CAIRO - Millions of Egyptians celebrated a national holiday marking the beginning of spring in an attempt to overcome national grief after recent deadly church attacks.
BAGHDAD - The Iraqis guarding Baghdad's many checkpoints, on the lookout for car bombs and convoys, don't know what to make of Ali al-Moussawi when he pulls up in a truck displaying shelves of glossy books.
GENEVA - Illegal poaching, logging and fishing of sometimes critically endangered species is taking place in nearly half of the world's most protected natural sites, environmental campaigners WWF warned on Tuesday.
ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine - Dental treatment by the best vets, open-air accommodation and fresh fish instead of dubious leftovers and abuse - life has changed markedly for brown bears rescued from Ukrainian circuses and restaurants.
DAMASCUS - The international community has denounced a deadly car bombing that killed 126 people of a convoy of Shiite evacuees in northern Syria.
HAVANA - Cuba's tourism industry, now its most dynamic economic sector, is looking to boost visitor numbers by attracting larger cruise ships.
ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared victory in a referendum on Sunday to introduce the presidential system in the biggest overhaul of modern Turkish politics. But unofficial results, which the opposition said it would challenge, showed a narrow victory with 51.4 percent of votes cast in favor.
SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted ex-president Park Geun-hye on high-profile corruption charges that could potentially send her to jail for life.
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland - Six hundred and sixty-two people on Sunday set a world record for the biggest gathering of Charlie Chaplins, each donning the black jacket, shoes, bowler hat, toothbrush mustache and cane of the comic's signature creation, the Little Tramp.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a number of tweets in a bid to play down a number of protests across the country demanding the release of his tax returns.
CLEVELAND - Police in Ohio urged residents in surrounding states on Monday to be on alert for a man who they said shot and killed an elderly passer-by seemingly at random and then posted a gruesome video of the killing on Facebook.
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