War and unrest
This photo from the Royal Court twitter account, shows Jordan’s King Abdullah II, second right, Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, fourth right in blue mask, Prince Hassan bin Talal, fifth right, and others arriving to visit the tombs of former kings, in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, April 11, 2021. King Abdullah II and his half brother Prince Hamzah have made their first joint public appearance since a palace feud last week. Members of the Jordanian royal family Sunday marked the centenary of the establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan, a British protectorate that preceded the kingdom. (Royal Court Twitter Account via AP)
Jordanian prince makes first public appearance since arrest

By Josef Federman And Omar Akour 20 hrs ago

People attend a protest in front of the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Environmental activists are protesting against worsening environmental situation in Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Thousands rally in Serbia to protect the environment

By Jovana Gec Apr. 10, 2021 10:47 AM EDT

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

An Afghan security official looks for mines or improvised explosive device with metal detector on a roadside during a trip organized by the police for The Associated Press, in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 17, 2021. Sticky bombs slapped onto cars trapped in Kabul’s chaotic traffic are the newest weapons terrorizing Afghans in the increasingly lawless nation. The surge of bombings comes as Washington searches for a responsible exit from decades of war. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
UN chief warns that use of IEDs is increasing globally

By Edith M. Lederer Apr. 08, 2021 04:16 PM EDT

Nationalist youths gesture towards a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain's exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Northern Ireland leaders seek calm after violence escalates

By Peter Morrison And Jill Lawless Apr. 08, 2021 12:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants wait for their turn at the secondary processing station inside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)
EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?

By Elliot Spagat Apr. 08, 2021 10:45 AM EDT

Israelis stand next to their cars as sirens mark a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
March of the Living honors medical workers battling COVID-19

By Laurie Kellman Apr. 08, 2021 08:08 AM EDT

Migrants, some wearing masks for protection aganst the COVID-19 infection, speak outside the Miral camp, in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans' highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population.(AP Photo/Davor Midzic)
Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees

Apr. 08, 2021 05:15 AM EDT

Shabana Maani, gives a polio vaccination to a child in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 29, 2021. Afghanistan is inoculating millions of children against polio after pandemic lockdowns stalled the effort to eradicate the crippling disease. But the recent killing of three vaccinators points to the dangers facing the campaign. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Afghans work to stem polio rise amid violence, pandemic

By Rahim Faiez Apr. 08, 2021 02:08 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2016 file photo, a U.S. Army soldier guards a position at Camp Swift, northern Iraq. Iraq’s prime minister asked the Iranian leadership to rein in Iran-backed militias in Iraq, and in a strongly worded message to Tehran, suggested he would confront the factions, two Iraqi officials said Wednesday, April 7, 2021, ahead of another round of strategic talks with Washington. (AP Photo/Susannah George, File)
No timetable for withdrawal of troops after US, Iraq talks

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra And Samya Kullab Apr. 07, 2021 12:22 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 21, 2020 file photo, the streets of the Jordanian Capital are seen empty after the start of a nationwide curfew, amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, in Amman, Jordan. The coronavirus outbreak has cratered the economy, causing nearly 25% unemployment and feeding longstanding allegations of corruption and misrule. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)
Jordan king doubles down on sedition claims against brother

By Sarah El Deeb And Joseph Krauss Apr. 07, 2021 10:47 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 22, 2014, file photo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame listens to a question while participating in a panel discussion on the campus of Tufts University, in Medford, Mass. A commission that spent nearly two years uncovering France's role in 1994's Rwandan genocide concluded Friday, March 26, 2021 that the country reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the horror that left over 800,000 dead and bears "heavy and overwhelming responsibilities" in the drift that led to the killings, but cleared the country of any complicity in the slaughter that mainly targeted Rwanda's Tutsi ethnic minority. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Rwanda recalls genocide as France seeks to reset relations

By Ignatius Ssuuna And Rodney Muhumuza Apr. 07, 2021 07:20 AM EDT

Associated Press journalist Sharon Cohen poses for a photo overlooking the Seine in Paris in 2019. Cohen, a matchless reporter who told American stories with great skill and compassion over more than four decades at The AP, died Monday, April 5, 2021, at her Chicago home. She was 68. (Courtesy of Mike Robinson)
Sharon Cohen, much-honored AP national writer, dead at 68

By Jerry Schwartz Apr. 05, 2021 09:44 AM EDT

Inmates, from a second cell block, cough and try to breath through broken windows after officers deploy a chemical irritant at the St. Louis Justice Center, known as the city jail, on Sunday, April 4, 2021. Inmates broke windows, set a fire and threw debris to the ground late Sunday at a St. Louis jail that has been plagued by uprisings in recent months. (Colter Peterson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
Inmates stage uprising at St. Louis jail dogged by unrest

By Jim Salter Apr. 05, 2021 01:46 AM EDT

Pope Francis kisses the stole within delivering his Urbi et Orbi Blessing after celebrating Easter Mass at St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican Sunday, April 4, 2021, during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Filippo Monteforte/Pool photo via AP)
In Easter speech, pope calls wars in pandemic 'scandalous'

By Frances D'emilio Apr. 04, 2021 07:50 AM EDT

File - In this May 27, 2004, file photo, Jordan's Prince Hamza left, with his mother Queen Noor, right, stand during his wedding ceremony in Amman, Jordan. Prince Hamza, the half-brother of Jordan's King Abdullah II, said he has been placed under house arrest. in a videotaped statement late Saturday, April 3, 2021.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
Jordan's king sends tough message on dissent in royal family

By Josef Federman Apr. 04, 2021 06:38 AM EDT

Tigrayan refugees wait in line to revive food from Muslim Aid at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Ethiopia says Eritrean troops are pulling out of Tigray

By Rodney Muhumuza Apr. 03, 2021 04:21 PM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2020 photo released by the Royal Hashemite Court, Jordan's King Abdullah II gives a speech during the inauguration of the 19th Parliament's non-ordinary session, in Amman Jordan. Jordan’s army chief of staff says the half-brother of King Abdullah II was asked to “stop some movements and activities that are being used to target Jordan’s security and stability.” The army chief of staff denied reports Saturday, April 3, 2021, that Prince Hamzah was arrested. He said an investigation is still ongoing and its results will be made public “in a transparent and clear form.” (Yousef Allan/The Royal Hashemite Court via AP, File)
Jordan prince says he's confined, lashes out at authorities

Apr. 03, 2021 02:57 PM EDT

Virginia Asian communities, lawmakers react to violence

By David Tran Of Capital News Service Apr. 02, 2021 09:07 AM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — White signs reading “End Violence Against Asians” and “Stop Asian Hate” illuminated against candle flames outside the Richmond Korean...

A supporter of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro places his image on a car during a gathering commemorating the 1964 military coup that established a decades-long dictatorship, in the Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces jointly resigned the previous day following Bolsonaro’s replacement of the defense minister, causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the president’s political interests. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Bolsonaro picks Army chief to ease tensions with military

By Diane Jeantet Apr. 01, 2021 06:09 PM EDT