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EL CAIRO (AP) — Los presidentes de Egipto y Turquía unieron esfuerzos el miércoles para llamar a un fin de la guerra entre Israel y el grupo palestino Hamás en la Franja de Gaza. El presidente turco Recep Tayyip Edrogan se encuentra de visita en El Cairo, donde se reunió con el líder egipcio Abdel Fatá el-Sisi. La visita de …

ESTAMBUL (AP) — Nueve trabajadores quedaron atrapados bajo tierra tras un deslave ocurrido el martes en el este de Turquía, según las autoridades. El deslave en la mina Copler ocurrió a las 2:30 p.m. hora local, cerca de la ciudad de Ilic en la provincia montañosa de Erzincan en Turquía. En un video aparentemente grabado por un trabajador cercano se …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Restrictions on after-hour drop boxes may make it inconvenient to return ballots outside business hours, but they don’t keep Floridians from voting, a federal judge has ruled. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker previously had ruled that restrictions in Florida’s 2021 election law would have suppressed Black voters, but parts of that decision were overturned by …

Los empleados que dan vida a los amados personajes de Disneyland —como Micky Mouse, el Pato Donald y la Cenicienta— están buscando sindicalizarse. Los organizadores sindicales anunciaron la campaña el martes, señalando que los empleados quieren mejores condiciones de seguridad y políticas de horarios que ayuden a mantener viva la magia para los visitantes. Mientras la mayoría de los más …

PARÍS (AP) — Ucrania necesitará unos 9.000 millones de dólares en la próxima década para reconstruir sus sitios culturales y el sector turístico tras la invasión rusa y la guerra, dijo la agencia cultural de Naciones Unidas el martes. Según la UNESCO, el sector combinado de cultura y turismo del país ha perdido 19.000 millones de dólares en ingresos durante …

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, …

LONDON (AP) — Police in England say a drunken driver did the right thing after doing the wrong thing. An emergency dispatcher received an unusual call just before noon Monday when a motorist reported he was driving drunk and said he “doesn’t know what he is doing,” North Yorkshire police said. The man said he had a rough weekend. “Man …

BANGKOK (AP) — Two years after Thailand made pot legal, the country appears set to crack down on its freewheeling drug market with a ban on “recreational” use. Legal cannabis has fueled Thailand’s tourism and farming trades and spawned thousands of neon green shops, but it’s facing public backlash over perceptions that under-regulation has made the drug available to kids …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Wednesday opened polling stations where nearly 205 million eligible voters will choose a new president and some 20,000 other public officials. The world’s third-largest democracy is holding its fifth presidential and legislative elections since shaking off a dictatorship in 1998. The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands and more than 270 million people from about …

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Former NBA player Bryn Forbes has been arrested on a family violence charge. Bexar County arrest records show Forbes was arrested Tuesday and jailed on a charge of assaulting a family member by choking, strangulation, a third-degree felony. Forbes, 30, was still in the Bexar County Jail on $7,500 bond as of Tuesday afternoon, a jail …