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The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Trucks are rolling across a new US pier into Gaza. But challenges remain to getting enough aid in

Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time.
 
This image released by Maxar Technologies shows a damaged plane, likely a MiG 31 fighter aircraft, at Belbek air base, near Sevastopol, in Crimea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Satellite image 漏2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Putin says Russia wants a buffer zone in Ukraine鈥檚 Kharkiv but has no plans to capture the city

 
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he talks with students of the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province, on Friday, May 17, 2024. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin concludes a trip to China by emphasizing its strategic and personal ties to Russia

 
Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, second from right, poses on May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with a Palestinian doctor and two other American doctors volunteering at the European General Hospital where they have been since early May. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel鈥檚 seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors

 
The fence of an Israeli military position is seen damaged after Hezbollah targeted it by rockets, on an occupied hill of Kfar Chouba village, southeast Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on

 

ELECTION WATCH 2024

Relatives and friends carry the coffin that contain the remains of man slain in a mass shooting, into a church for a funeral service in Huitzilac, Mexico, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The shooting in the mountain township beset by crime just south of Mexico City resulted in several deaths, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico鈥檚 cartel violence haunts civilians as the June 2 election approaches

Cartel violence haunted the central Mexican town of Huitzilac days after a mass shooting claimed the lives of eight men.
 
Rescue workers take Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured, to a hospital in the town of Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Slovakia鈥檚 populist Prime Minister Robert Fico is in life-threatening condition after being wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon, according to his Facebook profile. (Jan Kroslak/TASR via AP)

Shaken by the Fico assassination attempt, the EU wonders if June elections can be free of violence

In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June European Union elections was an assassination attempt on one of the bloc鈥檚 most controversial figures.
 

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Vijay Lakshmi, 85, greets polling officers as they arrive at her residence, in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 17, 2024. To encourage and assist elderly persons to cast their votes, the chief electoral office of Delhi on Thursday initiated the home voting facility for the ongoing general parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

For the first time India鈥檚 elderly and disabled are able to vote from home

 
  1. An array of election posters from various political parties are displayed on poles in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

    South Africa鈥檚 election could bring a defining moment 鈥� and new complications. Here鈥檚 what to know

  2. A billboard of presidential incumbent candidate Luis Abinader in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Dominican Republic will hold general elections on May 19. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

    Haiti鈥檚 crisis rises to the forefront of elections in neighboring Dominican Republic

Firefighters tackle massive blaze in Odesa following Russian airstrike

One person was killed and eight others were wounded on Friday following Russian airstrikes on Odesa, Ukraine鈥檚 National Police said on Telegram.
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Israeli military announces recovery of bodies of three hostages from October 7

Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of its forces destroying six sea drones in Black Sea

ROBERT FICO

Slovakia鈥檚 Prime Minister was shot multiple times after a political event Wednesday, in an episode of violence that punctuated his decades-long career in politics.
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico speaks during a press conference with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Slovakia鈥檚 Prime Minister Robert Fico speaks during a press conference with Hungary鈥檚 Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Who is Robert Fico, the populist Slovak prime minister wounded in a shooting?

Having previously served twice as prime minister, from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2018, the 59-year-old鈥檚 third term made him the longest-serving head of government in Slovakia鈥檚 history.
 
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Shooting of Slovak prime minister sends shockwaves across Europe

 

Slovakia鈥檚 prime minister underwent another operation. He remains in serious condition

 

Israel-Hamas war

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

The Latest | Israel finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, as first aid unloaded by sea

 
Children attend an activity at a makeshift class in Deir al Balah, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Since the war erupted Oct 7, all schools in Gaza have closed, and nearly 90% of school buildings are damaged or destroyed, according to aid groups. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareen Hana)

For the children of Gaza, war means no school 鈥� and no indication when formal learning might return

 
Front row from left, South Africa's agents Cornelius Scholtz, Vusimuzi Madonsela and Israel's agents Gilad Naom, Tamar Kaplan Tourgeman and co-agent Avigail Frisch Ben Avraham wait for the start of hearings at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The U.N.'s top court opened two days of hearings in a case brought by South Africa to see whether Israel needs to take additional measures to alleviate the suffering in war-ravaged Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Israel insists it is doing all it can to protect civilians in Gaza and denies genocide charges

 

Russia-Ukraine war

FILE - Claire Woodall executive director of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, teaches a class to poll workers Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in Milwaukee. On Friday, May 17, 2024 蜜桃社 reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming the Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director was fired in recent days for her role in rigging the 2020 presidential election.(AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn鈥檛 happen this week

 
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu speaks during an interview with 蜜桃社 at his ministry in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwan鈥檚 foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other鈥檚 鈥榚xpansionism鈥�

 
This image released by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Belbek air base, near Sevastopol, in Crimea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Satellite image 漏2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Ukraine says it has checked Russia鈥檚 offensive in a key town, but Moscow says it will keep pushing

 

GLOBAL BUSINESS NEWS

FILE - This photo released by Xinhua News Agency shows an aerial view of the construction site of the 2nd phase project of the Nanjing Financial City designed as an architectural complex comprising offices, hospitality, housing and commercial facilities in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Jan. 16, 2024. China was preparing to announce fresh measures to reinvigorate its ailing property industry after data released Friday, May 17, 2024 showed housing prices slumped in the first four months of the year, although factory output rose nearly 7%. (Li Bo/Xinhua via AP, File)

China rolls out new measures to fix its property crisis, spur growth

China has announced fresh measures to revive its ailing property industry after the latest data showed housing prices slumped further in April.
 
David Johnston, right, a worker at Mercedes, thanks UAW President Shawn Fain following a press conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 17, 2024, after workers at two Alabama Mercedes-Benz factories voted overwhelmingly against joining the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

After decisive loss at Alabama Mercedes plants, powerful auto union vows to return and win

 
A worker walks past the logo of the factory of King Yuan Electronics Co. after work in Miaoli County, western Taiwan, May 9, 2024. In late April 2024, King Yuan Electronics Corp., a Taiwanese company specializing in semiconductor testing and packaging, said it was ending its two-decade-long run in mainland China by selling off its entire stake, worth $670 million, in its venture in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing

 
FILE - Demonstrators walk past the Tesla factory in Gruenheide, Germany, May 11, 2024, at the end of their protest. A local council in Germany on Friday May 17, 2024, approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, which has drawn persistent protests this year. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP, File)

German council approves a revised plan by Tesla to expand its plant near Berlin

 
FILE - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) seal is shown outside its headquarters, March 14, 2023, in Washington. An independent review released Tuesday, May 7, 2024, of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. 's workplace culture describes an environment that fostered 鈥渉ostile, abusive, unprofessional, or inappropriate conduct," and questions whether the agency's chairman is credible to lead the agency through a cultural transformation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

FDIC chair is grilled on Capitol Hill after report outlines agency鈥檚 toxic workplace culture

 

SOCCER

President of the Football 蜜桃社 of Brazil Ednaldo Rodrigues, delivers his speech , after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 Women's World Cup soccer at the FIFA Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 17, 2024.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

President of the Football 蜜桃社 of Brazil Ednaldo Rodrigues, delivers his speech , after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 Women鈥檚 World Cup soccer at the FIFA Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 17, 2024.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Brazil picked by FIFA to get soccer鈥檚 2027 Women鈥檚 World Cup, a first for South America

A vote of FIFA鈥檚 full membership chose the South American bid over a joint proposal from Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
 
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FIFA to seek legal advice on Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from international soccer

 

Team captain and two other players arrested over alleged soccer match-fixing in Australia

 

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Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edward, left, runs down the court after making a 3-point shot against the Denver Nuggets during the first half of Game 6 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Timberwolves force Game 7 by blowing out Nuggets 115-70 behind 27 points from Anthony Edwards

 

  1. Mets beat Phillies 6-5 in 11 innings to avoid home-and-home sweep

  2. Schauffele gets another major scoring record and sets the pace at PGA Championship

Regions

Europe

A man walks with a child next to a banner that reads "Violence is Not the Way" and " No Violence" in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, Friday, May 17, 2024. When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the Central European country 鈥� even though the pro-Russia leader himself warned that the country was so divided that an assassination attempt was possible. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Social divisions and hostile rhetoric in Slovakia provide fertile ground for political violence

 

  1. French police fatally shoot a man suspected of setting fire to a synagogue

  2. Georgia鈥檚 prime minister joins tens of thousands in a march to promote 鈥榝amily purity鈥�

  3. Senegal鈥檚 new prime minister criticizes French military presence in the West African country

Asia

Pokemon cards are on display for sale at a shop in Tokyo, June 19, 2023. A senior member of yakuza was arrested for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards near Tokyo in April 2024, a case seen as an example of Japanese organized crime groups struggling with declining membership. (Kyodo News via AP)

As Japan鈥檚 yakuza weakens, police focus shifts to unorganized crime hired via social media

 

  1. Gunmen open fire and kill 4 people, including 3 Spaniards, in Afghanistan鈥檚 central Bamyan province

  2. US ambassador to Japan visits southern islands at the forefront of China tension

  3. North Korea test-fires suspected missiles a day after US and South Korea conduct a fighter jet drill

Latin America

Footprints create the shape of a heart in a snow-covered rugby field in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)

An unusual autumn freeze grips parts of South America, giving Chile its coldest May in 74 years

 

  1. Argentine president begins unusual visit to Spain, snubbing officials and courting the far-right

  2. Haiti is seeking a new prime minister. Dozens of candidates jostle for the key job

  3. Subway commuters in Buenos Aires see fares spike by 360% as part of austerity campaign in Argentina

Middle East

Passersby observe the photos of hostages held in the Gaza Strip that are plastered to the walls of a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. The Israeli military said Friday its forces rescued from Gaza the remains of three Israeli hostages taken by militants during the Oct. 7 attack, including 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, 28-year-old Amit Buskila, and 56-year-old Itzhak Gelerenter. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).

Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival

 

  1. Yemen鈥檚 Houthi rebels claim shooting down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone as footage shows wreckage

  2. Protests against powerful group persist in Syria鈥檚 last major rebel stronghold

  3. What to know about how much the aid from a US pier project will help Gaza

Africa

Emergency workers on the scene of a building collapse in the city of George, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

South Africa ends rescue efforts at collapsed building and revises figures: 33 dead, no more missing

 

  1. A man is convicted in Malawi over a TikTok video showing a caricature of the president dancing

  2. 8 EU members say conditions in Syria should be reassessed to allow voluntary refugee returns

  3. AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

  4. South Sudan government and rebel groups sign 鈥榗ommitment鈥� for peace in ongoing peace talks in Kenya

U.S. News

FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to then-President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Conservative activist鈥檚 son sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for 鈥榬elentless鈥� attack on Capitol

 

  1. Some in Houston facing no power for weeks after storms cause widespread damage, killing at least 4

  2. Man gets 30 years in prison for attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi鈥檚 husband with a hammer

  3. Tick season has arrived. Protect yourself with these tips

  4. Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester

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A member of the LGBTQ+ community holds up a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: "Nothing to cure", during a protest against a decree following a decision by the Ministry of Health classifying transgenders as mentally ill, in Lima, Peru, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Protesters rally in Peru against decree classifying seven gender identities as 鈥渕ental illness鈥�

Sexual diversity activists have protested in Peru鈥檚 capital in front of the health ministry to demand that the government repeal a decree that characterizes seven gender identities, including transgenderism, as 鈥渕ental illnesses.鈥�
 

UN experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion oil-backed loan from a UAE company

U.N. experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion loan from a company in the United Arab Emirates, despite the oil-rich country鈥檚 difficulties in managing debts backed by its oil reserves.
 

In Brazil鈥檚 flooded south, a secret mission to recover thousands of guns from an airport

A group of volunteers working to save people from the floods in southern Brazil have claimed they were misled into participating in an operation to remove several thousand firearms from the airport of Rio Grande do Sul state鈥檚 capital Porto Alegre.
 
Croatian Prime minister designate Andrej Plenkovic attends a Parliament session in Zagreb, Croatia, Friday, May 17, 2024. Croatian lawmakers on Friday voted into office a new government that marks a tilt to the right in another European Union nation ahead of the 27-nation bloc's parliamentary election next month. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Croatia gets new government with a far-right party included ahead of European parliamentary vote

Croatian lawmakers have voted into office a new government that marks a tilt to the right in another European Union nation ahead of the 27-nation bloc鈥檚 parliamentary election next month.
 

Explosion of WWII-era shell injures 7 at Russian military academy

Seven Russian servicemen were injured when a World War II-era shell exploded in the basement of a military academy in St.
 
RCMP Superintendent serious crimes branch David Hall speaks about Alberta RCMP linking four historical homicides to deceased serial killer Gary Allen Srery during a press conference in Edmonton, Friday, May 17, 2024. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian police link 4 women killed in the 1970s to dead American serial sex offender

Canadian police say they have linked the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago to a now deceased U.S. fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s.
 
Director Paul Schrader poses for portrait photographs for the film 'Oh, Canada', at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2024. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Paul Schrader felt death closing in, so he made a movie about it

After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. 鈥淚f I鈥檓 going to make a film about death,鈥� Schrader told himself, 鈥淚鈥檇 better hurry up.鈥�
 
FILE - Migrants begin their journey north in hopes of reaching the U.S. border, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, April 23, 2023. Mexico President Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Ar茅valo met Friday, May 17, 2024, in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration. (AP Photo/Edgar Hernandez Clemente, File)

Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development

Mexico President Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Ar茅valo were meeting Friday in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration.
 
Pope Francis in his popemobile leaves at the end of a Mass where he canonized shepherd children Jacinta and Francisco Marto at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, Saturday, Friday, May 13, 2017, in Fatima, Portugal. On Friday, May 17, 2024, the Vatican will issue revised norms for discerning apparitions "and other supernatural phenomena," updating a set of guidelines first issued in 1978. (Paulo Novais/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Some of the Catholic Church鈥檚 best-known approved, and not approved, reports of apparitions of Mary

The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.
 
An improvised altar with photos of Evarado Ventura Hern谩ndez stands at his relatives' house in Agua Del Sol, Oaxaca, Mexico, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Ventura Hernandez was one of eight farmworkers, all from Mexico, killed in a bus that overturned Tuesday morning in Florida. (AP Photo/Maria Alferez)

Families of Mexican farmworker bus crash victims mourn the loss of their loved ones

Families are mourning the loss of their loved ones from a bus crash in Florida earlier this week. Officials say eight Mexican farmworkers were killed after 41-year-old Bryan Howard sideswiped a bus carrying about 53 farmworkers, where the bus veered off the road and rolled over.
 
FILE - Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla leave The London Clinic in central London, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, while skipping the larger international event a few miles away as he continues to be treated for cancer. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

King Charles III to travel to France for UK ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day

King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, while skipping the larger international event a few miles away as he continues to be treated for cancer. , Buckingham Palace said on Friday that Charles and Queen Camilla
 

Iran arrests 260 people, including 3 European citizens, for spreading 鈥榮atanism and nudity鈥�

Iran鈥檚 state media say police arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism.
 
Director Francis Ford Coppola poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Megalopolis' at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 17, 2024. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

In Cannes, Francis Ford Coppola talks Trump, self-financing 鈥楳egalopolis鈥� and why he has no regrets

Much attention has been paid to the $120 million of his own fortune that Francis Ford Coppola put up to make the futuristic epic 鈥淢egalopolis.鈥�
 
In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration, Australian national Gregor Johann Haas poses for a mugshot following his arrest in Cebu province, Central Philippines on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. One of Indonesia's most-wanted drug suspects has been arrested in the Philippines after an international manhunt and efforts were underway to have the suspect, reportedly the father of an Australian rugby star, extradited to Jakarta to face charges, Indonesian and Philippine officials said Friday. (Philippine Bureau of Immigration via AP)

Philippines arrests Australian suspect, reportedly the father of a rugby star, for drugs trafficking

Officials say one of Indonesia鈥檚 most-wanted drug suspects has been arrested in the Philippines after an international manhunt.
 
President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Dominique Hasler, center, opens the 133rd session of the Committee of Ministers at the European Council in Strasbourg, eastern France, Friday, May 17, 2024. Kosovo on Friday criticized the Council of Europe's decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent鈥檚 top human rights body. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Kosovo criticizes Council of Europe for not holding a vote on its membership, blames Serbia lobbying

Kosovo has criticized the Council of Europe鈥檚 decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent鈥檚 top human rights body.
 

A mayoral candidate and 5 other people killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in southern Mexico

A mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed in a shooting at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas.
 
A general view of Brixham Harbour, in Brixham, Devon, Friday May 17, 2024. Around 16,000 homes and businesses in the Brixham area of Devon were told to boil water after cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite that causes diarrhea, was found in the water. At least 46 cases of cryptosporidiosis have been confirmed and more than 100 other people have reported similar symptoms, the U.K. Health Security Agency said. Cases can last more than two weeks. (Piers Mucklejohn/PA via AP)

English fishing village told to boil water after a parasite outbreak sickens over 45 people

A scenic fishing village in southwestern England is on its third day under instructions to boil its tap water after a parasite sickened more than 45 people.
 

EU bans 4 more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the bloc, citing disinformation

The European Union has banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the 27-nation bloc for what it calls the spread of propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine and disinformation as the EU heads into elections in three weeks.
 
FILE - A family walk through the fields in the village of Gaiberg, Germany, June 14, 2008. The German parliament on Friday, May 17, 2024, approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names 鈥� clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland, File)

German parliament approves plans to relax strict restrictions on family names

The German parliament has approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names 鈥� clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children.
 
This screen grab taken from PA Video shows judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, during a live broadcast from Teesside Crown Court, sentencing Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid, 45, who was found guilty of murdering Terence Carney, attempting to murder his own housemate and assaulting two police officers, to life with a minimum term of 45 years, at the court in London, Friday May 17, 2024. (PA Video/PA via AP)

Moroccan asylum-seeker gets life sentence for killing UK retiree in attack motivated by war in Gaza

A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel鈥檚 war against Hamas has been sentenced to at least 45 years in prison.
 
This photo provided Friday May 17, 2024 by the French Army shows security force embarking a plane to New Caledonia, Thursday, May 16, 2024 at the Istres military base, southern France. The number of violent incidents reported in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia fell slightly on Friday, a day after France imposed a state of emergency as 1,000 promised reinforcements for security services were deployed with increased powers to quell unrest in the archipelago that has long sought independence. (Etat Major des Armees via AP)

Violence in New Caledonia subsides slightly as France sends reinforcements for security

The number of violent incidents reported in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has fallen slightly after France imposed a state of emergency.
 
FILE - Paul McCartney performs at Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Saturday, June 25, 2022. Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle. The former member of the Fab Four is the first British musician to be worth 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), according to figures released Friday, May 17, 2024. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

An annual rich list says Paul McCartney is Britain鈥檚 first billionaire musician

Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle. The annual Sunday Times Rich List says McCartney is the first British musician to be worth 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion).
 
Mitchell Dougherty, the brewmaster at Side Hustle Brews and Spirts, pours a pint of beer at their brew pub in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, May 13, 2024. Abu Dhabi has overhauled its laws to allow for the micro and craft breweries that have taken the rest of the world by storm, part of a wider reconsideration of alcohol policies in this Islamic nation increasingly drawing tourists. (AP Photo/Malak Harb)

Abu Dhabi, once an untapped desert city, sees its first brewery open as UAE relaxes its alcohol laws

In 2018, Chad McGehee opened Side Hustle Brews and Spirits, an Abu Dhabi-branded brewery and distillery with funky camels on its cans and playful names familiar to anyone living in the United Arab Emirates.
 
Japan鈥檚 lawmakers pass a revision to the country鈥檚 civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, at the parliament in Tokyo Friday, May 17, 2024. The revision, the first to custody rights in nearly 80 years, is to take effect by 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan passes a revised law allowing joint child custody for divorced parents for the first time

Japan鈥檚 parliament has passed a revision to the country鈥檚 civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many other countries.
 
FILE - Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Ismail Hakki Karadayi, and other top commanders, from left, Hikmet Koksal, Guven Erkaya, Ahmet Corekci and Teoman Koman, who formed the military wing of the nation's most influental body, National Security Council, during a crucial meeting on Friday, Feb. 28,1997. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, May 17, 2024, pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the ouster of an Islamic-led government in 1997. Those pardoned and expected to be released from prison later on Friday include Cetin Dogan, 83, who was head of military operation at the time. Former Gen. Cevik Bir, 85, who was deputy chief of military staff, was released along with other officers earlier due to ill-health. The main defendant, former Chief of General Staff 陌smail Hakk谋 Karaday谋, died in 2020, while the appeals process was still continuing. Teoman Koman was one of the generals involved with the 1997 ''post-modern coup''. He died in 2013. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Turkey鈥檚 Erdogan pardons elderly generals imprisoned over 1997 鈥榩ostmodern coup鈥�

Turkey鈥檚 president has pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the ouster of an Islamic-led government in 1997.
 
FILE- A woman walks in front of the destroyed former Serbian army headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, March 24, 2010. Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999. The Serbian government earlier this week signed a deal with a Kushner-related company for the 99-year lease of land in central Belgrade for the "revitalization" of the bombed-out buildings. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Protests are planned in Serbia against a real estate project financed by Trump鈥檚 son-in-law Kushner

Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump鈥檚 son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.
 
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)

Suspected militants bomb a girl鈥檚 school overnight in northwest Pakistan

Police say suspected militants have bombed a girl鈥檚 school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure.
 
A police forensic member takes a picture outside of a police station where a man has stormed in Ulu Tiram, Johor state, Malaysia, Friday, May 17, 2024. National police chief Razarudin Husain said the attack appeared to have been planned and could have been an attempt to take firearms. (AP Photo)

Man kills 2 officers at police station in Malaysia in a suspected Jemaah Islamiyah attack

Police say a man has stormed a police station in Malaysia and killed two officers in what鈥檚 being investigated as a Jemaah Islamiyah terror attack.
 
A heart is displayed on the door of a gift shop across from the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly topped the 40,000 level on Thursday for the first time but ended 0.1% lower. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Stock market today: Dow finishes above 40,000 to cap Wall Street鈥檚 latest winning week

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished a day above the 40,000 level for the first time as U.S. stock indexes drifted around their record heights to close their latest winning week.
 
A woman plays with her dog at a beach on the Gulf of Finland as the sun sets, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

AP Week in Pictures: Global

May 10-16, 2024

People took part in the Piu Sik Parade at the Bun Festival in Hong Kong, Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attended his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Haitian school children played a game where they pretend to sleep, in their classroom, in Port-au-P