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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Fuerzas de seguridad de Senegal han matado a por lo menos tres personas, incluido un joven de 16 años, durante protestas en los últimos días contra la decisión del presidente de aplazar las elecciones, informó el martes Amnistía Internacional. En un comunicado, el grupo de derechos humanos afirmó que los manifestantes murieron durante la represión en …

LONDRES (AP) — El mundo ha entrado en una etapa de creciente inestabilidad a medida que los países de todo el mundo aumentan su gasto militar en respuesta a la invasión rusa de Ucrania, al ataque de Hamás a Israel y a la creciente agresividad de China en el mar de la China Meridional. Esta es la conclusión de un …

NEW YORK (AP) — It turns out there are lots of sharp elbows in the plush toy business. Build-A-Bear and the makers of Squishmallows are facing off in federal court. Kelly Toys and its Berkshire Hathaway -controlled parent company Jazwares have sued Build-A-Bear, saying its new “Skoosherz” toys copy the look and feel of their mega-popular Squishmallows products. The Skoosherz …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday, ending his second stay since surgery to treat prostate cancer, and he has resumed his full duties, the Pentagon said. Austin, 70, has had ongoing health issues since undergoing surgery in December. He was taken back to Walter Reed on Sunday for …

CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) — Three sheriff’s deputies in South Carolina have been arrested after they reported a dead body in what investigators said were hoax phone calls in four small towns. The Chesterfield County deputies were charged Monday with misconduct in office, criminal conspiracy and aggravated breach of the peace, according to the warrants from the State Law Enforcement Division. …

JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of a Palestinian-American woman arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank says they still haven’t had contact with her, more than a week after she was seized from her home in an overnight raid. Relatives of Samaher Esmail say they are getting increasingly worried because they believe the 46-year-old woman has not received …

DETROIT (AP) — A man in prison for nearly 60 years was eligible for immediate release Tuesday after a Detroit-area judge reduced his sentence, the result of a major change in how Michigan treats 18-year-olds convicted of murder. Ivory Thomas began serving a life sentence in 1965 for killing a young man in a Detroit park. He was 18 at …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Una mujer estadounidense y un hombre de Belice fueron asesinados en lo que parece haber sido una disputa entre narcotraficantes en un club de playa de la ciudad turística mexicana de Tulum, confirmaron las autoridades el domingo. La fiscalía del estado de Quintana Roo subrayó que la mujer estadounidense no tenía relación alguna con un …

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (AP) — Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and shipwreck researcher Dan Fountain announced Monday the discovery of the 244-foot (74-meter) bulk carrier Arlington in about 650 feet (200 meters) of …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian voters on Wednesday were making their choice of who will succeed popular President Joko Widodo, who is serving his second and final term. It is a three-way race for the presidency among current Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and two former provincial governors, Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo. Subianto, who is widely seen as the front-runner, …