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A Lebanese man watches bulldozers at work on the Hamamis hill, background, near the town of Khiam, southern Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Border town’s residents rebuild in south Lebanon as Hezbollah leader calls for Israeli withdrawal

Residents of a south Lebanon town are waiting to fix their damaged homes as Israel is scheduled to end its military presence north of its border.

A Palestinian man and two girls stand a mid of the rubble of homes, destroyed by the Israeli army's air and ground offensive against Hamas in in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza, countering Trump’s call to depopulate the territory

Nuns sit next to a statue of Pope John Paul II in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized to undergo some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment for bronchitis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican says the pope has a ‘polymicrobial respiratory tract infection.’ What is that?

The first openly gay Muslim imam is killed in South Africa, prompting claims of an assassination

Nuns sit next to a statue of Pope John Paul II in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized to undergo some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment for bronchitis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope will remain hospitalized as doctors treat a complex respiratory tract infection, Vatican says

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza light torches during a rally marking 500 days of captivity and demanding their release in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Middle East latest: Israelis and Palestinians mark 500 days of war in Gaza with more uncertainty

Israelis have marked 500 days of war in Gaza with protests demanding further progress on a ceasefire so all remaining hostages can be returned.

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, block a freeway during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity as they mark 500 days of the Israel-Hamas war in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

500 days of the Israel-Hamas war, by the numbers

Monday is the 500th day of the war triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel. A tenuous ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has held for nearly a month.

A destroyed mosque, caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive, is seen in the town of Khiam, southern Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel’s ceasefires with Hezbollah and Hamas are both in doubt again

Israel’s military says its forces will remain in five strategic locations in southern Lebanon after Tuesday’s deadline for their withdrawal under a ceasefire with the Hezbollah militant group.

A member of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) takes a photo of his colleague holding the new Syrian flag at the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Experts push to restore Syria’s war-torn heritage sites, including renowned Roman ruins at Palmyra

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism.

The shadow of a pilgrim falls on a sari held up to dry at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers during Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

The traditional sari is on colorful display at a massive Hindu festival in India

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — The traditional colorful Indian fabric worn by women is ubiquitous to the world’s largest religious gathering in northern India’s Prayagraj city, where millions of Hindus are gathering to seek absolution from their sins and take dips in the holy waters.

Hezbollah supporters protest near Beirut's international airport against Lebanon's decision to revoke permission for an Iranian carrier after Israel accused Iran of smuggling cash to Hezbollah, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo)

Woman killed as Israeli forces fire on returnees to southern Lebanon ahead of ceasefire deadline

Lebanese media say a woman has been killed and several other people wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on a group of residents attempting to return to the village of Houla in the south.

A woman kneels at the foot of a statue of late Pope John Paul II outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, where Pope Francis was hospitalised Friday after a week-long bout of bronchitis worsened and is receiving drug therapy for a respiratory tract infection that made impossible for him to attend the traditional Sunday public blessing after the noon Angelus prayer. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope is stable, followed Mass on television as he recovers from respiratory infection, Vatican says

The Vatican says Pope Francis is stable and that he followed Mass on television after a second night sleeping well at the hospital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel’s Netanyahu signals he’s moving ahead with Trump’s idea to transfer Palestinians from Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that he’s moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza.

People clear the rubble inside a home that was damaged and looted, in Maarat al-Numan, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

In northern Syria, displaced owners return to houses with no roofs

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria (AP) — After a decade of war and displacement, many Syrians are returning to their homes, only to find them looted and roofless.

Passengers jostle with each other to board a train at the New Delhi Railway station, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb.15, 2025. (AP Photo)

At least 18 people are dead after a stampede at New Delhi railway station in India

At least 18 people, including 14 women, were killed in a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital of New Delhi.

FILE— In this Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with Sister Raffaella Petrini, secretary general of the Vatican's governorship, as he arrives for an audience with employees in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Another woman takes over a top job at the Vatican, this time running the city state administration

Another woman is taking over a top job in the Vatican: Italian nun Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State.

A marble statue of late Pope John Paul II is backdropped by the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, where Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened and is receiving drug therapy for a respiratory tract infection. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Doctors order ‘absolute rest’ for Pope Francis while he’s being treated for a respiratory infection

Doctors have prescribed “absolute rest” for Pope Francis to help him recover from a respiratory tract infection.

Palestinian prisoner Waddeh Bazrah, 43, is greeted after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Middle East latest: Israel releases over 300 Palestinian prisoners after receiving 3 more hostages

Israel and Hamas have completed their sixth exchange of hostages and prisoners after their ceasefire survived its latest crisis.

FBI agents search a neighborhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 where Teresa Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt, who were involved in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont, had been renting homes in the neighborhood, their landlord told The Associated Press. (WRAL-TV via AP)

A timeline of activities of a cultlike group tied to the killing of a Border Patrol agent

Here’s a look at the timeline of events in a series of killings that culminated in a Jan. 20 highways shootout that killed a Border Patrol officer in Vermont.

Flowers sit outside the property where San Francisco Bay Area prosecutors say Maximilian Snyder killed landlord Curtis Lind in Vallejo, California, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Janie Har)

What to know about the killing of a Border Patrol agent and ties to a cultlike group

The killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland is tied to a cultlike group that federal prosecutors have linked to five other homicides in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.

Pope Francis autographs a bottle of bourbon held by Kentucky Catholic priest Rev. Jim Sichko at the Vatican on May 1, 2024. (Courtesy Vatican Media via AP)

Kentucky bourbon bottles signed by the pope raise thousands for charity

Two bottles of Kentucky bourbon autographed by Pope Francis have brought in thousands of dollars for charity. The plan was concocted by the Rev.

Teresa Youngblut, bottom, who is charged by the FBI in connection to the shooting death of US Border Patrol Agent David Maland, and Felix Bauckholt, top, who was traveling with Youngblut, are seen in the office at the Newport City Inn on Jan. 14, 2025 in Newport, Vermont. (Newport City Inn surveillance video image via AP)

A Vermont border agent’s death was the latest violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group

A traffic stop in Vermont has cracked open a cultlike group called Zizians linked to six deaths in three states.

American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, center left, waves as he is escorted by Hamas fighters to be handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday Feb.1, 2025.(AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, File)

Hostages freed from Gaza discover personal lives shattered by Hamas

After nearly 500 days in captivity in Gaza, with little access to media, recently freed hostages have many questions.

Palestinians gather to attend Friday prayers at the Great Omari Mosque, which was damaged during the Israeli military's air and ground operation in Gaza City, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: Palestinian militants name 3 Israeli men to be freed in next hostage release

The families of Israeli hostages still held by the Hamas militant group have welcomed the “joyous news” that three men, all taken from the same kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, are expected to be freed on Saturday.

Pope Francis meets with Czech Republic's Prime Minister Robert Fico, right, and his entourage at The Vatican Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

A look at Pope Francis’ previous hospitalizations and health problems

Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected in 2013. Francis, who was diagnosed with bronchitis last week, had part of one lung removed as a young man and has recurring bouts of bronchitis, especially in winter.

Pope Francis meets with Czech Republic's Prime Minister Robert Fico, right, at The Vatican Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Pope has respiratory tract infection, is in fair condition and running mild fever, Vatican says

Preliminary tests show Pope Francis has a respiratory tract infection. The Vatican says he is running a mild fever and was in “fair” condition at Rome’s Gemelli hospital where he was undergoing drug therapy.

In this undated photo provided by Abdelrazek Elnaggar, Emma Paolin, PhD researcher at University of Ljubljana, background and Dr. Cecilia Bembibre, lecturer at the University College London take swab samples for the purpose of microbiological analysis at the Krakow University of Economics. (Abdelrazek Elnaggar via AP)

Researchers took a whiff of Egyptian mummies for science. This is how they described the smell

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

FDNY firefighters respond to a deadly fire at a Buddhist temple in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (WABC-TV via AP)

A fire at Buddhist temple in New York killed 2 people, including a monk

A fire at a Buddhist temple in New York City has left two people dead, including a Buddhist monk. New York City fire officials say the fire started in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday morning.

President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Breakfast at Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Given Christianity’s dominance in US, Trump raises eyebrows with anti-Christian bias initiative

Christianity is by far the largest faith in America, and Christian conservatives have a strong grip on the levers of government.

Palestinians walk past a pile of burning garbage, as there is no refuse collection in the city and people are disposing of their rubbish in the streets, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Middle East latest: Hamas says it will release 3 Israeli hostages as planned

The militant group Hamas says it will free three Israeli hostages as planned this weekend. That’s a reversal of its previous announcement and it raises the prospect of resolving a major dispute over the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, hold photos depicting their faces during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Hamas says it will free 3 more hostages. That could resolve its ceasefire dispute with Israel

Hamas says it will release the next group of three Israeli hostages as planned. That would pave the way toward resolving a major dispute over the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance enters the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site outside Munich, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Vance visits the Dachau concentration camp memorial with Holocaust survivor before Zelenskyy meeting

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial in Germany and says “seeing it up close in person really drives home what unspeakable evil was committed.”

Members of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo and the Church of Christ arrive for a meeting with the leader of the political military coalition in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congolese church leaders meet Rwanda-backed rebels in the east in latest push for peace

Congo’s largest church organizations have met with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east to advocate for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting.

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel threatens ‘all hell will break loose’ on Hamas in latest Gaza ceasefire crisis

Israel’s defense minister says “all hell will break loose” if Hamas does not release three hostages as planned this weekend.

This photo provided by World Relief shows care group volunteers Neimate Mustafa and John Simon Mbiliwele, who provide community health education, visiting a homestead in January 2022, in Maridi, South Sudan. (Esther Mbabazi/World Relief via AP)

Christian aid groups receive millions in USAID funds. Now their humanitarian work is collapsing

Christian aid groups are being hard-hit after the Trump administration froze most foreign aid and sidelined the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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