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NEW YORK (AP) — New York Community Bancorp tried to reassure investors Wednesday that it is financially sound, a day after the bank’s credit rating got downgraded to “junk.” Shares of NYCB recovered from steep losses earlier in the day to close with a gain of 6.7%, but are still down nearly 57% over the past week, Last Wednesday, the …

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced mounting pressure Wednesday to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament. During his weekly questioning in the House of Commons, Sunak sought to mock the position of the Labour Party’s leader on the …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s House of Delegates passed a resolution Tuesday that would let voters decide whether to prohibit people who are not U.S. citizens from voting in elections. The resolution passed on a 96-0 vote with little debate and now moves to the state Senate. Both chambers are overwhelmingly Republican. If the 34-member Senate passes the resolution …

BOGOTÁ (AP) — Miembros del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas visitarán Colombia entre el miércoles y el domingo para conocer de primera mano cómo va la implementación del acuerdo de paz firmado hace siete años con la extinta guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia y los demás diálogos en marcha que mantiene el gobierno con otros grupos armados. …

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Expresidente chileno Sebastián Piñera muere en un accidente de helicóptero a los 74 años, informa ministra del Interior.

Kazakhstan’s president appointed his chief of staff as the new prime minister Tuesday, the day after he dismissed the Central Asian country’s government. A presidential decree announcing the Cabinet’s resignation Monday didn’t explain the reason for it. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had criticized the ministers last year and blamed the Cabinet for failing to stem inflation and to improve the country’s …

LONDON (AP) — The news of King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis has refocused attention on the responsibilities of Britain’s monarch and revived a central question about the country’s centuries-old system of government: What does the king actually do? Under Britain’s constitutional monarchy, the king is head of state but must remain politically neutral and leave policy-making to the elected Parliament. …

UNION, N.J. (AP) — New testimony in the case of a fatal cargo ship fire in New Jersey sheds some light on whether it could have been prevented. A crew member says he saw smoke coming from a seaport vehicle being used to push inoperative cars onto a cargo ship at least nine hours before it caught fire on board …

BRUSELAS (AP) — El ejecutivo de la Unión Europea archivó el martes una propuesta para vetar pesticidas, una nueva concesión tras semanas de protestas agrarias que bloquearon grandes capitales y núcleos económicos en el bloque de 27 países. Aunque la propuesta llevaba dos años estancada en las instituciones comunitarias, la iniciativa de la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has played down fears of a war with Somalia over his quest for sea access for his landlocked country, saying Tuesday that Ethiopia is only interested in peace with its neighbor. Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with the breakaway region of Somaliland on Jan. 1. The document has not …