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Details: Written by By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer; Published: 01 May 2019

South Africa's Caster Semenya (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

The sports world's highest court ruled Wednesday that Olympic champion Caster Semenya and other female runners like her with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce their levels of the male sex hormone if they want to compete in certain events.

Details: Written by By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press; Published: 22 April 2019

A Sri Lankan man cries while looking for the bodies of his family members killed in yesterday church blasts in a mortuary in Colombo. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lankan officials failed to heed warnings from intelligence agencies about the threat of an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group that officials blame for Easter Sunday bombings which killed more than 200 people, the country's health minister said Monday.

Details: Written by By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press; Published: 16 April 2019

Fire fighters working at the burning Notre Dame cathedral, Monday April 15, 2019. (Benoit Moser, BSPP via AP)

Fire out, treasures intact but work ahead for Notre Dame.

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 15 April 2019

(AP Photo/Lori Hinant)

Firefighters struggle contain fire as it consumes 12th-century monument

Details: Written by BY MATTHEW LEE Associated Press; Published: 08 April 2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference to announce the Trump administration's plan to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard a "foreign terrorist organization" (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the U.S. is designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard a "foreign terrorist organization," in an effort to increase pressure on the country that could have significant diplomatic implications in the Middle East.

Details: Written by KARIN LAUB and FARES AKRAM Associated Press; Published: 01 April 2019

Over the weekend, Gaza's Hamas rulers marked a year of bloody, weekly protests that have failed to break the Israeli blockade.

Details: Written by By Farai Mutsaka Associated Press; Published: 21 March 2019

(Josh Estey/CARE via AP)

A week after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique and swept across the country to Zimbabwe, the death, damage and flooding continues in southern Africa, making it one of the most destructive natural disasters in the region's recent history.

Details: Written by By Juliet Williams and Nick Perry (Associated Press); Published: 21 March 2019

The government of New Zealand announced a ban on "military-style" semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines Thursday, just a week after such weapons were used in attacks on two mosques in the city of Christchurch that killed 50 people.

Details: Written by By FARAI MUTSAKA and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press; Published: 19 March 2019

Rapidly rising floodwaters have created "an inland ocean" in Mozambique endangering scores of thousands of families, aid workers said Tuesday as they scrambled to rescue survivors of Cyclone Idai who clung to rooftops and trees.

Details: Written by By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press; Published: 18 March 2019

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi says that more than 1,000 may have by killed by Cyclone Idai.

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