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BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors dropped a domestic violence charge against Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic on Friday, saying the decision by his wife to invoke marital privilege made it impossible for them to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. The Bruins said he will not return from his leave of absence this season. “Milan Lucic will remain on indefinite …

COLUMBIA, Carolina del Sur, EE.UU. (AP) — Un grupo de dirigentes del Congreso ha recomendado que la aspirante a la candidatura presidencial republicana Nikki Haley reciba protección del Servicio Secreto tras denunciar una serie de amenazas durante su campaña, dijo a The Associated Press una persona al tanto de la situación. El grupo legislativo votó a favor de otorgarle la …

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong customs officials have arrested seven people linked to the territory’s largest ever money laundering case, involving about 14 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.8 billion) some of it linked to a scam case in India. The seven local residents, aged between 23 and 74, were part of a large-scale transnational syndicate that used various shell …

BERLÍN (AP) — Un hombre que también es sospechoso de la desaparición de la niña británica Madeleine McCann fue a juicio el viernes por varios delitos sexuales no relacionados que presuntamente cometió en Portugal entre 2000 y 2017. El juicio se pospuso rápidamente hasta la próxima semana. El hombre de 47 años y de nacionalidad alemana, identificado por los medios …

DUBÄI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — Varios misiles fueron disparados el viernes aparentemente contra un barco frente a las costas de Yemen en el mar Rojo, en el más reciente ataque presuntamente ejecutado por combatientes hutíes de Yemen en medio de la guerra entre Israel y Hamás en la Franja de Gaza. El capitán del barco informó sobre una explosión …

MADRID (AP) — Ana Maria Knezevic traveled from South Florida to Spain in December to get away for a while. Her family and friends say the naturalized American originally from Colombia has been going through a nasty divorce from her Serbian husband, but the trip was also a chance to explore new places. Then, she vanished — two weeks ago, …

BERLÍN (AP) — El canciller Olaf Scholz el jueves expresó su satisfacción ante un anuncio de Microsoft de que invertirá más de 3.200 millones de euros (3.400 millones de dólares) en Alemania en los próximos dos años para ampliar la capacidad de su centro de datos para aplicaciones en el campo de la inteligencia artificial y computación en la nube. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who are struggling to repay federal student loans because of financial hardship could get some of their debt canceled under President Joe Biden’s latest proposal for widespread loan forgiveness. Several categories of borrowers would be eligible for relief under Biden’s second try at widespread cancellation after the Supreme Court rejected his first plan last year. Those …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir on Thursday dissolved parliament after a lawmaker reportedly insulted the ruler, the latest dissolution to strike the oil-rich nation’s legislature amid years of political gridlock. The state-run KUNA news agency announced the decree from the country’s ruling emir, Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber. It blamed “offensive and uncontrolled” utterances by lawmakers …

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday signed legislation censuring a conservative member of the state Board of Education whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player triggered threats against the girl and led state officials to call for the board member’s resignation. Both legislative chambers had swiftly passed a resolution …