SAN SALVADOR (AP) — As El Salvador’s electoral body begins a vote-by-vote count of last week’s election results, the political opposition warned Wednesday they could ask to nullify results of the legislative elections due to irregularities.No one questions the victory of highly popular President Nayib Bukele, who won re-election with 83% of the votes, leading
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to broker a deal that could bring some respite in Israel’s war against Hamas, which is entering its fifth month after unleashing vast destruction, killing more than 27,000 Palestinians and displacing much of the territory’s population. (Feb. 7) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to
As millions of carnival revelers prepare to gather in Brazil’s cultural capital, authorities are rallying to combat an explosion of mosquito-borne dengue fever in the city’s favelas. (Feb. 7) (AP video by Mario Lobao and Lucas Dumphreys) As millions of carnival revelers prepare to gather in Brazil’s cultural capital, authorities are rallying to combat an
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s high court on Wednesday decriminalized euthanasia and ordered lawmakers and health officials to draft rules and regulations for the procedure.The decision of Ecuador’s Constitutional Court came in response to a lawsuit from a terminally ill woman diagnosed with https://apnews.com/article/amyotrophic%20lateral%20sclerosis, commonly known as ALS, who had argued that she should be
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police killed five armed environmental protection agents in Haiti’s capital Wednesday during the third consecutive day of demonstrations that have paralyzed the country amid growing demands that Prime Minister Ariel Henry resign.The deadly shooting between police and agents with Haiti’s Security Brigade for Protected Areas occurred in the Laboule community of
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after Panama’s Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction that carried a 10-year sentence.Martinelli’s attorney Shirley Castañeda said outside the Nicaraguan embassy Wednesday that “his political asylum had already been granted.” Asked why Martinelli had requested
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Chilean prosecutors on Wednesday released more details about the death of former President Sebastian Piñera, saying he drowned after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake.Piñera, 74, died on Tuesday after a flight over Lake Ranco, more than 560 miles (900 kilometers) south of Santiago. The crash
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge who presided over the jury trial that resulted in an $83 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll for her defamation claims against former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his rejection of his lawyer’s unusual midtrial mistrial request was not a close call.Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The slow-moving atmospheric river that was finally moving out of California on Wednesday unleashed record rainfall, triple-digit winds and hundreds of mudslides. Here is the historic storm by the numbers: ___DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES READ MORE Christian Bale breaks ground on foster homes he’s fought for 16 years to see built First
For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Last week, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said the Republican governor was no longer welcome on tribal lands, and its leaders referred to her rhetoric linking immigration and crime as opportunistic and dangerous.“Our people are being
