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A damaged restaurant is seen after Russian shelling hit in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, March 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)
Russian attacks continue in wake of Putin arrest warrant
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Widespread Russian attacks continued in Ukraine following the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and … more
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend an honor guard welcoming ceremony at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Saturday, March 18, 2023. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP)
Scholtz visits Japan to firm up economic, defense ties
TOKYO (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday held the first round of government consultations in Tokyo as they seek to strengthen economic and … more
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Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, center, walks at the arrival to a meeting with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajcak, at North Macedonia's lakeside resort of Ohrid, on Saturday, March 18. 2023. Western officials are hoping for progress this weekend in EU-mediated talks between Serbia's and Kosovo's leaders, in a new attempt to ease decades of tensions between the Balkan wartime foes and solve one of Europe's longest standing disputes. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
Serbia and Kosovo in high-stakes EU-mediated talks
OHRID, North Macedonia (AP) — Western officials are hoping for progress this weekend in EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo's leaders, in a new attempt to ease decades of tensions between … more
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A woman walks past election campaign posters of incumbent governor of Lagos state Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, on a street in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, March 16, 2023. Nigeria's electoral commission has concluded the deployment of staffers and materials for the nation's gubernatorial election as the citizens prepare to elect new governors with mixed feelings after a disputed presidential vote. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Nigeria electing governors after disputed presidential vote
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Millions of Nigerians are headed back to the polls Saturday as Africa's most populous nation holds gubernatorial elections amid tensions after last month's disputed … more
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, gestures while speaking to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept. 16, 2022. China said Friday, March 17, 2023, President Xi will visit Russia from Monday, March 20, to Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in an apparent show of support for Russian President Putin amid sharpening east-west tensions over the conflict in Ukraine. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
How a warrant for Putin puts new spin on Xi visit to Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week highlighted China’s aspirations for a greater role on the world stage. … more
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Cinderblock homes cover a poor neighborhood, known as a "barrio," in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Governments pledge money, attention to Venezuela's crisis
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Governments and financial institutions pledged millions of dollars Friday for humanitarian and development projects to address the urgent needs of Venezuelans at home and … more
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Finland's President Sauli Niinisto shake hands during a welcome ceremony at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, March 17, 2023. Erdogan greeted his Finnish counterpart in Ankara on Friday amid hopes that their meeting will see Turkey approve Finland's NATO membership bid. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Turkey's president says he will back Finland's NATO bid
ISTANBUL (AP) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said Friday that his government would move forward with ratifying Finland’s NATO application, paving the way for the country to join the … more
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FILE - A child cries after she was administered with a polio vaccine during a house to house vaccination exercise in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Aug. 28, 2016. Health officials in Burundi on Friday March 17, 2023 have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time the paralytic disease has been detected in the east African country for more than three decades. Across Africa, there were more than 400 cases of polio last year linked to the oral vaccine, including Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Zambia. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
Burundi officials detect polio outbreak linked to vaccine
LONDON (AP) — Health officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time the paralytic disease has been detected in the East African country for more than … more
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FILE - A church and remains of an ancient village which are usually covered by water are seen inside the reservoir of Sau, in Vilanova de Sau, Catalonia, Spain, on Nov. 23, 2022. Spain has officially entered a period of a long-term drought owing to high temperatures and low rainfall over the past three years and likely faces another year of heatwaves and forest fires, the country’s weather agency Aemet said Friday March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Spain: Long-term drought to bring more heatwaves, widlfires
MADRID (AP) — Spain has officially entered a period of long-term drought, owing to high temperatures and low rainfall over the past three years, and likely faces another year of heatwaves and … more
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Paetongtarn Shinawatra, one of the opposition Pheu Thai party's top politicians it is set to nominate to become the next prime minister, smiles as she talks to reporters at Thammasat University's indoor gymnasium in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, March 17, 2023. Thailand’s largest opposition party unveiled on Friday a list of policies and 400 prospective candidates they will be fielding in the upcoming elections expected to take place in May. Paetongtarn Shinawatra is daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thailand's opposition party unveils policies and candidates
PATHUM THANI, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s main opposition party on Friday paraded its slate of parliamentary candidates and outlined its policy pledges in a well-choreographed show of confidence … more
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FILE - Riad Salameh, Lebanon's Central Bank governor, attends a news conference, in Beirut, on Nov. 11, 2019. Salameh on Thursday March 16, 2023, showed up for questioning for the first time before a European legal team visiting Beirut in a money-laundering probe linked to the governor. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
European team ends questioning of Lebanon Central Bank chief
BEIRUT (AP) — A European legal team on Friday ended two days of questioning of Lebanon’s central bank chief in Beirut in a money-laundering probe linked to the governor. Several European … more
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Youth take part in an action to mark the ninth anniversary of Crimea annexation from Ukraine with a banner reading: "Russia doesn't start wars, it ends them" accompanied with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Yalta, Crimea, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo)
Russia to award pilots involved in US drone incident
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian fighter pilots involved in an incident with a U.S. drone that resulted in its crash will be given state awards, the Defense Ministry announced Friday, The move appears to … more
Israeli mounted police officers disperse demonstrators blocking a highway during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Elite officers in Israel's military plan Sunday walkout
JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of elite officers in Israel’s military reserves say they will not show up for duty starting on Sunday in protest over the government's plans to overhaul the judicial … more

FILE - A view of a MiG-29 aircraft at Sliac Air Base, in Sliac, Slovakia, Feb. 29, 2008. Slovakia’s government has approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets. Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced the unanimous decision of his government on Friday, March 17, 2023. (Jozef Durník/TASR via AP, File)
Slovakia agrees to give Ukraine fleet of Soviet warplanes
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government on Friday approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets, becoming the second NATO member country to heed the … more
Sister Sadia Raza, center, relative Naimatullah Hazara, left, and friend Sumiaya Kianat, right, of female field hockey player Shahida Raza, who died in the shipwreck tragedy, attend her funeral, in Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, March 17, 2023. Raza was among other migrants who died in a shipwreck off Italy's southern coast. The migrants' wooden boat, crammed with passengers who paid smugglers for the voyage from Turkey, broke apart in rough water just off a beach in Calabria. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Pakistan athlete who died in migrant boat crash laid to rest
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Mourners attended the funeral Friday of a Pakistani female field hockey player who died in a migrant boat crash off Italy’s coast last month, sending a wave of shock and … more
Protesters take part in a march supporting rapper Azagaia in Maputo, Mozambique, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, whose real name was Edson da Luz, a popular protest rapper and fierce government critic who died last week. (AP Photo/Tom Gauld)
Mozambicans march to honor protest rapper after his death
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, a popular protest rapper and fierce government critic, who died last week. Memorial marches are … more
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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, inmates identified by authorities as gang members are moved at the prison, Terrorism Confinement Center, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
El Salvador's congress extends anti-gang crackdown
El Salvador’s congress has voted to approve yet another extension of state-of-emergency allowing police to round up suspected members of street gangs. The vote late Wednesday was widely expected, … more
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FILE - In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile on April 14, 2018, as part of the military response to Syria's use of chemical weapons on April 7. Australia said it's planning to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the U.S. State Dept. approved the sale Friday, March 17, 2023. (Kallysta Castillo/U.S. Navy via AP, File)
Australia to buy up to 220 Tomahawk missiles from the US
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia said it's planning to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the U.S. State Department approved the sale Friday. The deal comes … more
This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says is an intercontinental ballistic missile in a launching drill at the Sunan international airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, March 16, 2023. 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)
North Korea says ICBM launch was response to rivals' drills
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that its latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch was intended to send a “stronger warning” over U.S.-South Korean military drills, … more
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Residents place segregated garbage on a cart along the streets of Malabon, Philippines on Monday Feb. 13, 2023. Food waste emits methane as it breaks down and rots. Waste pickers are helping set up systems to segregate and collect organic waste, and establishing facilities to compost it. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Waste pickers collect food waste, help combat climate change
Food waste emits methane as it breaks down and rots. Methane is an extraordinarily potent greenhouse gas responsible for about 30% of today’s global warming. Waste pickers are helping set up … more
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Police investigate the scene where two officers were shot and killed on duty in Edmonton on Thursday, March 16, 2023. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)
Teen allegedly shoots mom, kills 2 officers in west Canada
TORONTO (AP) — A 16-year-old wounded his mother with a firearm and then killed two police officers before taking his own life in western Canada early Thursday, officials told The Associated Press. … more
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This photo provided by researcher Katsuhiko Hayashi shows mice derived from stem cells, four weeks after their birth, in Osaka, Japan in September 2021. In a study published Wednesday, March 16, 2023, in the journal Nature, scientists led by Hayashi have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab. (Katsuhiko Hayashi via AP)
For 1st time, scientists create mice with cells from 2 males
Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab. This raises the distant possibility of doing the same for people … more
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Janet, who works for the social movement Dignity, waits on a customer from behind a table offering food staples at lower prices than offered at the supermarkets, amid rising inflation, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentines struggle to make ends meet amid 100% inflation
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Jesica Fernández used to join seven family members every weekend for a large beef barbeque. Beef is no longer on the menu, and now they’re more likely to eat … more
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Rescue workers gather after an explosion at a coal mine that according to authorities killed at least 11 people in in Sutatausa, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Officials say 21 workers killed at coal mine in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Rescue operations at a coal mine in central Colombia that collapsed earlier this week ended Thursday and officials said the accident had left 21 workers dead. The mine … more
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FILE - U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer attends a press conference at the Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur, July 26, 2022. Human rights activists urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday, March 13, 2023 to refer Myanmar's military rulers to the International Criminal Court and urged neighboring Southeast Asian countries to support the opposition pro-democracy movement. (Malaysia's Department of Information via AP, File)
UN envoy: Wide resistance to Myanmar military's repression
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Widespread popular resistance to brutal repression by Myanmar’s military shows no sign of abating across much of the country, and with both sides intent on winning by force … more
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