Mexican president wants to force private freight rail companies to schedule passenger service | AP News

Mexican president wants to force private freight rail companies to schedule passenger service | AP News

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president announced Wednesday that he will require private rail companies that mostly carry freight to offer passenger service or else have the government schedule its own trains on their tracks.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador denied any notion that his decree to be issued later this month amounted to expropriation of

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Turkish high court upholds disputed disinformation law. The opposition wanted it annuled | AP News

Turkish high court upholds disputed disinformation law. The opposition wanted it annuled | AP News

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a controversial media law that mandates prison terms for people deemed to be spreading “disinformation,” rejecting the main opposition party’s request for its annulment.The legislation calls for up to three years in prison for journalists or social media users convicted of spreading information deemed to

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Kosovo says it is setting up an institute to document Serbia’s crimes in the 1998-1999 war | AP News

Kosovo says it is setting up an institute to document Serbia’s crimes in the 1998-1999 war | AP News

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is setting up an institute to document Serbia’s crimes against its population in the 1998-1999 war, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday.Albin Kurti said the institute would document the war crimes so “the Kosovar Albanians’ tragic history suffered at the hands of criminal Serbia is more widely known.”The war between

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Ukraine gets good news about its EU membership quest as Balkans countries slip back in the queue | AP News

Ukraine gets good news about its EU membership quest as Balkans countries slip back in the queue | AP News

BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia received positive news on Wednesday about their quests to join the European Union but countries in the volatile Balkans region that have waited years longer to become members of the world’s biggest trading bloc appeared to slip back in the queue.In a series of reports, the EU’s executive

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21 Syrian pro-government militiamen killed in overnight ambush by Islamic State group, reports say | AP News

21 Syrian pro-government militiamen killed in overnight ambush by Islamic State group, reports say | AP News

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group ambushed pro-government militiamen in an overnight attack in eastern Syria, killing at least 21 fighters, pro-government media and an opposition war monitor said Wednesday.Sham FM radio reported that the militiamen from the pro-government National Defense Places were ambushed in the village of al-Kawm in the central Syrian desert

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