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An Associated Press journalist spent a month in the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak documenting the toll and the challenges for health workers in a conflict zone.

Mexico’s famous Topos rescue brigade deploys to Venezuela to help search for survivors after two powerful earthquakes leave thousands dead.

Cuba’s foreign minister says talks between Cuba and the U.S. are at a standstill despite the island recently approving a series of free-market reforms.

An international coalition of human rights lawyers has sued Ghana, accusing the government of violating deportees’ rights under a deal with the Trump administration.

Pope Leo XIV has made his first major appointment of a woman to the Holy See hierarchy, Sister Alessandra Smerilli to the top migrant role.

The 60-day clock is ticking on further talks between the United States and Iran on the interim deal they signed earlier this month, but it’s not clear when their negotiators will meet again.

Temperature records were toppled in several countries as the heat wave slowly moves east.

By JON GAMBRELL and MELANIE LIDMAN DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened a “complete halt” in negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks. Efforts to reopen the Strait of […]

By ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — As the White House has soured on Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, U.S. President Donald Trump has shocked many in the region by pushing an alternative: Let Syria fight the Iran-backed militant group instead. He has suggested that the battle-hardened and Islamist-led insurgents who overthrew Syria’s autocratic President […]

People in Venezuela and abroad are desperately searching for loved ones after two powerful earthquakes struck Wednesday evening. The 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude quakes caused widespread damage and were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century.