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Leaders of South American nations pose for a group photo during the Amazon Summit, at the Hangar Convention Center in Belem, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Pictured are; Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, from left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Bolivia's President Luis Arce, Peru's President Dina Boluarte and Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Rainforest nations in Africa and Asia join Amazon summit to discuss rainforest preservation
Representatives of rainforest nations in Africa and Southeast Asia have joined a summit of Amazon countries in Brazil to begin charting a common course for preservation of the ecologically diverse regions that are crucial in countering climate change.
 
Fire rages at a vacation home in the town of Wintzenheim, north-eastern France, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2023. A fire ripped through a vacation home for adults with disabilities in eastern France on Wednesday, killing several people, the head of rescue operations said. (TNN/dpa via AP)
Fire at French vacation home for adults with disabilities leaves 11 dead
 
Demonstrators gather in front of the Embassy of Niger in Paris, in support of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum and ECOWAS, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)
Niger’s ousted president is said to be running low on food under house arrest 2 weeks after coup
 
In this undated photo provided by El Roi Haiti, Alix Dorsainvil, right, poses with her husband, Sandro Dorsainvil. Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, July 27, the organization said. (Courtesy of El Roi Haiti via AP)
American nurse and her young daughter freed, nearly two weeks after abduction in Haiti
 
In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the Center of Legal Resources Romania, a malnourished child lies on an improvised bed in the basement of a care home in in the village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said, were "lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood." (Center of Legal Resources via AP)
Romanian care homes scandal spotlights abuse described as ‘inhumane and degrading’
 
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Europe
A view of the burnt out remains of The Crooked House pub near Dudley, England, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. A pub in central England that had a reputation as Britain's wonkiest is at the center of a local storm after it burned down and subsequently reduced to rubble by a digger. The local mayor has joined thirsty regulars from the subsidence-hit 18th-century Crooked House pub near the town of Dudley in pressing for a proper investigation into the events surrounding the pub's destruction. (Jacob King/PA via AP)
Angry villagers in England call for the quirky Crooked House pub to be rebuilt following demolition
 
  1. Explosion at Moscow area factory adds to Russian jitters as officials blame Ukraine for drone attack
  2. 41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia
  3. Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration
Asia
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, center, Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf, left, and Raja Riaz, opposition leader in National Assembly pose for a photo with lawmakers of the National Assembly at the end of the last session of the current parliament, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Pakistan's prime minister took a formal step Wednesday toward dissolving parliament, starting a possible countdown to a general election, as his chief political rival fought to overturn a corruption conviction that landed him in a high-security prison over the weekend. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Is it election season? Pakistan leader moves to disband parliament, his jailed nemesis seeks release
 
  1. Khanun begins blowing into South Korea with strong winds after dumping rain on Japan for a week
  2. India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi condemns the Modi government over violence in Manipur
  3. Nagasaki marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing with mayor urging world to abolish nuclear weapons
Latin America
Volunteer Daniel Hyduke of Miami Beach, Fla., clips a fragment of coral to be transplanted from the coral nursery to the reef, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, off of Key Biscayne, Fla. Scientists from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science established a new restoration research site there to identify and better understand the heat tolerance of certain coral species and genotypes during bleaching events. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
High ocean temperatures are harming the Florida coral reef. Rescue crews are racing to help
 
  1. Ailing and baby hummingbirds nursed to health at woman’s apartment-turned-clinic in Mexico City
  2. In Mexico, accusations of ‘communism’ and ‘fascism’ mark school textbook debate
  3. Mexico shutters 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts after US warned of dangerous pill sales
Middle East
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)
Syria’s Assad blames Turkey’s Erdogan for violence in Syria, insists on pullout of Turkish troops
 
  1. Bahrain prison inmates on hunger strike in latest sign of simmering unrest in island kingdom
  2. Israel demolishes home of alleged Palestinian attacker, fueling West Bank tensions
  3. The monthslong conflict in Sudan has displaced over 4 million people, a UN official says
Africa
Police stand near the gutted remains of cars, at the Eritrean cultural festival "Eritrea Scandinavia" in Stockholm Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. A violent clash at an Eritrea-themed culture festival in Sweden has caused a chaos as about a thousand anti-Eritrean government protesters stormed the outdoor festival venue throwing stones, setting fire on booths and tearing down tents. (Magnus Lejhall/TT News Agency via AP)
Eritrea’s repressive government criticizes exiles who attack overseas festivals as ‘asylum scum’
 
  1. The World Food Program slowly resumes food aid to Ethiopia after months of suspension and criticism
  2. Rwanda genocide survivors criticize UN court’s call to permanently halt elderly suspect’s trial
  3. Local businesses in northern Nigeria feel the sting of regional sanctions against neighboring Niger
  4. World Bank says no new funding to Uganda over anti-gay law
U.S. News
FILE - A sign displays an unofficial temperature as jets taxi at Sky Harbor International Airport at dusk, July 12, 2023, in Phoenix. Phoenix weathered in 31-days above 110 degrees has lost at least 39 people to the heat. Nationwide, around 30 million Americans struggle to afford their energy bill and qualify for the subsidy; but less than 3% received federal assistance for their summer bills. Experts say it's woefully underfunded. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
Millions scramble to afford energy bills amid heat waves, but federal program to help falls short
 
  1. Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
  2. Donald Trump wants his election subversion trial moved out of Washington. That won’t be easy
  3. Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves will face Democrat Brandon Presley in the November election
  4. Trump vows to keep talking about criminal cases despite prosecutors pushing for protective order