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Congo’s Ebola burial teams battle community anger, fatigue and fear of infection
Yuma Adolphe and his team are responsible for the safe and dignified burial of some of the people who die from Ebola in Congo's Ituri province, the epicenter of history's deadliest Ebola outbreak. Nearly every day, they dig the graves, prepare the bodies and handle the coffins.
Explosion of fireworks in central Mexico kills at least 10 dead, injures 64 people
Pyrotechnic material exploded during the festival for a patron saint in a town in Mexico State, collapsing a wall, killing at least 10 people and injuring another 64, Mexican authorities said.
Former Cuban President Raul Castro reappears at a military event
Former Cuban President Raul Castro reappeared in public at a military event that celebrated the anniversary of an army branch responsible for protecting its top leaders.
Indonesia cancels flights at Jakarta airport and others as Anak Krakatau volcano erupts
Anak Krakatau volcano erupted in Indonesia early Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as volcanic ash drifted across parts of western Indonesia.
German region votes in election that could bring first far-right state government to power
An eastern German region was voting Sunday in an election that could bring to power the first far-right state government in the nation's post-World War II history.
U.S. envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after talks with Putin in Moscow
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks in Kyiv on Sunday in their first official visit to Ukraine as part of a renewed push for peace more than 4 1/2 years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Iranian school struck in the war’s earliest attacks is now a memorial for children
This will never be a school again.
Building collapse in New Delhi kills 1 and traps dozens of others
A building collapsed in New Delhi on Sunday, killing at least one person and trapping dozens of others, officials said.
Mudslide death toll in China rises to 3 after heavy rain from Typhoon Saudel
The death toll from a mudslide in eastern China rose to three on Sunday, after days of torrential rain brought by Typhoon Saudel. Nine others were still missing.
Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives
A television game show in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents' mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom.
U.S. tourism groups want to win Canadian visitors back. A testy trade war isn’t helping
Appeals from American tourism organizations seemed to be everywhere Josh Loewen looked over the last year. Billboards and banners proclaimed a state or city's love for Canada. Online and social media ads offered special deals for travelers from north of the border.
Months after Venezuela earthquakes, a family refuses to give up search for their missing relative
Antonella Molina, her nephew Pedro Molina and a group of friends set out at 8 a.m. on a recent Saturday, hands full of flyers, walking carefully through the rubble that remains throughout La Guaira after two catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes 10 weeks ago.
Sudan’s war-driven blackouts push residents toward solar power but high costs shut many out
For almost a year, Randa al-Mansour, a 31-year-old Sudanese housewife, has relied on solar energy panels installed on the rooftop of her building to survive the recurrent blackouts triggered by the war-torn country's deteriorating electricity grid.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee calls violent Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’ after weeks of West Bank unrest
The United States ambassador to Israel condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank again on Saturday, calling the behavior an "act of terror" as he visited with Palestinian American residents shaken by months of attacks.
Australia to pull researchers from remote island before elephant seals die en masse from bird flu
Australian officials, citing "psychosocial risks," said they will evacuate the Macquarie Island research station this fall so people there don't witness bird flu ravaging the elephant seal population come springtime.
Rescuers in Nepal pull 2 people alive from the debris 10 days after devastating floods
Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.
