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The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place Friday in Moscow after several locations declined to host the service, his spokesperson said. His funeral will be held at a church in Moscow’s southeast Maryino district on Friday afternoon, Kira Yarmysh said Wednesday. The burial is to …

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Dearborn and two other Michigan cities with large Arab and Muslim populations turned against President Joe Biden in the state’s primary after Democratic leaders there warned for months that voters were angry about his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. While Biden won the state with more than 623,000 votes, the results in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and …

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — La conflictividad social se recalentó el miércoles en Argentina con la huelga que realizan los sindicatos de pilotos y de personal aeronáutico de tierra en reclamo de mejoras salariales y que afecta a decenas de miles de pasajeros. Por el cese de actividades por 24 horas la mayoría de los más de 50 aeropuertos del país …

LONDRES (AP) — Juez de Londres respalda al gobierno británico por retirar escolta al príncipe Enrique en viajes a Reino Unido.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A sheriff’s aviation unit used thermal imaging to guide deputies to a missing 5-year-old who had gone missing in a swamp near Tampa. The autistic girl wandered away from her home Monday evening and was quickly reported missing, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said. The thermal camera captured images of the little girl walking through ankle-deep …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A panel of North Carolina judges weighed arguments Wednesday on whether a new law that transfers Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s powers to choose election board members to the now Republican-controlled legislature should be struck down or can be enforced. The same three trial judges already sided in late November with Cooper and blocked the new structures …

KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. Creech, 73, has been in prison half a century, convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more. …

LONDON (AP) — A new law that gives immunity from prosecution for most offenses committed during Northern Ireland’s decades of sectarian violence is not compliant with human rights, a judge in Belfast ruled Wednesday. The British government’s Legacy and Reconciliation Bill, passed in September, stops most prosecutions for alleged killings by militant groups and British soldiers during “the Troubles” — …

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Un comité de diálogo nacional en Senegal propuso celebrar elecciones a principios de junio, la primera fecha propuesta después de que el presidente intentara retrasarlas hasta final de año. El presidente, Macky Sall, que enfrenta un límite de mandatos cuando termine su segunda etapa en el poder, dijo a principios de febrero que aplazaría los comicios …

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Black mechanic for the company that provides school bus services for the St. Louis school district said he found a noose at his workstation, leading at least 100 drivers to stop work in a show of support and NAACP leaders to call for an investigation into whether it was a hate crime. The work stoppage …