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PARIS (AP) — Parisians voted Sunday to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park starting next September, the latest leg in a drive by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the host city for this year’s Olympic Games greener and friendlier for pedestrians and cyclists. More than 54% of the votes cast …

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — A former president convicted of money laundering defiantly proclaimed his intention Saturday to run in Panama’s upcoming presidential election despite facing a possible ban on seeking office. Ricardo Martinelli was officially presented as the candidate of the Realizing Goals Party at a rally in Panama City where his supporters waved blue and white flags and …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes seguirán adelante con un paquete de 17.600 millones de dólares la próxima semana que proporciona ayuda militar a Israel y reabastece las armas estadounidenses, pero deja fuera más ayuda para Ucrania. La decisión subraya los desafíos que enfrentan los partidarios de un paquete integral de seguridad nacional para Estados Unidos …

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — El Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social declaró una alerta epidemiológica en cuatro departamentos de Guatemala el jueves tras el aumento de casos de pacientes con síntomas de una enfermedad neurológica aguda cuya naturaleza aún no se determina con exactitud. Los departamentos de Suchitepéquez, Escuintla, Quetzaltenango y Retalhuleu, ubicados en la costa sur del …

Jan. 26–Feb. 1, 2024 Military medics give first aid to a wounded Ukrainian solder in Bakhmut; farmers protest around Europe and gather outside the European Parliament in Brussels; France wins the handball European Championship in Germany. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by Associated Press photographers in Europe and Africa. …

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers are urging Hungary to immediately ratify Sweden’s application to join NATO, saying patience with the Central European country is “wearing thin” as it continues to delay its approval for the Nordic nation. Hungary is the only country in the 31-nation military alliance that hasn’t yet backed Sweden’s membership bid, and …

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Authorities have found alive a Roman Catholic cardinal who disappeared this week in western Panama near the border with Costa Rica, church officials said Thursday, hours after confirming the cleric’s disappearance. Panama’s Episcopal Conference said in a statement Thursday afternoon that Spanish Cardinal José Luis Lacunza had been found after last being seen Tuesday. They did …

El líder encarcelado líder opositor ruso Alexei Navalny instó el jueves a los ciudadanos a protestar contra el presidente Vladímir Putin en los comicios presidenciales del mes próximo votando a una hora específica el día de la elección. En una declaración hecha en redes sociales desde la colonia penitenciaria del Ártico donde está preso, Navalny afirmó que, al formar largas …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean judge convicted a man of murder Thursday for an unprovoked car-and-stabbing rampage that killed two people and injured 12 others in a city near Seoul last year. Prosecutors had sought a death penalty for 23-year-old Choi Won-jong, who was arrested in August after he rammed his car into pedestrians in a bustling …

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran began construction on four more nuclear power plants in the country’s south, with expected total capacity of 5,000 megawatts, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Iran seeks to produce 20,000 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2041. The country has one active nuclear power plant, a 1,000 megawatt plant that went online with help from …