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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has commissioned two new navy ships as a safeguard against the rising threat from China, which has been ratcheting up its naval and air force missions around the island that it claims as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary. The pair of Tuo Chiang class corvettes completes the first order of …

SOFÍA (AP) — La aduana de Bulgaria incautó unos 170 kilos (370 libras) de cocaína de un buque que transportaba bananas desde Ecuador, informaron los fiscales el martes. El fiscal Georgi Chinev dijo que la droga estaba oculta en un contenedor en el buque de carga Madison 2, que hizo escala en Malta. Estimó el valor de la cocaína en …

BEIJING (AP) — The former president of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison amid a wide-ranging crackdown on sports corruption. Chinese courts on Tuesday handed down sentences of between eight years and life in prison to officials in the Communist Party-controlled sports programs, accusing them of taking bribes and committing other financial crimes. Chen Xuyuan, …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — El presidente mexicano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, dijo el lunes que 1.800 efectivos de las Fuerzas Armadas fueron desplegados en el estado noroccidental de Sinaloa para participar en los operativos que se activaron tras los secuestros masivos ocurridos hace tres días. López Obrador confirmó en su conferencia matutina que de las 66 personas que fueron …

MOSCÚ (AP) — Los sospechosos del ataque en una sala de conciertos en Rusia llegan a un tribunal de Moscú.

VIENNA (AP) — Austria said Wednesday it has ordered two diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Vienna to leave the country. An Austrian official said the expulsions were related to spying activities. The Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement that the two Russian diplomats “engaged in acts incompatible with their diplomatic status” and were declared “personae non gratae.” It …

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military has said it regained control of the country’s national radio and television headquarters on Tuesday from a rival paramilitary group it has been battling for about a year. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the headquarters of Sudan’s Radio and Television in the first weeks of Sudan’s conflict which broke out in April last year …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital Tuesday for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations. About 12,000 junior doctors in South Korea have been off the job for a month to protest a government plan to sharply …

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A religious procession in downtown Barcelona celebrated the appearance of long-awaited rain, after nine days of praying for relief from a severe drought. Around 100 local people took part in the Catholic ceremony on a rainy Saturday evening. They carried the figure of the Holy Christ of the Blood, winding their way through the city’s old …

BILBAO, España (AP) — El presidente del gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, dijo el sábado que propondrá al parlamento que reconozca un Estado palestino. “En esta legislatura propondré en las Cortes Generales (Parlamento) el reconocimiento al Estado palestino por parte de España”, dijo Sánchez. “Lo haremos por convicción moral, por una causa justa, pero también porque es la única manera de …