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BANGKOK (AP) — Thwel, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, saw very few options left to her after Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks. “As a person living in this country, I only have two options: to go abroad illegally or die here,” Thwel told The Associated Press by phone while traveling to a border area to try …

JERUSALÉN (AP) — Israel planea construir más de 3.300 nuevas viviendas en asentamientos en Cisjordania en respuesta a un tiroteo fatal palestino, informó un ministro israelí. La decisión provocó una airada respuesta de Estados Unidos en un momento de crecientes tensiones por el curso de la guerra en Gaza. El ministro de Finanzas y agitador de ultraderecha Bezalel Smotrich anunció …

LONDON (AP) — A woman who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her appeal Friday against the British government’s decision to revoke her U.K. citizenship, with judges saying that it wasn’t for them to rule on whether it was “harsh” to do so. Shamima Begum, who is now 24, was 15 when she …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia and Australia held high-level talks in Jakarta on Friday as the neighboring countries seek to strengthen security ties by signing a defense cooperation agreement in the coming months. Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who is set to become Indonesia’s next leader, said that he and Australian counterpart Richard Marles discussed ways of maintaining and enhancing the …

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister announced Friday the reopening of the Beiji refinery, the country’s largest, which had been shut down for a decade after being damaged in the battle against the Islamic State extremist group. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement that the refinery’s return to operation will enable Iraq to meet its oil derivative …

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel plans to build more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack, a senior Cabinet minister said. The decision drew an angry response from the U.S. at a time of growing tensions over the course of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s …

MILAN (AP) — Don’t call them nostalgic, the bows and aprons, silken slips and hats that filled the Prada runway. Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons recovered elements of a women’s wardrobe history and reconstituted them into something “modern.” “It’s a history of women,” Prada told reporters backstage at the fall-winter 2024-25 preview show on Thursday. This act of reinventing items …

JERUSALEM (AP) — International efforts to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appeared to gain new momentum Thursday as the White House said a visit by a senior envoy with Israeli leaders was “going well” and other mediators reported encouraging signs from the warring parties. The new signs of progress came ahead of an expected summit this weekend in …

PRAGA, República Checa (AP) — Los agricultores checos se dirigieron el jueves a bordo de tractores y otros vehículos a varios pasos fronterizos para reunirse con compañeros de los países vecinos y unir fuerzas en su protesta contra las políticas agrarias de la Unión Europea, la burocracia y las condiciones generales del sector. Se quejan de que las políticas ambientales …

LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — Familiares y amigos comenzaron el jueves a enterrar a sus seres queridos que se encuentran entre los al menos 16 muertos en el colapso de una mina operada ilegalmente en una zona remota del sureste de Venezuela. Los funerales se producen en momentos en que aumentan las demandas de asistencia del gobierno para ayudar a …