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People stock up on food at a market in Algiers, Algeria, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2026, before the start of the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum)

Algerians struggle to afford Ramadan feasts as prices rise despite government pledges

10:03 PM on Saturday, February 28

Many Algerians mark Ramadan with prayer and shared meals, but rising prices make the holiday table hard to afford

FILE - In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads an Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 31, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

How succession works in Iran and who could be the country's next supreme leader

7:49 PM on Saturday, February 28

In Iran the supreme leader is the heart of a complex power-sharing theocracy and has final say over all matters of state

FILE - In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, in a ceremony meeting a group of officials, in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic Republic since 1989, is dead at 86

6:51 PM on Saturday, February 28

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, has been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes

FILE - In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to a speaker during a meeting with a group of university students in Tehran, Iran, May 28, 2018. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

What to know about Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

3:57 PM on Saturday, February 28

Iranian state media say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead

People take shelter in an underground metro station as air raid sirens warn of incoming strikes by Iran, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

In familiar ritual, Israelis race back and forth to shelters to escape Iranian missile barrages

9:45 AM on Saturday, February 28

Nonstop Iranian missile fire has sent residents of central Israel scrambling in and out of shelters throughout the day

A screen with a replica of “The Last Judgment,” superimposed on it covers the scaffolding used for its extraordinary maintenance during a presentation for press in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment'

5:56 AM on Saturday, February 28

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial

Archbishop Bernard Hebda, and Cardinals Robert McElroy, Christophe Pierre and Joseph Tobin celebrate a mass in solidarity with migrants at the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

In Minnesota, US cardinals and pope’s ambassador decry mass deportations and call for reconciliation

11:39 AM on Friday, February 27

Two American cardinals and the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government’s immigration crackdown

FILE - Cities Church is seen in St. Paul, Minn. where activists shut down a service claiming the pastor was also working as an ICE agent, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)

Attorney general announces indictment against 30 more people who protested at a Minnesota church

11:34 AM on Friday, February 27

Attorney General Pam Bondi says federal prosecutors have indicted 30 more people tied to a protest at a Minnesota church over an immigration enforcement crackdown

Trump says he's 'not happy' with the way Iran is negotiating but says 'we'll see what happens' with additional talks

11:07 AM on Friday, February 27

Trump says he's 'not happy' with the way Iran is negotiating but says 'we'll see what happens' with additional talks

People gather at a lookout to look for the possible arrival of the US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Haifa, northern Israel, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Trump says he is 'not happy' with the Iran nuclear talks but indicates he'll give them more time

4:40 AM on Friday, February 27

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not happy” with the latest talks over Iran’s nuclear program but has indicated he'll give the negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East

Palestinians gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A new Gallup poll shows how Americans' sympathies have shifted in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

2:06 AM on Friday, February 27

A new Gallup poll shows that American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis

New Gallup poll finds that American sympathy has shifted toward Palestinians after decades of strong support for Israel

2:02 AM on Friday, February 27

New Gallup poll finds that American sympathy has shifted toward Palestinians after decades of strong support for Israel

Trees and buildings dot Tapalpa, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, a day after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho." (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

In 'El Mencho's' last redoubt, a crucifix, saint candles and a handwritten psalm

6:19 PM on Thursday, February 26

Items inside cartel boss “El Mencho’s” hideout showed a strong streak of popular religious devotion

FILE - Students work under Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights posters on display in a classroom at Lehman High School, in Kyle, Texas, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Hundreds of corrections being issued for Texas' Bible-infused curriculum

5:44 PM on Thursday, February 26

A Bible-infused curriculum that Texas approved for public schools over pushback in 2024 will undergo corrections to fix hundreds of errors caught by teachers and education officials after the material was introduced to classrooms

FILE - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays ahead of the Jewish new year at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israel's parliament moves toward ban on mixed-gender prayer at Jerusalem's Western Wall

4:49 AM on Thursday, February 26

Israel’s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would put the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears among reform Jews that mixed-gender prayer at the site will soon be outlawed

Inspired by Catholic nuns, Kenyan Lutheran pastor becomes church’s first female presiding bishop

3:32 PM on Wednesday, February 25

A Lutheran pastor inspired in her youth by a Catholic priest and nuns is set to become the first female presiding bishop of the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church

With rocks, clubs and flammable liquid, Jewish settlers descend on a Palestinian hamlet

8:45 AM on Wednesday, February 25

Security video obtained by The Associated Press shows Jewish settlers storming the Palestinian hamlet of Susiya and torching property in the southern West Bank

Pope Leo XIV appears at the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican where Catholic faithful and pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing at the end of the noon Angelus prayer, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope Leo will visit 4 African countries as part of his packed 2026 travel plan

5:02 AM on Wednesday, February 25

The Vatican has announced a packed early-2026 travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV, with trips to Monaco, Spain, and four African countries

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