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  FILE - Migrants crowd a wooden boat near the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, Aug. 18, 2024. Madrid — Five bodies were found floating in the sea Sunday after the inflatable boat they were travelling in punctured around 90 km (56 miles) off the Spanish island of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, Spanish Sea Rescue services told Reuters. A spokesperson said a rescue aircraft sighted two inflatable boats heading toward the archipelago, and that one of them had one of its floats deflated. The aircraft launched two life rafts and was able to rescue 17 people from one vessel and 80 from another, but five bodies were also found. State agency EFE said the rescue services had rescued more than 1,500 people over the weekend. It also reported Su...

  An explosion after a Russian drone strike is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov. 3, 2024. Kyiv, Ukraine — Moscow sent 96 drones and a guided air missile into Ukraine overnight into Sunday, Ukrainian officials said. According to Ukraine\'s Air Force, 66 drones were destroyed during the overnight barrage, along with the missile. A further 27 drones were "lost" over various areas, it said, likely having been electronically jammed, while one drone flew into Belarusian airspace. No casualties were reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russia had launched around 900 guided aerial bombs, 500 drones and 30 missiles against Ukraine over the past week. Zelens...

  FILE - Palestinian fishermen work, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 31, 2024. KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — After over a year of war in Gaza, Palestinian fishermen gather along the coastline, desperately casting their nets in hopes of catching enough for their families amid widespread hunger. Since Israel began a military onslaught in Gaza after Hamas\' October 2023 attack, Israeli restrictions in the waters off the enclave have made life almost impossible for fishermen, who no longer sail out to sea and instead must stay by the shore. In Khan Younis, Ibrahim Ghurab, 71, and Waseem Al Masry, 24, fish for sardines from the shoreline in front of ...

  FILE - Houthi-mobilized fighters parade during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Houthi takeover in Sanaa, Sept. 21, 2024. UNITED NATIONS — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others, U.N. experts said in a new report. The Iranian-backed Houthis have exploited the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and worked to enhance their status in Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” to gain popularity in the region and beyond, the experts monitoring sanctions against the Houthis said in the 537-page report to the U.N. Security Council. To support Iranian-backed Hama...

  FILE - The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is viewed on Jan. 17, 2012 in Washington, D.C. A monthslong legal battle between online encyclopedia Wikipedia’s parent company and India’s largest newswire service took a turn this week that has raised concerns about free access to credible online information in the country. In July, Asian News International (ANI), which calls itself South Asia’s leading multimedia news agency, filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the U.S.-based Wikimedia Foundation over a Wikipedia page that labeled ANI a mouthpiece of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The foundation runs Wikipedia. The content on Wikipedia is managed by volunteers, and it allows all users free editing access to its pages. Dur...

  Protesters shout slogans with red paint on thire hands symbolizing blood, demanding arrests, two days after a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in Novi Sad, killing 14 people and injuring three, during a protest in Belgrade, Nov. 3, 2024. BELGRADE — Angry protesters on Sunday left red handprints at the entrances of government buildings in the Serbian capital to demand the arrest of officials, two days after a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station, killing 14 people and injuring three. Police formed a cordon outside the seat of the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure in central Belgrade as several thousand people called for ranking government ministers, including Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, to immediatel...

  Indian paramilitary soldiers guard at the site of grenade explosion at a marketplace in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Nov. 3, 2024. SRINAGAR, India — An assailant threw a grenade at a marketplace bustling with shoppers in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, wounding at least nine people, police said. The attack comes a day after a suspected militant was killed in a daylong gunbattle in Srinagar, a rare occurrence in the city where security is tight. Police said an unidentified attacker hurled a grenade from a flyover bridge, apparently targeting a stationed paramilitary vehicle, in the main business center of Srinagar, where Sunday\'s flea market is visited by thousands of people. The grenade exploded in the ...

  King Felipe VI of Spain is heckled by angry residents during his visit to Paiporta, in the region of Valencia, Nov. 3, 2024, in the aftermath of devastating deadly floods. VALENCIA, Spain — A crowd of angry survivors of Spain\'s floods tossed mud and shouted insults at Spain\'s King Felipe VI and government officials when they made their first visit to one of the hardest hit towns on Sunday. Government officials accompanied the monarch who tried to talk to locals while others shouted at him in Paiporta, an outskirt of Valencia city that has been devastated. Police had to step in with officers on horseback to keep back the crowd of several dozens. "Get out! Get out!" and "Killers!" rang out among other insults. Af...

  A Palestinian man rides a horse-pulled cart, next to a destroyed building where personal belongings of people and a car are sandwiched between the layers of its rubble, in Gaza City on Nov. 2, 2024. CAIRO — Palestinian officials say an Israeli drone strike on a clinic in northern Gaza where children were being vaccinated for polio wounded six people, including four children. The Israeli military denied responsibility. The alleged strike occurred Saturday in northern Gaza, which has been encircled by Israeli forces and largely isolated for the past year. Israel has been carrying out another offensive there in recent weeks that has killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands. It was not possible to resolve the conflicting a...

  FILE - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for a Cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Sept. 18, 2024. He will hold meetings with his top two ministers to try to find common ground after they put forward contradictory plans to fix the nation's ailing economy. Berlin — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will hold meetings with his top two ministers to try to find common ground after they put forward contradictory plans to fix the nation\'s ailing economy, a government source told Reuters on Sunday. A document leaked by Christian Lindner\'s finance ministry raised eyebrows in Berlin last week, with its push for tax cuts and fiscal discipline widely interpreted as a challenge to the multibillion-euro investment plan put forward ...