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People run away from police during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group outside of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered outside the parliament building in Jerusalem on Sunday, calling on the government to reach a deal to free dozens of hostages held by Hamas and to hold early elections. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu

Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered outside the parliament building in Jerusalem in the largest anti-government demonstration since the country went to war in October.
 
A voter walks at a polling station in Ankara, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Turkey is holding local elections on Sunday that will decide who gets to control Istanbul and other key cities. (AP Photo/Ali Unal)

In setback to Turkey’s Erdogan, opposition makes huge gains in local election

 
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa shakes hands with a farmer during his visit to Poalo, Ecuador, Thursday, March 21, 2024, where he met with dairy farmers and handed out 400 land titles. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Gunmen in Ecuador kill 9, injure 10 others in attack in coastal city of Guayaquil as violence surges

 
Pope Francis waves faithful from the central balcony of the St. Peter's Basilica prior to the the 'Urbi et Orbi' (To the city and to the world) blessing, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

In his Easter address, the pope called for a cease-fire in Gaza and a Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap

 
Britain's King Charles III waves as he leaves after attending the Easter Matins Service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (Hollie Adams/Pool Photo via AP)

King Charles’ Easter service appearance provides a glimpse of the monarch after his cancer diagnosis

 

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A supporter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds a mace, used as a weapon by Hindu god Hanuman, as he shouts slogans during an election campaign rally addressed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Meerut, India, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Thousands rally in India’s capital as opposition bloc and Prime Minister Modi launch their campaigns

Thousands of people have attended a rally by an alliance of India’s opposition parties that criticized the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of stifling opponents and undermining democracy ahead of a national election next month.
 
CAPTION CORRECTS INFO Former South African President Jacob Zuma addresses supporters of the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Zuma's new party is involved in a copyright infringement case brought by the ruling African National Congress he used to lead. The ANC says MK is illegally using the name and a similar logo of the now disbanded military wing of the ANC that was called uMkhonto weSizwe. (AP Photo)

Former South Africa leader Jacob Zuma is barred from running in elections, election authority says

South Africa’s election commission has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections.
 

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Supporters of presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye gather outside his campaign headquarters after preliminary results put him as the expected winner, in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 25, 2024. Faye's expected victory reflected frustration among youth with high unemployment and concerns about governance in the West African nation. Faye, backed by popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, has vowed to protect Senegal from corruption and interference from foreign powers like former colonial master France. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Opposition figure who became Senegal’s president-elect won over 54% of the vote, results show

 
  1. FILE - Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe waves before a working lunch at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 9, 2021. Activists and opposition leaders in the West African country of Togo called on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, for protests to stop the country's president from signing off on a new constitution that would scrap future presidential elections and could extend his decades-long rule until 2031. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

    Togo’s opposition calls for protests to stop president from signing off on a new constitution

  2. Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the Aam Admi Party, or Common Man's Party, left, leaves in a car after a court extended his custody for four more days, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Kejriwal, New Delhi’s top elected official and one of the country’s most consequential politicians of the past decade, was arrested by the federal Enforcement Directorate on March 21. (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi)

    India court extends custody of top opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal for 4 more days

In a cycle of extreme weather, drought in southern Africa leaves some 20 million facing hunger

USAID and the United Nations’ World Food Programme aim to help some of the 2.7 million people in rural Zimbabwe threatened with hunger because of the drought that has enveloped large parts of southern Africa since late last year. (March 31) (AP Video/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi and Kenneth Jali)
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A student of Kyiv State Arts Academy paints as other students and volunteers clear the rubble after the Academy was partly ruined during the Russian missile attack a few days ago in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

2 dead as Russia launches attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

 

  1. Romania and Bulgaria partially join Europe’s Schengen travel zone, but checks at land borders remain

  2. France will deliver hundreds of armored vehicles to Ukraine, defense minister says

  3. Ambassadors lay flowers at site of Moscow concert hall massacre

Asia

FILE - This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, situated in coastal towns of both Okuma and Futaba, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023, shortly after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings TEPCO began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Japan said Sunday, March 31, 2024, its experts have held talks with their Chinese counterparts to try to assuage Beijing’s concerns over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan confirms experts met in China to ease concerns over discharge of treated radioactive water

 

  1. China’s manufacturing activity expands in March after a 5-month lull

  2. Japanese officials inspect 2 factories making health supplements linked to 5 deaths

  3. In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change

Latin America

Police guard outside President Dina Boluarte's house during a raid ordered by the Attorney General's Office aimed at seizing luxury watches as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged illicit enrichment in Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Government agents raid Peruvian President Boluarte’s residence in luxury watch investigation

 

  1. Hours to make and seconds to destroy, Holy Week flower carpets are a labor of love in Guatemala

  2. Good Friday in Latin America

  3. An LGBTQ-inclusive church welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps

Middle East

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

US military says it destroyed Houthi drones over the Red Sea and in Yemen

 

  1. A car bomb in a Syrian opposition-held town kills at least 3 people, including 2 children

  2. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is to undergo hernia surgery

  3. 3 UN military observers, a Lebanese interpreter wounded in blast while patrolling southern border

Africa

James Tshuma, a farmer in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe,stands in the middle of his dried up crop field amid a drought in Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 22, 2024. A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Extreme drought in southern Africa leaves millions hungry

 

  1. Girl, 8, only survivor of bus crash that killed 45 Easter pilgrims on South Africa’s deadly roads

  2. As conflict worsens in eastern Congo, 2 armed groups pledge to respect civilians

  3. A tropical cyclone makes landfall in northern Madagascar, killing 18 people

  4. The EU plans to fast-track some financial aid to Egypt. The usual funding safeguards will not apply

U.S. News

FILE - The sign in front of an AT&T retail store is seen in Miami, July 18, 2019. The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said Saturday, March 30, 2024. In an announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the dark web contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes for about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

AT&T says a data breach leaked millions of customers’ information online. Were you affected?

 

  1. With the Key Bridge collapse, Baltimore lost a piece of its cultural identity

  2. First they tried protests of anti-gay bills. Then students put on a play at Louisiana’s Capitol

  3. The Baltimore collapse focused attention on vital bridges. Thousands are in poor shape across the US

  4. Crews carefully start removing first piece of twisted steel from collapsed Baltimore bridge

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Revelers wearing decorated hats and costumes participate in the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday, March 31, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

These images capture Easter Sunday around the world

Across the globe, people celebrated Easter Sunday — commemorating the day when, according to Christian tradition, Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem two millennia ago.
 
FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 14, 2023. AP Washington photographer Jacquelyn Martin recalls how being one of a few female photographers covering news and politics was useful when she was assigned as the press pooler for Blinken's last-minute trip to Israel and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks. Martin said, “Sometimes people not knowing what to make of you works in your favor.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

AP photographer’s early experiences in Washington helped prepare her to cover wartime diplomacy

Jacquelyn Martin, a photojournalist with The Associated Press in Washington, recalls how she often was one of a few female photographers covering news and politics in the nation’s capital and the fine line she had to walk to ensure access.
 
This undated photo provided by Shelter PR shows Chance Perdomo. Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Gen V,” has died at age 27, following a motorcycle crash, his publicist said, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (Gray Hamner/Chance Perdomo and Shelter PR via AP)

Chance Perdomo, star of ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ and ‘Gen V,’ dies in motorcycle crash at 27

Actor Chance Perdomo has died at age 27 following a motorcycle crash. He rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Gen V.”
 
A swarm of bees attack a drunk man during celebrations marking Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Guwahati, India, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

An Associated Press photographer snaps a buzzy photo by focusing on the details during Holi

Anupam Nath has been covering Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Guwahati in northeastern India for two decades.
 
People look for salvageable pieces from burned cars at a mechanic shop that was set on fire during violence by armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Police in Haiti say 2 men were hacked to death by a mob who thought they were buying ammo for gangs

Police in Haiti say two men have been hacked to death by a mob who thought they were buying ammunition or guns for gangs that have terrorized the country.
 
People walk on the road covered by hailstones due to heavy hailstones rain in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Heavy rains killed eight people, mostly children, and injured 12 in Pakistan's northwest, an official said Saturday. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Heavy rains in northwestern Pakistan kill 8 people, mostly children, and injure 12

A Pakistani official says heavy rains have killed eight people, mostly children, and injured 12 in the country’s northwest.
 

Police step up security at Munich stadium ahead of Bayern Munich-Borussia Dortmund soccer match

Police in Munich say they have stepped up security measures ahead of the Bayern Munich-Borussia Dortmund soccer match on Saturday amid reports of threatening online material, but they say no concrete plans for an attack have been detected.
 
Napoli team players take the knee ahead of the Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Atalanta at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Napoli defender Juan Jesus says he has been left feeling “very bitter” and “crestfallen” by the Italian league’s decision not to punish Inter Milan player Francesco Acerbi for an allegedly racist remark toward him. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli players take a knee in public show of support after alleged racial abuse of Juan Jesus

Napoli’s players have taken a knee before their Serie A game against Atalanta in a public show of support for teammate Juan Jesus.
 

Israel acknowledges troops killed 2 Palestinians after video captures shooting on a Gaza beach

Israel’s military has acknowledged its troops shot dead two Palestinians and wounded a third along Gaza’s beach.
 
The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group Ziad Nakhaleh, left, and the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, arrive for signing a guest book by Nakhaleh, after their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran-backed Palestinian leader vows victory over Israel in the war in Gaza

The leader of the Iran-backed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad vowed victory over Israel in the war in Gaza as he met Iran’s foreign minister for talks in Tehran Saturday.
 
Jockeys compete in last Macao races at the Macao Jockey Club in Macao, Saturday, March 30, 2024. After more than 40 years, Macao’s horse racing track hosted its final races on Saturday, bringing an end to the sport in the city famous for its massive casinos. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

China’s gambling hub of Macao holds its final horse race, ending a tradition of over 40 years

After more than 40 years, Macao’s horse racing track has hosted its final races, bringing an end to the sport in the city famous for its massive casinos.
 

A bomb blast kills 1 person and wounds 14 in Pakistan’s southwest

A police official says a bomb blast has killed one person and wounded 14 in Pakistan’s southwest, including three soldiers.
 
Pope Francis presides over the Easter vigil celebration in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope presides over Easter Vigil, delivers 10-minute homily after skipping Good Friday at last minute

Pope Francis has delivered a 10-minute homily during the Vatican’s somber Easter Vigil service, a day after he made the last-minute decision to skip his participation in the Good Friday procession as a health precaution.
 
Egyptians walk past an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Egyptian pound slipped sharply against the dollar on Wednesday after the Central Bank of Egypt raised its main interest rate and said it would allow the currency's exchange rate to be set by market forces. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

IMF confirms increasing Egypt’s bailout loan to $8 billion

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund has confirmed a deal with Egypt to increase its bailout loan from $3 billion to $8 billion.
 

UK counterterrorism police investigate an attack on an Iranian TV presenter outside his London home

British counterterrorism police are investigating the stabbing of an Iranian television presenter outside his home in London.
 
A Ukrainian soldier takes a rest in a trench on the frontline near Liman, Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, March 29, 2024. (Iryna Rybakova via AP)

Zelenskyy fires more aides in a reshuffle as Russia launches drones and missiles across Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight.
 

17 reported hurt after river cruise ship hits a concrete passageway on the Danube in Austria

The apa news agency says 17 passengers were hurt when a Bulgarian river cruise ship lost steering and hit the sides of a lock on the Danube in Austria.
 
Firefighters gather in Eden, Netherlands, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Heavily armed police have cordoned off part of a Dutch town and say that multiple people are being held hostage in a building there. It is unclear how many people are being held. Police said in a message on X, formerly Twitter, that “at the moment there is no indication of a terrorist motive.” (AP Photo/Aleksandar Furtula)

A man suspected of holding 4 hostages for hours in a Dutch nightclub has been arrested

Dutch police have detained a man who walked out of a nightclub where hostages were being held, after a tense hours-long standoff.
 
A couple jogs past the stands to watch the equestrian sports, Friday, March 29, 2024 in the park of the Chateau de Versailles, west of Paris. The site will be the venue for equestrian sports at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Chateau de Versailles is seen in background. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Grandstands and gallop tracks: Versailles Palace gardens get ready for Olympic equestrian events

Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during this summer’s Paris Games.
 
A cargo ship, right, and a ship belonging to the Open Arms aid group, are loaded with 240 tons of canned food destined for Gaza prepare to set sail outside the Cypriot port of Larnaca, Cyprus, on Saturday, March 30, 2024. U.S. charity World Central Kitchen says the ship, named Jennifer, was due to depart following the inaugural voyage of the Cyprus-Gaza sea route earlier this month by the Open Arms vessel that delivered 200 tons of food and water. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Ships with a second round of aid for Gaza have departed Cyprus as concerns about hunger soar

A three-ship convoy has left a port in Cyprus to deliver 400 tons of food and other supplies to Gaza as concerns about hunger there soar.
 
A member of a confraternity carries a cross during a Holy Thursday procession the in Procida Island, Italy, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Italy is known for the religious processions that take over towns big and small when Catholic feast days are celebrated throughout the year. But even in a country where public displays of popular piety are a centuries-old tradition, Procida's Holy Week commemorations stand out. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Young and old participate in Holy Week religious processions on Italy’s Procida island

PROCIDA, Italy (AP) — Italy is known for the religious processions that take over towns big and small throughout the year when Catholic feast days are celebrated.
 
FILE - Israeli police officers scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a protest against possible changes to the military draft laws, outside a military recruitment office in Jerusalem, on March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Israel’s high court says the government must stop funding seminaries. Could that topple Netanyahu?

A dramatic decision by Israel’s Supreme Court on drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli military could spell political trouble for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
 

US missionary group pledges to appeal the convictions of 11 members in Nicaragua

The U.S.-based missionary group Mountain Gateway says it will file appeals against the convictions of 11 members of the group who were jailed in December by Nicaragua on money laundering charges.
 

8 migrants apparently from Asia die in apparent boat accident off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast

Authorities in southern Mexico say the bodies of eight migrants, apparently from Asia, have been found after a boat accident off the country’s southern Pacific coast.
 
Tourists on the American side of Niagara Falls take photos in Niagara Falls, N.Y. on Friday, March 29, 2024. Ontario's Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it readies to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse on April 8. (Carlos Osorio/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s Niagara region declares a state of emergency to prepare for an influx of eclipse viewers

Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April.
 

High winds and turbulence force flight from Israel to New Jersey to be diverted to New York state

High winds and turbulence have forced a United Airlines flight from Israel to be diverted from its destination of Newark Airport in New Jersey to Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, New York.
 
FILE - Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro is surrounded by supporters after attending a campaign event launching the pre-candidacy of a mayoral candidate, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 16, 2024. Brazil’s top justice minister Alexandre de Moraes denied Bolsonaro’s request that his passport be returned to him so that he can travel to Israel, according to a Supreme Court document released on Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Brazil’s top court denies Bolsonaro’s request for passport return to travel to Israel

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has denied a request by former president Jair Bolsonaro that his passport be returned to him so that he can travel to Israel.
 
Kedian William, 38, of Jamaica, hands a phone charger to volunteer Pedro Rios while waiting between two border walls in San Diego for agents on Friday, March 29, 2024. A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Biden administration's position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the U.S-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Judge questions Border Patrol stand that it’s not required to care for children at migrant camps

A federal judge sharply questions the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children who are waiting for agents in makeshift camps.
 
Vatican ushers carry Pope Francis chair prior to the start of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) at the Colosseum on Good Friday, in Rome, Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says

The Vatican says Pope Francis has skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, adding to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy liturgical period.
 
Wrexham's Paul Mullin scores their side's second goal from the penalty spot during the English League Two soccer match between Wrexham and Mansfield Town at the SToK Cae Ras in Wrexham, Wales, Friday, March 29, 2024. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Wrexham takes step closer to promotion with win over Mansfield

Wrexham, the fourth-tier Welsh team co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds, has taken a step toward another promotion by beating Mansfield 2-0.