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LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — El calor extremo y el humo de los incendios forestales, dos fenómenos en aumento asociados al cambio climático por investigadores del tema, son dos amenazas individuales para la salud humana. Pero cuando se presentan de forma combinada representan un riesgo cada vez mayor, sobre todo para poblaciones vulnerables como las comunidades de bajos recursos y las …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More than 100 Rohingya immigrants have escaped from a detention center in Malaysia after a protest, with one confirmed killed in a road accident, officials said Friday. This was the second time in two years that such a breakout occurred. In 2022, 528 Rohingya refugees staged a protest and escaped from detention in northern Penang …

TOKIO (AP) — Un hombre que falleció en un hospital de Japón esta semana dijo a las autoridades antes de morir que era uno de los prófugos más buscados del país y que había evadido la justicia durante casi 50 años por ser integrante de un grupo radical que perpetró ataques con bombas en la década de 1970, informó la …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities in Norway issued several landslide and avalanche warnings for the southern part of the country Friday as it continued to get hammered by bad weather that officials said also might close roads in the north at short notice. Flights to and from the airport in the Arctic city of Tromsoe resumed Friday after some 200 …

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed 22 insurgents this week in an operation against Baloch separatists, who had launched attacks with suicide bombers and gunmen in retaliation for Pakistani strikes on insurgent hideouts in Iran in January, officials said Thursday. Four security forces and two civilians died when insurgents launched rocket attacks before dawn on Monday on security …

LONDON (AP) — A Conservative lawmaker in Britain said Thursday he will step down when an election is called later this year because of abuse and death threats he says are linked to his support for Israel. Mike Freer said an arson attack on his office in December was the “final straw.” He told the BBC that when people go …

ESTAMBUL (AP) — Dos hombres armados tomaron siete rehenes en una fábrica de Procter & Gamble en el noroeste de Turquía el jueves, informó la prensa local, en una aparente protesta contra la ofensiva israelí en Gaza. La prensa turca publicó la foto de uno de los aparentes agresores en la fábrica: un hombre, pistola en mano, con lo que …

Snow-dusted tractors lined up outside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and nighttime protests in Romania marked by vivid national flags have become markers of a farmer protest movement across Europe. The biggest demonstrations have been seen in France, where farmers blocked highways around Paris with their tractors, but the dayslong protests have spread across the European Union, highlighting deep-seated grievances …