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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighborhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 123. Hundreds of people remain missing. The fires appeared to have diminished by Monday morning after burning intensely since Friday on the eastern edge …

CARACAS (AP) — El presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro afirmó el domingo que el oficialismo está organizado para ganar en los próximos comicios presidenciales y advirtió que cualquier intento de alterar la paz en el país será enfrentado de cualquier manera. En medio de una multitudinaria celebración por el aniversario de la intentona golpista que encabezó el entonces teniente coronel Hugo …

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 guests tucking into biryani and chicken tikka, music and the drone whirring around the room. The bejeweled bride and her natty groom are beaming. Outside, the …

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A diplomatic rift between Ecuador and Russia appeared to intensify over the weekend after the European nation decided to ban some imports of bananas from Ecuador. The two countries have been at loggerheads recently after Ecuador decided to transfer some of its old Russian military equipment to the United States, in exchange for $200 million in …

SANTIAGO (AP) — A medida que se disipa el fuego y disminuye el humo, las dimensiones de la tragedia por la oleada de incendios en la región chilena de Valparaíso empiezan a ser más claras: las autoridades confirmaron el domingo que hay 112 fallecidos y calculan que unas 15.000 casas resultaron dañadas en las cuatro localidades afectadas, lo que equivaldría …

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Macky Sall on Saturday postponed presidential elections scheduled for Feb. 25, citing controversies over the disqualification of some candidates and allegations of corruption in election-related cases. Sall — who is not seeking another term in office — said he signed a decree repealing the law that convened the electoral body just as campaigning was …

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — El presidente chileno Gabriel Boric anunció en un discurso televisado la tarde del sábado que el número de víctimas de los incendios ascendió a 46 e indicó que esta cifra “va a ir en aumento”. Boric confirmó que la situación es muy difícil, debido a las situaciones de vientos que se están viviendo en …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of an armed group fired on a U.N. helicopter in eastern Congo early Friday, injuring two South African peacekeepers, one seriously, the United Nations said. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. peacekeeping department assumes the attack was carried out by members of the M23 rebel group in the Karuba region of North Kivu province, …

LONDON (AP) — An Irish nationalist made history Saturday by becoming Northern Ireland’s first minister as the government returned to work after a two-year boycott by unionists. Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O’Neill was named first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord shares power equally between Northern Ireland’s two main communities …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist rebels asked for the immediate release Saturday of the New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for almost a year in Indonesia’s restive Papua region. Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, took Philip Mark Mehrtens, a pilot from Christchurch who was working for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air, on Feb. 7 …