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The Trump administration's push to open Libyan oil as a Gulf-supply alternative during the war with Iran is on the rocks after an assassination, a central banker's move to quit, and a week of drone strikes and explosions that ran into Sunday.

Jared Kushner, a Middle East negotiator and President Trump's son-in-law, was meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday after the premier rejected the 15-point, U.S.-backed road map to move the truce deal forward in Gaza.

Russia attacked facilities of Ukraine's Naftogaz Group 13 times over the past week and has targeted its premises almost 300 times since the start of the year, the state energy company said Monday.

Torrential rains have pounded southern South Korea, leaving one person dead and four others injured, officials said Monday.

On Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, getting anywhere has always meant navigating the water. It isn’t any different for schoolchildren. Most mornings, a gas-powered boat chugs through Kampong Prahok floating village, steered by students often no older than those climbing aboard. They pull up alongside floating homes, as peers in crisp uniforms clamber aboard, careful to keep their backpacks dry. The Iran war is driving up fuel prices, making it more expensive for students to get to school. Some children are quitting school and starting to work to help their families make ends meet. Cash-strapped governments in hard-hit Asia also are struggling to fund education initiatives and school meal programs that help keep millions of children in classrooms. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. ___ Associated Press reporter Sopheng Cheang contributed to this report. ___ The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage...

Day after day over recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have pummeled giant depots belonging to Wildberries, the country’s biggest online retailer, burning estimated billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public

The attacks began on a July weekend and have continued for a month, stretching from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to cities in the south, and eastward to the Ural Mountains. The targets weren't oil refineries, maritime hubs or arms plants hit by other Ukrainian strikes, but warehouses that bring the convenience of online shopping across the breadth of Russia.

An extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition publicly advocated for killing "30 to 40" people in Gaza each night, comments that surfaced Sunday and were quickly shared by Palestinian media.