SEÚL, Corea del Sur (AP) — El presidente ruso Vladímir Putin le obsequió a su homólogo norcoreano Kim Jong Un un auto de fabricación rusa para su uso personal en una muestra de su relación especial, informó la prensa estatal norcoreana el martes. El reporte no especificó el tipo de vehículo o cómo fue enviado. Pero los expertos afirmaron que …
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What’s behind Germany’s transport strikes that have stranded air, rail and bus travelers?
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of travelers across Germany found themselves stranded on Tuesday when ground staff walked off the job at seven of the country’s biggest airports. The one-day strike by the Ver.di labor union, which runs until 7:10 a.m. Wednesday, affects several hundred flights at airports in Frankfurt and Munich, Lufthansa’s main hubs, as well as Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, …
Read More »Guinea’s military dissolves the government without explanation, saying a new one will be appointed
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Military leaders in Guinea have dissolved the government without explanation, saying they will appoint a new one, the president’s secretary general said. Gen. Amara Camara, in a video address on Monday night, added that daily business would continue as usual under the deputy secretary generals until a new government was formed. The West African nation has …
Read More »Food deliveries into northern Gaza are halted because of the war’s chaos, increasing famine risk
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children’s agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished. Entry of aid trucks into the besieged territory …
Read More »Attorneys for Georgia slave descendants urge judge not to throw out their lawsuit over island zoning
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys suing a Georgia county over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants asked a judge Tuesday to let them correct technical problems with their civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed. A lawyer for coastal McIntosh County argued the judge must throw out the lawsuit …
Read More »Estancamiento de ayuda estadounidense a Ucrania subraya que republicanos evitan confrontar a Rusia
Aproximadamente a las 2 a.m. del martes pasado, el senador republicano Ron Johnson se presentó en el pleno del Senado y explicó por qué se oponía a enviar más ayuda para apoyar a Ucrania a defenderse de la invasión lanzada en 2022 por el presidente ruso Vladímir Putin. “No me gusta esta realidad”, dijo Johnson. “Vladímir Putin es un criminal …
Read More »Guatemalan accused of importing fentanyl precursors for Mexican cartel arrested
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have detained a Guatemalan man wanted by the United States for allegedly participating in the importation of precursor chemicals used by the Sinaloa cartel to make fentanyl, officials said Monday. Immigration authorities stopped Jason Antonio Yang López at the airport in Tapachula on Sunday and turned him over to agents from the Chiapas state …
Read More »Alaska’s chief medical officer, a public face of the state’s pandemic response, is resigning
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Dr. Anne Zink, who was a public face of Alaska’s pandemic response, is resigning as the state’s chief medical officer. Zink plans to continue working full-time in the role until early April, the Anchorage Daily News reported. An email seeking comment was sent to a state health department spokesperson by The Associated Press on Monday, a …
Read More »VAMOS y Arena dicen pedirán anulación de las elecciones en El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Bajo el argumento de una serie de irregularidades durante el proceso de escrutinio, dos partidos políticos anunciaron el domingo que solicitarán la anulación de los comicios presidenciales y legislativos del pasado 4 de febrero en El Salvador. La diputada del partido VAMOS Claudia Ortiz, quien habría logrado la reelección para un segundo periodo en el Congreso, …
Read More »A prayer for Evita: Here’s why many Argentines are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Early every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union in Buenos Aires, Ángeles Celerier heads to the chapel and prays to Saint Cajetan, Saint Teresa and Eva Perón. Perón — unlike the others — has not been canonized by the Vatican, but this doesn’t matter to Celerier. “For me, she is …
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