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FILE - Iran's delegates look at each other while U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken addresses the 2022 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, in the United Nations General Assembly, Aug. 1, 2022. Last week's attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to murder former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Iran deal tantalizingly close, but US faces new hurdles

Last week's attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to murder former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran
Blocks of apartments stand next to a large squatters' settlement known as October 2, in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Quintana Roo state officials have vowed to relocate or remove about 12,000 inhabitants of the settlement, erected in 2016 on very valuable and once public land located between the town of Tulum and its beach. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

In Mexico resort, squatters make a stand against developers

Unchecked development has hit the once laid back beach town of Tulum on Mexico's Caribbean coast
Security personnel and an explosive sniffing dog stand at the entrance of the departures terminal as passengers wait in line at the international airport in Chisinau, Moldova, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Over the last two months non-European Union Moldova, which shares a border with war-torn Ukraine, has been plagued by scores of bomb threats that have wreaked havoc on the resources of the already overstretched authorities. (AP Photo/Cristian Straista)

Bomb threats put tiny Moldova, Ukraine's neighbor, on edge

It's been another week plagued by bomb threats in Moldova
The Elkhorn River, just west of Omaha, Neb., is pictured on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)

CDC confirms Nebraska child died of brain-eating amoeba

Federal health officials have confirmed that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba
A firefighting airplane flies over a wildfire near Alcublas, eastern Spain, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. The European Forest Fire Information System says 275,000 hectares (679,000 acres) have burned in wildfires so far this year in Spain. That's more than four times the country's annual average of 67,000 hectares (165,000 acres) since 2006, when records began. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Wind drives major wildfire in Spain as 35 aircraft deployed
Authorities say a large wildfire burning out of control in the eastern Valencia area has become one of the biggest of the year in Spain, having already scorched 19,000 hectares (47,000 acres) along a 120 kilometer (75 mile) perimeter
In this photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., left, greets U.S. Sen. Edward Markey during the latter's courtesy call at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Thursday Aug. 18, 2022. Markey, who was once banned in the Philippines by former President Rodrigo Duterte, on Friday met a long-detained Filipino opposition leader, former senator Leila de Lima, whom he says has been wrongfully imprisoned under Duterte and should be freed. (Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)
US lawmakers meet detained Philippine opposition leader
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, who was once banned from the Philippines by former President Rodrigo Duterte, has met a long-detained Filipino opposition leader, whom he says was wrongfully imprisoned under Duterte and should be freed
A fishing canoe sits near a dam that sources the sacred Osun River in Esa-Odo, Nigeria, on Saturday, May 28, 2022. The river, which flows through the dense forest of the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove - designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 - is revered for its cultural and religious significance among the Yoruba-speaking people predominant in southwestern Nigeria, where the goddess Osun is widely worshipped. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Nigeria's Osun River: Sacred, revered and increasingly toxic
The Osun River flows through a forest designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
In this image made from SCTV video shot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, convicted Muslim militant Umar Patek talks to the media after receiving his sentence reduction letter during a ceremony at Porong Prison in Sidoarjo, Central Java, Indonesia. Australia's leader said Friday that it's upsetting Indonesia has further reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali terror attack that killed 202 people, which could free him within days if he's granted parole. (AP Photo)
Australia upset at Indonesia reducing Bali bomber's sentence
Australia's leader says it's upsetting that Indonesia has reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali attack that killed 202 people
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, speaks during a news conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, that 'For us Germans in particular, any relativization of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable. I condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust.' ( Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)
Berlin police investigate Abbas' Holocaust comments
Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments that Israel had committed '50 Holocausts' against Palestinians
Today in History: August 19, "Old Ironsides" wins a battle
Today in History Today is Friday, Aug. 19, the 231st day of 2022. There are 134 days left in the year.
FILE - A woman carries a banner that reads in Spanish "We are missing 43," referring to the 43 missing students from a rural teachers college during a march in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015. The Truth Commission created to find out what happened to the missing students presented on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, a report that hints at the possible responsibility of the Mexican army in the disappearance. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
Mexico arrests ex-attorney general in missing students case
Prosecutors in Mexico say they have arrested the attorney general in the previous administration
Crews battle a massive fire that has destroyed buildings, cars and vessels at a boat yard in Mattapoisett, Mass., Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. The area of the fire was part of a Weather Service warning Friday of elevated fire risk due to drought and high winds. It sent a plume of dense black smoke over southeastern Massachusetts. (Peter Pereira/The Standard-Times via AP)
Large fire consumes boats, buildings, vehicles at boatyard
A large fire at a Massachusetts marina has destroyed several boats, buildings and vehicles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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