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In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade press service, Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire an MRLS BM-21 'Grad' towards Russian army positions near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)

Top Russian and American officials will hold talks on ending the Ukraine war without Kyiv

The Kremlin says senior American and Russian officials will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.

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

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

A Delta Air Lines plane heading from Minneapolis to Toronto crashed at Toronto's Pearson Airport, Monday Feb. 17, 2025. (Teresa Barbieri/The Canadian Press via AP)

Delta jet flips upside down on a snowy Toronto runway and all 80 aboard survive

President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks at a Housing for Wellbeing event, a government-funded home improvement program, in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico awaits new response from Google on dispute over Gulf of Mexico name before filing lawsuit

THE DISAPPEARED

Thousands of people disappeared in Latin America during decades of conflict. Families still search, but many have never been found.

Rogelio Goiburu, a member of Paraguay's Truth and Justice Commission, looks at skeletal remains found buried as they are excavated at the National Police Special Forces headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay, March 19, 2013. Goiburu's father, an opponent of the Stroessner dictatorship, went missing in 1977. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Paraguay’s disappeared: A dictator’s shadow is a roadblock for justice, but a few keep up the fight

Doris Tejada touches the tattoo of her missing son Oscar Morales as she gives an interview in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Tejada said her son disappeared in 2007 near the Venezuelan border and became a "false positive," a civilian intentionally registered as a rebel and slain by the military. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia’s disappeared: As a coalition, former enemies now search for loved ones and dream of peace

Lidia Flores, the leader of the National Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru, poses for a portrait in Ayacucho, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Flores' husband was killed in Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000). (AP Photo/Silvio La Rosa)

Peru’s disappeared: Dozens look for relatives lost to violence. A woman who knows their sorrow helps

ELECTION WATCH

A man works on fans at an EBM-Papst plant in Hollenbach, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Fixing Germany’s economy is a critical task for the country’s next government

Germany needs a new business model to get its stalled economy going again. Delivering that fresh growth strategy is going to be the biggest challenge for the government that takes office after a snap national election set for Feb. 23.

Emergency and law enforcement agencies respond to a possible hazmat situation at the King County Elections office in Renton, Wash., Nov. 8, 2023. Four county elections offices in Washington state were evacuated after they received envelopes containing suspicious powders — including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl — while workers were processing ballots from Tuesday's election. (Karen Ducey/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

Dismantling of federal efforts to monitor election interference creates opening for foreign meddling

President Donald Trump’s administration has disbanded an FBI task force focused on investigating foreign influence campaigns and placed on leave several election security employees at the U.S.

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United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the audience during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

US Vice President JD Vance meets German far-right leader as he criticizes ‘firewalls’ in Europe

500 days since the war started, Palestinians in Gaza decry complete destruction of the enclave

Although about a month has passed since the ceasefire, the residents who returned to their destroyed homes are living in difficult conditions in the absence of the most basic necessities of life, including water, food and electricity. (AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana)

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MIDEAST WARS

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)