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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — El asediado primer ministro de Haití, Ariel Henry, ha aceptado celebrar elecciones generales a mediados de 2025, según dijeron líderes del Caribe el miércoles por la noche, mientras la comunidad internacional intenta recaudar dinero para un contingente armado extranjero que combata a las pandillas en el país. Miembros del bloque regional Caricom emitieron un comunicado tras …

PARIS (AP) — Read all about it, right now — or you’ll have to wait another four years. Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29. It’s a leap year-only publication, filled with cringe-worthy puns and commentary on events of the past four years. The 2024 edition includes an article suggesting France doesn’t need schools …

COPENHAGUE (AP) — Un helicóptero que venía de una plataforma petrolera marina se estrelló en el Mar del Norte frente a Noruega, matando a una persona y dejando heridas a cinco, dos de ellas de gravedad, informaron autoridades el jueves. El helicóptero Sikorsky S-92 iba en misión de entrenamiento para la empresa estatal noruega de petróleo y gas, Equinor ASA, …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday granted reparations of more than 52 million euros ($56 million) to thousands of victims of a convicted commander in the shadowy Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army. The nearly 50,000 victims covered by the order included former child soldiers and children born as a result of …

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Aid convoys carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, Israeli officials said Wednesday, the first major delivery in a month to the devastated, isolated area, where the U.N. has warned of worsening starvation among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid Israel’s offensive. The increasing alarm over hunger across Gaza has fueled international calls for a …

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A group of Senegalese civic and religious leaders proposed holding elections in early June, the first new date offered since the president attempted to push elections back to the end of the year. President Macky Sall who faces term limits at the end of his second terms, said in early February he was postponing an election …

This week’s election in Russia is expected to cement President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power until at least 2030. Any opposition figures who could have challenged him are either in prison or exiled abroad. Independent media outlets that could show criticism of his policies have been blocked. And the Kremlin maintains rigid control over the political system and electoral process …

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — Al menos 17 personas murieron el miércoles en el departamento de Copán, en el occidente de Honduras, tras un choque entre dos autobuses. El accidente se registró en la aldea La Montañita donde las dos unidades, que según testigos iban a una velocidad moderada, chocaron de forma frontal. Uno de los autobuses iba de regreso a Copán …

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A man who allegedly mapped military installations in Sweden was charged Wednesday with unauthorized possession of secret information. Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said the 66 year-old man, who was not identified, had been gathering information for “a long time” and said it seemed that he had “a systematic approach” to mapping the installations, adding it appears “almost professional.” …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members demanded Monday that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to work and move freely. A statement by 11 of the 15 council members condemned the Taliban’s repression of …