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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Associates of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny said late Tuesday that the politician’s close ally and top strategist was attacked near his home in Lithuania’s capital. Kira Yarmysh, who had been Navalny’s spokesperson, said the assailant smashed a window of Leonid Volkov’s car, sprayed tear gas into his eyes and started hitting him with a hammer. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a now-familiar ritual in Washington: a federal prosecutor being summoned to Capitol Hill to discuss the findings of a politically explosive investigation. Tuesday’s hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden’s handling of classified information, broke little new legal or political ground. But it delivered plenty of talk about the president’s memory — …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, who took office aiming to steady a nation convulsed by the coronavirus pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection, clinched a second straight Democratic nomination Tuesday and set up an all-but-certain rematch with the predecessor he blames for destabilizing the country. Biden became his party’s presumptive nominee when he won enough delegates in Georgia. That …

BRUSELAS (AP) — El ejecutivo de la Unión Europea recomendará abrir negociaciones de ingreso con Bosnia-Herzegovina.

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers recovered more bodies as waters began to recede after flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rains on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, which have killed at least 26 people and left 11 missing, officials said Monday. Monsoon rains and rising rivers have submerged nine districts and cities in West Sumatra province since Thursday. Late Friday, a …

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a 20-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces corporal shortly after D-Day. Terens, a gregarious and energetic 100-year-old, will be honored in June by …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A list of winners at the Academy Awards on Sunday: BEST PICTURE “Oppenheimer” BEST ACTRESS Emma Stone, “Poor Things” BEST ACTOR Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” SUPPORTING ACTOR Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer” SUPPORTING ACTRESS Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” DIRECTOR Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” SOUND “The Zone of Interest,” …

QUITO (AP) — El presidente ecuatoriano Daniel Noboa renovó el jueves un estado de excepción en todo el país por la “grave conmoción interna”, prorrogando 30 días más las restricciones de ciertas libertades con la intención de mantener el orden público y combatir la violencia. El objetivo del estado de excepción es “garantizar el orden público, la paz social y …

IDLIB, Siria (AP) — Una poderosa milicia vinculada con la red Al Qaeda que domina buena parte del noroeste de Siria, una región que está en poder de rebeldes, liberó el viernes a uno de sus fundadores, quien pasó meses en prisión bajo sospecha de tener vínculos con fuerzas extranjeras. El jefe de la milicia aparentemente liberó al hombre para …

U.S. applications for jobless benefits were unchanged last week, settling at a healthy level as the labor market continues to show strength in the face of elevated interest rates. Unemployment claims for the week ending March 2 were 217,000, matching the previous week’s revised level, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of claims, a less volatile measure, fell …