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MOSCÚ (AP) — Rusia incluyó a la primera ministra de Estonia, Kaja Kallas, en una lista de personas buscadas por sus esfuerzos para retirar monumentos de la era soviética en la nación báltica, dijeron funcionarios el martes en un momento de crecientes tensiones entre Moscú y Occidente por la guerra en Ucrania. El nombre de Kallas apareció en el registro …

NUEVA DELHI (AP) — La policía india utilizó gases lacrimógenos y detuvo a varios agricultores que se enfrentaron con las fuerzas de seguridad y trataron de rebasar las barricadas que frenaban su avance hacia la capital, Nueva Delhi, para renovar su exigencia de precios garantizados para sus cultivos en una repetición de las protestas de 2021, cuando acamparon a las …

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday traded accusations over a border skirmish that left at least four Armenian soldiers dead and escalated tensions between the two Caucasus neighbors. Armenia’s Foreign Ministry denounced what it described as a “provocation” by Azerbaijani troops who fired on Armenian forces across the border in the eastern Syunik region early Tuesday. Four …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish doctor kidnapped in Chad has been freed and is “safe and sound,” Poland’s foreign minister said Tuesday. The woman had been volunteering at the Saint-Michel Hospital in the Central African nation’s Tandjile region, where kidnappings for ransom are common. Attackers pretending to be patients abducted her and a Mexican doctor, private Polish broadcaster Polsat …

BEIJING (AP) — Don’t feed the pandas. That’s the rule seemingly broken by a man who was banned for life from one of China’s main panda centers after throwing unspecified “objects” into an enclosure on Monday. A notice from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding didn’t identify the objects, but said that feeding pandas may cause them harm, …

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s prime minister has been put on a wanted list in Russia because of her efforts to remove Soviet-era World War II monuments in the Baltic nation, officials said Tuesday as tensions between Russia and the West soar amid the war in Ukraine. The name of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas appeared on the Russian Interior Ministry’s …

LONDON (AP) — The world has entered an era of increasing instability as countries around the globe boost military spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel and China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Tuesday by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which also highlighted …

Desfiles, música, bailes en las calles: las alegres celebraciones de Carnaval que marcan los últimos días de juerga antes de la Cuaresma alcanzan su punto álgido en Nueva Orleans, Río de Janeiro y otros lugares de América y Europa. Cada ciudad tiene sus propias costumbres carnavalescas, pero las similitudes son ineludibles. Bailarinas ataviadas con tocados de plumas bailan y se …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican law enforcement agencies said Monday they seized over 40 tons of methamphetamine at the biggest drug lab found during the current administration. The Mexican navy said Monday that the lab was located in Quiriego, a township in a remote part of the northern border state of Sonora. It said the 91,000 pounds (41,310 kilograms) of …

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three people were fatally shot Monday in the offices of a shipping company near Athens and the suspected gunman also took his life as police special forces prepared to confront him, authorities said. The shooting occurred in the shipping company office in Glyfada, a seaside suburb of the capital. The alleged gunman, an unidentified company employee, …