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Senait Tadesse, who her 27-year-old daughter made it to Yemen, only to be held captive by kidnappers, poses for a photo at her home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo)

Ethiopian migrants face kidnappings and death, leaving behind heartbroken families

11:27 PM on Sunday, August 17

For young Ethiopians hoping for a better life, trying to get to Europe or the Middle East is fraught with the dangers of kidnappings, extortion and sometimes death in the shipwrecks while making sea crossings

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives for a joint press conference with President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza after Laura Loomer questions arrivals

11:32 AM on Sunday, August 17

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists granted asylum in Australia and Britain

7:45 AM on Sunday, August 17

A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and a former lawmaker have been granted asylum in Great Britain and Australia

President Donald Trump meets with Russia's President Vladimir Putin Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. At left is Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and second from right is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Putin agrees that US, Europe could offer NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, Trump envoy says

7:40 AM on Sunday, August 17

A U.S. official says Russian leader Vladimir Putin has agreed that the United States and European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war

FILE - The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is seen, Sept. 8, 2021, in Kittery, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

US seeks shipbuilding expertise from South Korea and Japan to counter China

6:17 AM on Sunday, August 17

American lawmakers are using a trip to South Korea and Japan to explore how the United States can tap those allies’ shipbuilding expertise and capacity to help boost its own capabilities

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participate in a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo)

European leaders to join Ukraine's Zelenskyy for meeting with Trump

4:25 AM on Sunday, August 17

European and NATO leaders will join President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine

FILE - In this photo released by the Lebanese Presidency press office, Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, left, meets with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa during the emergency Arab summit at Egypt's New Administrative Capital, just outside Cairo, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP, File)

Mistrust and fear: The complex story behind strained Syria-Lebanon relations

11:26 PM on Saturday, August 16

Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to treat its smaller neighbor as a sovereign nation

Actor Sebastián Solorza, who has Down syndrome and aims to run for president as an independent candidate, relaxes in his home in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Meet the actor with Down syndrome who wants to run for president of Chile

11:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Chilean actor Sebastián Solorza is already a household name for many Chileans

FILE - A fruit vendor waits for customers in La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Bolivia heads to the polls as its right-wing opposition eyes first victory in decades

10:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism party

FILE - UNIFIL peacekeepers secure the area in Khardali, southern Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

The Trump administration wants to end the UN peacekeeping in Lebanon. Europe is pushing back

10:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications for security in the Middle East

U.S. President Donald Trump, second right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin after their joint news conference on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. ((Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Trump runs into the difficulty of Putin diplomacy and ending a long war

10:01 PM on Saturday, August 16

President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine

States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel

10:00 PM on Saturday, August 16

Road safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel

Members of the District of Columbia National Guard patrol along the National Mall, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington

12:02 PM on Saturday, August 16

Three Republican-led states are deploying hundreds of members of their National Guard to Washington to assist in the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department

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