Political assassinations
In this March 2021 photo provided by Pfizer, a technician inspects filled vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the company's facility in Puurs, Belgium. On Friday, July 9, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is made up of 99.9% graphene oxide, a toxic compound. But, chemical and medical experts who are not associated with Pfizer confirmed to The Associated Press that there is no way graphene oxide would be found in the vaccine. (Pfizer via AP)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Jul. 09, 2021 02:22 PM EDT

FILE— In this Dec. 11, 2006, file photo, top cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, center, speaks during a conference on the Holocaust with Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, from Austria, and Rabbi Ahron Cohen, right, from England, in Tehran, Iran. Mohtashamipour, a Shiite cleric who as Iran's ambassador to Syria helped found the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and lost his right hand to a book bombing reportedly carried out by Israel, died Monday, June 7, 2021, of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iran cleric who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, dies

By Jon Gambrell Jun. 07, 2021 05:21 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday Dec. 11, 2020, file photo, exterior view of the United Nations-backed Lebanon Tribunal where the court handed down it's sentencing on Salim Jamil Ayyash, a member of the Hezbollah militant group who was convicted of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others 16 years ago, in Leidschendam, Netherlands. Ayyash is not in custody and is unlikely to serve any sentence. A U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Wednesday, June 2, 2021 it is facing a severe funding crisis and will not be able to operate beyond July without immediate assistance. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
UN tribunal for Lebanon may fold due to funding crisis

By Bassem Mroue Jun. 02, 2021 07:51 AM EDT

A man holds a poster reads "Freedom for Navalny" during a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Police across Russia have arrested more than 180 people in connection with demonstrations in support of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to a human rights group. Navalny's team called the unsanctioned demonstrations for Wednesday after reports that his health is deteriorating while on hunger strike, which he began March 31. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Putin vows a 'quick and tough' Russian response for its foes

By Vladimir Isachenkov Apr. 21, 2021 05:35 AM EDT

This August, 2020 photo, shows Ron Weiser, left, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, and Ronna Romney McDaniel, National Republican Committee chairwoman. Michigan Republicans, once the national model for the party's mainstream, have lurched sharply rightward in the past decade. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)
Michigan GOP chair calls top Democratic women 'witches'

By David Eggert Mar. 26, 2021 02:31 PM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 25, 1963, file photo, Marie Tippit, widow of police officer J.D. Tippit who was slain during the search for President John F. Kennedy's assassin, is led weeping from Beckley Hills Baptist Church in Dallas after funeral services for her husband. Tippit who was a 35-year-old mother of three when her husband, Officer J.D. Tippit, was killed on Nov. 22, 1963, has died at age 92. Her son said she died Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at a hospital in the East Texas city of Sulphur Springs after being diagnosed with pneumonia following a positive test for COVID-19. (AP Photo, File)
Widow of Dallas officer slain by Lee Harvey Oswald dies

By Jamie Stengle Mar. 03, 2021 08:33 PM 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's supreme leader vows revenge over slain scientist

By Amir Vahdat And Jon Gambrell Nov. 28, 2020 03:21 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2011 file photo, People line up outside a bar during New Year celebrations in Beirut, Lebanon.It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on the porch of the French residence in Beirut surrounded by local politicians and religious leaders and declared the State of Greater Lebanon - the precursor to the modern state of Lebanon. (AP Photo/Grace Kassab, File)
Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises

By Bassem Mroue Aug. 31, 2020 02:45 AM EDT

A damage is seen after a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The explosion flattened much of a port and damaged buildings across Beirut, sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. In addition to those who died, more than 3,000 other people were injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
The Latest: Germany sends crews to find blast survivors

Aug. 05, 2020 08:20 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 1, 1982 file photo, Israeli medics from the occupying forces in Lebanon, give medical aid to two Druze children who were wounded during fighting between rightist militiamen and Druze gunmen in the Lebanese mountains near Bhamdoun. The 1975-1990 civil war killed more than 100,000 people and included Israeli invasions, bombardment, political assassinations, and occupation during and after that period. (AP Photo/Rabi)
National traumas familiar for virus-hit, unscathed countries

By Tamer Fakahany May. 04, 2020 01:10 AM EDT

A man reads a newspaper with the headline: 'PM in intensive care', outside St Thomas' Hospital in central London as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care fighting the coronavirus in London, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' hospital in central London on Sunday after his coronavirus symptoms persisted for 10 days. Having been in hospital for tests and observation, his doctors advised that he be admitted to intensive care on Monday evening. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
When leaders are stricken in office, how do nations act?

By Tamer Fakahany Apr. 07, 2020 10:49 AM EDT