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SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For decades, India has focused its defense policy on its land borders with rivals Pakistan and China. Now, as its global ambitions expand, it is beginning to flex its naval power in international waters, including anti-piracy patrols and a widely publicized deployment close to the Red Sea to help protect ships from attacks during Israel’s war …

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 …

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 …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy’s continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades. Friday’s government report showed that last month’s job gain — roughly twice what economists had predicted — topped the December gain …

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, EE.UU. (AP) — Un grupo de empleados y docentes de una escuela secundaria de Kentucky que compraron un boleto ganador de 1 millón de dólares del Powerball lo guardaron en un libro de texto de matemáticas antes de reclamar el premio esta semana. El grupo de 30 educadores, algunos de ellos jubilados, se conocieron en el centro de …

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, …

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 …

LONDON (AP) — The two 16-year-old convicted murderers of a transgender teenager in northwest England nearly a year ago were handed life sentences Friday with minimum prison terms of 20 and 22 years. Justice Amanda Yip lifted the reporting restrictions on naming the killers of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. They were identified at Manchester Crown Court as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie …

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 …

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Pearl Jam blasted out their forthcoming album to a few hundred family, friends, industry insiders and reporters Wednesday, and the tracks showed they are doing anything but mellowing with age. Singer Eddie Vedder, 59, lead guitarist Mike McCready, 57 and bassist Jeff Ament, 60, played the record for the first time for invited guests at …