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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 …

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 …

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

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands rallied in front of Slovakia’s Parliament on Wednesday to condemn a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to eliminate the office of the special prosecutor dealing with major crime and corruption. The rally took place as lawmakers concluded a debate over that and other proposed changes to the penal code. …

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced mounting pressure Wednesday to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament. During his weekly questioning in the House of Commons, Sunak sought to mock the position of the Labour Party’s leader on the …

TOKYO (AP) — A pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, prompting concern from environmental groups, has apparently safely escaped, officials said Wednesday. The killer whales, also known as orcas, were initially spotted by a local fisherman who reported them to officials in the nearby town of Rausu on the …

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 …