Things to know about the Vatican's big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church (apnews.com)
California's new mental health court rolls out to high expectations and uncertainty (apnews.com)
An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and medical care — potentially without their consent — kicked off in seven California counties, including San Francisco, on Monday....
Slovenia to introduce border checks with Hungary and Croatia after Italy did the same with Slovenia (apnews.com)
Slovenia said Thursday it will introduce border checks with neighboring Hungary and Croatia following Italy’s decision to do the same with Slovenia because of security concerns due to violence in the Middle East....
Tropical Storm Franklin nears Haiti and the Dominican Republic bringing fears of floods, landslides (apnews.com)
Court orders Russian-US journalist to stay in jail another 6 weeks (apnews.com)
A Russian court on Monday ordered a Russian-American journalist who was detained last week on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent to remain in custody until early December, her employer reported....
US says North Korea delivered 1,000 containers of equipment and munitions to Russia for Ukraine war (apnews.com)
An ex-investigative journalist is sentenced to 6 years in a child sexual abuse materials case (apnews.com)
A former investigative journalist for ABC News was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison for possessing and transporting child sexual abuse images....
Brazilian President Lula to undergo hip surgery, will work from home for 3 weeks (apnews.com)
The international Red Cross cuts budget, staffing levels as humanitarian aid dries up (apnews.com)
The part of the international Red Cross that deals with conflict and prisoners of war announced Monday it will trim its projected budget by about one-eighth next year and cut nearly 20% of staff at its headquarters....
Rescue teams retrieve hundreds of bodies in Derna, one of the Libyan cities devastated by floods (apnews.com)
Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the city of Derna that's been inundated by devastating floods.
U.N. Security Council schedules a vote on a resolution urging humanitarian pauses, corridors in Gaza (apnews.com)
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China denies accusations of forced assimilation and curbs on religious freedom in Tibet (apnews.com)
Ukraine displays recovered artifacts it says were stolen by Russians (apnews.com)
Europe Union's top diplomat dismisses concern about bloc's long-term support for Ukraine (apnews.com)
President Macron says France will end its military presence in Niger, pull its ambassador after coup (apnews.com)
Florida ethics commission chair can't work simultaneously for Disney World governing district (apnews.com)
Glen Gilzean, the new administrator of Walt Disney World’s governing district, can’t continue to work in his new job and chair the Florida Commission on Ethics at the same time since Florida law prohibits public employees from serving as members on the commission, according to a legal opinion issued Thursday....
Kenya seeks more Chinese loans at 'Belt and Road' forum despite rising public debt (apnews.com)
Netanyahu says Israel will ‘crush and destroy’ Hamas; every Hamas member is a ‘dead man’ (apnews.com)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would “crush and destroy” Hamas in response to its attack....
Judge upholds most serious charges in deadly arrest of Black driver Ronald Greene (apnews.com)
The case had been steeped in uncertainty in recent months after the judge dismissed obstruction charges against two other troopers, leaving three officers still facing charges....
Massachusetts shooting claims life of baby delivered after mother was one of several hit by gunfire (apnews.com)
A shooting claimed the life of a baby that was delivered after its mother was one of several people hit by gunfire during a fight Wednesday on a downtown street in the western Massachusetts city of Holyoke, authorities said....
A fight over precious groundwater in a rural California town is rooted in carrots (apnews.com)
In the hills of a dry, remote patch of California farm country, Lee Harrington carefully monitors the drips moistening his pistachio trees to ensure they’re not wasting any of the groundwater at the heart of a vicious fight....
1 Kosovo police officer killed and 1 wounded in an attack in the north, raising tensions with Serbia (apnews.com)
Bangladesh police clash with opposition activists ahead of elections, leaving hundreds injured (apnews.com)
Police in northeastern Bangladesh used batons and tear gas to disperse opposition activists amid a political dispute over who would oversee the next election, which is expected to be held in January, police and activists said Sunday....
UK top court says a plan to send migrants to Rwanda is illegal. The government still wants to do it (apnews.com)
In a major blow to one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ‘s key policies, the country’s top court ruled that asylum-seekers sent to Rwanda would be “at real risk of ill-treatment” because they could be returned to the conflict-wracked home countries they’d fled....
Pakistan's Imran Khan could face the death sentence in trial over revealing state secrets (apnews.com)
