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A man waves a banner representing Colombia's national colors during an anti-government protest triggered by proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Human rights ombudsman says 58 killed in Colombia protests

By Manuel Rueda Jun. 07, 2021 08:28 PM EDT

People hold a silent march to support the unblocking of the city's main entrance and exit roads that have been blocked by anti-government protests in Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Colombians have taken to the streets for weeks across the country after the government proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages, and pensions. (AP Photo/Andres Gonzalez)
Killings of protesters continue in Colombian city of Cali

By Manuel Rueda Jun. 01, 2021 06:19 PM EDT

A crater full of water and sewage remains where the home of Ramez al-Masri was destroyed by an air-strike prior to a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in Beit Hanoun, the northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
After another war, displaced in Gaza face familiar plight

By Fares Akram May. 24, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

A woman dressed in a traditional Mexican dress and mask holds a sign that reads in Spanish "Peace begins in the heart of every man and woman to renounce war forever." as police stand guard on the sidelines of an anti-government march in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Colombians have taken to the streets for weeks across the country after the government proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Pressured by protests, Colombian lawmakers nix health reform

By Astrid Suárez May. 19, 2021 07:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 17, 2021, file photo, Palestinians receive treatment at the Shifa Hospital for their wounds caused by an Israeli airstrike airstrike that destroyed the upper floors of a commercial building and caused damage to the nearby Health Ministry and prime health care clinic, in Gaza City. The Gaza Strip's already feeble health system is being brought to its knees by the fourth war in just over a decade. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
Gaza's health system buckling under repeated wars, blockade

By Fares Akram And Aya Batrawy May. 19, 2021 05:20 PM EDT

Palestinian doctors and medics walk inside the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Just weeks ago, the Gaza Strip’s feeble health care system was struggling with a runaway surge of coronavirus cases. Now doctors across the crowded coastal enclave are trying to keep up with a very different crisis: blast and shrapnel wounds, cuts and amputations. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Beset by virus, Gaza's hospitals now struggle with wounded

By Isabel Debre And Fares Akram May. 14, 2021 01:33 AM EDT

Sharif Al-zaharna , 33, rests at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021, where he is receiving treatment for wounds caused by a May 10 Israeli strike that hit a nearby his family house in town of Jabaliya. Just weeks ago, the Gaza Strip’s feeble health care system was struggling with a runaway surge of coronavirus cases. Now doctors across the crowded coastal enclave are trying to keep up with a very different crisis: blast and shrapnel wounds, cuts and amputations. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Beset by virus, Gaza's hospitals now struggle with wounded

By Isabel Debre And Fares Akram May. 13, 2021 04:47 PM EDT

Members of the communist party-affiliated PAME wearing protective face masks hold red carnations, as they protest during a rally commemorating May Day, in Athens, Greece, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Demonstrators took part on a 24-hour strike against a new labour bill presented by the government protests. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
May Day rallies in Greece halt ferries, disrupt flights

May. 06, 2021 08:23 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, is seen in Egypt's Great Bitter Lake. The Japanese owner of the massive container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week, halting billions of dollars in maritime commerce, is asking owners of the freight it is carrying to share the cost of the damages demanded by Egyptian authorities.(AP Photo/Mohamed Elshahed, File)
Japan shipowner asks cargo owners to share Suez damage cost

By Mari Yamaguchi Apr. 30, 2021 07:36 AM EDT

Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, chant slogans during a sit-in protest against the arrest of their party leader Saad Rizvi and demanding to expel the French envoy from the country, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, April 16, 2021. Pakistan briefly blocked access to all social media on Friday, after days of anti-French protests across the country by radical Islamists opposed to cartoons they consider blasphemous. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistan briefly blocks social media amid anti-France rally

By Babar Dogar And Munir Ahmed Apr. 16, 2021 03:39 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, is seen in Egypt's Great Bitter Lake. Egyptian authorities confiscated the massive cargo vessel that blocked the Suez Canal last month amid a financial dispute with its owner, the canal chief and a judicial official said Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohamed Elshahed, File)
Suez Canal chief: Vessel impounded amid financial dispute

By Samy Magdy Apr. 13, 2021 09:25 AM EDT

Police officers take into custody a supporter of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, at a protest against the arrest of their leader Saad Rizvi, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, April 12, 2021. Pakistan police arrested Rizvi a day after he threatened the government with protests if it did not expel France's ambassador over depictions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Pakistan police arrest radical Islamist party head in Lahore

By Babar Dogar And Munir Ahmed Apr. 12, 2021 11:23 AM EDT

A container ship passes through Suez Canal, Egypt, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The Suez Canal chief said that authorities are negotiating a financial settlement with the owners of a massive vessel that blocked the crucial waterway for nearly a week. (AP Photo/Mohamed Elshahed)
Egypt seeks settlement out of court for Suez Canal blockage

By Samy Magdy Apr. 06, 2021 09:50 AM EDT

FILE - This April 2, 2021, file photo shows bridges spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. Republicans in Congress are making the politically brazen bet that it’s more advantageous to oppose President Joe Biden’s ambitious rebuild America agenda than to lend support for the costly $2.3 trillion undertaking for roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Biden's big infrastructure plan hits McConnell-GOP blockade

By Lisa Mascaro Apr. 05, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

A cargo ship sails through the town of Ismailia, Egypt, Tuesday, March 30, 2021 as traffic resumed through the Suez canal after it was blocked by a massive ship that had been stuck sideways for nearly a week. (AP Photo/AP Photo/Ayman Aref))
With ship now freed, a probe into Suez Canal blockage begins

By Samy Magdy And Jon Gambrell Mar. 30, 2021 02:01 AM EDT

This photo released by the Suez Canal Authority on Thursday, March 25, 2021, shows the head of the Suez Canal Authority, Lt. Gen. Ossama Rabei, center, with a team look from another vessel towards the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, after it become wedged across the Suez Canal. An operation is underway to try to work free the ship, which further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)
EXPLAINER: What we know about a ship blocking the Suez Canal

By Isabel Debre Mar. 25, 2021 10:02 AM EDT

CORRECTS NAME OF SHIP TO EVER GIVEN, NOT EVER GREEN - In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, Lt. Gen. Ossama Rabei, head of the Suez Canal Authority, second right, speaks to other staff onboard a boat near the stuck cargo ship Ever Given on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, after it become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway. An Egyptian official warned Wednesday it could take at least two days to clear the ship. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)
Massive cargo ship becomes wedged, blocks Egypt's Suez Canal

By Jon Gambrell And Samy Magdy Mar. 24, 2021 01:57 AM EDT

Medics wait to receive a shot of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at a clinic in Gaza City, Sunday, March 21, 2021. The Palestinian Health Ministry began on Sunday administering the first coronavirus vaccines received through the global COVAX initiative to eligible people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Palestinians expand vaccination campaign after UN shipment

By Fares Akram Mar. 21, 2021 10:00 AM EDT

FILE - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice speaks during the State of the State Address in the House Chambers of the West Virginia State Capitol Building in Charleston, W.Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Justice has agreed to live in the seat of state government in Charleston, ending a long-running challenge over his residency. A Kanawha County judge signed an order Monday, March 1, 2021, dismissing a 2018 lawsuit filed by a former state lawmaker. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, file)
Roadblocks emerge for West Virginia income tax cut proposal

By Cuneyt Dil Mar. 17, 2021 05:45 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 8, 2021 file photo, a protester flashes a victory sign as he aims to block a road during a protest, in Beirut, Lebanon. It's an expression of anger but also of helplessness: Dense palls of smoke rising around Beirut and other parts of Lebanon from burning tires that anti-government protesters are using to block roads. The tactic has become the hallmark of a new flare-up of demonstrations against an intransigent political class that does nothing as its country slides toward the political and economic abyss. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
Burning tires: Lebanon's protesters send dark, angry message

By Sarah El Deeb Mar. 10, 2021 01:07 AM EST