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Widows and mothers of war victims gather for Iftar, the fast-breaking meal, organized by local NGOs in the devastated Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Ramadan in Syria

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Children who are to become Buddhist nuns ride on decorated cow carts during a processional parade as part of a celebration of a novitiation or “Shinbyu,” ceremony, Saturday, March 15, 2025, at Hlegu township, outside of Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

AP Photos: “Shinbyu,” a rite of passage for young Buddhists in Myanmar

A message for Pope Francis is seen in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Saturday, March 15, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope works on signature reform from hospital as Vatican cuts back on updates on medical progress

Pope Francis shares a light moment with "Telefono Amico" support hotline president Dario Briccola during an audience at the Vatican Saturday, March 11, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP, File)

At the Vatican switchboard, nuns soothe anxious callers about Pope Francis

A student from Columbia University holds up a keffiyeh as they line up to enter Manhattan federal court to attend the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent

A person waves an Irish flag while watching the St. Patrick's Day parade, Sunday, March 17, 2024, in Boston's South Boston neighborhood. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Here’s what you need to know about St. Patrick’s Day

If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick’s Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage.

Palestinians perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Middle East latest: Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.

Pope Francis blesses the faithful during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at The Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Timeline of Pope Francis’ hospitalization for pneumonia at the 1-month mark

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it hard to speak publicly.

A woman has her face smeared with coloured powder as they celebrate Holi, the festival of colours, in Chennai, India, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

With a kaleidoscope of colors and music, the Hindu festival of Holi signals the arrival of spring

INDIA (AP) — Millions of Indians on Friday celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi, dancing to festive music, exchanging food and drink, and smearing each other with red, green, blue and pink powder, turning the air into a joyful kaleidoscope of color.

Druze clerics stand near the border, as they wait for buses carrying members of the Syrian Druze community to cross from Syria in the village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Dozens of Syrian Druze make a rare visit to Israeli-controlled Golan Heights

Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades.

A dog rides on the back of a scooter as people celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Mumbai, India, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A dog on a scooter with Holi powder on its forehead shows how much Indians love their pets

A photo of a dog in India on a scooter, its forehead daubed with colored powder, is a potent symbol of how many households treat pets as family and include them in festivities, including Holi.

The Rev. David Meredith, left, and the Rev. Austin Adkinson sing during a gathering of those in the LGBTQ community and their allies outside the Charlotte Convention Center, in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Smith, File)

Protestant denominations try new ideas as they face declines in members and money

When the Episcopal Church announced cuts to its national staff last month, it was the latest in a long-running cycle among historic U.S.

Quintonil's team of chefs test sauces for the menu at the restaurant in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Renowned Mexico City restaurant serves traditional street food and nostalgia of the homeland

Quintonil is not your typical Mexican restaurant. Clients book tables months in advance to celebrate special occasions.

Palestinians cross from the Israeli military Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah to Jerusalem, to participate in the Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Hamas says it will release a US-Israeli hostage and 4 bodies, but Israel expresses immediate doubt

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual nationals who had died in captivity.

Rain falls on the auspicious candles with images of Pope Francis left outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where he is being treated for bilateral pneumonia in Rome, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A month of Pope Francis’s longest hospital stay with lenses focused everywhere he is not

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday marked one month in the hospital where he is being treated for double pneumonia, with signs in recent days that indicate he is gradually recovering.

Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission, speaks during a press conference about the launch of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission's latest report, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 14, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN report warns Iran is stepping up electronic surveillance of women to enforce headscarf laws

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country’s mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for those protesting the law.

Holi festival Holi celebration at the Lord Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Millions of people celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors

Millions of people in South Asia are celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on traditional sweets prepared for the occasion.

People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza

The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Libyan volunteers mixes the products to make traditional unleavened Libyan bread made out of barley in Tajoura, east of Libya's capital Tripoli, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

A Libyan town comes together to make a beloved Ramadan dish

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Every year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a Libyan town comes together to prepare — and share — one of their all-time favorite dishes: bazin.

Syria's interim president Ahmad Al-Sharaa, center, prepares to sign a temporary constitution for the country in Damascus, Syria, Thursday March 13, 2025. At left, is Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shiban. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group’s rule for 5 years

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.

Rohingya refugees collect food stuff distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) at their refugee camp at Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

UN chief in Bangladesh for a first-hand look at Rohingya camps as he pushes for aid

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is on a four-day visit to Bangladesh for a first-hand look at the situation of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees as fears mount of serious aid cuts.

Chris Sidoti, Member of the Commission, speaks during a press conference about the launch of the latest report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN report accuses Israel of sexual violence against Palestinians. Netanyahu claims anti-Israel bias

United Nations-backed human rights experts have accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan speak with each other during the Scopes monkey trial in July 1925, in Dayton, Tenn. (AP Photo, File)

The Scopes monkey trial took place 100 years ago, but the fight isn’t over

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

Displaced Palestinians girls fill a plastic jerrycan with water at a school run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, which they use as a shelter west of Gaza City, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: UN-backed experts accuse Israel of sexual and gender-based violence in Gaza

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” during the war against Hamas in Gaza,.

People pray for Pope Francis in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Thursday, March 13, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope receives cake and glad tidings on the 12th anniversary of his papacy, marked in the hospital

Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate in the hospital as he received increasingly positive medical news on his recovery and hundreds of messages wishing him well.

Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, looks on during a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced a new challenge: unifying the country after more than a decade of civil war.

Pastor Robert Morris applauds during a roundtable discussion at Gateway Church Dallas Campus, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Former Texas megachurch pastor indicted in Oklahoma on child sexual abuse charges

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office says a former pastor of a Texas megachurch who resigned after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1980s has been indicted on child sexual abuse charges.

This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by archaeologists at the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia's Siem Reap province. According to archaeologists, the head of the same statue was dug up in 1927 and is now in Cambodia's National museum in the capital Phnom Penh, and the two parts may be reattached for display. (Apsara National Authority via AP)

The torso of a Buddha statue has been found at Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at the same site.

Tourists and locals walk along St. Peter's Square on a rainy day at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The pope’s improving condition confirmed with a chest X-ray, Vatican says

Pope Francis’ recovery from double pneumonia continues. As a chest X-ray has confirmed improvement. Doctors earlier this week said he’s no longer in imminent danger of death.

Vehicles drive past the entrance to Miami International Airport in Miami on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Court records say a passenger attacked a flight attendant, swallowed rosary beads on plane to Miami

Court records say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah, Georgia.

Myanmar resistance group admits responsibility for killing of Buddhist monk it accused of army ties

A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern region.

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Netzarim corridor, at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/(AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: Israel kills 8 Palestinians in Gaza as Hamas says ceasefire talks resume

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held.

Nuns attend a Rosary prayer for Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis follows Vatican spiritual retreat as doctors say he’s no longer in imminent danger

Pope Francis has participated remotely in the Vatican’s spiritual retreat after getting good news from his doctors.

A nun attends a Rosary prayer for Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

In his own words: Pope Francis has long been up front about his health problems and eventual death

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death. And he has personally directed that his doctors provide the fairly detailed daily updates that have punctuated his own battle with pneumonia.

Sheeps are for sale in a northern district of Algiers, Saturday June 8, 2024, ahead of the Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)

Drought-stricken Algeria plans to import 1 million sheep ahead of Islam’s Eid Al-Adha

Algeria is planning to import 1 million sheep ahead of Eid al-Adha to curb rising prices and shortages amid drought and inflation.

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