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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the launch of National Land Use, Land Cover, and Ecosystems Monitoring System (SIMOCUTE), Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in San Jose, Costa Rica. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)
US urging Central America to tackle poverty, corruption

By Ben Fox Jun. 02, 2021 10:06 AM EDT

President Joe Biden steps away from the podium as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Aid groups call on Biden to develop plans to share vaccines

By Zeke Miller Mar. 26, 2021 08:30 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 24, 2019 file photo, Britain's Conservative Party Member of Parliament Nadhim Zahawi is interviewed by the media at the College Green, in central London. Britain’s vaccines minister has dismissed suggestions that the country was getting key COVID-19 jabs intended for poorer countries, insisting that 10 million doses coming from India were always intended for distribution in the U.K. Zahawi, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, March 5, 2021 confirmed reports that the Serum Institute of India, one of the world’s largest vaccine makers, would be sending doses of the vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca to the U.K. (AP Photo/Vudi Xhymshiti, file)
UK says vaccine shipment from India won't hurt poor nations

By Danica Kirka Mar. 05, 2021 04:07 PM EST

A member of the International Organization for Migration takes a child's temperature before crossing the border into El Paso, Texas at the Leona Vicario shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. After waiting months and sometimes years in Mexico, people seeking asylum in the United States are being allowed into the country as they wait for courts to decide on their cases, unwinding one of the Trump administration's signature immigration policies that President Joe Biden vowed to end. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Processing of asylum seekers expands at US-Mexico border

By María Verza Feb. 26, 2021 10:15 PM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021 file photo, police officers detain a man during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia. A prison sentence for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a sweeping crackdown on protesters demanding his release reflect the Kremlin’s steely determination to fend off threats to its political monopoly at any cost. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
EXPLAINER: How Russia has tried to stem pro-Navalny protests

By Vladimir Isachenkov Feb. 03, 2021 11:33 AM EST

Ana Castillo trades 4 pounds of a cereal mix for a sociology book delivered by Bonifaz Diaz in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. By bringing the books-for-food barter program directly to people’s homes, Diaz is ensuring that donations keep flowing to fight the hunger crisis as many people stay home as much as possible to avoid catching or spreading the new coronavirus. (Henning Sac via AP)
Guatemalan fights hunger with book-for-food barters by bike

By Giovanna Dell'orto Feb. 02, 2021 10:07 AM EST

Zimbabwe Cabinet approves proposal to criminalize protests

By Farai Mutsaka Oct. 28, 2020 11:11 AM EDT
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s cabinet has approved proposed legislation that would make it a crime for activists to make “unsubstantiated claims” of human...

FILE - In this July 6, 2020 file photo, the Ocean Viking rescue ship of the humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee is moored at Porto Empedocle harbor, southern Italy. The humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday, July 23, 2020, that Italian authorities have blocked its rescue ship in port and characterized the move as harassment. (Fabio Peonia/LaPresse via AP)
Aid group claims harassment in Italy's block of rescue boat

By Colleen Barry Jul. 23, 2020 08:12 AM EDT

An electronic screen, installed on the facade of a business centre, shows an image of a doctor wearing a medical mask and calling to be careful not to become infected with coronavirus in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Russia: Domestic violence reports spike amid virus lockdown

By Daria Litvinova May. 05, 2020 07:38 AM EDT

In this photo taken Sunday, March 29, 2020, Boureima Gassambe speaks to The Associated Press at the makeshift camp for the internally displaced where he and around 600 others live in an abandoned school on the outskirts of the capital, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. “We ran away from the terrorists and came here, but now there’s the coronavirus, and we don’t know what will happen,” said Gassambe. (Photo/Sam Mednick)
Lack of virus testing stokes fears in world's refugee camps

By Joseph Krauss, Rishabh R. Jain And Cara Anna Apr. 22, 2020 02:13 AM EDT

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