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BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to enable underground carbon storage at offshore sites, pushing ahead with a much-discussed technology in an acknowledgement that time is running out to combat climate change, the country’s vice chancellor said Monday. Europe’s biggest economy is making good progress with expanding renewable energy sources and usage, but a solution is needed for the carbon dioxide …

Poco antes de la muerte de Alexei Navalny se negociaba su intercambio por un ruso encarcelado en Alemania, revelaron el lunes aliados del líder opositor ruso. “Alexei Navalny podría estar sentado aquí hoy. No es una figura retórica”, dijo en una declaración por video María Pevchikh, quien vive fuera de Rusia. Agregó que recibió confirmación de que las negociaciones estaban …

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Bye-bye birdie: Maine’s chickadee is making way for other images on a new license plate unveiled Monday that gives homage to an old flag growing in popularity and reappearing on hats, tote bags and T-shirts. The plate features a tall green pine — the state tree — and the North Star, icons featured on the state’s …

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian prime minister announced the resignation of his government on Monday, paving the way for a shake-up in the Palestinian Authority, which the U.S. hopes will eventually take on a role in postwar Gaza. Many obstacles remain to making a revamped Palestinian Authority a reality. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose forces were driven from Gaza by …

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders met with embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Sunday to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence, with one top official noting that his continued presence as head of government remains a main stumbling block to progress. Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell told The Associated Press that opposition leaders and other groups in …

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Una ofensiva militar israelí en Rafah, la ciudad más meridional de la Franja de Gaza, podría “retrasarse un poco” si se alcanza un acuerdo para un alto el fuego de una semana entre Israel y Hamás, indicó el domingo el primer ministro Benjamín Netanyahu, pero afirmó que la victoria total en Gaza está “a semanas …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The list of winners so far at the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are being presented live Saturday in Los Angeles. MOVIES ENSEMBLE “Oppenheimer” FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon” MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Da’Vine Joy …

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — El presidente de Namibia, Hage Geingob, fue enterrado el domingo en el cementerio Acre de los Héroes, tras un funeral de Estado al que asistieron mandatarios africanos, el presidente alemán y la princesa Ana, hermana del rey Carlos III de Reino Unido. Geingob falleció a principios de mes a los 82 años mientras recibía tratamiento contra …

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was well enough on Sunday to celebrate his weekly Angelus prayer from the Vatican window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after cancelling his engagements because of a mild flu. A brief announcement on Saturday from the Vatican press office said the 87-years-old pontiff was forced to scrap a planned audience with the Roman …

SAO PAULO (AP) — Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro staged a huge rally jamming a main avenue in Brazil’s biggest city Sunday to defend him against legal challenges that could put him in jail. The far-right leader said in a speech that he seeks “pacification to erase the past,” taking a more conciliatory tone than when he was in …