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Suspect arrested in Serbia’s second mass shooting in 2 days

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC32 minutes ago
Police officers prepare for a chase in the village of Dubona, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, May 5, 2023, near the scene of a Thursday night attack. A shooter killed multiple people and wounded more in a drive-by attack late Thursday in Serbia's second such mass killing in two days, state television reported. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police said they have arrested a suspect in a drive-by shooting attack that killed at least eight and wounded 14, the nation's second such mass shooting in two days.

Zelenskyy wants Putin trial; Russia accuses US on drones

By MIKE CORDER and AAMER MADHANIyesterday

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine and Russia pressed their wartime rhetoric Thursday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressing confidence that Vladimir Putin would be convicted of war crimes, and the Kremlin alleging that the U.S.

Canada mulls expelling China diplomat for targeting lawmaker

By ROB GILLIEStoday
FILE - Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly addresses the eleventh emergency special session of the General Assembly, Feb. 22, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. Canada’s foreign minister said Thursday, May 4, that the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over an intelligence agency report saying one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister said Thursday the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over an intelligence agency report saying one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker.

King’s coronation draws apathy, criticism in former colonies

By SYLVIA HUI, JOHN MYERS JR. and KRUTIKA PATHI43 minutes ago
FILE - Guards carry flags from Commonwealth countries during a full tri-service and Commonwealth rehearsal at RAF Odiham in Hook, England, Sunday, April 30, 2023, ahead of their involvement in the second procession that accompanies King Charles III and Queen Camilla from Westminster Abbey back to Buckingham Palace. When King Charles III is crowned on Saturday, May 6, 2023, soldiers carrying flags from the Bahamas, South Africa, Tuvalu and beyond will be marching alongside British troops to honor King and Country. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP, File)

LONDON (AP) — When King Charles III is crowned on Saturday, soldiers carrying flags from the Bahamas, South Africa, Tuvalu and beyond will march alongside British troops in a spectacular military procession in honor of the monarch.

Prince William pours a pint, meets public before coronation

By SYLVIA HUItoday
Britain's Prince William pulls the first pint of Kingmaker, a new brew celebrating the coronation of King Charles III, as he and the Princess of Wales visit the Dog & Duck pub in London, Thursday, May 4, 2023, to hear how it's preparing for the coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort at the weekend. (Jamie Lorriman/Pool Photo via AP)

LONDON (AP) — Prince William has poured a pint of ale and taken a ride on the subway with his wife Kate as part of a royal ramble in central London before King Charles III's coronation.

Turkey’s Erdogan faces tough election amid quake, inflation

By SUZAN FRASER37 minutes ago
People are reflected in a poster election campaign of Turkish President and People's Alliance's presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Turkey's May 14 presidential election could be the toughest challenge yet in the two-decade rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It comes amid a devastating earthquake and soaring inflation — problems that Turkey faced as Erdogan was in the early stages of his political career more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Early in his political career, a devastating earthquake and economic troubles helped propel Recep Tayyip Erdogan to power in Turkey.

Key dates in the career of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan

By SUZAN FRASER26 minutes ago

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who earlier this year marked 20 years in power — first as prime minister and later as president — is seeking a third consecutive presidential term in elections on May 14.

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

By The Associated Press12 minutes ago
Smoke billows on Place de la Nation after youths set a fire during a demonstration, Monday, May 1, 2023 in Paris. Across France, thousands marched in what unions hope are the country's biggest May Day demonstrations in years, mobilized against President Emmanuel Macron's recent move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

APRIL 28-MAY 4, 2023

From the war in Ukraine and clashes in Nairobi to a school shooting in Belgrade, this gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa.

Sudan migrants in Israel worry over future, fighting at home

By TIA GOLDENBERG44 minutes ago
Omer Easa from Sudan poses for a portrait inside the offices of the Hotline for Migrant Workers, a rights group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, April 30, 2023. "My heart is there. My head is there. It is just that my body is here," said Easa, 31, a political dissident who fled the war-torn region of Darfur in 2012. "We live here often thanks to the graces of the Supreme Court." (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Omer Easa is watching the violence roiling his native Sudan with deep trepidation. The further Sudan sinks into chaos and violence, he fears, the longer he is likely to remain an unrecognized asylum-seeker in Israel, where he has few protections.

Press group: China biggest global jailer of journalists

2 hours ago
FILE - Cheng Lei, a Chinese-born Australian journalist for CGTN, the English-language channel of China Central Television, attends a public event in Beijing on Aug. 12, 2020. In 2022, Chinese-born Australian journalist Cheng Lei was tried in China on national security charges but has yet to learn the verdict, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in March. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — China was the biggest global jailer of journalists last year with more than 100 behind bars, according to a press freedom group, as President Xi Jinping’s government tightened control over society.

EUROPE

A Ukrainian Border Guard soldier participates in a military exercise in central Ukraine, Monday, May 1, 2023. Ahead of the much-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive, newly formed military assault units train in the country's dense forests. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In Ukraine’s forests, fighters race to prepare for next push

ASIA

In this image made from video, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. in London, Thursday, May 4, 2023. Albanese has expressed frustration at the United States’ continuing efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, saying: “There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration.” (Australian Broadcasting Corp. via AP)

Australia PM: US effort to extradite Assange not worth it

LATIN AMERICA

A ship creates an artificial island by extracting offshore sand to create a coastal port for offshore oil production at the mouth of the Demerara River in Georgetown, Guyana, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Guyana is poised to become the world’s fourth-largest offshore oil producer, placing it ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Oil boom transforms Guyana, prompting a scramble for spoils

MIDDLE EAST

Palestinians carry the body of Hassan Qatnani,, draped in the Hamas militant group flag, during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, May 4, 2023. The Israeli military says it has killed Qatnani, Moaz al-Masri and Ibrahim Jabr for being behind an attack last month on a car near a Jewish West Bank settlement that killed a British-Israeli mother and two of her daughters. Hamas said the men were its members and claimed responsibility for the attack (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Forces kill 3 Palestinians behind deaths of British-Israelis

AFRICA

President Joe Biden speaks before a dinner for Combatant Commanders in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden issues order setting path for sanctions in Sudan

Anti-Muslim Twitter feed in Spain: ‘A recipe for disaster’

By DAVID KLEPPERtoday
FILE - People light candles on Jan. 26, 2023, next to a memorial site for a church sacristan who was killed on Jan. 25 in Algeciras, southern Spain. Far-right groups have used Twitter to spread hate directed at Muslims and Immigrants. Many of them reference the Reconquista, the period in the Middle Ages that saw Christians retake vast parts of the Iberian peninsula from its Muslim leaders. The term has also been used by the Vox Party, a far-right party that has been praised by ex-U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Toro)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The person who operates the Twitter account claims to be an Islamic fundamentalist living in Spain, empathizing with violent extremists and longing for the days, more than six centuries ago, when Muslims ruled the country.

8 fatally shot in Serbia town a day after 9 killed at school

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVICtoday
School children light candles near the Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 4, 2023. Many wearing black and carrying flowers, scores of Serbian students on Thursday paid silent homage to their peers killed a day earlier when a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns in a school shooting rampage that sent shock waves through the nation and triggered moves to boost gun control. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A shooter killed at least eight people and wounded 13 in a drive-by attack near a town close to Belgrade late Thursday, the second such mass killing in Serbia in two days, state television reported.

Russian authorities target play in latest sign of crackdown

By The Associated Pressyesterday

Russian authorities demonstrated again Thursday that they are widening their crackdown on dissent by investigating and detaining artists involved in a play staged in Moscow.

The human rights group OVD-Info reported on Telegram that theater director Zhenya Berkovich was detained in Moscow on a charge of justifying terrorism because of her play “Finist, the Brave Falcon.”

Italian minister scraps trip over French official’s remarks

By COLLEEN BARRY and ELAINE GANLEYyesterday

MILAN (AP) — Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday abruptly canceled a trip to Paris, calling “unacceptable” remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy.

Italian conductor Muti to visit Syrian refugee camp

yesterday

MILAN (AP) — Italian conductor Riccardo Muti plans to visit Syrian musicians living in the vast Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on the sidelines of his annual Roads of Friendship concert series that aims to use music to build bridges and help those affected by war.

Denmark to boost military spending to upgrade facilities

yesterday

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s centrist government wants to spend 38 billion kroner ($5.6 billion) over the next decade to modernize military facilities, renovate shabby and dilapidated buildings, increase the number of soldiers and upgrade outdated computer systems.

Prosecutors: Signs of mental illness in Berlin school attack

yesterday

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Thursday that a man who seriously wounded two young girls in an attack at a school in Berlin may have been suffering from a drug-induced psychological illness.

2 people killed in train accident in western Germany

yesterday

BERLIN (AP) — Two people were killed and several experienced a psychologically damaging shock in a train accident near the western German city of Cologne on Thursday, German news agency dpa reported.

Spain’s Juan Carlos I offers cautionary tale for Charles III

By JENNIFER O'MAHONYyesterday

MADRID (AP) — A playboy past that was once brushed under the carpet, a popular son whose telegenic family threatens to eclipse his own star, and endless leaks about his private life: Spain’s Juan Carlos I can empathize with the lot of Britain’s Charles III.

Deadly bus crash with truck kills 17, injures 29 in Egypt

yesterday

CAIRO (AP) — A passenger bus has slammed into a slowly moving truck on a highway in southwestern Egypt, killing at least 17 people, officials and local media said Thursday.

The crash took place late Wednesday in the New Valley province, according to its governor, Mohamed el-Zamlout.

Russia unlikely to face criticism at Central Asian meeting

By KRUTIKA PATHIyesterday

PANAJI, India (AP) — Russia is unlikely to face backlash over its war in Ukraine at an upcoming meeting of Central Asian foreign ministers and instead could flex its influence with the regional group.

UN humanitarian chief in Sudan, seeking guarantees on aid

By MALAK HARB and NOHA ELHENNAWYyesterday

PORT SUDAN, Sudan (AP) — The U.N.'s humanitarian chief arrived in Sudan’s main seaport on Wednesday to seek guarantees for the safe passage of aid deliveries, as thousands of Sudanese and foreign nationals gathered there in hopes of fleeing the conflict-torn east African country.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes tanker in Strait of Hormuz

By JON GAMBRELLyesterday

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program.

Severe flooding in Italy kills 2; drought persists

yesterday

MILAN (AP) — A day and a half of nonstop rain has caused caused flooding in Italy’s populous Emilia-Romagna region, leaving at least two people dead as riverbeds left dry by drought overflowed their banks.

Ukraine denies Russian claim Kyiv sent drones to hit Kremlin

By DAVID RISINGyesterday

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed it foiled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin early Wednesday, calling it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin and promising retaliation for what it termed a “terrorist” act.

Critics say huge coronation security operation goes too far

By JILL LAWLESSyesterday

LONDON (AP) — The coronation of King Charles III involves one of the most important and complex security operations in U.K.

Showtime! UK readies pomp for King Charles III’s coronation

By DANICA KIRKAyesterday

LONDON (AP) — The crown has been resized. The troops are prepared for the biggest military procession in 70 years. The Gold State Coach is ready to roll.

Now it’s time for the show.

King Charles III will be crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey in an event full of all the pageantry Britain can muster.

Real or not, reported Kremlin drone attack unsettles Russia

By JIM HEINTZMay 4, 2023

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — As Russian officials tell it, two Ukrainian drones flew into the very heart of Moscow under the cover of darkness, reaching the Kremlin before they were shot down at the last minute.

Knife attack at Berlin school wounds 2 girls; suspect held

May 4, 2023

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police said that two young children were seriously wounded in a knife attack Wednesday at a school in the south of Germany's capital, and a 38-year-old suspect was detained.

Swiss lower house approves closer ties to Taiwan legislature

By JAMEY KEATENMay 4, 2023

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's lower house of parliament has voted to tighten ties with the legislature in Taiwan, a move that could further rankle China after recent visits by Western lawmakers to the island.

Ancient Knights of Malta get their 1st non-aristocratic head

By NICOLE WINFIELDMay 4, 2023

ROME (AP) — A Canadian lawyer who found his vocation caring for AIDS patients in Harlem was elected the grand master of the Knights of Malta on Wednesday, the first non-European and first non-aristocratic head of the ancient lay Catholic order that provides humanitarian aid around the world.

Vatican No 2 confirms Russia-Ukraine peace mission plans

By NICOLE WINFIELDMay 4, 2023

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Holy See's No. 2 official confirmed Wednesday the existence of a Vatican peace “mission” to try to end Russia's war in Ukraine, days after Pope Francis raised eyebrows with an offhand revelation of a secret operation that was already underway.

Bolsonaro home searched as Brazil probes fake vaccine cards

By CARLA BRIDI and DAVID BILLERMay 4, 2023

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police searched former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and seized his phone Wednesday in what they said was an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards.

Police: Serbia school shooter had list of students to target

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVICMay 4, 2023

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A 13-year-old who opened fire Wednesday at his school in Serbia's capital drew sketches of classrooms and made a list of children he intended to target in a meticulously planned attack, police said.

Going green: Nel Hydrogen to build in Michigan, work with GM

By JENNIFER McDERMOTTMay 4, 2023

The green hydrogen company Nel announced plans Wednesday to build a massive new plant in Michigan as it works with General Motors to drive down the cost of hydrogen.

The Norwegian company makes devices that take water and split it into hydrogen and oxygen, known as electrolyzers, as well as fueling stations.

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