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Honoring the 80th anniversary of D-Day, President Joe Biden communicates the importance of defending democracy for comrades and allies alike.

Putin repeats that Russia will consider sending weapons to adversaries of the West but doesn't name them

Three well-known freedom-of-expression organizations have appealed to the Vietnamese authorities to release veteran journalist and historian Truong Huy San, a prominent government critic who was reportedly detained last week in the Vietnamese capital H...

Unusual spray-painted images and messages with references to Ukraine have appeared on the streets of Paris as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Joe Biden in the French capital

Three Americans are among those charged with orchestrating an attempted coup.

China's leader Xi Jinping has told the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that Beijing is willing to work with Islamabad to build an upgraded version of an economic corridor linking their two countries

Biden will say legacy of Pointe du Hoc is call to 'stay true to what America stands for' in election year democracy push

May 31 - June6, 2024 Veterans from the U.S., Britain and Canada converged with more than two dozen heads of state and countless others on the beaches of Normandy, France to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. In soccer, Real Madrid won the Champions League, its 15th trophy. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announces the results of South Africa’s general elections in Johannesburg. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa. The selection was curated by AP chief photographer Jerome Delay in Johannesburg. ____ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

Swedish police have detained 19 pro-Palestinian activists who barricaded themselves in the country’s main technical education and research university

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

New footage shows the first successful drone delivery on Mount Everest, with the machine carrying oxygen bottles and other supplies from Everest’s Base Camp to Camp 1.

The military trial of 51 suspects, including three Americans, accused of being involved in a coup attempt in Congo last month has opened in the country's capital of Kinshasa

President Vladimir Putin says that Russia will consider sending weapons to adversaries of the West, repeating a warning made days earlier

A German court has dropped a case against tennis star Alexander Zverev after he agreed to pay 200,000 euros ($218,000) and reached an out-of-court settlement with his former partner

Rights activists have slammed the displacement of hundreds of sea nomads after their stilt homes in a Malaysian marine park on Borneo island were demolished

South African opposition parties are meeting and will continue crunch talks into next week to consider the ruling African National Congress’ offer to become part of a government of national unity

Biden apologizes for the monthslong holdup in approving weapons for Ukraine and tells Zelenskyy 'we're still in'

An American veteran and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared an emotional moment at a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion to liberate France in World War II

Greek police say an ongoing major search and rescue operation on the small eastern Aegean island of Symi has still not located British doctor and television presenter Michael Mosley, who went missing on Wednesday afternoon after reportedly going for a ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday was formally elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, which won the most number of seats in the country’s national election after his political party failed to win a majority on ...

The Stockholm-based Royal Swedish Opera has been fined 3 million kronor or $300,000 after a stage technician died last year when he fell around 13 meters or more than 40 feet from a balcony as he was carrying out work inside the building

Health officials say overnight Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed at least 18 people, including children, a day after 33 were killed at a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced Palestinian families

Romanian authorities say an explosion at a chain home improvement store in the northeast of the country has injured at least 13 people, four of them seriously

At least nine Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen’s Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances

9 UN staff in Yemen detained by Houthi rebels in apparent crackdown, officials say, as other aid workers are likely held

Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic are going to the polls on the second day of the elections for the European Paraliament

South Koreans are alert for possible new launches by North Korea of balloons carrying rubbish into the South, a day after Seoul activists flew their own balloons to scatter political leaflets in the North

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to fly home for an election campaign television interview

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say a former Royal Marine who was arrested in Dubai on suspicion of spying has been cleared

President Joe Biden has for the first time publicly apologized to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a monthslong congressional holdup in American military assistance that let Russia make battlefield gains

Sweden’s defense chief has expressed alarm over Beijing’s repeated dangerous maneuvers against Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea, saying such actions threaten local and global security, undermine regional stability and underscore the n...

Paris Olympics organizers unveil a display of five rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower

Belgian voters return to the polls on Sunday while both the far-right and the far-left are rising in the country

A flurry of recent attacks in Iraq, apparently orchestrated by supporters of Iran-backed, anti-American militias, reflect surging anger against the United States, Israel’s top ally, over the war in Gaza

The Associated Press analyzed the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war using data provided by the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip

The Israel-Hamas war appears to have become much less deadly for Palestinian women and children, according to an AP analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data

An Associated Press analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data finds the proportion of Palestinian women and children being killed in the Israel-Hamas war appears to have declined sharply

May 31-June 6, 2024 Claudia Sheinbaum took the top spot in Mexico's biggest-ever elections, becoming the country's first female president. Residents from the Panamanian island of Gardi Sugdub arrived at their new homes on the mainland on the country's Caribbean coast. About 300 families are moving to the mainland ahead of expected rising sea levels in the coming decades. Argentines participated in a march to mark the ninth anniversary of the Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, women's movement in Buenos Aires. People played cricket on the streets of the Charlestown neighborhood of Georgetown, Guyana, as the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup kicked off in the U.S. and the West Indies. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photographer Moises Castillo, based in Guatemala City. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog:...

President Joe Biden has spoken from Pointe du Hoc, marking his second trip to the Normandy coast during his visit to France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day

Official statistics say that China’s exports for May grew at their fastest pace in more than a year despite trade tensions, though imports fell short of analyst expectations

Prime Minister Narendra Modi — fresh from declaring victory in India’s election — offered few details on the agenda for his third term

ABC News' David Muir documents the journey of WWII heroes back to Normandy.

May 31-June 6, 2024 Supporters of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) dance in celebration of their party's showing in India's election. Police officers patrol in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay area on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown. People attend a candlelight vigil at Democracy Square in Taipei, Taiwan, to mark the Tiananmen crackdown. This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in the Asia-Pacific region made or published by the Associated Press in the past week. This selection was curated by AP photo editor Masayo Yoshida in Tokyo. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com

Nearly five decades after Uruguayan security forces seized Amelia Sanjurjo from the street, disappearing the newly pregnant woman into the maw of the military’s prison system, she received a proper burial in her hometown of Montevideo

A Guatemalan lawyer who worked closely with organizations representing farmworker and Indigenous groups has been killed in an apparent ambush

Amanda Knox told Italian TV that she was surprised by a Florence appeals court decision to convict her of slander for accusing a Congolese bar owner of murdering her British housemate

Mexican federal immigration authorities say they have cleared one of Mexico City’s largest downtown tent encampments of migrants

Gaza hospital says fewer women and children were killed in Israeli strike on UN school than earlier reported

Veterans from the U.S., Britain and Canada, more than two dozen heads of state and countless others took to the beaches of Normandy and elsewhere this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. In Sannerville, Normandy, spectators turned their eyes skyward as some 400 paratroopers from Britain, Belgium, the United States and Canada participated in a multinational parachute drop. Casts of veterans sat side-by-side in Sainte-Mere-Eglise during an American Airlines veterans parade — some sharing stories or shaking hands with passersby, and some perched quietly behind sunglasses with afternoon sunlight beating down from overhead. French and U.S. flags lined the blue-and-red walkway the led U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to the stage for opening ceremonies Thursday alongside France's President Emmanuel Macron and first lady Brigitte Macron. Meanwhile, Britain’s King Charles III joined Macron at the British Normandy...

United Nations special representatives on human rights have called on Belarusian authorities to investigate the torture and deaths of political prisoners