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A South Korean court has handed opposition leader Lee Jae-myung a suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of violating election law

A South Korean court sentences opposition leader Lee Jae-myung to a suspended prison term for violating election law

A passenger van veered off a mountain highway in western Nepal, killing eight people while four on board were injured

Sri Lankan president's party has secured a parliamentary majority, official election results show

Since the Mideast wars began with Hamas’ initial Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, many international airlines have halted, restarted and halted again their flights into Israel’s main gateway to the rest of the world

Representatives from 21 members representing the Pacific Rim are meeting in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the first global summit since U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory to bring together several major world leaders

The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a majority in parliament, according to official election results, providing a solid mandate for his program for economic revival

Activists are planting trees in an effort to protect disappearing forests in Mali, but residents are cutting and selling firewood from them to survive

Nov. 8-14, 2024 World leaders arrive in Lima, Peru, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. People riding horses celebrate Tradition Day in Argentina. Musicians gather in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main square, to break the record of most mariachis performing in unison. In the world of sports, England's Phil Salt scored a century against West Indies during a T20 cricket match. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photographer Matías Delacroix, based in Panama City. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

Party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning president is leading in parliamentary elections, results show

Tropical Storm Sara has made landfall in northern Honduras, bringing heavy rain to Central America

Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently

It’s early morning in Pushkar, a city at the edge of the Thar desert in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, and a herd of about a dozen camels led by two men is returning, raising a golden sand cloud. The camels had been out grazing in the night at the foothills of the ancient Aravali mountain range, and their handlers spent the night out in the open. For the next two hours or so, when the heat is still bearable, prospective buyers will look for bargains among hundreds of camels that have been brought to be sold by herders and farmers from surrounding districts. Many camels wear necklaces made with a string of small round bells and have brightly colored plastic flowers on their snouts and heads. Specialized barbers walk around trimming camel hair for a fee to make them look more attractive to buyers. Some herders have walked with their animals for two weeks or more on paved roads and scrub land to reach the annual fair. Camels were once the most important animals used for...

Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up

The high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima has thrust one of the world’s least popular presidents into the limelight

North Korea says it has tested exploding drones designed to hit targets and leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating their mass production

The Australian government's plan to ban children from social media to protect them from harm has won almost universal political support

The Philippine navy has transported food and other supplies to a territorial ship outpost in a shoal in the South China Sea without any confrontation with Chinese forces guarding the area

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations in the disappearances of four Indigenous human rights defenders in 1989

Some who are frustrated with the Biden administration welcome the change.

Brazil has launched what it calls a social summit ahead of next week’s Group of 20 meeting of the top economies

Four men have been arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest outside a speech being given by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Queen's University in Belfast

Military police told ABC News that explosives and a timer were found on the dead man's body.

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered trials of leaders of the Auschwitz death camp in World War II, has died at the age of 90

A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives have met with Pope Francis

Tropical Storm Sara has made landfall in northern Honduras and threatens to dump torrential rains across parts of Central America and southern Mexico

Tropical Storm Sara forms in the Caribbean and threatens flash floods and mudslides in Central America, forecasters say

Masses of residents are fleeing a running battle between gang members and police in one of the few neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital that hadn’t already been fully taken over by the gangs

Latvian police say that criminal proceedings have been initiated against two Lithuanian citizens suspected of counterfeiting Ariel laundry detergent products and distributing them in significant quantities across Europe

Chilean authorities say that a former senior official in the government has been arrested on suspicion of rape

Israeli authorities have completed the demolition of a village at the heart of a yearslong struggle by the members of its Arab Bedouin minority against relocation plans

A French military task force with the festive name “Champagne” is wrapping up a mission that’s no party

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder has spoken to many children who lost their families in attacks since the war began.

ABC News’ Alex Presha reports on Joe Biden’s possibly final lap on the world stage as president.

Slovakia’s presidential office says has stopped sending pension payments to former President Andrej Kiska because of his tax fraud conviction

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice says he believes that the explosion outside the court in Brasilia was the consequence of frequent far-right attacks and hate speech targeting the country’s institutions

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports on security ramping up in Paris in the wake of last week’s violence in Amsterdam when Israeli fans were attacked.

NATO and the European Union are ramping up pressure on China

An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 12 Lebanese rescue workers inside a civil defense center in the eastern city of Baalbek

ABC News’ Britt Clennett discusses the 150-page report which, the group says, shows evidence that “meets the definition of ethnic cleansing.”

The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5 million sponsorship deal with Airbnb

In a Cypriot National Guard camp, Ukrainians are being trained on how to identify, locate and dispose of landmines and other unexploded munitions that litter huge swaths of their country, killing and maiming hundreds of people, including children

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

Syrian state media says 2 Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital and a western suburb have killed 15 people

Zookeepers have blamed fireworks on the annual Bonfire Night celebrations for the death of a baby red panda named Roxie

European Union regulators hit Facebook parent Meta with a fine of nearly 800 million euros on Thursday for what it calls “abusive practices” involving its Marketplace online classified ads business

Iranian authorities say a former journalist with the Voice of America’s Farsi service jumped to his death from a building in Iran’s capital in protest of the country’s supreme leader and an ongoing crackdown on dissent in the Islamic Republic

Two environmental activists have been charged over the spraying of orange paint powder at the Stonehenge monuments in southwest England in June

The Japanese army's fleet of hybrid-helicopter aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded following an incident last month

A Norwegian government report says that men earn an average of 13% more than women in egalitarian Norway