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"We all wanted this operation to be a success," officials said.

Iran says it conducted a successful space launch, the latest for its program the West alleges improves Tehran’s ballistic missile program

Iran says it successfully conducted a space launch, the latest for a program criticized by the West

First, there are the images of Notre Dame Cathedral during and after an inferno that raged inside in 2019, toppling its spire and destroying its roof and gripping viewers around Paris and the world. Then, there are pictures of the medieval landmark’s renaissance, through five years of massive reconstruction to rise anew for its reopening this Saturday and Sunday. AP photographers captured the devastating damage and stunning transformation of Notre Dame, from inside, outside and across town, where its signature twin towers can be seen as a beacon to all.

The reopening this weekend of Notre Dame is a succession of ceremonies to breathe life back into the iconic cathedral and celebrate the recovery from its devastating fire in 2019

Nov. 29 - Dec. 5, 2024 Relatives grieved at a funeral service for police officer Jeff Petit-Dieu in Haiti. Massive balloons passed through the streets of Santiago, Chile, for a Christmas festival. A person in Cuba cooked soup in the street during a blackout. Farther south, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Uruguay's former President José “Pepe” Mujica at the latter's home. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photo editor Jon Orbach, based in Mexico City. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images

The LGBTQ+ community in Russia has been under pressure for years, but the situation has worsened since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine

Belarus is cracking down on its LGBTQ+ community, detaining and beating nearly three dozen of them in the last three months

Three mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing on Aoraki, New Zealand’s tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall

Police believe 3 US and Canadian climbers who went missing on New Zealand's highest mountain are dead

Arsonists have extensively damaged a Melbourne synagogue in what Australia’s prime minister has condemned as an antisemitic attack on Australian values

South Korea’s governing party chief is expressing support for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing martial law, in a bombshell reversal that makes Yoon’s impeachment more likely

South Korea’s ruling party chief says it’s necessary to suspend the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol

Beatles legend Paul McCartney is being honored in a specially minted British coin collection The Royal Mint, which has struck the coins of monarchs from Alfred the Great in the ninth century through to King Charles III, revealed Friday that it is launc...

The Canadian government is outlawing another 324 firearm varieties — guns the public safety minister says belong on the battlefield, not in the hands of hunters or sport shooters

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is triumphant about his big bet on bitcoin as the cryptocurrency reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first time

Thirteen children under the age of 14 have died at hospitals in central Mexico, and authorities suspect contaminated IV feeding bags

One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian President Hafez Assad launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre

President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea declared martial law late Tuesday.

A special tribunal in Bangladesh has banned the publication of any speeches by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is in exile in India after being ousted in August after mass protests

A Hamas official says that after a weekslong hiatus international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he was hopeful a deal to end the 14-month war was within reach

French President Emmanuel Macron says he'll name a new prime minister within days

Mexico's president will ask President-elect Donald Trump that, if he deports migrants, to deport non-Mexicans directly to their home countries, rather than dumping them at the Mexican border

French President Emmanuel Macron vows to stay in office until the end of his term in 2027

Palestinian health officials say an Israeli drone strike on a hospital compound in northern Gaza killed a 16-year-old boy in a wheelchair and wounded at least 12 other people, including medical staff

An Israeli court has rejected a request from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to limit the number of days each week that he’ll have to testify when he finally takes the the stand in his years-long corruption trial

French President Emmanuel Macron is accusing political opponents of trying to create “disorder” and vows to stay in office until his term expires in 2027

After a nationwide blackout left millions without electricity for several hours in Cuba, the power grid has been restored, authorities said, adding that scheduled power outages will now resume

Paraguay has accused a Chinese diplomat of interfering in its domestic affairs and given him 24 hours to leave the country, escalating tensions over the South American nation’s long friendship with Taiwan

Georgian authorities are responding to ongoing protests fueled by the governing party’s decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union with increasing force

Albania’s president has set May 11 as the date for the country’s next parliamentary election, and Albanians living in other countries will for the first time be able to cast their ballots from overseas

Two Romanian men have been arrested in their home country and charged in connection with the stabbing of an Iranian journalist in London this spring

UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram joined ABC News Live to talk about the "world's largest child displacement crisis" currently unfolding in Sudan amid the nation's civil war.

Kosovo’s parliament speaker has ejected several lawmakers of the ethnic Serb minority from the chamber because of their several recent absences

An Afghan TV station has been shuttered over allegedly vulgar content and working with exiled media

A Norwegian court has rejected a second bid for parole by mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011

The police commissioner of the Bahamas has resigned after two officers and a sergeant were recently indicted in the U.S. in what federal authorities have described as a case of massive drug trafficking

Venezuela Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado joined ABC News Live to discuss the ongoing crisis in the country as President Nicolás Maduro refuses to step down following the nations July election.

One day after the National Assembly ousted Prime Minister Michel Barnier, French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to address the country on Thursday.

The protests began last week after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced that Georgia would suspend European Union membership talks.

Officials say a Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and dozens of his associates on charges of inciting people to attack military and government installations last year

The withdrawal marks a setback for President Bashar al-Assad.

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has named security, energy and competitiveness as the priorities for his nation's presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2025

Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum collections since the 19th century have been handed back at a ceremony that a community representative described as a sad but “very joyful” moment

Members of the OPEC+ oil producers' alliance postpone production increases as crude prices stagnate

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has arrived in Uruguay for the final stages in years-long negotiations to clinch a trade deal between the 27-nation EU and the South American Mercosur trade bloc that would create a trans-Atlantic mark...

Judges of a European Union-backed court have ordered the arrest of Kosovo’s three other war veterans on alleged offenses against the administration of justice

A week of fierce pro-European Union protests have choked the capital Tbilisi.