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DAMASCO, Siria (AP) — Un dron aparentemente israelí atacó un auto cerca de la ciudad portuaria de Sidón, en el sur del Líbano, el sábado, con un saldo de al menos dos muertos y dos heridos, informaron agentes de seguridad. El ataque tuvo lugar a unos 60 kilómetros (37 millas) de la frontera con Israel, por lo que sería uno …

BERLIN (AP) — Three Dutch citizens were found dead in western Switzerland after an apparent hiking accident, police said Saturday. The mother and her two adult children, who had been reported missing Thursday, were found near the Rochers-de-Naye mountain in the canton of Vaud, local police said in a statement. The 57-year-old woman, her 25-year-old daughter and her 22-year-old son …

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Saturday activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, effective immediately. The announcement of the measure on state television amounts to a major, though tacit, admission that the army is struggling to contain the …

HELSINKI (AP) — Finns on Sunday will choose either of two experienced politicians to be their next head of state, whose main task will be to steer the Nordic country’s foreign and security policy now that it is a member of NATO, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, 55, on the center right, and former foreign Minister …

BEIRIUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister vowed after arriving in Beirut on Friday to keep supporting the militant Hezbollah group, saying Lebanon’s security affects that of Iran and the region. Hossein Amirabdollahian was welcomed by representatives of Lebanon’s Hezbollah as well as the militant Palestinian group Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Iran, a main backer of the militant groups, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin used an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to push his narrative on the war in Ukraine, urge Washington to recognize Moscow’s interests and press Kyiv to sit down for talks. For more than two hours, a largely unchallenged Putin showered Carlson with Russian history and Kremlin talking points. Putin repeated his claim the …

Letales incendios forestales que arrasaron la ciudad chilena de Viña del Mar quemaron viviendas hasta los cimientos, volcaron autos y dejaron decenas de fallecidos y desaparecidos. El país sudamericano lloró también la muerte Sebastián Piñera, que ocupó la presidencia en dos ocasiones, en un accidente de helicóptero a los 74 años. En Brasil, los aficionados al Carnaval bailaron en las …

BIJELJINA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — In cities along a section of the Drina River, which forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, there are simple, durable gravestones marking the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe. Their often decomposing bodies were retrieved from the Bosnian side of the river, examined …

LONDON (AP) — Environmental groups on Thursday criticized Britain’s opposition Labour Party for ditching a pledge to invest 28 billion pounds ($35 billion) a year in green projects if it wins an upcoming general election. Labour leader Keir Starmer said the party could no longer commit to the figure because the Conservative government had left the economy in dire condition. …

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken left the Middle East on Thursday with public divisions between the United States and Israel at perhaps their worst level since Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza began in October. Wrapping up a four-nation Mideast trip — his fifth to the region since the conflict erupted — Blinken was …