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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in Sunday’s local elections, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas. With more than 90% of ballot boxes counted, incumbent Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, of the Republican …

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians and wounded a third on Gaza’s beach, the military acknowledged Saturday, responding to a video that showed one man falling to the ground after walking in an open area and then a bulldozer pushing two bodies into the garbage-strewn sand. The military said troops opened fire after the men allegedly ignored …

MOSCÚ (AP) — Una Corte de Moscú prolonga la detención del reportero de EEUU Evan Gershkovich hasta el 30 de junio.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Observances were held in Poland on Sunday to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” an ingenious act of defiance during World War II in which 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German prisoner-of-war camp into a snowy forest. British soldiers carried photos of pilots murdered on Hitler’s orders at a ceremony that …

BEIJING (AP) — Unable to buy a train ticket, or even see a doctor at a hospital, a Chinese pastor found that even after his release from prison, he is not quite free. The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison while coming back from a missionary trip in Myanmar. Now back in his …

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 16 soldiers, including four officers, were killed in southern Nigeria while responding to a distress call during fighting between two communities, defense officials said Saturday. The attack in the oil-rich, riverine Delta state happened in the Bomadi council area Thursday when the soldiers, deployed to keep the peace, “were surrounded by some community youths …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Dos altos funcionarios de un estado de México en el que fue asesinado un estudiante en un puesto de control policial renunciaron el jueves, luego de que dos policías fueran detenidos como presuntos implicados en la muerte del joven. La fuga de un tercer agente, supuesto responsable de los disparos, desató violentas protestas en los …

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union was embroiled in a legal standoff on Thursday between its legislature and its executive Commission over the release of billions in frozen funds to the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a time when his consent was essential for a deal to open EU membership talks with Ukraine. Parliamentarians from several groups …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia after officials in the kingdom ordered a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in public, highlighting the religious tensions still present in the wider Middle East. Speaking to The Associated Press, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom …

LONDRES (AP) — El gobierno de Reino Unido dijo el miércoles que respaldará un proyecto de ley para prohibir que Estados extranjeros sean propietarios de periódicos y revistas británicas, una acción que podría echar por tierra la adquisición del Telegraph Media Group por parte de un consorcio encabezado por los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. El anuncio se produjo después de que …