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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo sparred at the United Nations over the latter’s ban of the use of the Serbian currency in areas where minority Serbs live, the latest crisis between the two governments. Tensions escalated after the government of Kosovo, a former Serbian province, banned banks and other financial institutions in the Serb-populated areas …

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — El Tribunal Supremo Electoral salvadoreño oficializó el vienes el escrutinio final de las elecciones presidenciales y confirmó que el presidente Nayib Bukele fue reelegido con 82,6% de los votos. En segundo lugar quedó Manuel Flores, del izquierdista Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), con 6,2%, según el computo oficial del Tribunal Electoral. “En 2019, …

ROME (AP) — A Rome court has ordered that the man convicted in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher and freed three years ago be placed under “special surveillance” for allegedly abusing a former girlfriend, Italian media reported on Friday. The order came after the former girlfriend filed a complaint last summer against Rudy Guede, a 36-year-old Ivorian …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police on Thursday searched homes and offices of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s top aides in an investigation alleging they plotted a coup and that the ex-president was aware of the plan, court documents showed. The alleged plot in the event Bolsonaro lost the 2022 election involved having him sign a decree declaring the vote …

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 …

MANILA (AP) — Los cuerpos de rescate sacaron el jueves más muertos del lugar donde ocurrió un deslizamiento de tierra en Filipinas, mientras las autoridades informaban que la cifra de víctimas ascendía a 11 muertos y 110 desaparecidos. Por lo menos 31 personas resultaron heridas por el deslizamiento en Masara, en una zona minera de la provincia de Davao de …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Cyril Ramaphosa insisted Thursday that his ruling African National Congress party is making progress in addressing South Africa’s problems such as record unemployment, an electricity crisis and corruption allegations that have even dented his own reputation. Ramaphosa’s nearly two-hour State of the Nation speech to Parliament was largely a defense of his first …

GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday for the third time since December, sending jets of lava into the sky, triggering the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa and cutting heat and hot water to thousands of people. The eruption began at about 0600 GMT (1 a.m. EST) along a three-kilometer (nearly two-mile) fissure …

COPENHAGUE, Dinamarca (AP) — Suecia anunció el miércoles el cierre de su investigación acerca de las explosiones registradas en septiembre de 2022 en los gasoductos Nord Stream, que se construyeron para llevar el gas natural ruso hasta Alemania, porque no tiene jurisdicción. La pesquisa sueca era una de las tres abiertas sobre los incidentes. Dinamarca y Alemania también investigan lo …

PARÍS (AP) — El presidente francés Emmanuel Macron rindió homenaje el miércoles a las víctimas del ataque de Hamás a Israel del 7 de octubre durante una ceremonia nacional y denunció la “mayor masacre antisemita de nuestro siglo”. En el ataque murieron 42 ciudadanos franceses y se cree que Hamás y otras milicias retienen a otros tres como rehenes en …