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A cardinal holds his zucchetto after the procession with the body of Pope Francis, who will lie in state for three days, arrived in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Mighty and meek bid farewell to Pope Francis at funeral where he is remembered as pope of the people

World leaders and Catholic faithful have said farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and reflected his wishes as pastor.

Cardinals take their seats for the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

What to know about the funeral and burial of Pope Francis

In this photo released by Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, steps out from his plane as he arrives at Muscat, Oman, Friday, April 25, 2025, a day prior to negotiations with U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran and the US hold expert talks in Oman over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program

In this photo provided by Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) firefighters work as black smoke rises in the sky after a massive explosion rocked a port near the southern city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Mohammad Rasoul Moradi/IRNA via AP)

A massive explosion and fire strikes Iranian port and injures at least 516 people

Kashmiri villager inspect the debris of the blown-up family home of Ahsan Ul Haq Shiekh, a militant who officials say is involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, at Murran village in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Indian military says Pakistani troops fired at positions along the border in disputed Kashmir

ELECTION WATCH

Liberal Leader Mark Carney arrives for a tour of Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on Friday, April 25, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada is gearing up for federal election. Here’s what’s at stake

Canadians will vote for a new government in an election that has been upended by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and threats to make Canada the 51st state.

Gabon's President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, ahead of the Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). (Ken Ishii/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Gabon’s constitutional court confirms Oligui Nguema’s victory in presidential election

Gabon’s constitutional court has confirmed that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema — he’s Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup — has won the Central African nation’s April 12 presidential election.

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Canada Liberal Leader Mark Carney dawns a Hockey Canada jersey as he makes his way to play ball-hockey with youngsters during a campaign stop in Upper Onslow, Nova Scotia, Canada, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Canada’s federal elections

THE VIETNAM WAR: 50 YEARS ON

What to watch, read and hear

The war may have ended, but its memorialization in films, books, television shows and music has endured. Our selections range in language and perspective, and include nonfiction and fiction options.

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Photos: Changing faces of the war’s landmarks

50 years later, Vietnam’s battlefields draw retrospective veterans and other tourists

Trump and Biden arrive for pope’s funeral

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Pope Francis’ coffin is sealed in St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of funeral

Australian identical twins speak in unison during interview about alleged crime

Senior Russian military officer killed by car bomb, officials say

MIDEAST WARS

Palestinians carry the body of Abdul Khaleq Jbour, 16, who was killed in an Israeli military raid, during his funeral at the West Bank village of Salem, near Nablus, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians carry the body of Abdul Khaleq Jbour, 16, who was killed in an Israeli military raid, during his funeral at the West Bank village of Salem, near Nablus, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

In reverse of a longtime stance, US says UN Palestinian refugee agency isn’t immune from lawsuits

The Trump administration has decided that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is not immune from being sued, reversing the U.S. government’s longstanding position that the organization was protected from civil liability.

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UN food agency says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s blockade

New Syrian foreign minister attends UN Security Council in first US appearance since Assad’s fall

While the world watches Gaza, here is what’s happening in the West Bank

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Moti Kimchi/Pool Photo via AP)

International court appeals panel orders judges to reconsider Israel’s jurisdiction challenge

Russia-Ukraine war

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and President Donald Trump, talk as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Trump and Zelenskyy meet briefly at the Vatican to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov with the report that all Ukrainian troops have been forced from Russia's Kursk region, during their meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia says it has fully reclaimed the Kursk region. Ukraine says it is still fighting there.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff greet each other prior to their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 25, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Trump calls for Ukraine and Russia to meet for ‘very high level’ talks, says they are close to deal

GLOBAL BUSINESS NEWS

The Nintendo Switch 2 is demonstrated during a media event, in New York, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Nintendo Switch 2 preorders see ‘overwhelming’ demand, frustrations for hopeful buyers

In this photo provided by the South African Government Communications and Information Services (GCIS), the Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana speaks before the vote for national budget for 2025 in the National Assembly, in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Jairus Mmutle/GCIS via AP)

South Africa scraps proposed tax increase after pushback from coalition partners and opposition

Visitors look at a bare-bones version of Tesla's Cybertruck with devices from AOD Technology, which makes domain control units that process various commands such as opening doors and controlling running boards on SUVs, displayed at the Shanghai auto show on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Automakers focus on the global market, chide the US over tariffs at Shanghai’s auto show

A Starbucks location is seen April 26, 2022, in Havertown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Labor group sues Starbucks, saying it ignores slave-like conditions for workers in Brazil

American and Canadian flags fly near the Palace Playland amusement park, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a summer seaside resort town popular with French-Canadian tourists. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File(

Canadians put off by Trump’s bluster and border arrests are booking far fewer US visits

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

This photo provided by Daniel Rubinoff in April 2025 shows a new species of carnivorous caterpillar, left, which uses a protective case made with insect parts, near a spider in Oahu, Hawaii. (Courtesy Daniel Rubinoff via AP)

A carnivorous ‘bone collector’ caterpillar dresses in the remains of its prey

This image provided by Martin Surbeck shows a female bonobo being groomed by another in the Congo in 2020. (Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project via AP)

Bonobos in Congo form girl groups to fend off male aggression, study says

This photo issued by Sotheby's on Wednesday April 23, 2025, shows The First Folio of William Shakespeare, which contains 36 of the writer's plays, and is one of four folios which are due to go on sale at Sotheby's in London on May 23. (Sotheby's via AP)

A set of first editions of Shakespeare’s plays could fetch $6 million at auction

Mexican singer Vivir Quintana performs songs from her new album “Cosas que Sorprenden a la Audiencia” or Things that Surprise the Audience, in Mexico City, Thursday, April 24, 2025. Her first "corridos" album tells the stories of women who were incarcerated for killing their abusers while defending themselves. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)

A Mexican musician uses a contentious genre to sing of women imprisoned for killing their abusers

Two women ride horses in a path full of bluebells, also known as wild hyacinth, in the Hallerbos forest, south of Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Bluebells and other spring flowers can be nature’s antidote to stressful times

Wallace Mkanka holds his winning sculpture that will be part of an upcoming exhibition at Oxford University aiming to contextualize the legacy of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes, at the Chitungwiza Arts Centre near Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Zimbabwe’s stone carvers seek a revival as an Oxford exhibition confronts a British colonial legacy

This photo provided by the Oceanic Society shows a young green sea turtle in Guyana in 2007. (Roderic Mast/Oceanic Society via AP)

Endangered sea turtle populations show signs of recovery in more than half the world, survey finds

Europe

A cardinal holds his zucchetto after the procession with the body of Pope Francis, who will lie in state for three days, arrived in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Mighty and meek bid farewell to Pope Francis at funeral where he is remembered as pope of the people

Asia

Virginia Giuffre speaks during a news conference outside a Manhattan court in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking scandal, has died

Latin America

A digital billboard flashes an a message reading "Traitors, to immigrants, to Miami-Dade, to the American dream," alongside pictures of Florida politicians with roots in Cuba, including from left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez, and Mario Diaz-Balart, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Medley, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

3 House Republicans from Florida with Cuban roots carefully navigate Trump’s immigration policies

Middle East

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, left, meet at an hotel in Vienna, July 9, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool Photo via AP, File)

What do ‘expert level’ talks signal for the progress of the Iran-US nuclear negotiations?

Africa

A priest holds a sacrament bowl showing a photograph of Pope Francis during a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Catholics remember Pope Francis as a friend of Africa, with some setting theology aside

U.S. News

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan speaks during a rally marking the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2025, in Milwaukee, Wis. (Lee Matz/Milwaukee Independent via AP)

FBI arrests a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities

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A woman poses with Lucy who has her hair painted orange as people celebrate King's Day in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Netherlands is turning orange to celebrate King Willem-Alexander’s birthday

Palestinians bid farewell to their relatives who were killed in Israeli airstrikes early this morning on Yaffa School, in Gaza City, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

49 killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza over 24 hours, as mediators scramble to restart ceasefire

The Pulteney Bridge in the World Heritage site of Bath, England, is shown, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, with the rugby stadium to the right. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

An English rugby team’s stadium plan sparks concern for beavers, bats and UNESCO designation

People gather to protest outside Caglayan courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 18, 2025, during the hearing of dozens of people accused of attending banned demonstrations after the arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Dozens arrested as the investigation that saw Istanbul’s mayor jailed deepens

Dean of the College of Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re spreads incense around the coffin of Pope Francis during his funeral in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

AP PHOTOS: From mightiest to humblest, hundreds of thousands gather for Pope Francis’ funeral

This undated photo provided by Polina Pugacheva in April 2025 shows Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist who was a researcher at Harvard University. (Polina Pugacheva via AP)

Harvard researcher held in Louisiana awaits judge’s decision on deportation to Russia

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Trump pays his respects to a pope who publicly and pointedly disagreed with him

College students from various nearby schools march down Commonwealth Avenue in Boston on Oct. 16, 1965 to attend rally on Boston Common protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. They're hallmarks of American history: protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, disruptions. They date from the early days of what would become the United States to the sights and sounds currently echoing across the landscapes of the nation's colleges and universities. (AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin, File)

The end of the Vietnam War was also a turning point for protest songs

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, addresses the media as he enters a courtroom in Tel Aviv before the start of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hearing Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP, File)

US visit by far-right Israeli minister draws tense protests and ‘big fissures’ in Jewish community

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he and first lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Washington. The President and first lady will be traveling to Rome and the Vatican to attend the funeral for Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump keeps contradicting himself on tariffs, making a fragile world economy nervous

Ex-Taliban commander pleads guilty in killings of US soldiers and kidnapping of journalists

Ahmadi community says gunmen killed one of their members and wounded another in eastern Pakistan

Gunmen kill at least 20 people in mining town in northwestern Nigeria, rights group says

Cal Foote, one of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team charged with sexual assault last year for an incident that allegedly took place in June 2018, arrives at the London Courthouse in London, Ontario, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Nicole Osborne/The Canadian Press via AP)

Judge declares mistrial in Hockey Canada sexual assault case

A view of the St. Mary Major Basilica, where Pope Francis will be buried, in Rome, Friday April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Pope’s burial place reflects his ‘humble, essential’ life, Rome’s poor will pay him a final tribute

This undated handout file photos issued by the Metropolitan Police on Friday, April 25, 2025 shows from left, Daniel Kelly, Stewart Ahearne and Louis Ahearne, who have been jailed at the Old Bailey for plotting to kill former cagefighter Paul Allen. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

3 men sentenced to over a century in prison after plot to kill a ringleader in UK’s biggest heist

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talks with supporters during his arrival to the international airport in Brasilia, Brazil, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Bolsonaro’s doctors say the health of Brazil former president has stabilized

Dominican Republic under fire as deportations of pregnant and breastfeeding women to Haiti rise

Italian Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, center, takes an oath at the beginning of the conclave to elect the next pope in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Monday, April 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano via AP, File)

So you saw ‘Conclave’ the movie. Here’s what it got right – and wrong – about real-life conclaves

Brazil’s former President Fernando Collor arrested after corruption conviction

People take part in a ceremony to mark Liberation Day in Turin, Italy, Friday, April 25, 2025. (Alberto Gandolfo/LaPresse via AP)

1 killed and 2 injured as driver loses control during a parade in an Italian town

President Donald Trump arrives at Leesburg Executive Airport on Marine One in Leesburg, Va., Thursday, April 24, 2025, en route to Trump National Golf Club Washington DC in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Immigration is Trump’s strongest issue, but many say he’s gone too far, a new AP-NORC poll finds

Security personnel work the scene where Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, was killed by an explosive device placed in his car in Balashikha, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

A Russian general was killed by a car bomb just outside Moscow

People stand in silence to commemorate the a deadly train station canopy collapse during a farewell ceremony by Serbia's protesting students in Novi Sad, Serbia, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

After cycling to France, Serbia’s protesting students run to Brussels to stir EU attention

At shops around the Vatican, Pope Francis was a regular customer and a friend

Swiss Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter speaks during a Swiss National Day flag raising ceremony with New York Mayor Eric Adams, not pictured, at Bowling Green, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, file)

Swiss leader says Trump administration foresees ‘privileged’ talks with 15 countries on US tariffs

FILE — In this Sunday, April 26, 2015 file photo, rescue workers remove debris as they search for victims of an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Nepal marks 10-year anniversary of earthquake that killed thousands

Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds, center, celebrates with members of the Wrexham FC soccer team the promotion to the Football League in Wrexham, Wales, on May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)

Wrexham has another promotion in sight and Ryan Reynolds can hardly stand the tension

Jacob Hersant speaks outside the Melbourne Magistrates' Court in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 8, 2024, before his is sentenced after he was convicted for performing the Nazi salute. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, FILE)

Australian prime minister condemns anti-Indigenous rights protests during war dead commemorations

Roadside bomb targeting security vehicle kills 4 troops in restive southwest Pakistan