The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council says it has agreed to work with the Syrian government on ending seven years of violence in the country.

German authorities say they temporarily shut down parts of Munich airport because a woman entered a security zone without going through security and passport controls.

Heavy rain is falling on parts of Japan and airlines have canceled flights as an approaching typhoon threatens to dump more rain on a region devastated by floods and landslides earlier this month.

Somalia’s president has begun a visit to Eritrea in another possible diplomatic thaw in the restless Horn of Africa region.

Texas authorities say five people have been killed following separate shootings that included a nursing home in a Corpus Christi suburb.

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Belgium to drum up support for Catalonia’s separatist movement after Spain’s bid to extradite him on rebellion charges from Germany failed.

Afghan officials say a bomb has exploded near a training center for midwives in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province.

Here’s your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. And now somehow, even in 2018, his Baroque paintings are still jolting the internet.

Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found.