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Food prices and overall inflation will rise as temperatures climb with climate change, a new study by an environmental scientist and the European Central Bank found. Looking at monthly price tags of food and other goods, temperatures and other climate factors in 121 nations since 1996, researchers calculate that “weather and climate shocks” will cause the cost of food to …

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Un barco que llevaba decenas de migrantes musulmanes rohinya naufragó el miércoles cerca de la orilla más septentrional de Indonesia. Pescadores locales rescataron a seis de los refugiados, que dijeron que aún quedaba más gente en el barco. No había datos inmediatos de víctimas. Los sobrevivientes, cuatro mujeres y dos hombres, fueron trasladados a un …

QUETTA, Pakistán (AP) — Doce mineros fallecieron y otros ocho fueron rescatados tras una explosión en el interior de una mina de carbón en el suroeste de Pakistán, dijo un funcionario el miércoles. Los cuerpos de las víctimas fueron recuperados tras el derrumbe ocurrido durante la noche en Harnai, un distrito de la provincia de Baluchistán, explicó el inspector de …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The nearly year-long conflict between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces has put the African nation on course to become the world’s worst hunger crisis with malnutrition soaring and already claiming children’s lives, the U.N. humanitarian office warned Wednesday. Edem Wosornu, the director of humanitarian operations, told the U.N. Security Council that already one-third of Sudan’s population …

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia received its most senior Chinese leadership visit in nearly seven years Wednesday with stability a key theme of the discussions between the countries’ foreign ministers. China’s Wang Yi met with his counterpart Penny Wong in Canberra on his tour of Australia and New Zealand. It was the highest level meeting in Australia between the nations since …

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a state government agency that sought to charge a news organization nearly $45,000 for public records on water pollution, leading to concerns that exorbitant fees could be used to keep information from the public. The high court found that state law allows special fees to comply …

CIUDAD DE PANAMÁ (AP) — El añejo problema de la corrupción fue uno de los temas examinados el miércoles en el debate por la presidencia de Panamá, en el cual se ausentó el sustituto de la candidatura de Ricardo Martinelli, el exmandatario inhabilitado tras ser condenado por blanqueo de capitales. Siete contendientes se confrontaron en el segundo de tres debates …

BEIJING (AP) — An explosion caused by a suspected gas leak ripped through a building in northern China on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring 26 others, authorities said. The blast occurred early in the morning at a fried chicken shop in the city of Sanhe, authorities said in a short statement. The city is around 63 kilometers …

MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Joe Biden is getting to be a familiar face around the Great Lakes — and with a November rematch against Donald Trump looming, that’s no accident. He started a two-day swing through Wisconsin and Michigan in Milwaukee on Wednesday as he tried to shore up a Democratic “blue wall” and build momentum for his reelection campaign …

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government said Wednesday that the party does not plan to give back 10 million pounds ($12.8 million) it received in the past year from a donor who made comments about a Black lawmaker that have been condemned as racist. The government is under pressure from some of its own lawmakers to return the donation from …