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A Ukrainian serviceman stands atop a damaged kindergarten following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. Russia launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Saturday morning, military officials said. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Russia launches largest drone attack on Ukraine since start of invasion, says Ukrainian military

Ukrainian military officials say Russia launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion.

Pope Francis smiles as he waves faithful at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis cancels Saturday morning audiences due to mild flu, Vatican says

Irish police officers apprehend a man after a demonstration near the scene of an attack in Dublin city center, Thursday Nov. 23, 2023. A 5-year-old girl is receiving emergency medical treatment in a Dublin hospital following an attack on Thursday that involved a knife. A woman and two other children were injured. Irish police said they weren't treating the case as terror-related, and that a man in his 50s, who was also hospitalized with serious injuries, is a “person of interest.” (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

Ireland’s prime minister condemns anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right party PVV, or Party for Freedom, talks to the media after a meeting with speaker of the House Vera Bergkamp, two days after Wilders won the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Netherlands’ longtime ruling party says it won’t join a new government following far-right’s win

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Sergey Mironov, 70, the leader of political party A Just Russia in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 14, 2023. A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin, Mironov has denied media allegations that he adopted a 2-year-old girl who was seized from a Ukrainian children's home and changed her name in Russia. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russian lawmaker disputes report saying he adopted a child taken from a Ukrainian children’s home

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian 10th Mountain Assault Brigade "Edelweiss", Ukrainian soldiers pass by a volunteer bus burning after a Russian drone hit it near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (Shandyba Mykyta, Ukrainian 10th Mountain Assault Brigade "Edelweiss" via AP)

Ukraine aims a major drone attack at Crimea as Russia tries to capture a destroyed eastern city

Russian officials say Ukraine has launched one of its biggest drone attacks on the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula since the full-scale war began.

FILE - A student cries during a flash mob 'A minute of noise for Giulia' for Giulia Cecchettin, allegedly killed at the hands of her possessive ex-boyfriend, outside the Statale University, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Outrage over violence against women is mounting in Italy, with students leading the way. Young people across the country have taken to pounding on classroom desks in unison to demand an end to the slayings of women by men and to root out corrosive, patriarchal attitudes that have long been a part of Italian society. Opposition lawmakers did the same in parliament. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file)

Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women

Anger has erupted in Italy over the slaying of a college student allegedly by an ex-boyfriend who resented her success and wouldn’t accept their breakup.

People buy fruits at a hypermarket in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 3, 2023. The shelves at Moscow supermarkets are full of fruit and vegetables, cheese and meat. But many of the shoppers look at the selection with dismay as inflation makes their wallets feel empty. (AP Photo)

Russian consumers feel themselves in a tight spot as high inflation persists

The shelves at Moscow supermarkets are full of fruit and vegetables, cheese and meat. But many of the shoppers look at the selection with dismay as inflation makes their wallets feel empty.

NATO member N Macedonia to briefly lift flight ban in case Russia’s Lavrov wants to attend meeting

NATO member North Macedonia says it will briefly lift a ban on flights from Russia next week. That would let Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend an international conference in the country should he accept the invitation.

Wounded Palestinians lie in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, as the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar)

Israel summons Spanish, Belgian ambassadors following criticism during visit to Rafah

The Israeli government says it will summon the Belgian and Spanish ambassadors following remarks by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Belgian counterpart Alexander de Croo on the war between Israel and Hamas.

Brothers Zachary Green, from left, and Joshua Green, co-founders of MYSA speaks with Charles Michel, President of the European Council, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, at the Genesis Demonstration Fair at the Emera Innovation Exchange during the Canada-EU Summit in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. (Paul Daly/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada, EU agree to new partnerships as Trudeau welcomes European leaders

Canada and the European Union say they are making strides toward new partnerships on green energy, digital transformation and research funding, as a Canada-EU Summit got underway in the Atlantic coast province of Newfoundland.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Sberbank CEO German Gref, left, visit an exhibition on artificial intelligence in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Putin takes part in the plenary session of the international conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning "Artificial Intelligence Journey 2023" on the topic "The Generative AI Revolution: New Opportunities." (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ‘unacceptable and dangerous’

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he will endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence.

Czech Republic's Prime Minister Petr Fiala welcomes his Slovakia counterpart Robert Fico, right, to Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Slovak leader calls the war between Russia and Ukraine a frozen conflict

Slovakia’s new prime minister, Robert Fico, says he considers the war between Ukraine and Russia a frozen conflict that cannot be solved by sending arms to the Ukrainian armed forces.

Gagged activists hold a placard as persons wearing a mask of French President Emmanuel Macron stand behind putting his hand on their mouth during a protest Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 in Paris. Activists say that France is vetoing a European decision on rape definition based on lack of consent. The large majority of EU member countries already treat violence against women and girls as a crime but the Commission said last year there are gaps in national legislation. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Activists call on France to endorse a consent-based rape definition across the entire European Union

Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron have urged France to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent in the bloc’s 27 countries.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, shakes hands with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

French foreign minister says China’s cooperation is vital in ending Russia-Ukraine war

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna says China’s cooperation is vital on an issue that has divided it and much of Europe: ending the war in Ukraine.

A visitor poses for a photo next to a Jani Leinonen artwork called Mc Jesus, at Barcelona's Museum of Forbidden Art in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. In 2019, the Christian community in Haifa demanded de removal of Leinonen artwork from the city's museum, considering it offensive. A new museum in Barcelona is offering a second chance to controversial artworks that have suffered censorship for religious, sexual, political or commercial reasons. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Nov. 17-23, 2023

Protests around the world continue as a four-day cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas begins Friday morning.

The scene at the Station Hill development site in Reading where a fire broke out trapping a workman on the roof in Reading, England, Thursday Nov. 23, 2023. A crane operator played down tributes paid to him on Thursday after he lifted a man to safety from a burning high-rise building in England. (Lucy North/PA via AP)

A crane operator has rescued a man from a burning high-rise in England

A crane operator has played down tributes paid to him after he lifted a man to safety from a burning high-rise building in England.

A car burns as Irish policemen stand at the scene of an attack in Dublin city centre, Thursday Nov. 23, 2023. A 5-year-old girl is receiving emergency medical treatment in a Dublin hospital following an attack on Thursday that involved a knife. A woman and two other children were injured. Irish police said they weren't treating the case as terror-related, and that a man in his 50s, who was also hospitalized with serious injuries, is a “person of interest.” (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

Violent clashes break out in Dublin after knife attack that injured 3 children, one seriously

Violent clashes have broken out in central Dublin after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for his weekly Prime Ministers Questions at the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Sunak is under pressure to act as the UK’s net migration figures for 2022 hit a record high

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing heavy pressure from his own Conservatives to take swift action to bring down migration as new data showed net migration numbers were higher than previously thought.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, known as PVV, answers questions to media after announcement of the first preliminary results of general elections in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Europe’s far-right populists buoyed by Wilders’ win in Netherlands, hoping the best is yet to come

Geert Wilders provided a major boost to Europe’s far-right populists with his election win in the Netherlands.

Finnish Border Guards escort migrants at the international border crossing between Finland and Russia, in Salla, Finland, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP)

EU sends border police reinforcements to Finland over fears that Russia is behind a migrant influx

The European Union’s border agency says that it will send dozens of officers and equipment as reinforcements to Finland to help police its borders amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants arriving to the country.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech after he was re-elected as party president at the election of officials congress of the ruling Hungarian Fidesz party in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungary set to receive millions in EU money despite Orban’s threats to veto Ukraine aid

Hungary is set to receive 900 million euros ($981 million) in European Union money despite the Hungarian prime minister’s attempts to scupper the bloc’s support for Ukraine.

An aerial view of the multiple craters left by shelling in a field on the frontline close to Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Ukraine says 3 civilians were killed in a daylight Russian cluster bomb attack

A Kyiv official says a Russian attack using cluster munitions has killed three people in a suburb of Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 file photo Geert Wilders is seen as he waits for Dutch Queen Beatrix to officially open the new parliamentary year in The Hague, Netherlands. Geert Wilders has won a massive victory in a Dutch election and is in pole position to form the next governing coalition and possibly become the Netherlands' next prime minister. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

Dutch election winner Geert Wilders is an anti-Islam firebrand known as the Dutch Donald Trump

He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump. He’s been threatened with death countless times by Islamic extremists, convicted of insulting Moroccans and the British government once banned him from entering the country.

Police officers walk to the entrance of a building during a raid in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. Around 280 police officers have searched several properties in eight German states in connection with investigations into the far-right Reich Citizens scene which rejects the legitimacy of Germany’s postwar constitution and has similarities to the Sovereign Citizens and QAnon movements in the United States. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

German police raid homes of 20 alleged supporters of far-right Reich Citizens scene

Police officers in Germany have searched the homes of about 20 people in connection with investigations into the far-right Reich Citizens scene.

A government billboard reading "Let's not dance to their tune" is seen with portraits of Alex Soros and Ursula von der Leyen in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. A countrywide billboard campaign that flooded the streets of Hungary this week takes aim at the head of the European Union's executive Ursula von der Leyen, the start of an election campaign that marks an escalation of tensions between the country's right-wing government and the EU. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

An anti-European Union billboard campaign in Hungary turns up tensions with the Orbán government

A countrywide billboard campaign that flooded the streets of Hungary this week takes aim at the head of the European Union’s executive, Ursula von der Leyen.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, walk to a family photo with their ministers during a meeting of the German and Italian government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany and Italy agree on joint ‘action plan’ including energy, technology, climate protection

Germany and Italy have agreed to work closer together in the fields of energy, technology, climate protection, security and cultural cooperation among other issues.

Migrants look at a Finnish Customs official's dog at the international border crossing at Salla, northern Finland, on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finland erects barriers at border with Russia to control influx of migrants, closes crossing points

Finnish border guards and soldiers have begun erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia.

Czech Republic's President Petr Pavel, 2nd right, Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova, right, Poland's President Andrzej Duda, 2nd left, and Hungarian President Katalin Novak pose for a photo as they meet during the V4 Summit in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Leaders of 4 Central European states disagree on military aid for Ukraine but agree on other support

The presidents of four Central European countries found some common ground Wednesday on Ukraine despite their governments’ diverging views on military support for its fight against Russia’s invasion.

FILE - European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. EU lawmakers have rejected a proposal from the bloc’s executive arm to set legally binding targets to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030 and a ban on all pesticide use in areas such public parks, playgrounds and schools. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

A ‘black day’ for the EU Green Deal: lawmakers reject proposal to cut use of chemical pesticides

BRUSSELS (AP) — In a blow to the European Green Deal, EU lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a plan to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030 and to ban all pesticide use in areas such as public parks, playgrounds and schools.

Rui Pinto, a Portuguese hacker whose bombshell revelations on the "Football Leaks" website which rocked European soccer , arrives at the Paris court room, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023 in Paris. Pinto goes on trial for hacking documents from the PSG soccer team. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Portuguese hacker in Football Leaks scandal handed 6-month suspended sentence by French court

A Portuguese hacker whose bombshell revelations on the “FootballLeaks” website rocked European soccer was convicted Wednesday by a Paris court and given a suspended prison sentence of six months.

FILE - Czech Republic's President Petr Pavel delivers a speech at the European Parliament, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023 in Strasbourg, eastern France. Czech President Petr Pavel said he decided to sign into law a package of dozens dozens measures proposed by the government and approved by Parliament designed to keep the ballooning budget deficit under control. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

Czech president approves plan introducing budget cuts, taxes. Labor unions call for protests

Czech President Petr Pavel has signed into law an economic package of dozens of measures introducing budget cuts and increased taxes designed to keep the ballooning budget deficit under control.

Flowers are left outside the house where 22-year-old Giulia Cecchettin used to live with her family in Vigonovo, near Venice, northern Italy, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Her body, reportedly with multiple stab wounds, was found wrapped in plastic on Saturday in a ditch near Venice. Police in Germany over the weekend arrested Filippo Turetta, 21, who had been on the run since Nov. 11, when he was last seen arguing with Giulia Cecchettin. (Contaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Germany to extradite an Italian man suspected in the killing of a woman that outraged Italy

Germany will extradite an Italian man suspected in the killing of a 22-year-old woman to Italy. According to German news agency dpa, the Higher Regional Court in Naumburg, in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt announced on Wednesday that it had ordered the extradition of the 21-year-old man.