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US Congress members meet Taiwan leader amid China anger

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In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from left, U.S. Democratic House member Alan Lowenthal from California, Democratic House members John Garamendi, Donald Yu-Tien Hsu, Director-General, dept. of North American Affairs, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Democratic House member Don Beyer from Virginia and Republican Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, a delegate from American Samoa pose for a photo after arriving on a U.S. government plane at Songshan airport in Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, Aug 14, 2022. The delegation of American lawmakers are visiting Taiwan just 12 days after a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that angered China. (Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near front line

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Anastasiia Aleksandrova, 12, right, sits with her grandmother, Olena, at their home in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. With cities largely emptied after hundreds of thousands have evacuated to safety, the young people that remain face alienation, loneliness and boredom as unlikely yet painful counterpoints to the fear and violence Moscow has unleashed on Ukraine. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Strike four: Facebook misses election misinfo in Brazil ads

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FILE - An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil's 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group says is “alarming.” (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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New Zealand river’s personhood status offers hope to Māori

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The Whanganui River winds through the town of Whanganui, New Zealand, on June 15, 2022. In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the river. The law declares that the river is a living whole, from the mountains to the sea, incorporating all its physical and metaphysical elements. (AP Photo/Brett Phibbs)

Whanganui River ‘always makes things better for me’

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The upper reaches of New Zealand's Whanganui River flow on June 16, 2022. In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River. The law declares that the river is a living whole, from the mountains to the sea, incorporating all its physical and metaphysical elements. (AP Photo/Brett Phibbs)

Pay pushes Venezuelan teachers to protest, consider quitting

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FILE - Venezuelan Kimberly Gutierrez helps her son Johan Mejia with his homework as they wait for his school bus in Cucuta, Colombia, at sunrise Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, after crossing the border which Venezuela partially closed in 2015. A few days into their long break, teachers have been marching by the thousands around the country, threatening to strike when school resumes or possibly even to abandon their profession after the government paid them only a tiny fraction of their annual vacation bonus. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

S Korea offers North economic benefits for denuclearization

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol waves a national flag during a ceremony to celebrate Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, at the presidential office square in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)

PM Modi pledges to make India developed country in 25 years

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, greets artists performing at the 17th-century Mughal-era Red Fort on Independence Day in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug.15, 2022. The country is marking the 75th anniversary of its independence from British rule. (AP Photo/Pankaj Nangia)

Japan marks WWII’s end, Kishida doesn’t mention aggression

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Visitors in old Japanese Imperial army uniforms enter Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Tokyo. Japan marked the 77th anniversary of its World War II defeat Monday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

In Ukraine, rebuilding starts with neighbors’ help

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Volunteers clear rubble on the second floor of Zhanna and Serhiy Dynaeva's house which was destroyed by Russian bombardment, in a residential area, in the village of Novoselivka, near Chernihiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Residents in many heavily-damaged areas in Ukraine have set up their own initiatives to rebuild homes before the winter as international organizations rush aid to Ukraine to help with the reconstruction effort. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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FILE - Rishi Sunak during a hustings event in Darlington, England, Aug. 9, 2022, as part of the campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister. While inflation and recession fears weigh heavily on the minds of voters, another issue is popping up in political campaigns from the U.K. and Australia to the U.S. and beyond: the “China threat." The two finalists vying to become Britain's next prime minister, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, clashed in a televised debate last month over who would be toughest on China. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP, File)

'China threat' emerges in elections from UK to Australia

  • Norway puts down Freya the walrus that drew Oslo crowds

  • Fireworks blast at Yerevan market kills 2, injures 60

  • Major wildfire in Spain forces the evacuation of 1,500

  • German minister decries ecological catastrophe in Oder River

    • ASIA

    Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, wearing a face mask arrives at Court of Appeal in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Malaysia's top court Monday began hearing a final appeal by Najib to toss out his graft conviction linked to the massive looting of the 1MDB state fund. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

    Malaysia ex-PM begins final bid to toss out graft conviction

  • Australian charged with shooting at windows inside airport

  • Heavy rains set off flash floods, killing 31 in Afghanistan

  • Salman Rushdie 'on the road to recovery,' agent says

  • More US lawmakers visit Taiwan 12 days after Pelosi trip

    • LATIN AMERICA

    FILE - Members of Mexico's National Guard march in the Independence Day military parade, in the capital's main plaza, the Zocalo, in Mexico City, Sept. 16, 2019. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has begun exploring plans to side-step congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army. That has raised concerns, because Lopez Obrador won approval for creating the force in 2019 by pledging in the constitution that it would be under nominal civilian control and that the army would be off the streets by 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

    Mexico president to bypass congress to keep army in streets

  • EXPLAINER: Tension between Nicaragua and the Catholic Church

  • Shooting, blast in Ecuador port city kills 5, damages homes

  • Mexican border cities hit by burning vehicles, blockades

  • Colombia and ELN rebels begin moving to restart peace talks

    • MIDDLE EAST

    Fire at Cairo Coptic church kills 41, including 15 children

  • Fire at Cairo Coptic church kills 41, including 15 children

  • Svika Pick, prolific Israeli singer-songwriter, dies at 72

  • A year on, ex-Afghan leader defends role in Taliban takeover

  • Palestinian gunman wounds 8 in late-night Jerusalem shooting

    • AFRICA

    Brief scuffles slow tallying in Kenya's close election

  • Libya officials: 15 migrants found dead on border with Sudan

  • Official: Over 50 deaths from seasonal floods in Sudan

  • Ship reaches Ukraine to load up with wheat for hungry Africa

  • Slow tallies in close Kenya presidential vote feed anxiety

    • Ship carrying grain for hungry Ethiopia leaves Ukraine

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    Despite public anger, no progress in Iraq political deadlock

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    Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack

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    Climate bill: Could coal communities shift to nuclear?

    August 14, 2022

    Russian shelling heavy in east; Ukraine strikes key bridge

    August 13, 2022

    3 newborn lion cubs a rare joyous sight in war-scarred Gaza

    August 13, 2022

    Germans urged to cap heat in offices this winter to save gas

    August 13, 2022

    What killed tons of fish in European river? Mystery deepens

    August 13, 2022
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    Afghan rights leader heartbroken after year of Taliban rule

    August 13, 2022

    Montenegro mourns after 10 are killed in street attack

    August 13, 2022

    Italy’s Letta: Italian right-wing threatens Europe democracy

    August 13, 2022

    Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet

    August 13, 2022

    Driver walkout halts trains as UK summer strike wave spreads

    August 13, 2022

    Italy’s Lake Garda shrinks to near-historic low amid drought

    August 13, 2022

    Ukrainian minister says Russia blocking access to medicines

    August 13, 2022
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    China sending fighter jets to Thailand for joint exercises

    August 13, 2022

    Gunman in Montenegro kills 10, then shot dead by passerby

    August 12, 2022

    European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops

    August 12, 2022

    WHO plans to rename monkeypox over stigmatization concerns

    August 12, 2022

    Gang violence leaves 11 dead in Mexican border city

    August 12, 2022

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gang riot inside a border prison that left two inmates dead quickly spread to the streets of Ciudad Juarez where alleged gang members killed nine more people, including four employees of a radio station, security officials said Friday.

    India to miss renewable energy goal, officials, experts say

    August 12, 2022

    Beirut bank standoff exposes desperation of economic crisis

    August 12, 2022

    At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before

    August 12, 2022

    Portugal: EU eyes Iberia-Italy pipeline to get gas to Europe

    August 12, 2022

    Migrant search and rescue in third day off Greek islands

    August 12, 2022

    Germany suspends participation in Mali military mission

    August 12, 2022

    BERLIN (AP) — Germany announced Friday that it was suspending its participation in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African nation refused to grant a civilian aircraft carrying German troops permission to use its airspace.

    AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

    August 12, 2022

    Germany regrets boycott by Munich attack victims’ families

    August 12, 2022

    South Korea to pardon Samsung’s Lee, other corporate giants

    August 12, 2022

    Amsterdam’s Schiphol compensating air travelers hit by chaos

    August 12, 2022

    German ex-leader Schroeder sues to restore official perks

    August 12, 2022

    Dairy farm in Ukraine’s Donbas region struggles to survive

    August 12, 2022

    Brazilians rally for democracy, seek to rein in Bolsonaro

    August 12, 2022

    Sweeping climate bill pushes American energy to go green

    By SETH BORENSTEIN, MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLISAugust 12, 2022
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