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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Con música, baile y ofrendas a la Pachamama, la Madre Tierra en indígena aymara, centenares de bolivianos cerraron el martes el cuarto día de carnaval. Adornados con globos y papeles de vivos colores, negocios, casas y hasta automóviles se sumaron a la fiesta, caracterizada por la entrega de ofrendas a la naturaleza en el martes …

JERUSALÉN (AP) — El ejército israelí dice haber rescatado a 2 rehenes en la Franja de Gaza.

BRUSELAS (AP) — El director de la agencia de la ONU para los refugiados palestinos dijo el lunes que es vital que reciba nuevos fondos de la Unión Europea en unas semanas porque Israel parece estar preparando un asalto terrestre a Rafah, donde se han refugiado muchos civiles. La agencia de ayuda UNRWA (por sus siglas en inglés) se tambalea …

MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Miles de personas de la minoría serbia de Kosovo protestaron el lunes contra la prohibición del uso de la moneda serbia en las zonas en donde viven. El tema ha sido la causa de la más reciente crisis en las relaciones entre Serbia y Kosovo. Las tensiones se agudizaron después de que el gobierno de Kosovo, …

PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police on Monday named two Chinese nationals as suspects in the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Sulawesi Island that killed 21 workers and injured dozens of others. Four Chinese and nine Indonesian workers died instantly on Dec. 24 when the furnace at PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, or PT …

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities in Moldova said Monday they destroyed explosives discovered in a part of a Shahed drone that crashed on its territory from the war in neighboring Ukraine, while the foreign minister condemned Russia’s “constant barbaric attacks” across the border. Police said that 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives were discovered during an investigation of the Shahed …

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Las autoridades de una ciudad del norte de India impusieron un toque de queda indefinido y ordenaron a la policía que dispare a los infractores luego de que los enfrentamientos por la construcción de un seminario musulmán y una mezquita se saldaron con al menos cinco muertos y más de 150 heridos, dijeron funcionarios el viernes. …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un restated he has no desire for diplomacy with South Korea and that the North would annihilate its rival if provoked, state media said Friday, in the latest of his belligerent statements that are raising tensions in the region. During a visit to North Korea’s Defense Ministry on Thursday, Kim …

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s new military chief signaled Friday that he wants to build new momentum, saying his immediate goals are to improve troop rotation at the front lines and harness the power of new technology, at a time when Kyiv’s forces are largely on the defensive in the war with Russia. Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, who previously was …

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Hungary’s head of state to resign after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. Hungary’s opposition parties say that President Katalin Novák, Hungary’s one-time minister for families and a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is …