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FILE.- Istanbul Mayor and Republican People's Party, or CHP, candidate Ekrem Imamoglu take photographs with supporters during a campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 21, 2024.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Police arrest Istanbul mayor, a key Erdogan rival, over alleged corruption and terror links

Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and terror links.

Mourners pray over the bodies of Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip as they are brought for burial at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Middle East latest: Far-right party leader returns to Netanyahu’s Cabinet after strikes pummel Gaza

A Palestinian man holds the body of his 11 month-old nephew Mohammad Shaban, killed in an Israeli army airstrikes at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s surprise bombardment plunged Palestinians back into ‘hell’

Relatives of hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, stand by the Israe-Gaza border fence, calling for their release and expressing concerns that the resumption of fighting in Gaza puts their loved ones at risk, in southern Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Families of hostages in Gaza are terrified they won’t return after Israel resumes fighting

U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the third day of the Aero India 2025, a biennial event, at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why

ELECTION WATCH

German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz speaks during a debate and voting about loosen the country's debt rules and change constitution in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Germany’s likely next leader wins parliament’s backing for huge defense and infrastructure spending

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, and to set up an enormous fund for investment in its creakin

Controversial politician Diana Sosoaca, who was barred by a top court from entering last year's presidential election, raises her hands wearing boxing gloves and speaking outside the country's electoral authority after she registered an unlikely bid to enter the May rerun in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania’s election body rejects far-right Diana Sosoaca’s presidential bid, approves George Simion

Romania’s electoral body has rejected the candidacy of controversial far-right politician Diana Sosoaca in the presidential election rerun in May, but approved George Simion, the leader of the country’s most popular far-right party.

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A protester holds a banner during a rally against the leftwing Socialist Party government's decision to shut down TikTok, in Tirana, Albania, Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025. The banner reads: " You immigrated TikTok too". (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albanian opposition protests TikTok ban alleging censorship ahead of election

Zelenskyy comments on phone call between Trump and Putin

Ukraine is prepared to support any proposals that lead to peace with Russia but must be part of the negotiations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on Tuesday after U.S President Donald Trump held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

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Israeli attack on Gaza shatters ceasefire and kills hundreds, AP explains

Opposition lawmakers in Hungary ignite smoke bombs as parliament passes law banning Pride events

MIDEAST WARS

In this image made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

In this image made from a video released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

Why did Netanyahu end the Gaza ceasefire?

The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January.

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Netanyahu says Israeli strikes across Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

After one of the deadliest days in Gaza, here’s the conflict in numbers

What to know about why Israel launched dozens of attacks across Gaza, raising fears of all-out war

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A dead person killed during an Israeli army strike is taken into the hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday March 18, 2025.(AP Photo/ Mohammad Jahjouh)

Israel launches deadly wave of airstrikes across Gaza after ceasefire talks stall

Russia-Ukraine war

A worker walks in front of a transformer which was destroyed after a recent Russian missile attack at DTEK's power plant in Ukraine, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Trump and Putin agree to an immediate ceasefire for energy infrastructure in Ukraine conflict

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a briefing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo)

Zelenskyy names new chief of general staff to enhance Ukraine’s combat effectiveness

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a fire engine and school buses burn after a Russian drone hit them when firefighters were putting out the fire at a lyceum following Russian drone attack in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Russia and Ukraine trade overnight aerial attacks after Putin sets out conditions for ceasefire

GLOBAL BUSINESS NEWS

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, meets with Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok at the Nunavut Commissioner's official residence in Iqaluit, Nunavut, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s new leader announces $4.2 billion Australian radar purchase

Incoming Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall arrives at Downing Street in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych, file)

The UK is cutting welfare spending to urge people to work. Critics say it will hurt the vulnerable

FILE- The seal of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System is displayed in the ground at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, Feb. 5, 2018. Since Federal Reserve officials last met in July, the economy has moved in the direction they hoped to see: Inflation continues to ease, if more slowly than before, while growth remains solid and the job market cools. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Federal Reserve could still cut interest rates this year, but for ‘bad’ reasons

Purdue Pharma submits opioid lawsuit settlement plan, including up to $7 billion cash from Sacklers

A container ship is loaded and unloaded at a container terminal at a port of Kawasaki near Tokyo on March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan’s exports surge in February, leaving a trade surplus as worries persist over Trump’s tariffs

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

A Wild live carer holds a baby wombat during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

American who snatched a baby wombat from its mother leaves Australia

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint news conference with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko following their talks at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin agrees in principle with proposal for Ukraine ceasefire and says more discussions are needed

This photo released by the Jalisco State Attorney General's Office shows shoes at the Izaguirre Ranch where skeletal remains were also discovered in the municipality of Teuchitlan, Mexico, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Jalisco State Attorney General's Office via AP)

Mexicans searching for missing relatives uncover possible mass killing site in Jalisco state

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, second right, gestures during a debate preceding a confidence motion vote at the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

What to know about the collapse of Portugal’s government

In this Sept. 21, 2016 photo, the shadows of police investigators are reflected on a wall as they check an unidentified body of an alleged drug lord after it was dumped along a dark alley in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

AP WAS THERE: In Philippine drug war, family struggles to stay safe from Duterte’s brutal crackdown

Mark Carney, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, speaks after being announced the winner at the Liberal Leadership Event in Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Who is Mark Carney, Canada’s new prime minister

This undated photo provided by Samir Haydar shows his brother Iskander Haydar, 69, who was shot and killed by gunmen on the rooftop of his house last week, in his hometown of Baniyas, in Syria's coastal region.(Samir Haydar via AP)

A Syrian man barely escaped a wave of sectarian killings. His brothers did not

What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI

Migrants who were held in a Panamanian immigration shelter after being deported from the U.S. embraced upon arriving in Panama City on Saturday, March 8, 2025, after authorities gave them 30 days to leave the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they’re stuck in Panama

Volunteers at the Yasser Arafat Charity Kitchen in Tulkarem, West Bank, prepare an iftar meal for displaced Palestinians trying to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

A charity kitchen brings hope to displaced Palestinians in the West Bank during Ramadan

Europe

FILE.- Istanbul Mayor and Republican People's Party, or CHP, candidate Ekrem Imamoglu take photographs with supporters during a campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 21, 2024.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Police arrest Istanbul mayor, a key Erdogan rival, over alleged corruption and terror links

Asia

FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts

Latin America

Pedestrians walk past soldiers guarding a bridge in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, after President Dina Boluarte declared a state of emergency following the killing of a popular singer amid a surge in violence in the capital. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Troops on the streets of Lima as Peru’s government calls state of emergency to tackle crime wave

Middle East

An Iranian man holds up a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran celebrates ancient fire festival ahead of Persian New Year as tensions with US loom

Africa

Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaks at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Nigerian leader suspends the governor of an oil-rich state in rare emergency rule

U.S. News

Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients

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McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain celebrates on the podium after winning the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)

Formula 1 in 2025: How to watch the Chinese Grand Prix on TV and what to know

Undated photo of a bream fish at a river lock in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, Netherlands, where a "fish doorbell" was installed that lets viewers of an online livestream alert authorities to fish being held up as they make their springtime migration to shallow spawning grounds. (Visdeurbel via AP)

A Dutch ‘fish doorbell’ has turned into an unlikely online hit combining slow TV and ecology

Josh Cavallo of Adelaide United plays during their A-League against Western United in Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 17, 2021. (Joel Carrett/AAP Image via AP)

Openly gay soccer player still faces online death threats

Bangladesh security officials arrest commander of Rohingya armed group

People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street falls back ahead of Fed rate decision

A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla, citing safety concerns at event

A heavily redacted declaration by Catrina Pavlov Keenan is photographed Tuesday, March 18, 2025, as newly released court documents shed no fresh light on the circumstances under which Prince Harry entered the United States. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

US government court filings keep Prince Harry’s immigration forms secret

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Sexual misconduct allegations in UN missions topped 100 in 2024, UN says

Police and other first responders work the scene where officials say dozens of people have been found dead and multiple others were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses after a semitrailer containing suspected migrants was found, Monday, June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Two men found guilty in smuggling conspiracy where 53 immigrants died in a hot tractor-trailer

Antigua’s leader rejects allegations that his government withheld details of yacht sale and proceeds

12 killed in Honduras plane crash, including Garifuna musician Aurelio Martínez Suazo

President Gustavo Petro addresses supporters during a rally he called to back his labor and health reform proposals, which have struggled to gain legislative approval, outside Congress in Bogotá, Colombia, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia’s president at a rally calls for a special election on labor and health reforms

An injured man is taken to the Al-Ahli hospital following overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi).

Israel’s wave of airstrikes on Gaza

A roadside bomb in Mogadishu targeted the president’s convoy, Somalian government says

Mali announces withdrawal from alliance of French-speaking countries

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump and Putin discuss a US-Russia hockey series during their call, the Kremlin says

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau leaves the weekly cabinet meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France and Algeria feud over expulsion policy as tensions flare between the two countries

U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, left, and Marie-Claude Bibeau, a Canadian member of parliament representing Compton-Stanstead, talk at a roundtable event about the Trump administration's tariffs with U.S. and Canadian business owners, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 in Newport, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)

Breweries and maple syrup producer among Vermont businesses hit by Trump’s tariffs on Canada

People rally on 14th St NW in support of fired USAID workers during a protest, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, by the USAID headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

CEO Jensen Huang talks during the keynote address of Nvidia GTC Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils new Rubin AI chips at GTC 2025

Jeanette Vizguerra, a Mexican immigrant who has lived in a church to avoid immigration authorities for the past three months, speaks after leaving the church early Friday, May 12, 2017, in downtown Denver.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Woman who had sought protection from deportation in Colorado churches is detained, advocates say

This undated photo provided by Johanny Sanchez shows Sanchez, right, and her husband Franco Caraballo, who was sent over the weekend to El Salvador accused by the Trump administration of belonging to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. (Johanny Sanchez via AP)

Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights

This screenshot made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Sept. 16, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Jury convicts thief who stole golden toilet from English palace

The body of Muhannad Akrad, one of three people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, is carried for burial at the Omary mosque in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Mourners attend funeral of man killed in Israeli airstrikes on Syrian city of Daraa

Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu addresses his supporters in front of the Istanbul courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, file)

Key Erdogan rival’s university diploma is revoked in a move that blocks him from Turkey’s election

Millions of people and hundreds of staff impacted by US aid cuts, UN migration agency says

The Voice of America building, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump’s cuts to Voice of America may be welcomed by China’s government

Pakistani soldiers arrive at the railway station to assist victims and survivors rescued by security forces from a train attacked by insurgents in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani leader calls for unity to combat militants after a surge in attacks

Italian Prime minister Giorgia Meloni, center middle row, addresses the Senate ahead of European Council meeting on 20-21 march, Rome, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s Meloni calls for ‘pragmatism’ on tariffs, supports Trump’s ceasefire efforts for Ukraine

FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the State Department, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FBI applauds Mexico’s arrest and handover of ’10 Most Wanted’ gang figure