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FILE - Chelsea's soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match against FC Barcelona in Gothenburg, Sweden, May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

UK gives Abramovich last chance to give Chelsea sale proceeds to victims of Russia's war in Ukraine

9:25 AM on Wednesday, December 17

The British government says it has given Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich a final chance to hand over 2.5 billion pounds or $3.25 billion to the victims of Russia's war in Ukraine

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, sits between Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives Speaker Tagesse Chafo, left, and House of Federation Speaker Agegnehu Teshager during a visit at the parliament in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/ Amanuel Sileshi)

India's Modi visits Ethiopia and calls for renewed bilateral relations

9:06 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a strategic relationship with Ethiopia during his first visit to the country

FILE - From left, European Council President Antonio Costa, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrive for an EU Summit at the European Council building in Brussels, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)

EU leaders prepare to take unprecedented steps to help Ukraine at a high-stakes summit

6:53 AM on Wednesday, December 17

European Union leaders are about to attempt something unprecedented

FILE - Dr. Peter Sotonyi, rector of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, Hungary, gives an anatomy lecture for first-year students, using chalk to mark the body of live horses, Monday, Sept 9. 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

UK to rejoin EU's student exchange program in a step toward closer ties after Brexit

6:32 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Britain will rejoin the European Union’s Erasmus student-exchange program, the government has announced

FILE - Refugees from South Africa, arrive Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

South African authorities raid a US refugee processing center and Washington protests

4:41 AM on Wednesday, December 17

South African immigration authorities have raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working there illegally were arrested and given deportation orders

Rohingya refugee 13-year-old Rahamot Ullah, his eye bloodied from a bamboo stick that pierced it 10 days earlier while slogging through sewage, speaks to The Associated Press inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Takeaways from the AP's report on the impact of aid cuts on Rohingya children in Bangladesh

12:31 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

Hasina, a Rohingya refugee girl, sits inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts

12:25 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

Norman Podhoretz, contentious and influential neo-conservative, has died

11:58 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Norman Podhoretz, a leading neo-conservative and the former editor of Commentary magazine, has died

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves speaks during a news conference regarding the seizure of four tons of drugs, at an air base in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)

Costa Rica's congress blocks effort to prosecute president for election interference

9:23 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Costa Rica’s legislature on Monday rejected a second request to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity, blocking an effort by the country’s electoral authority to make the leader face charges that he has been using his power to meddle in upcoming elections

President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump orders blockade of 'sanctioned oil tankers' into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro

6:56 PM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro

Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino walks alongside his agents after they detain an individual near West 27th Street and South Ridgeway Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Border Patrol official who is the face of Trump's crackdown back in Chicago amid immigration raids

6:36 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino has returned to the Chicago area, about a month after leaving to lead immigration crackdowns in other cities

Work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the White House, Tuesday, Dec., 9, 2025, in Washington, where the East Wing once stood. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Federal judge says he's inclined to deny preservationists' request to halt Trump's ballroom project

5:28 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A federal judge in Washington says he's inclined to deny a preservationist group's request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump's ballroom project

Swimmers gather for a morning vigil in Sydney, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, following Sunday's shooting at Bondi Beach. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)/AAP Image via AP)

Millions are pledged to a Syrian Australian man who stopped a gunman and became a national hero

4:49 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars

President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump expands travel ban and restrictions to include an additional 20 countries

3:04 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The Trump administration has announced an expansion of travel restrictions to include 20 more countries

President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, looks on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Hegseth and Rubio brief lawmakers on US military escalation

7:58 AM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are back on Capitol Hill as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth walks to the auditorium to brief members of Congress on military strikes near Venezuela at the Capitol, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean

7:04 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean

Today in History: December 17, the Wright Brothers’ first flight

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