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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has broken the world record for the most cumulative time spent in space, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos reported Sunday. The 59-year-old has now spent more than 878 days and 12 hours in space, surpassing fellow Russian Gennady Padalka, who set the previous record of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and 48 seconds in 2015. Kononenko …

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president says corruption and officials’ incompetence allowed a liquid petroleum plant to operate in one of Nairobi’s most crowded residential neighborhoods, where its explosion and fire killed three people and injured more than 280 others. President William Ruto said the officials who gave licenses to the plant must be dismissed and prosecuted. Police are also …

More than two dozen people, mostly journalists, were detained Saturday at a protest in central Moscow, as wives and other relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return, according to independent Russian news reports. The relatives gathered to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the Kremlin walls. They marked 500 …

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police arrested seven people on Friday on suspicion of selling information to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. The suspects, who allegedly passed details to Mossad via private detectives, were detained in a joint operation with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, or MIT. Acting on warrants issued by the Istanbul Chief Public …

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — La Unión Europea anunció el viernes que impuso sanciones a la fiscal general de guatemalteca, Consuelo Porras, por socavar la democracia, el Estado de derecho y la transferencia pacífica del poder en el país centroamericano. La sanción también alcanza al secretario general de la fiscalía, Ángel Pineda; al jefe de la Fiscalía Especial Contra la …

ATENAS (AP) — Policías y estudiantes se enfrentaron el jueves en la capital griega tras una manifestación en contra de los planes del gobierno de permitir que haya universidades privadas. Los manifestantes atacaron los cordones policiales, prendieron fuego a contenedores de basura y arrojaron piedras contra policías antimotines cerca del Parlamento, y posteriormente durante enfrentamientos que se extendieron a las …

LONDRES (AP) — Un juez absolvió el viernes a la activista climática Greta Thunberg de la acusación de haberse rehusado a acatar la orden policíaca de abandonar una protesta, la cual bloqueó la entrada de una importante conferencia de la industria petrolera y gasera el año pasado en Londres. La sala estalló en aplausos cuando el juez John Law ordenó …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives grew by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63.3 billion for the year, Mexico’s central bank said Thursday. The money transfers, known as remittances, have been booming since the coronavirus pandemic, but the rate of growth continued to cool somewhat in 2023. In 2022, remittances …

RIYAK, Líbano (AP) — El secretario de exteriores británico dijo a The Associated Press que su país podría reconocer un Estado palestino tras un cese de fuego en Gaza sin que haya necesariamente un acuerdo de dos Estados entre Israel y los palestinos. El funcionario, David Cameron, habló el jueves durante una visita a Líbano para tratar de reducir las …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than 2,300 people were killed, injured or kidnapped in Haiti from October to December last year, a nearly 10% increase compared with the previous quarter, according to a new U.N. report released Thursday. The number of killings alone spiked to more than 1,600 during the period, with officials blaming the vacuum created by …