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A Somali poet performs during a cultural event in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia's poets keep hope alive for storytelling and for peace

7:12 PM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

There may be no higher art in Somalia than oral poetry, which is recited in the most remote outposts and even by militants

A general view of a container port seen from a helicopter in Tokyo, on Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Japan revises economic data to show bigger contraction in July-September period

6:11 PM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Japan’s economy has contracted at an annual pace of 2.3% in the July-September period, as exports suffered from the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and public investments slipped

FILE - Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear waves to a cheering crowd after his speech during the Ben Nelson Gala Nov. 7, 2025, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)

Democratic governors say the party's midterm strategy must focus on voters' pocketbook concerns

4:23 PM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Democratic governors who met over the weekend in Arizona say the party must focus on affordability in next year's midterm elections

FILE - New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference, in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)

Zohran Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE

2:40 PM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video explaining immigrants' right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks to reporters following a classified briefing for top congressional lawmakers overseeing national security as they investigate how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth handled a military strike on a suspected drug smuggling boat and its crew in the Caribbean near Venezuela Sept. 2, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Key GOP senator says he has no objection to releasing video of strike that killed two survivors

12:50 PM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

The Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee says a video of a U_S_ military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows “nothing remarkable."

FILE - Wilma Fuentes yells at Customs and Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and some of his agents as they walk through a neighborhood during an immigration crackdown, in Kenner, La., Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown

10:35 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

State and federal authorities are monitoring online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans

FILE - Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as 'disloyal' for not switching parties

10:35 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

President Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to run for reelection as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case

FILE - Michoacán State Governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla, left, and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum attend a presentation of the new security strategy against violence for the state of Michoacan, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Nov. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel, File)

Death toll rises to 5 after explosion outside a police station in Mexico's Michoacán state

9:50 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

The number of victims killed in an explosion outside a police station in the western Mexican state of Michoacán over the weekend has risen to five

Police say 2 officers killed in northeast Colombia in explosion blamed on guerrilla

9:19 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Two police officers have been killed in northeast Colombia in an attack that authorities blame on the National Liberation Army, a Marxist guerrilla force active since the 1960s

Judge deals setback to Justice Department effort to seek new indictment against Comey

7:50 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

A federal judge has dealt a setback to Justice Department efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adjusts the headphones during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Jerusalem Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas will enter ceasefire's second phase soon

6:04 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon

Doris Wilson, a foot soldier who marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, sitting, is reunited with Dr. June Finer, the doctor who tended to her throughout the march, in Marion, Ala., Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)

Unseen photos of Rosa Parks return to Montgomery, Alabama, seven decades later

6:04 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy

President Donald Trump talks to the media while walking the red carpet before the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says Zelenskyy 'hasn't read' a US-authored proposal to end Russia-Ukraine war

4:24 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

President Donald Trump is claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “ hasn’t read” a U

The stage is prepared ahead of the dressed rehearsal of the Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, by Dmitri Shostakovich, at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

La Scala gala crowd cheers premiere of Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth' once censored by Stalin

4:19 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala has cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" with a 12-minute standing ovation

FILE - Benin's President Patrice Talon attends a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Benin is the latest African country to experience a coup. Here is a look at other military takeovers

2:39 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Benin has joined a growing list of African countries where military officers have seized power since 2020

Soldiers ride in a military vehicle along a street amid an attempted coup in Cotonou Benin, Sunday Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

Benin's president condemns a foiled coup bid and says mutineers are 'fleeing'

12:43 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Benin President Patrice Talon has condemned an attempted coup that was foiled by the army in his first public comments since sporadic gunfire was heard in parts of the administrative capital, Cotonou

The charred interior of a nightclub, which caught fire early Sunday, is seen in Arpora, in Goa, India, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

A fire at a popular nightclub in India's Goa state kills 25

6:38 PM on Saturday, December 6, 2025

A fire has devastated a popular nightclub in India's Goa state, killing 25 people, including tourists

People read the candidates information at a polling station near the site of the fire at Wang Fuk Court in the Tai Po district during the Legislative Council General Election in Hong Kong on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Hong Kong voter turnout rate edges up despite public anger over deadly fire

4:14 PM on Saturday, December 6, 2025

About a third of Hong Kong's registered voters has elected a new 90-member legislature

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