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Jordan’s historic Petra evacuated equally gorge begins to flood

Heavy rains and torrents of floodwater prompted the evacuation of Jordan’s famed archaeological site at Petra, home to several tombs and temples carved into sandstone cliffs.

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After presidency, unclear fate for Brazil’due south brash Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro said he would but leave the Brazilian presidency when he was expressionless, jailed or ready for his second term

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FILE - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 29, 2022. Bolsonaro said he would only leave the Brazilian presidency when he was dead, jailed or ready for his second term. But Bolsonaro’s Oct. 30 loss to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva set off two months of relative silence for the self-styled standard-bearer of the Brazilian conservative movement. (AP Photo/Bruna Brado, File)

Mexico president asks residents not to take narco handouts

Mexico’s president is highly-seasoned to the country’southward citizens not to take holiday handouts and gifts from drug gangs

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FILE - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his daily press conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Lopez Obrador appealed to the country’s citizens Tuesday, Dec. 27, not to accept holiday handouts and gifts from drug gangs, after videos posted online showed garish pickup trucks handing out loads of gifts while bystanders described the drivers as members of the Jalisco drug cartel. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Taiwan extends compulsory armed services service to 1 twelvemonth

Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from 4 months to a year starting in 2024

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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during an announcement of the extension of the island's compulsory military service in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from four months to a year starting in 2024, Tsai said Tuesday, as the self-ruled island faces China's military, diplomatic and trade pressure. (AP Photo/Huizhong Wu)

In El salvador, a tough anti-gang crackdown proves popular

Nine months into a state of emergency declared by President Nayib Bukele to fight street gangs, El salvador has seen more than 1,000 documented human being rights abuses and near xc deaths of prisoners in custody

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FILE - Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks before the start of vaccination of medical staff with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Atlacatl Medical Unit of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute in San Salvador, El Salvador, Feb. 17, 2021. Nine months into a state of emergency declared by President Nayib Bukele in 2022, to fight street gangs, El Salvador has seen more than 1,000 documented human rights abuses and about 90 deaths of prisoners in custody. Yet Bukele’s popularity ratings have soared. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

Official: Machine crashes into street political party in Nigeria; 7 killed

Authorities say a car crashed out of control into a crowded street political party in southern Nigeria, killing seven people and injuring 29 others, including children

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3 dead in Ukrainian drone assault on Russian air base of operations

Quondam CIA field operative and ABC News contributor Darrell Blocker breaks down the latest movements in Ukraine every bit the war with Russian federation enters the new year.

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VIDEO: 3 dead in Ukrainian drone attack on Russian air base

Pakistan arrests suspects linked to bombing in Islamabad

Pakistan’s interior minister says authorities have arrested five people suspected of involvement in last week’due south suicide car bombing that killed a police force officer in the capital of Islamabad

December 27

Security officials examine the wreckage of a car at the site of bomb explosion, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. A powerful car bomb detonated near a residential area in the capital Islamabad on Friday, killing some people, police said, raising fears that militants have a presence in one of the country's safest cities. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Close aide curses Palestinian leader in leaked sound

A meridian aide to President Mahmoud Abbas is heard in newly released recordings cursing the Palestinian leader and insulting other members of the Palestinian leadership

December 27

FILE - Newly appointed secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, Hussein al-Sheikh gives an interview to The Associate Press, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, June 13, 2022. Al-Sheikh, who serves as the Palestinian civil affairs minister, is seen as a potential successor to the 87-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

Serbs put up new roadblocks every bit tensions soar in Kosovo

Serbs accept erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier

December 27

A man passes by a barricade made of trucks loaded with stones that was erected during the night on a street in northern, Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on "the full state of combat readiness," ignoring NATO's calls for calming down of tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Lavrov: Ukraine must demilitarize or Russia will practise it

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Ukraine must meet Moscow’southward demand for “demilitarization” and the removal of the military threat to Russia

December 27

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba uses his phone before an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

French republic to provide 2 satellites, receiving station to Poland

The French and Polish defense force ministers accept agreed to a deal under which France will provide Poland with ii ascertainment satellites and a receiving station

December 27

French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu walks out the Elysee Palace after the last weekly cabinet meeting of the year, in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
VIDEO: Snow in Buffalo, penguins in the sub-Antarctic: World in Photos, Dec. 27

Israeli doctors reject Netanyahu allies’ anti-LGBTQ remarks

Israel’s largest medical center and health care workers from hospitals around the state have spoken out against remarks by allies of Benjamin Netanyahu calling for a law to permit bigotry against LGBTQ people in hospitals and businesses

Dec 27

FILE - Israel's Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu arrives during the swearing-in ceremony for Israeli lawmakers at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Netanyahu issued a rare rebuke of his new coalition allies on Sunday, Dec. 25, for saying they would advance laws allowing discrimination against LGBTQ people, pledging there would be no harm to their rights by his new government. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Irish tourist dies in fall from train in Thailand

Law in Thailand say an Irish gaelic tourist has died subsequently falling out of a moving train

Dec 27

Canis familiaris and deer frolic in deep snow

A dog and a deer frolic in deep snow in Canada.

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VIDEO: Dog and deer frolic in deep snow

Weapons checks in Greek boondocks turn up grenades, motorcar guns

A serial of pre-Christmas weapons inspections in a small town in northern Greece has turned upwardly hand grenades, attack rifles, and decades-old unexploded ordnance

Dec 27

Spain scraps value-added tax on staple foods in aid package

Kingdom of spain has announced a new series of measures including scrapping Value Added Tax on staple nutrient and has extended rent and eviction controls to help ease the economic crisis caused by Russian federation’s war in Ukraine

December 27

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez listens to a question during a news conference to give a roundup of the economic and political situation over the past year in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Espana scraps value-added tax on staple foods in aid package

Kingdom of spain has announced a new series of measures including scrapping Value Added Taxation on staple food and has extended rent and eviction controls to assistance ease the economic crisis acquired by Russian federation’s state of war in Ukraine

December 27

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez listens to a question during a news conference to give a roundup of the economic and political situation over the past year in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul White)

North Macedonia: ix police officers arrested for corruption

Authorities in N Republic of macedonia say the commander of the constabulary station at a border crossing to Serbia, his deputy and 7 other station staff accept been arrested for allegedly taking bribes from motorists to ease their crossing

December 27

UN: 26 Rohingya refugees died at bounding main making perilous journey

A U.Northward. bureau says at least 26 Rohingya Muslims had died in dire conditions during a month at open ocean while making a dangerous voyage that brought scores of others to safety in Indonesia

Dec 27

Indonesian soldiers help ethnic Rohingya women and children to step out of a military truck upon arrival at a temporary shelter after their boat landed in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. A second group in two days of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims landed on a beach in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh on Monday after weeks at sea, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Mirza)

Femicides in Mexico: Little progress on longstanding issue

For decades, officials have recognized United mexican states’due south loftier femicide rate and violence against women in general as a major problem

December 27

Suspect arrested in killing of UN peacekeeper in Lebanese republic

The Lebanese army has arrested a doubtable in the killing earlier this month of a U.Northward. peacekeeper from Ireland who died when his convoy was shot at in southern Lebanese republic

December 27

Irish U.N peacekeepers, salute as they attend the memorial procession of their comrade Pvt. Seán Rooney who was killed during a confrontation with residents near the southern town of Al-Aqbiya on Wednesday night, at the Lebanese army airbase, at Beirut airport, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iran holds funerals for troops killed in 1980s Iraq war

Thousands of Iranians across the country have attended funerals for 400 troops killed in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war

December 27

Mourners touch flag-draped coffins of unknown Iranian soldiers who were killed during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, whose remains were recently recovered in the battlefields, during their funeral procession, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
FILE - Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 20 kms ( 12 miles) North of Goma, Democratic republic of Congo, on Oct. 29, 2022. The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, according to a U.N. report expected to be published this week. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

S. Korea military lamentable for failing to down Due north’due south drones

Kim Jong United nations called for stronger effort to overcome hardships and challenges.

Dec 27

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a cabinet council meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. South Korea’s president on Tuesday called for a stronger air defense and high-tech stealth drones to better monitor North Korea, a day after it accused five North Korea of flying drones across the rivals’ tense border for the first time in five years. (Im Hun-jung/Yonhap via AP)

Japan PM sacks 4th minister to patch up scandal-hit Cabinet

Japan’s Prime number Government minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed his fourth minister in two months to patch a scandal-tainted Cabinet that has raised questions over his judgment of staff credentials

December 27

Kenya Akiba, Japan's reconstruction minister, reacts during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Prime Minister Kishida dismissed his reconstruction minister Tuesday over questionable political and election funds apparently to patch up his scandal-riddled Cabinet already forced to replace three others in a domino that has raised questions over Kishida's judgement of staff credentials.(Kyodo News via AP)

Police say bus crashed into parked truck in Sudan, 16 killed

Sudanese law say a passenger charabanc slammed into a parked truck on a highway in the city of Omdurman, killing at least 16 people

December 27

IS claims Afghan car bombing that killed local police chief

The Islamic State group says it carried out a car bombing in northeast Afghanistan that killed a local police master

Dec 27

Japan PM sacks 4th minister to patch upward scandal-hit Chiffonier

Nihon’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has dismissed his 4th minister in two months to patch a scandal-tainted Cabinet that has raised questions over his judgment of staff credentials

Dec 27

Kenya Akiba, Japan's reconstruction minister, reacts during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Prime Minister Kishida dismissed his reconstruction minister Tuesday over questionable political and election funds apparently to patch up his scandal-riddled Cabinet already forced to replace three others in a domino that has raised questions over Kishida's judgement of staff credentials.(Kyodo News via AP)

S. Korea to pardon quondam leader Lee for abuse crimes

The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol is granting a special pardon to ex-President Lee Myung-bak, who was sentenced to a 17-yr prison term for a range of abuse crimes

Dec 27

FILE - Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak appears for his first trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, March 23, 2018. The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, it will grant a special pardon to ex-President Lee, who was sentenced to a 17-year prison term for a range of corruption crimes. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP, File)

S. Korea to pardon former leader Lee for corruption crimes

The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol is granting a special pardon to ex-President Lee Myung-bak, who was sentenced to a 17-twelvemonth prison term for a range of abuse crimes

December 27

FILE - Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak appears for his first trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, March 23, 2018. The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, it will grant a special pardon to ex-President Lee, who was sentenced to a 17-year prison term for a range of corruption crimes. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The AP Interview: Ukraine FM aims for Feb peace summit

Ukraine’southward foreign government minister has said that his nation wants a meridian to end the state of war just he doesn’t anticipate Russia taking part, a argument making information technology hard to foresee the devastating invasion ending soon

Dec 26

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

More Rohingya refugees reach Indonesia after weeks at bounding main

A second group in 2 days of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims has landed on a beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh later weeks at sea

December 26

Security officers stand by Rohingya refugees after they arrived on Indra Patra beach in Ladong village, Aceh province, Indonesia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Dozens of hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh on Sunday after weeks at sea, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Mirza)

Pakistan troops search for attackers after 6 soldiers killed

Officials say Pakistani forces have expanded their search for the perpetrators in multiple attacks that killed half dozen troops and wounded 17 civilians in a restive southwestern province the previous day

Dec 26

This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)

China to scrap COVID-xix quarantine for incoming passengers

China volition drop a COVID-nineteen quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from abroad starting Jan. 8

Dec 26

A passenger checks her phone as an Air China passenger jet taxi past at the Beijing Capital International airport in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. China will drop a COVID-19 quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from abroad starting Jan. 8. The National Health Commission announced the change Monday, Dec. 26, 2022 as part of the latest easing of China's once strict virus control measures. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

NATO probing shooting incident in tense Kosovo north

Serbia has placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness,” ignoring NATO’s calls for calming tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes

December 26

In this photo provided by the Kosovo government public affairs office, Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, right, poses with the top NATO commander in Kosovo, Maj. Gen. Angelo Michele Ristuccia, in the capital Pristina, Kosovo, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. The two met amid heightened tensions in Kosovo's Serb-run north where NATO said unidentified armed men fired weapons near a NATO patrol unit. (Kosovo government public affairs office via AP)

Russian federation shoots down Ukrainian drone nearly its Engels airbase

The Russian military reported that it shot down a Ukrainian drone.

December 26

A Ukrainian soldier watches a drone feed from an underground command center in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)

S. Korea fires alert shots afterward Due north drones cross border

South korea fired warning shots after N Korean drones violated its airspace.

December 26

FILE - A suspected North Korean drone is viewed at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, on June 21, 2017. South Korea said Monday, Dec. 26, 2022, it fired warning shots after North Korean drones violated the South’s airspace. (Lee Jung-hoon/Yonhap via AP, File)

Ukraine’s foreign minister tells the AP his government aims to have a peace summit by February at the UN

Ukraine’due south foreign minister tells the AP his authorities aims to take a peace tiptop past February at the United nations

Dec 26

Israeli air forcefulness veterans say incoming government a danger

Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans accept urged the country’due south elevation legal officials to stand tough against the incoming authorities

December 26

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu, center, pauses during a session after Yariv Levin was selected as Speaker of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans, including a former Israeli chief of staff, on Monday, Dec. 26, 2022, urged the country’s top legal officials to stand tough against the incoming government, saying the alliance of religious and ultranationalist parties threatens Israel’s future.(AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Kurds hold march of mourning after Paris shooting kills 3

Members of French republic’south Kurdish community and others are belongings a silent march Monday to honor three people killed at a Kurdish cultural center in Paris

December 26

Kurdish activists hold flags and music instruments to honor three women Kurdish activists were found shot dead in 2013, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022 in Paris. A 69-year-old Frenchman is facing preliminary charges of racially motivated murder, attempted murder and weapons violations over last Friday's shooting, prosecutors said. The shooting shocked and infuriated the Kurdish community in France. ( AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

China sends 71 warplanes, 7 ships toward Taiwan in 24 hours

Taiwan says China’s military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the self-ruled island

December 26

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense, a Chinese PLA J-16 fighter jet flies in an undisclosed location. China’s military sent 71 planes, including J16 fighter jets, and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan’s defense ministry said Monday, Dec. 26, 2022, after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions in a U.S. annual defense spending bill passed on Saturday.(Taiwan Ministry of Defense via AP, File)

China sends warplanes toward Taiwan after US passes defense nib

47 aircraft crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait, entering into Taiwan’south southwest air defence force zone at about 6 a.m. local time, Taiwan’s Ministry building of National Defence force said.

December 26

47 aircraft crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait, entering into Taiwan’s southwest air defense zone at about 6 a.m. local time, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said.

UN official, Taliban minister meet on Afghan women NGO ban

The United Nations says its top official in Kabul has met the Taliban government’southward economic system minister in the Afghan capital

December 26

FILE - Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel. (AP Photo, File)

Syrian Democratic Forces say six fighters killed in IS attack

The Kurdish-led Syrian Autonomous Forces say an attack by Islamic State militants in the metropolis of Raqqa has killed six of its members

December 26

FILE - US military vehicles on a patrol in the countryside near the town of Qamishli, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. U.S. and Kurdish-led forces had arrested an Islamic State group militant in eastern Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement Monday, Dec. 19, 2022 that they raided the home of an unnamed IS militant leader in the western countryside of Deir el-Zour and arrested him. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Nepal’due south new PM takes adjuration at the captain of delicate coalition

Nepal’southward newly appointed prime minister has taken his oath as the leader of a fragile coalition that includes his former opponent and other smaller political parties

December 26

FILE- Leader of communist party Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal greets the gathering after announcing his resignation as prime minister, in line with an agreement made with his coalition partner party, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. The leader of former communist rebels has become Nepal's new prime minister with the support from his ex-opponent and other smaller political parties. The announcement was made by the office of President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Sunday after the Maoist communist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal met her to stake his claim for the prime minister following last month's elections. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, file)

Highway, schools closed after ammonia leak in eastern Serbia

A key international highway in Serbia remains closed, along with schools and public institutions in an eastern town, following an ammonia leak that sickened dozens of people in the area

December 26

seventh body discovered after bus plunged into Spanish river

Spanish government announced Monday the recovery of the body of a 7th victim after a motorbus plunged thirty meters (100 feet) from a bridge into a river on Christmas Eve

December 26

A civil guard points toward a bus after it plunged into a river near Pontevedra in northwestern Spain, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Authorities say rescuers have recovered the victims from the bus that ran off a bridge and plunged into the river on Christmas Eve, killing six passengers and injuring the driver and another passenger. The Spanish Guardia Civil says a total of eight people were on the bus. The two survivors were rescued Saturday night and taken to hospitals. The bodies of the dead were retrieved Sunday. (Cesar Arxina/Europa Press via AP)

2 shot dead by al-Shabab militants in littoral Kenya

Police say two people accept been shot dead by al-Shabab militants and several houses have been torched in a rural expanse of coastal Kenya, police force have confirmed

December 26

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