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SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Las autoridades de Seguridad salvadoreñas informaron el jueves que, en el marco del régimen de excepción que se prolonga desde hace casi dos años, más de un millar de menores de edad fueron condenados por supuestamente pertenecer a las pandillas. “Se ha capturado a 1.194 menores de edad; de ellos, 1.065 ya fueron condenados a penas …

An ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Friday that Russian authorities have given his mother a deadline to agree to forgo a public funeral or else they’ll bury him on prison grounds. Investigators gave Lyudmila Navalnaya three hours to accept a proposal for a private funeral outside the public eye, Navalny’s close associate Ivan Zhdanov said on …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States flew advanced stealth fighters in a joint missile-interception drill Friday over the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s air force said, an apparent response to a spate of weapons tests this year by rival North Korea. North Korea has conducted six rounds of missile tests so far this year, most of …

WASHINGTON (AP) — El gobierno de Biden restableció el viernes una conclusión jurídica de Estados Unidos de hace casi 50 años según la cual los asentamientos israelíes en los territorios palestinos ocupados son “ilegítimos” según el derecho internacional. El secretario de Estado, Antony Blinken, dijo que Estados Unidos cree que los asentamientos son incompatibles con las obligaciones de Israel, revirtiendo …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers voted on Thursday to approve over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for ages 15 and above in a step to liberalize Poland’s strict reproductive law inherited from the previous nationalist conservative government. The vote in the lower house was the first step in the plans of the new pro-European Union government to loosen the …

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro has ruled that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon should be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges rather than to his native South Korea, a court official in the Balkan Country said Thursday. Kwon, 32, was arrested nearly a year ago in Montenegro on an international arrest warrant in connection …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — El presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador pidió el jueves al gobierno de Estados Unidos que informe sobre las investigaciones preliminares que habrían avanzado autoridades de ese país sobre el supuesto financiamiento de narcotraficantes a colaboradores del mandatario. López Obrador hizo la petición tras difundir en su conferencia matutina un cuestionario que le envió el …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador denied allegations contained in a U.S. media report published Thursday about a U.S. inquiry into accusations that people close to him took money from drug traffickers shortly before his 2018 election and again after he was president. The New York Times story cited unidentified U.S. officials familiar with the now …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico said Wednesday they have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies. In a country where videos of decapitations and executions have appeared on social media before, the video released Tuesday was still chilling. A squad of whooping, cursing gunmen …

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania decided Wednesday to seal off another two of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia. This brings the total of closed border crossings into the Baltic country to four. The Lavoriskes and Raigardas checkpoints will stop functioning on March 1, as all …