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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021, file photo, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks before the start of vaccination of medical staff with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Atlacatl Medical Unit of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute in San Salvador, El Salvador. Allies of Bukele, including his Cabinet chief, have been included in a list of senior officials in Central America deemed corrupt by the U.S. State Department, according to a copy of a report obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
US steers El Salvador funding away from government

By Marcos Aleman May. 21, 2021 06:25 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador applauds during a ceremony at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. Mexico announced Saturday, April 24, 2021, that Lopez Obrador will hold talks with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on May 7 to discuss migration, amid an increase in underage migrants at the U.S. southern border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Ahead of Harris meeting, Mexico president accuses US

By Christopher Sherman May. 07, 2021 04:25 PM EDT

A Palestinian flag flies over the annual Land Day rally in the Arab city of Arraba, northern Israel, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Land Day rallies by Palestinians protest what they say are discriminatory policies and to commemorate the deaths of six Arab protesters who were killed by police on March 30, 1976, while demonstrating against an Israeli plan to confiscate Arab land. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Biden administration quietly ramping up aid to Palestinians

By Matthew Lee Mar. 31, 2021 11:44 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 22, 2020, file photo, an elderly woman reacts as a heath worker collects a sample during the screening and testing campaign aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19 at Sphamandla, an informal settlement in Katlehong, south of Johannesburg, South Africa. The coronavirus pandemic has fractured global relationships, but John Nkengasong, Africa's top public health official, has helped to steer the continent's 54 countries into an alliance praised as responding better than some richer nations. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
As US struggles, Africa's COVID-19 response is praised

By Cara Anna Sep. 22, 2020 03:09 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 1, 2020 file photo, a patient lies on his bed reading the Bible in a ward for those who have tested positive for the new coronavirus, at the infectious disease unit of Kenyatta National Hospital, located at Mbagathi Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya. More than two dozen international aid organizations have told the U.S. government they are "increasingly alarmed" that "little to no U.S. humanitarian assistance has reached those on the front lines" of the coronavirus pandemic as the number of new cases picks up speed in some of the world's most fragile regions. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
Aid groups 'alarmed' by little US coronavirus assistance

By Cara Anna Jun. 12, 2020 04:58 AM EDT