War casualties
Health workers in Ethiopia's Tigray region say an airstrike has hit a busy village market.
'Like a hell': Ethiopia airstrike survivors recall massacre

Jun. 27, 2021 02:16 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press May. 31, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
San Antonio Express-News. May 30, 2021. Editorial: Let’s honor all our fallen: soldiers and virus victims After a year...

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press May. 31, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Cleveland Plain Dealer. May 30, 2021. Editorial: Honor our fallen but also remember those who mourn them still, or still feel the guilt ...

Army veteran Willie Ransom poses at the American Legion Lodge named after his son, Air Force Major Charles Ransom in Midlothian, Va., Thursday, May 27, 2021. The younger Ransom was among eight U.S. Airmen killed when an Afghan military pilot opened fire at the Kabul airport in 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Vets return to Memorial Day traditions as pandemic eases

By Philip Marcelo May. 30, 2021 09:57 AM EDT

Doris Tejada, mother of Oscar Alexander Morales who disappeared on New Year's eve 2007, holds a photo of her son, at a shop in Soacha, Colombia, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Tejada and her husband found out that their son indeed is on the list of the "false positives," victims of extrajudicial executions by members of Colombia's army who were falsely presented as guerrillas killed in combat during the country's internal conflict, which ended with the 2016 demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Mother searches for son believed killed by Colombia soldiers

By Astrid Suarez May. 04, 2021 10:23 AM EDT

Mourners take the body of Khudair Ali, a coronavirus patient who died in a hospital fire, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Iraq's Interior Ministry said Sunday that over 80 people died and over 100 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients in the early morning Sunday. (AP/Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Death toll in fire at Iraqi COVID-19 hospital surpasses 80

By Samya Kullab Apr. 25, 2021 04:56 AM EDT

A view of Anzac Cove cemetery, on the site of the World War I landing of the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) in Canakkale, Turkey, Saturday, April 24, 2021, a day ahead of the 106th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign. The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 by Allied forces aimed to take control of the peninsula to weaken the Ottoman Empire. The campaign failed and Allied forces withdrew after eight months of fighting on the ground and some 250,000 casualties on both sides. The memorials were kept small due to the COVID-19 pandemic.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
Memorials held on Turkey's Gallipoli to remember WWI deaths

Apr. 24, 2021 08:26 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2020 file photo, Jasb Hattab Aboud, father of the kidnapped protester Ali Jasb, cries as he holds his son's picture in his home un the town of Amara,Iraq. Aboud was shot to death Wednesday, March 10, 2021, a human rights monitor and security officials said. Jasb Hattab Aboud died of a gunshot wound to the head at 6 p.m. in the southern city of Amara, said Ali al-Bayati, a spokesman for the semi-official Independent Human Rights Commission and a security official. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Outspoken father of missing activist killed in Iraq's south

By Samya Kullab Mar. 10, 2021 02:07 PM EST

FILE- In this Nov. 7, 2019 file photo, the International Criminal Court, or ICC, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands. The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Wednesday, March 3, 2021 that she has launched an investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda said in a statement the probe will be conducted “independently, impartially and objectively, without fear or favor.”(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
ICC launches war crimes probe into Israeli practices

By Josef Federman And Mike Corder Mar. 03, 2021 10:19 AM EST

FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo, blanket is pulled to cover the body of a patient after medical personnel were unable to to save her life inside the coronavirus unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 500,000 — a number so staggering that a top health researchers says it is hard to imagine an American who hasn't lost a relative or doesn't know someone who died. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
US tops 500,000 virus deaths, matching the toll of 3 wars

By Heather Hollingsworth And Tammy Webber Feb. 22, 2021 03:26 PM EST

Illinois reports 4,156 new COVID-19 cases and 71 deaths

Jan. 29, 2021 07:01 PM EST
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Department of Public Health on Friday reported 4,156 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 as it also said 58,357...

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 1988 file photo the nose section of Pan Am Flight 103, a 747 airliner dubbed "The Maid of the Sea," lies in a field outside the village of Lockerbie, Scotland. The United Kingdom has suffered its worst ever civilian loss of life since World War II, because of the coronavirus, with some 100,000 taken by the pandemic, a fearsome foe whose defeat is still some time away. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File)
Unwanted virus milestone: UK's civilian dead now tops WWII's

By Tamer Fakahany Jan. 26, 2021 12:26 PM EST

Workers move stock near lanterns on sale for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Life appears to be back to normal on the eve of the anniversary of the 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A year after Wuhan lockdown, a world still deep in crisis

By Brian Melley Jan. 22, 2021 03:58 PM EST

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Venezuela power struggle impedes delivery of COVID vaccine

By Joshua Goodman And Scott Smith Jan. 22, 2021 11:52 AM EST

Dilshada Banoo, aunt of 16-year-old Athar Mushtaq, breaks down while talking to Associated Press in Bellow, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. On the last week of 2020, Indian government forces killed Athar and two other young men during a controversial gunfight on the outskirts of the Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city. Police did not call them anti-India militants but “hardcore associates of terrorists." They later buried them at a graveyard in a remote mountainous tourist resort miles away from their ancestral villages. Athar was the latest Kashmiri to be buried in a far-off graveyard after Indian authorities in a new controversial policy in 2020 started to consign blood-soaked bodies of scores of Kashmiri suspected rebels to unmarked graves, denying the mourning families a proper funeral and a burial. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
In Kashmir, empty grave for teenager killed by Indian forces

By Shah Abbas, Sheikh Saaliq And Aijaz Hussain Jan. 07, 2021 12:27 AM EST

Internally displaced boys are reflected in a mirror inside their temporary home in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Save the Children has warned that more than 300,000 Afghan children face freezing winter conditions that could lead to illness, in the worst cases death, without proper winter clothing and heating. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Report: Harsh winter can bring illness, death to Afghan kids

By Rahim Faiez Dec. 31, 2020 12:05 AM EST

This photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist that Israel alleged led the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000s was “assassinated” Friday, state television said. (Fars News Agency via AP)
Iran scientist linked to military nuclear program killed

By Jon Gambrell Nov. 27, 2020 10:01 AM EST

Last Post bugler Tonny Desodt stands on social distancing markers at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing prior to an Armistice Day ceremony in Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. In a town usually crowded with visitors, coronavirus restrictions prevented the general public from attending a ceremony under the Menin Gate, with even dignitary attendance reduced to a minimum. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Virus makes for one of Europe's loneliest WWI remembrances

By Raf Casert And Virginia Mayo Nov. 11, 2020 10:06 AM EST

Medical workers reacts hiding in a basement of a hospital during shelling by Azerbaijan's artillery in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Nagorno-Karabakh officials said Azerbaijani forces hit Stepanakert, the region's capital, and the nearby town of Shushi with the Smerch long-range multiple rocket systems, killing one civilian and wounding two more. (AP Photo)
Hospital, residential areas hit in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting

By Avet Demourian Oct. 28, 2020 02:08 PM EDT

In this image made from UNTV video, Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour, President, of Yemen, speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday Sept. 24, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. (UNTV via AP)
Yemen's president urges Houthis to allow humanitarian aid

Sep. 24, 2020 12:34 PM EDT