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FILE - Cows graze as a wildfire burns in Soacha, near Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombia passes law to track cattle and keep deforestation-linked beef out of supply chains

5:01 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Colombia has enacted a law aimed at preventing cattle linked to deforestation from entering beef supply chains by connecting livestock traceability, land ownership and forest monitoring systems

Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Cuba Lianys Torres Rivera, speaks with The Associated Press at the mission in Washington, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cuba's top envoy to US calls Trump's sanctions on Cuban leaders a 'pretext' for military action

4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba

Pope Leo XIV makes a six-seven hand gestures as he arrives to attend a prayer vigil at Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Pope's youth rally in Spain gets raw, with frank discussion of depression and domestic violence

3:45 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Pope Leo XIV is presiding over a youth rally in Barcelona

Presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella of the Defenders of the Motherland movement salutes after voting during the presidential election in Barranquilla, Colombia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombian presidential candidate urges prosecutors to investigate alleged voter coercion

3:20 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella is urging prosecutors to investigate possible voter coercion by rebel groups in favor of governing party candidate Iván Cepeda

A child suffering from cholera has a blood sample taken at the MSF treatment centre in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jude Mike)

Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno state battles cholera outbreak that has killed 74

2:40 PM on Tuesday, June 9

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state has killed 74 people and infected more than 7,000 others since it started in early May

FILE - Air Canada planes sit on the runway at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Aug. 16, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Air Canada pilot charged after allegedly flying without a proper license between 2009 and 2025

12:42 PM on Tuesday, June 9

A former Air Canada pilot has been charged after allegedly flying for years without a proper license

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Hameraldi Agolli)

AP Interview: Albania's leader defends Kushner-linked luxury development

12:18 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says a controversial luxury resort development linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will move forward despite growing protests

FILE - Canadian and American flags are shown on the Gordie Howe Bridge under construction between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Carney says the new Canadian-built bridge across Detroit River that Trump threatened will open

10:48 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon

People swim on a public beach as smoke, background, rises from an Israeli airstrike that hit the Qlaileh village, seen from the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Christian leaders in Lebanese city of Tyre call for quick international action after Israeli warning

8:53 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Christian religious leaders in the Lebanese city of Tyre have urged swift international and local action to prevent Israeli attacks on the Christian district

Pope Leo XIV waves to the cheering crowd after attending a midday prayer at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pope Leo XIV gets caught up in Spain's great debates over soccer and language

8:35 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Pope Leo XIV has been caught in two of Spain's major culture debates during his visit to Barcelona

FILE - An Afghan woman walks out of a cell inside the women's section of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Afghanistan: Taliban open fire during protest over arrests of women for dress code violation

8:14 AM on Tuesday, June 9

A violent crackdown by Afghan authorities on demonstrators in western Afghanistan has left at least three people injured, eyewitnesses say

Police are seen at a residential area where a bear showed up in Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japanese city captures bear that caused fear and school closures

6:39 AM on Tuesday, June 9

A wandering bear that scared residents of a Japanese city just north of Tokyo has been captured after several days of panic during which all schools were closed

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, front right, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, on the latter's arrival at the airport in Pyongyang, Monday, June 8, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

China's President Xi returns home after closely watched trip to North Korea

6:26 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Chinese President Xi Jinping has returned home, ending a rare state visit to North Korea

Estonia's Prime Minister Kristen Michal, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a Nordic and Baltic countries meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine is ready to share drone technology with Nordic and Baltic countries, Zelenskyy says

5:26 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nordic and Baltic leaders at summit in Estonia amid tensions over Ukrainian drones straying into the region

Health workers prepare for duty at the Mongbwalu treatment center in Mongbwalu, Congo, Friday, June 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo's Ebola outbreak rises to over 100 deaths out of 550 cases as conflict slows response

2:35 AM on Tuesday, June 9

At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo

Dr. Babah Mutuza Lusungu, right, a doctor at "Dieu Est Grand" Medical Center, attends to a woman in his office in Beni, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Kitsa Musayi Sebastien)

Survivors share experiences and lessons from Congo’s 2018 Ebola outbreak

1:11 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Survivors including health and aid workers recall their experiences and lessons during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo

Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military’s Arabic language spokesman, stands beside weapons the army says were seized from Hezbollah in Lebanon, at an army base in northern Israel, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel's Arabic-language military spokesperson has gone viral, inspiring fear and fascination

1:05 AM on Tuesday, June 9

For more than two years, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza and Lebanon have lived in dread of Avichay Adraee’s next social media post

President Donald Trump talks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, early Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US and Iran launch airstrikes after Trump blamed Tehran for downing Army helicopter

12:43 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Kuwaiti air defenses opened fire Wednesday as the small Mideast nation came under attack from Iran

Rescuers use heavy equipment as they conduct a search and retrieval operation at a damaged building following an earthquake in General Santos, Philippines, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Basilio Sepe)

32,000 people displaced by the Philippine earthquake that killed at least 37

12:22 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Rescuers are searching ruined buildings in the southern Philippines to ensure no one was still trapped a day after the strongest earthquake to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced more than 32,000

High school students from left, Vasilije Stjepanovic, Aslan Ozhan Kilicasan and Melina Sallahi pose with a history text book at Malmo Borgarskola high school in Malmo, Sweden, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/James Brooks)

A digital reckoning against smartphones in schools has spread to Sweden

12:10 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools from the next academic year as part of a broad reversal on the use of screens in classrooms

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