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Mali’s government will probe Tuareg rebel leaders …

FILE - Malian troops join with former members of the Tuareg rebellion for a joint patrol in Gao, Mali, Feb. 23, 2017. Mali's military government has announced Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023 an investigation into ethnic rebel leaders who signed a peace agreement in 2015 to halt their quest for an independent state, a development experts say shows the crucial deal has collapsed.(AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File)

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Venezuela’s planned vote over territory dispute leaves …

A woman holds a flag during a voting rehearsal for the upcoming December referendum for the territorial dispute between Guayana and Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Mediators aim to extend Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza ahead …

Palestinian Mohammad Hamamreh is greeted by his mother after he was released from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank town of Ramallah, early Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023. Hamas and Israel released more hostages and prisoners under terms of a fragile cease-fire that held for a fifth day Tuesday. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israel compares Hamas to the Islamic State group. But …

FILE - An Israeli flag hangs between destroyed houses in the kibbutz Kfar Azza, Israel, near the Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS. Since the bloody Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the war, Israeli leaders and commanders have likened the Palestinian militant group to the Islamic State group. They point to Hamas’ brutal slaughter of hundreds of civilians and compare their Gaza war to the U.S.-led campaign to defeat IS in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Gay couple in Nepal becomes the 1st to officially register …

FILE- Same-sex couple Surendra Pandey, right, and Maya Gurung, who got married six years ago, pose for a photograph during an interview with the Associated Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The gay couple on Wednesday, Nov. 29, became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status. The Himalayan nation is one of the first in Asia to allow it. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Live updates | Mediators try to extend Gaza truce, which …

In this photo provided by Thailand's Foreign Ministry, Thai hostages, who were previously released, hug their newly-freed compatriots at the Shamir Medical Center in Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Hamas freed several Thai nationals seized in the group's surprise attack on southern Israel last month, releasing them alongside Israeli hostages under a cease-fire deal. (Thailand's Foreign Ministry via AP )

A Hong Kong court hears final arguments in the subversion …

A pro-democracy activist known as "Grandma Wong" protests outside the West Kowloon courts in a cordoned off area set up by police as closing arguments open in Hong Kong's largest national security trial of 47 pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

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At least 40 civilians killed by al-Qaida-linked rebels …

FILE- An aerial view shows a camp of internally displaced people in Djibo, Burkina Faso, May 26, 2022. Videos published by the state-run RTB Television Tuesday, Nov, 28, 2023, showed large groups of people riding motorcycles around a swathe of desert land as they appeared to be running from aerial bombardments. It was not immediately clear the number of civilians and security forces killed during the Sunday attack near Mali's border and involving about 3,000 rebels, according to the broadcaster. The Associated Press could not confirm the authenticity of the videos. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

Sweden’s economy shrinks in the third quarter to …

People walk on Drottninggatan, on the shopping day known as 'Black Friday', in Stockholm Nov. 24, 2023. The Swedish economy shrank in the third quarter of 2023, marking the second time of contraction that is one definition of recession. Data released Wednesday by Statistics Sweden showed that the Swedish gross domestic product, or GDP, declined by 0.3% in the period ending in October. (Mikaela Landestrom//TT News Agency via AP)

Live updates | Israel releases 30 prisoners after …

A Palestinian man collects his belongings southeast of the Gaza City on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. on the fifth day of the temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh chosen to host the …

Faisal bin Abdulaziz bin Ayyaf Al-Miqrin, mayor of the Riyadh, smiles after the Bureau International des Expositions, or BIE, announced the vote Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris. Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh was chosen to host the 2030 World Expo, beating out South Korean port city Busan and Rome for an event expected to draw millions of visitors. Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh was chosen on Tuesday to host the 2030 World Expo, beating out South Korean port city Busan and Rome for an event expected to draw millions of visitors. Riyadh was picked by a majority of 119 out of 165 votes by the member states. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

41 rescued workers emerge dazed and smiling after …

This handout photo provided by the Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations shows workers, rescued from the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed, sitting for a phone call with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. India’s transportation minister says all 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north have been pulled out. (Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations via AP)

Elevator plummets at a platinum mine in South Africa, …

This is an undated photograph of Impala Platinum mine shaft 11, provided by Implats on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, near Rustenburg, South Africa. An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday. It happened Monday evening at the end of the workers' shift at a mine in the northern city of Rustenburg. The injured workers were hospitalized. (Implats via AP)

The US tells Israel any ground campaign in southern …

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on Nov. 26, 2023, in Nantucket, Mass. The Biden administration has told Israel that it must operate with far greater precision in southern Gaza if it renews a ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)