during the 20th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, April 22, 2024. The 7-day event aims to show the unity of Brazil's Indigenous peoples in their fight for the demarcation of their lands and their rights. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)
Indigenous groups gathering in Brazil's capital to protest president's land grant decisions
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Indigenous people began gathering in Brazil's capital on Monday for what was expected to become a protest against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's … more
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FILE - Andrew Malkinson on July 26, 2023. The British man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit has received an “unreserved apology” from the U.K.’s review body that twice rejected his attempts to have his case referred to the Court of Appeal. 58-year-old Andrew Malkinson had his conviction quashed last July by the appeals court after recently obtained DNA evidence linked another suspect to the crime. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
A man who served 17 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit dismisses apology from UK review body
LONDON (AP) — A British man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit dismissed an “unreserved apology” on Thursday from a review body that twice turned down his attempts to have … more
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