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  Locator map of the border between Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria Yaounde, Cameroon — Workers have recovered 12 bodies following landslides that engulfed a road in the west of Cameroon, a regional official said Saturday, adding there is no hope of finding survivors. State television CRTV reported the comments by the governor of Ouest region, Augustine Awa Fonka. "In our opinion, there is no longer any possibility of finding survivors," he told the station. Only 12 bodies had been recovered from the site of the disaster, the last of them on Saturday morning, he said. Dozens more people are still missing, and the search for bodies is still continuing, he added. Two landslides hit the Dschang cliff road Tuesday — the second as em...

  A CCTV camera is seen on a pole near the entrance to the venue of the United Nations climate change conference, known as COP29, ahead of the summit beginning in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 10, 2024. Islamabad — The Taliban in Afghanistan sent its representatives to Azerbaijan on Sunday to attend a major United Nations climate change conference, marking the first such participation since they seized power three years ago. State-run Afghan media reported that Muti-ul-Haq Khalis, head of the National Environmental Protection Agency, is leading the Taliban’s “technical” delegation, which is expected to have observer status instead of full participation. The U.N. Climate Change Conference, commonly called COP29, is scheduled to start Monday in B...

  A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 31, 2024. kabul, Afghanistan — An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesperson told Agence France-Presse on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power. "A delegation of the Afghan government will be in Baku" for the COP29 summit, which opens on Monday in the Azerbaijani capital, said the spokesperson, Abdul Qahar Balkhi. It was not immediately clear in what capacity the delegation would participate at COP29, but sources indicated it would have observer status. Afghanistan is ranked as...

  In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 27, 2024. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit Iran next Wednesday and start consultations with Iranian officials the following day, state media reported on Sunday. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday he might head to Iran in the coming days to discuss its disputed nuclear program and that he expected to work cooperatively with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Long-standing issues between Iran, the IAEA, and Western powers include Tehran barring uranium-enrichment experts from IAEA inspectio...

  Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales looks on from a balcony on the day of the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at The Cenotaph on Whitehall, in London, Nov. 10, 2024. London — King Charles III led the nation Sunday in a two-minute silence in remembrance of fallen service personnel in central London as the Princess of Wales looked on, a further sign the royal family is slowly returning to normal at the end of a year in which two of the most popular royals were sidelined by cancer. Remembrance Sunday is a totemic event in the U.K., with the monarch leading senior royals, political leaders, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his eight living predecessors, and envoys from the Commonwealth countries in laying wreaths at the...

  Vietnam Hanoi, Vietnam — Vietnamese authorities arrested a pro-democracy activist, state media said, the latest in a crackdown on political dissidents in the southeast Asian country. Tran Khac Duc, 29, was held on charges of "creating, storing, distributing or disseminating information, documents and items aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam," according to the publication Safeguarding the Law. He was arrested in September, but authorities only announced his detention through state media on Saturday. Duc is affiliated with the Assembly for Democracy and Pluralism organization, whose website says it aims to "establish a multi-party democratic system" in the communist nation. Its website praised Duc as a...

  FILE - The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby walks through Westminster in London on Sept. 14, 2022. london — The Church of England covered up "horrific" abuse by a lawyer who volunteered at Christian summer camps in the 1970s and 1980s, and the ceremonial head of the Anglican Communion failed to report him to authorities when he learned of the abuse in 2013, according to an independent review released Thursday. John Smyth, who died in South Africa in 2018 at age 75, physically, sexually, psychologically and spiritually abused about 30 boys and young men in the U.K. and 85 in Africa over five decades, the 251-page report commissioned by the church found. Smyth is believed to be the most prolific serial abuser associated wi...

  FILE - Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 17, 2024. JERUSALEM — With virtually no food allowed into the northernmost part of Gaza for the past month, tens of thousands of Palestinians under Israeli siege are rationing their last lentils and flour to survive. As bombardment pounds around them, some say they risk their lives to search for cans of food in the rubble of destroyed homes. Thousands have staggered out of the area, hungry and thin, into Gaza City, where they find the situation little better. "We are being starved to force us to leave our homes," said Mohammed Arqouq, whose family of eight is determined to stay in the north, weathering Israel\'s siege. "We will die her...

  FILE - Police officers stand next to their car in an empty Red Square with St. Basil's Cathedral in the background, in Moscow, Russia, June 28, 2023. MOSCOW — Ukraine attacked Moscow on Sunday with at least 32 drones, the biggest drone strike on the Russian capital since the start of the war in 2022, forcing flights to be diverted from three of the city\'s major airports and injuring at least one person. Russian air defenses shot down 32 drones flying toward Moscow over the Ramenskoye and Kolomensky districts of the Moscow region, as well as in Domodedovo city, home to one of the city\'s biggest airports, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. "32 drones flying to Moscow have been destroyed," Sobyanin said. He reported no maj...

  Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, center left, gestures as he witnesses a signing ceremony of cooperation documents between Indonesia and China during the Indonesia-China Business Forum in Beijing, Nov. 10, 2024. BEIJING — Indonesia\'s new leader called for collaboration rather than confrontation with China after the signing of $10 billion in new deals at a business forum on Sunday in the Chinese capital before heading to the U.S. President Prabowo Subianto told the forum that his country wants to be part of China\'s emergence as not only an economic but also a "civilizational power." "We must give an example that in this modern age, collaboration — not confrontation — is the way for peace and prosperity," he...