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FILE - In this Wednesday, April 7, 2021 file photo, Nationalists and Loyalists clash with one another at the peace wall on Lanark Way in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. The chaotic scenes during a week of violence on the streets of Northern Ireland have stirred memories of decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict, known as “The Troubles.” A 1998 peace deal ended large-scale violence but did not resolve Northern Ireland’s deep-rooted tensions. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)
EXPLAINER: What is behind the latest unrest in N Ireland?

By Jill Lawless Apr. 10, 2021 02:43 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan 8, 2016, file photo, Burns resident Steve Atkins, left, talks with Ammon Bundy, center, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, following a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore. Cliven and his sons Ryan and Ammon have engaged in armed standoffs with the federal government, first in a fight over grazing permits on federal land in Nevada in 2014, and then in a 40-day occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016. Those standoffs drew the sympathies of some Western ranchers and farmers who feared they were losing the ability to prosper financially. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Mix of extremists who stormed Capitol isn't retreating

By Rebecca Boone, Gillian Flaccus And Michael Kunzelman Jan. 13, 2021 02:26 PM EST

In a photo provided by the Kent County Sheriff, Brandon Caserta is shown in a booking photo. Caserta is one of several people charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer from her vacation home. (Kent County Sheriff via AP)
'All talk, no action' defense likely in Michigan kidnap case

By John Flesher Oct. 24, 2020 09:13 AM EDT

CORRECTS CHARGES - In a photo provided by the Kent County Sheriff, Adam Dean Fox is shown in a booking photo. Fox is one of several people charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer from her vacation home. (Kent County Sheriff via AP)
3 denied bond in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor

By David Eggert And Kathleen Foody Oct. 12, 2020 11:47 PM EDT

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer campaigns with Dan O'Neil, a Democratic candidate for the Michigan House in Traverse City, Mich., Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Whitmer visited the area the day after police announced a foiled plot to kidnap the governor. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
Men accused in plot on Michigan governor attended protests

By David Eggert Oct. 10, 2020 11:01 AM EDT

A supporter of former President Alvaro Uribe waving a national flag takes part in a caravan to protest the Supreme Court decision to place Uribe under house arrest while it advances a witness tampering investigation against him, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Colombia court calls on Uribe to testify in massacre probe

By Christine Armario Aug. 23, 2020 04:43 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, senator and former president Alvaro Uribe arrives to the Supreme Court for questioning in an investigation for witness tampering charges in Bogota, Colombia. Uribe will not be allowed to remain at liberty while the Supreme Court investigates the allegations against him, current President Ivan Duque said in a video address Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
House arrest of Colombia's Uribe exposes post-peace tensions

By César García And Christopher Torchia Aug. 05, 2020 03:39 PM EDT

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the State Department's 2021 budget on Capitol Hill Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
US hits China anew for rights abuses in western Xinjiang

By Matthew Lee Jul. 31, 2020 05:31 PM EDT

Former paramilitary leader Emmanuel Constant who has just been deported from the US, sits in a police vehicle after being detained by Haitian police at his arrival to the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Human rights groups have accused Constant of killing and torturing Haitians when he became the leader of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's presidency was toppled in 1991. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
US deports ex-paramilitary leader 'Toto' Constant to Haiti

By Evens Sanon And Dánica Coto Jun. 23, 2020 01:06 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 28, 2020, file photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, talks during his speech at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The U.N. human rights office called on the Philippines government in a new report Thursday, June 4, to end all violence targeting suspected drug offenders and to disband private and state-backed paramilitary groups which have caused serious human rights violations in the country.(Ace Morandante/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP, File)
UN office denounces human rights violations in Philippines

By Jamey Keaten And Jim Gomez Jun. 04, 2020 03:02 AM EDT

30 deported to Haiti, but ex-strongman remains in US

By Evens Sanon May. 26, 2020 04:15 PM EDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thirty people were deported to Haiti on Tuesday, but a former paramilitary leader accused of murder and torture was not among them...

Sudan clashes kill 26, including paramilitary forces

By Samy Magdy May. 13, 2020 03:25 PM EDT
CAIRO (AP) — Armed clashes in Sudan’s South Kordofan province killed more than two dozen people, including paramilitary troops, over 48 hours, authorities said...

In this image taken from video, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday it put the Islamic Republic's first military satellite into orbit, dramatically unveiling what experts described as a secret space program with a surprise launch that came amid wider tensions with the United States. (IRIB via AP)
Iran's Guard says it launched satellite amid US tensions

By Amir Vahdat And Jon Gambrell Apr. 22, 2020 02:56 AM EDT