NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices climbed following the latest rise of U.S.-Iran tensions. U.S. stocks meanwhile gave back a bit of their record-breaking rally Monday. The S&P 500 fell 0.2%. The Dow Jones slipped less than 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.3%. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil topped $95 again.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The Iran war’s global energy shock is causing some nations in Asia and Africa to boost nuclear power generation and spurring atomic energy plans in non-nuclear countries on both continents.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The United States and the Philippines kicked off one of their largest combat exercises Monday in an annual display of allied military might aimed at deterring aggression in Asia, despite Washington’s preoccupation with the war in the Middle East.

BAMENDA, Cameroon (AP) – Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace Thursday in the epicenter of a separatist conflict in central Africa considered one of the world’s most neglected crises.

LUANDA, Angola (AP) – Pope Leo XIV heads Tuesday to Equatorial Guinea for the final leg of his four-nation African journey, arriving in a country that presents perhaps the most diplomatically delicate challenge of this trip and his young papacy.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) – Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon’s northwestern city of Bamenda on Thursday to lead a peace meeting in a region battered by separatist violence that has claimed thousands of lives since it started nearly a decade ago.

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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) – More than 300 West African nationals, including 113 children, have been rescued after an intelligence-led bust by the Ghana Immigration Service on street begging networks in the capital of Accra, the agency said on Thursday.