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LONDRES (AP) — Legisladores británicos buscan garantías sobre la fuerza disuasiva nuclear del país tras informes de que una prueba del sistema presentó una importante falla el mes pasado, cuando un misil no armado se estrelló en el mar cerca del submarino que lo lanzó. El diario The Sun informó el martes que el incidente ocurrió cuando el secretario de …

LONDRES (AP) — Gran Bretaña ha aplicado sanciones a seis personas que dirigían la colonia penal donde el destacado opositor ruso Alexei Navalny murió la semana pasada, dijo la Secretaría del Exterior el miércoles. Uno de los seis funcionarios de la prisión, sancionados bajo las normas británicas de derechos humanos, es Vadim Konstantinovich Kalinin, supervisor de la colonia penal donde …

JERUSALÉN (AP) — El Programa Mundial de Alimentos de Naciones Unidas anunció el martes una pausa en la entrega de la asistencia en el norte de la Franja de Gaza luego de que sus conductores enfrentaron disparos y violencia por parte de residentes desesperados que se aglomeraban alrededor de los camiones. Los convoyes “se enfrentaron a un caos y una …

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An anarchist group on Monday claimed responsibility for last week’s attempted bomb attack against a senior judge in Greece, raising fears of a resurgence of violence by radical militants. Explosives experts defused the parcel bomb that was placed at a courthouse in the northern city of Thessaloniki and addressed to the judge. In an online post, …

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vowed on Monday to continue his fight against the Kremlin, while authorities denied his mother access to a morgue where his body is believed to be held after his death last week in an Arctic penal colony. With her voice cracking at times in a video posted on social media, Yulia Navalnaya …

BRUSELAS (AP) — La alemana Ursula von der Leyen buscará un segundo mandato como jefa de la poderosa Comisión de la Unión Europea, una medida que podría convertirla en la política más importante que represente a los 450 millones de ciudadanos del bloque en más de una generación. Después de cinco años de guiar al bloque de 27 naciones a …

LONDON (AP) — A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three children were found dead in southwest England, police said Sunday. The Avon and Somerset Police force said officers were called to a house in the Sea Mills area of Bristol shortly after midnight and found the three children inside. It said a 42-year-old woman is in …

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dwindling ammunition threatens Ukraine’s hold on the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line under withering assault by Russian artillery. Defensive lines are in jeopardy. Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region on Saturday after daily Russian onslaughts from three directions for the last four months. Avdiivka was a stronghold for Ukrainian positions deeper …

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians are facing one of the West African nation’s worst economic crises in years triggered by surging inflation, the result of monetary policies that have pushed the currency to an all-time low against the dollar. The situation has provoked anger and protests across the country. The latest government statistics released Thursday showed the inflation rate in …

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Southeast Asian nation’s most controversial politician for more than two decades, was released on parole early Sunday from a Bangkok hospital where he spent six months serving time for corruption-related offenses. The telecoms billionaire was toppled in a 2006 coup but voluntarily returned from self-exile to Thailand in August last …