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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020, file photo, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He listens as former President Donald Trump speaks before signing a trade agreement at the White House in Washington. At a meeting Thursday, June 18, 2021, China pledged to harshly punish anyone responsible for major industrial accidents or outbreaks of violence in coming days as the ruling Communist Party prepares lavish celebrations for its centenary on July 1, 2021. Vice Premier Liu ordered safety checks be carried out to forestall such incidents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
China pledges harsh penalties ahead of party anniversary

Jun. 18, 2021 04:24 AM EDT

Fire tears through Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients

By Samya Kullab Apr. 24, 2021 05:53 PM EDT
BAGHDAD (AP) — A fire broke out in a Baghdad hospital that cares for coronavirus patients after oxygen cylinders reportedly exploded late Saturday, officials...

A rooster and a hen walk on the ash-covered main Black Rock road, from the St. Vincent eruption of La Soufriere volcano, on the outskirts of Bridgetown, Barbados, Sunday, April 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Chris Brandis)
'Huge' explosion rocks St. Vincent as volcano keeps erupting

By Kristin Deane And Dánica Coto Apr. 12, 2021 08:10 AM EDT

A woman and a girl walk wearing protective head coverings walk on a street covered with volcanic ash a day after the La Soufriere volcano erupted, in Kingstown, on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, Saturday, April 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Lucanus Ollivierre)
Ash-covered St. Vincent braces for more volcanic eruptions

By Kristin Deane And Dánica Coto Apr. 09, 2021 11:59 PM EDT

Members of Lebanese NGO Baytna Baytak Firas Minnawi, right, and Mario Suleiman, left, unpack oxygen machine to be donated to an elderly COVID-19 patient in Beit Shebab, a mountain village 15 mile (24 km) north of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. The group of Lebanese activists are matching empty apartments and hotel rooms with nurses and doctors who are serving countless hours in the country's hospitals overwhelmed with COVID patients and who need a place to rest without endangering their families or elderly parents. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Lebanese group gives a home away from home to health workers

By Fay Abuelgasim Feb. 09, 2021 01:14 AM EST

FILE - In this August 14, 2020 file photo, Hussein Haidar, 27, who got injured at his office during the Aug. 4 explosion poses for a photograph at his parents' house in Beirut, Lebanon. The mental health impact of the Beirut explosion that killed more than 200 and wounded more than 6,000 continues to lay its heavy weight on those who managed to survive the day. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
Survivors of Beirut's explosion endure psychological scars

By Dalal Mawad Feb. 01, 2021 01:08 AM EST

Madrid emergency services say they have rushed to a building in the city center following an explosion

Jan. 20, 2021 09:24 AM EST
MADRID (AP) — Madrid emergency services say they have rushed to a building in the city center following an explosion. ...

Sima-Rita, whose family home had the windows blown out during August's massive explosion in Beirut, holds her doll at her grandfather's home, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. After the explosion, painter Yolande Labaki made 100 dolls for children affected by the destruction. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Woman's salve for devastation of Lebanese blast: 100 dolls

By Mariam Fam Jan. 12, 2021 10:02 AM EST

Gas tank explosion in Kosovo injures 44, damages shops

Jan. 05, 2021 03:06 PM EST
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — An explosion involving a liquefied gas tank Tuesday injured dozens of people in southern Kosovo, according to police and health...

Fireworks kill young men in France and Germany

Jan. 01, 2021 07:59 AM EST
PARIS (AP) — A man in eastern France was killed when a New Year's Eve firework exploded after he went back to inspect it, while another man was killed by a...

Nashville attack sharpens Vegas New Year's security concerns

By Michelle L. Price Dec. 29, 2020 06:19 PM EST
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A smaller crowd of New Year's revelers is expected in Las Vegas this year because of the pandemic, but police said Tuesday they're not scaling...

Volunteers wearing protective clothing prepare the body of a man who died from COVID-19 for a funeral at a cemetery in the outskirts of the city of Ghaemshahr, in northern Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
AP PHOTOS: Beirut blast led litany of Mideast crises in 2020

By Joseph Krauss Dec. 20, 2020 12:45 AM EST

An unidentified patient uses his mobile phone while receiving oxygen on a stretcher, as Los Angeles Fire Department Paramedics monitor him outside the Emergency entrance, waiting for his room at the CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Increasingly desperate California hospitals are being "crushed" by soaring coronavirus infections, with one Los Angeles emergency doctor predicting that rationing of care is imminent. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Overwhelmed California hospitals contemplate rationing care

Dec. 19, 2020 01:18 AM EST

People ride an escalator to a train station in Tokyo on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A pandemic atlas: Masks key to keeping Japan's caseload low

By Mari Yamaguchi Dec. 16, 2020 12:01 AM EST

French President Emmanuel Macron makes introductory remarks during a visio-conference meeting about support and aid for Lebanon, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. France is hosting an international video conference on humanitarian aid for Lebanon amid political deadlock in Beirut that has blocked billions of dollars in assistance for the cash-strapped country. (Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP)
France and UN rally aid for Lebanon, urge political reforms

By Zeina Karam And Sylvie Corbet Dec. 02, 2020 05:21 AM EST

Nevada coroner fears no morgue space if virus not curtailed

By Scott Sonner Nov. 26, 2020 11:19 AM EST
RENO, Nev. (AP) — “This is an awful question, but how many bodies does a freezer cooler hold?” A Reno newspaper reporter posed it to the...

A bald eagle flying with the Lebanon flag over the Beirut port blast is depicted on Samih Zreik's house, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, in Dearborn, Mich. Zreik painted his house in tribute to Lebanon following the blast at Beirut's port that killed nearly 200 people, wounded more than 6,000 and caused billions of dollars in damage. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
US charities raise millions in wake of Beirut port blast

By Mike Householder Nov. 24, 2020 02:08 AM EST

Iran has highest day death toll from virus, currency plunges

Oct. 11, 2020 06:39 AM EDT
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran announced on Sunday its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus with 251 confirmed dead, the same day local media reported...

Former American professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, center, prepares to ride with Lebanese and foreign cyclists at the site of the Aug. 4 deadly blast in the port of Beirut that killed scores and wounded thousands in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Armstrong led a charity bike tour named "Bike for Beirut," to raise awareness and fund organizations that are helping residents of the Lebanese capital who suffered losses as a result of the massive blast. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Lance Armstrong leads Beirut bike tour to help blast victims

Oct. 04, 2020 11:40 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, center left, gestures as he visits the devastated site of the Aug. 4 explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon. An economic meltdown, a revolution, financial collapse, a virus outbreak and a cataclysmic explosion that virtually wiped out the country's main port. The past year has been nothing short of an earthquake for tiny Lebanon, with an economic meltdown, mass protests, financial collapse, a virus outbreak and a cataclysmic explosion that virtually wiped out the country’s main port. Yet Lebanese fear even darker days are ahead. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool, File)
AP Analysis: Dark days ahead for Lebanon as crisis bites

By Zeina Karam Sep. 29, 2020 02:11 AM EDT