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A vendor gives "pan de batalla," or battle bread, which is made with government subsidized flour, to a client at a restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

How a shrunken piece of bread explains Bolivia's economic catastrophe ahead of elections

8:52 AM on Monday, August 11

Much of what ails Bolivia right now seems to converge in a shrunken piece of subsidized bread that La Paz residents call “pan de batalla” or “battle bread.”

Benjamin Von Wong, right, a Canadian artist and activist, heaps piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture that he designed in front of the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/ Jennifer McDermott)

Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks

6:43 AM on Monday, August 11

As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office

FILE - Federal agents escort a family to a transport bus after they were detained following an appearance at immigration court, July 22, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Trump's big bill is powering his mass deportations. Congress is starting to ask questions

6:15 AM on Monday, August 11

Included in the Republican Party’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts is funding to power President Donald Trump's deportation agenda

US congressman discusses with Syrian president return of body of American killed in Syria

5:58 AM on Monday, August 11

A U.S. Congressman has made a brief visit to Syria where he discussed with the country’s interim president the return of the body of an American aid worker who was taken hostage and later confirmed dead in the war-torn country

FILE - Cho Kuk, leader of the South Korean Rebuilding Korea Party, clenches his fist during a campaign rally for the upcoming parliamentary election on April 10, in Seoul, South Korea, on April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

South Korea's president to pardon jailed ex-Justice Minister Cho Kuk

5:22 AM on Monday, August 11

South Korea’s president will pardon jailed former justice minister and liberal ally Cho Kuk this week, officials said Monday, cutting short his two-year sentence for falsifying academic records to help his children enter prestigious schools

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5:00 AM on Monday, August 11

Congress party leader and leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, center, and other parties lawmakers are stopped by police during a protest calling for the rollback of a controversial revision of the voter list in one of the country’s poorest states where key elections are scheduled in November, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India's opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revision

3:46 AM on Monday, August 11

India’s opposition parties have held a protest calling for the rollback of a controversial revision of the voter list in one of the country’s poorest states, where key elections are scheduled in November

Migrants returning to Venezuela face debt and harsh living conditions

11:10 PM on Sunday, August 10

Yosbelin Pérez is starting over with nothing in her name after trying to escape Venezuela's political, social and economic crisis

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