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Hong Kong police have used pepper spray to disperse more than 100 protesters singing and chanting pro-democracy slogans in a shopping mall

Authorities in Venezuela say a riot erupted at a prison, killing at least 40 people and injuring 50 more

Some 300 heavily armed volunteers planned to sneak into Venezuela and ignite a popular rebellion that would end in President Nicolas Maduro’s arrest

Philippine military officials say a headless body of a man and a boat have been found in the south and authorities are verifying if he could be a Chinese adventurer who went missing while rowing across the Pacific Ocean last year

North Korean state media says Kim made his first public appearance in 20 days.

People in the U.K. clapped to show appreciation for health professionals and other key workers for six weeks in a row.

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A cousin of Syria's president has posted an unprecedented video appeal to Bashar Assad, claiming he is being unjustly taxed and his business driven into the ground

North Korean media says leader Kim Jong Un makes first public appearance in weeks, ending rumors about health

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is banning the use and trade of assault-style weapons immediately

References to the Honduran president appear throughout U.S. prosecutors’ statements announcing drug trafficking charges against the former chief of Honduras’ national police this week

The flooding comes as Fort McMurray is dealing with the COVID-19.

The penguins build leg strength before wandering around other parts of the zoo amid COVID-19 closures.

Libya's U.N.-supported government in the capital, Tripoli, says that eastern-based forces trying to capture the city have bombed civilian homes, killing at least two people

Kosovo’s Constitutional Court has suspended a presidential decree nominating Avdullah Hoti of the center-right Democratic League of Kosovo to replace the acting prime minister

Hundreds of Lebanese have protested outside the central bank and in other parts of the country

The Canadian military says additional remains have been found and five missing military members from a helicopter crash off Greece are now presumed dead

Iraq's Oil Ministry says revenues in April plummeted amid a historic oil price crash, raising concerns over how the country will cope with severe financial shortfalls while struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic

Malta’s government is defending its use of private vessels to save migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, including one mission in which a Maltese fishing boat reportedly took the rescued passengers back to Libya

Police in Istanbul detained at least 15 people, including trade union leaders who tried to stage a May Day march in defiance of a coronavirus lockdown and a ban on demonstrations at a historic square

A look at the top photos from around the globe.

A look at the week's top photos from around the globe.

There are 1,500 models of the weapons that have been banned, PM Trudeau said.

An 4.5-magnitude earthquake has shaken central Bulgaria but there are no reports of any injuries or damage

Muslims in Jerusalem are praying outside in small groups during the holy month of Ramadan as measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic remain in place

AP Week in Pictures, Latin America & Caribbean

When Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said the government would relax some parts of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, residents entering an eighth week of home confinement dove for their dictionaries

India has run the first train service for thousands of migrant workers desperate to return home since it imposed a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus

A 23-year-old man has appeared in a Danish court a day after being arrested on suspicion of plotting an extremist attack

Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79

Syria's Defense Ministry says a series of explosions at a military base housing a weapons warehouse in central Syria was the result of “human error" while moving ammunition

A baby koala and bushfire survivor named 'Jellybean' kept his carer company as they cleaned his enclosure at a wildlife shelter in Australia.

South Africa has begun easing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns

The Duchess of Sussex has lost an early round in a London court where a judge dismissed parts of her lawsuit against the publisher of a British newspaper that put out excerpts of a letter to her estranged father

The man stabbed and slashed several people at an Australian shopping mall.

The former prime minister and witnesses on the ground say explosions have rocked Yemen’s Socotra archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage site

An annual human rights report released this week gives Pakistan a failing grade, charging that too little is being done to protect the country’s most vulnerable, including women and children

Rescuers in Nepal have recovered the bodies of the last of four South Korean trekkers and their Nepali guide who died in an avalanche in January

Bangladesh has reopened hundreds of its garment factories this week after nearly one month of closures to fight the coronavirus pandemic

Croatia’s leftist president has walked out of a state ceremony in protest after one of the participants wore a T-shirt displaying a salute used during World War II by a pro-Nazi regime in the country

China’s warning of trade repercussions from Australia’s campaign for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus has rattled Australian business leaders as President Donald Trump’s administration urges other governments to back such a probe

An old explosive device left during Nepal’s decadelong communist insurgency has killed four children in a mountain village

It comes amid the implementation of a U.S.-Taliban peace agreement.

The countries torn apart by war don't have facilities needed to fight COVID-19.

APRIL 24-30, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific. The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Toru Takahashi in Tokyo. Follow AP visual journalism: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP—Images AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com

Jordan’s Foreign Ministry says Israeli farmers will no longer be allowed to work their fields in an enclave of southern Jordan

North Korea’s collapse has been predicted — wrongly — for decades.

Mexico’s statistical agency says economic activity dropped 1.6% in the first quarter compared to the final three months of 2019, plunging the country deeper into a recession that predated the coronavirus pandemic

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says one person is dead and five are missing after a military helicopter operating off a Canadian frigate that was taking part in a NATO operation in the Mediterranean crashed into the sea between Greece and Italy

Locals were surprised when they spotted a shark swimming among boats in the crystal-clear waters of the French port city of Sète.