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TOKYO (AP) — Taylor Swift, who is holding concerts in Japan through Feb. 10, will make it in time for the Super Bowl to see her partner and football superstar Travis Kelce play. To make sure all her fans know, the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C. has sent a message on X, formerly Twitter, alluding to her hit songs in …

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Macky Sall on Saturday postponed presidential elections scheduled for Feb. 25, citing controversies over the disqualification of some candidates and allegations of corruption in election-related cases. Sall — who is not seeking another term in office — said he signed a decree repealing the law that convened the electoral body just as campaigning was …

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s parliament will convene an emergency session on Monday to do something its western partners have waited for, often impatiently, for more than a year: to hold a vote, finally, on approving Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance. But Hungary’s governing party, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has signaled that it will …

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, trams and subway trains were canceled in much of Germany on Friday as transport employees walked off the job in the country’s third transport-related strike in two weeks. The Ver.di service workers’ union called for a “warning strike,” a common tactic in German contract negotiations, on Monday. Its deputy chair, Christine Behle, said that “the …

BUDAPEST (AP) — Un grupo bipartidista de legisladores estadounidenses instaron a Hungría a ratificar de inmediato la solicitud de Suecia de unirse a la OTAN, señalando que la paciencia con el país centroeuropeo “se debilita” debido a que sigue retrasando su aprobación para la nación nórdica. Hungría es el único país de la alianza militar de 31 naciones que todavía …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies on Friday approved in general terms a reform bill proposed by libertarian President Javier Milei to deregulate the economy, overcoming a hurdle for the sweeping initiative after three days of heated debate. But the fine print of the omnibus bill’s more than 300 articles, including economic, administrative, criminal and environmental changes, …

YUBA, Sudán del Sur (AP) — Residentes de una zona pantanosa en la región central de Sudán del Sur se enfrentaron con pastores de ganado que se desplazaron al lugar en busca de agua y pastura durante la temporada árida, lo que dejó al menos 38 muertos y 52 personas con heridas de bala, informaron funcionarios el jueves. La disputa …

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police arrested seven people on Friday on suspicion of selling information to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. The suspects, who allegedly passed details to Mossad via private detectives, were detained in a joint operation with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, or MIT. Acting on warrants issued by the Istanbul Chief Public …

QUITO (AP) — El presunto narcotraficante colombiano Henry Loaiza Montoya, líder del cártel del Norte del Valle, fue deportado el viernes a su país luego de ser capturado en la ciudad ecuatoriana de Guayaquil unas horas antes tras una operación conjunta e intercambio de información entre la policía de Estados Unidos, Colombia y Ecuador. El general William Villarroel, director nacional …

MOSCÚ (AP) — El presidente ruso Vladímir Putin describió el viernes la acción militar de Rusia en Ucrania como una batalla por la supervivencia de Rusia, en su campaña de reelección en la contienda presidencial, a realizarse el mes próximo y en la que su victoria es casi segura. En una reunión con trabajadores de la industria armamentística en la …