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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The former prime minister of Pakistan expected his party would claim an easy victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, sending him to the top job for a fourth time. Instead, Nawaz Sharif faces a difficult path to power. Independent candidates backed by his imprisoned rival, Imran Khan, were leading in the vote count Friday, a surprisingly …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Una activista que buscaba a su hermano fue asesinada a balazos el jueves en el estado mexicano de Baja California, menos de un mes después del secuestro y desaparición de otra activista en el centro del país. Ángela León, presidenta del colectivo de búsqueda “Unión y Fuerza por Nuestros Desaparecidos”, fue asesinada en el municipio …

JERUSALÉN (AP) — El primer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu, dijo el viernes que ordenó al ejército que prepare un plan para evacuar a los civiles de Rafah antes de una prevista invasión israelí a la ciudad densamente poblada del sur de Gaza. Netanyahu hizo el anuncio a pesar de fuertes críticas internacionales, incluso de Estados Unidos, a las intenciones israelíes …

MOSCÚ (AP) — Autoridades electorales rusas vetan a un político que pidió la paz en Ucrania en boleta de elecciones presidenciales.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry urged calm in a public address early Thursday following three days of violent protests that have paralyzed the country as thousands of protesters demand his resignation. The brief speech in the pre-dawn hours did little to appease people who are angry and frustrated over unrelenting gang violence, deepening poverty and the …

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s government said Thursday that it would extend the closure of its long border with Russia for another two months until April 14, because it sees no signs that Moscow was stopping its “hybrid operation” of funneling migrants toward the frontier with the Nordic nation. Finland closed the 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) land border late last year after about …

GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. official said Wednesday that the two generals in Sudan whose forces have been at war for the last 10 months assured him recently that they would attend a meeting in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian issues and Sudan’s beleaguered civilians. “I’m still waiting to see when that happens,” Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian …

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old Palestinian-American woman after breaking into her home and pulling her from her bed in the occupied West Bank, her family said Tuesday, saying they had no idea where she was nearly two days after she was detained. News of the arrest came just ahead of Secretary of State Antony …

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — Las confesiones ante la justicia estadounidense de un exjefe de policía y de un primo y miembro de esa fuerza complicarían la situación del expresidente hondureño Juan Orlando Hernández, acusado de narcotráfico en Estados Unidos y que será sometido a juicio a partir del próximo lunes. El exmandatario estaba acusado junto a al exdirector de la Policía …

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that he and his NATO counterparts cautioned Hungary on Wednesday against further delaying Sweden’s membership in the military alliance, and he warned that patience in Washington has its limits. Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán boycotted an emergency session of parliament on Monday where a vote …