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ISTANBUL (AP) — Two people attacked Turkey’s largest courthouse before being shot dead Tuesday in an exchange of fire that also left one other person dead and five wounded. Authorities alleged the assailants were part of an extremist organization that had been largely inactive in recent years. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the man and woman attacked a security checkpoint …

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile who faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term, died Tuesday in a helicopter crash. He was 74. Chile Interior Minister Carolina Tohá confirmed the death of the former president. No further details were immediately released about the cause of the accident. Serving …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — El presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador afirmó el martes que accedió a reunirse con una delegación del gobierno de Estados Unidos para discutir sobre migración a petición del mandatario Joe Biden, pese a su disgusto por la publicación de un reportaje sobre un supuesto financiamiento del narcotráfico a su primera campaña electoral en 2006. …

LONDON (AP) — The announcement Monday that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer has come as a shock to many in Britain, largely because the 75-year-old monarch has generally enjoyed good health through the years. Palace officials did not specify what kind of cancer the king has, or how serious his condition is. They only said that it …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday finalized a long-awaited deal that will allow officials to build a public school on St. John as part of a land swap that many opposed because it involves an island with historical ties to slavery. The deal with the U.S. National Park Service means the U.S. Virgin Islands …

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Thirty-seven people were killed over the weekend in fighting apparently tied to a land feud in the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, an official said Sunday. The bloodshed came a week after 52 people died in a land dispute in the same region. Information Minister Bolis Koch in Abyei, which is claimed by South Sudan …

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele saboreó lo que parece una contundente victoria de reelección, arremetiendo contra sus críticos internacionales y la prensa. El mandatario populista se ha declarado a sí mismo como un heraldo de la democracia, y no un ejemplo de la autocracia del siglo XXI que algunos temen. En su discurso del …

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Police made arrests and fired tear gas at opposition supporters during protests Sunday against the decision by President Macky Sall to postpone Senegal’s Feb. 25 elections as federal lawmakers prepared to debate a bill to formalize the postponement. Demonstrators rallied in the capital of Dakar after leading opposition figures and candidates in the presidential election rejected …

ISTANBUL (AP) — The governor of Turkey’s central bank has resigned only months after taking office amid allegations of improper use of power and family interference in the workings of the financial institutions. Hafize Gaye Erkan who took over as central bank governor in June was the bank’s first female chief. She announced her resignation on social media platform X, …

LONDRES (AP) — Una nacionalista irlandesa pasó a la historia el sábado al ser elegida primera ministra de Irlanda del Norte, y el gobierno regresó a sus labores después de dos años de parálisis provocada por un boicot de los unionistas. La vicepresidenta de Sinn Fein, Michelle O’Neill fue elegida primera ministra del gobierno en el cual, bajo el acuerdo …