Rachel Dancyg holds her dog, Billie, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Israeli soldiers found Billie in the Gaza Strip, 18 months after she disappeared during Hamas’ attack on Dancyg’s Kibbutz of Nir Oz, in Binyamina, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
For her, like for Vergara, preserving axolotl is not an end, but a means for saving the place where the amphibian came to be.“This great system (chinampas) is all that’s left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco is a living archeological zone,” Cruz said. “If we, as citizens, don’t take care of what’s ours, it will be lost.”
A figure of an axolotl sits on display at a museum in Xochimilco Ecological Park, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)A figure of an axolotl sits on display at a museum in Xochimilco Ecological Park, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s
with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An abortion in Idaho is not prohibited if pregnancy complications could cause a woman’s death, even if that death “is neither imminent nor assured,” a state judge said Friday in a ruling that loosens one of the
over Idaho’s strict abortion bans. The women, who are represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, aren’t asking for the state’s abortion ban to be overturned. Instead, they want the judge to clarify and expand the exceptions to the strict ban so people facing serious pregnancy complications can receive abortions before they are at death’s door.
A representative for the Idaho attorney general’s office didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the ruling.Magdy reported from Cairo. AP writers Fatma Khaled in Cairo and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed reporting.
Follow AP’s war coverage atMOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The cries of distressed children filled the ward for the severely malnourished. Among the patients was 1-year-old Maka’il Mohamed. Doctors pressed his chest in a desperate attempt to support his breathing.
His father brought him too late to a hospital in‘s capital, Mogadishu. The victim of complications related to malnutrition, the boy did not survive.