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BOGOTÁ (AP) — El último episodio de la constante tensión entre el presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro y el fiscal general Francisco Barbosa derivó en una advertencia del mandatario sobre una “ruptura institucional”, por lo que convocó a sus partidarios a las calles. Barbosa, un abierto crítico de Petro, tiene en sus manos varios procesos que involucran a la familia del …

TOKIO (AP) — Un perro callejero el miércoles atacó a 11 personas, en su mayoría niños que jugaban en un parque al norte de Tokio, y les causó heridas leves, informaron los bomberos. El personal de bomberos acudió al lugar tras recibir un pedido de ambulancia de la policía para un hombre de unos 40 años que sufrió una mordedura …

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A man who sued Buffalo police after he was ticketed for shouting at an officer to turn on his headlights can move forward with his legal action, an appeals court ruled. The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals last week reversed a ruling by a U.S. district judge in Buffalo who had dismissed the case, …

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — El presidente de Bolivia, Luis Arce, promulgó el martes una ley para convocar elecciones judiciales con el desafío de garantizar la independencia del Poder Judicial, después de más de dos semanas de protestas que paralizaron el centro del país convocadas por seguidores, de su mentor, el expresidente Evo Morales. “Resuelto este problema, ya tenemos una …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s top insurance regulator has denied an industry request to raise homeowners’ insurance premiums by an average of 42% — and to almost double them in parts of coastal counties — saying Tuesday that “almost nobody” who weighed in agreed with the proposed increase. Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey also set a hearing for October to …

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Conservative lawmakers who want to intertwine religion with school curriculum in Republican-dominated Nebraska presented a slew of bills Monday to the state Legislature’s education committee. The list includes a bill that would give parents more control over their local school’s library books and curriculum and another that would allow public school students to receive school credit …

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, officials said Tuesday, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security. One of the wounded was a student at Kenya’s Multimedia University who was attacked by the hyenas late …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State officials are continuing discussions of a possible $2.5 billion sale of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, a non-profit health insurer used by nearly half of the state’s residents, to a much larger for-profit insurer based in Indiana. A legislative committee held a nearly eight-hour meeting Monday to consider the proposed sale of …

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Construction on the much-debated bobsled track hasn’t even begun. Plans for the San Siro Stadium, where the opening ceremony is slated to be held, remain unclear. And an all-new 15,000-seat hockey arena that’s supposed to welcome back NHL players to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade is a giant construction …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Monday he will propose guaranteeing people pensions equal to their full salaries at the time they retire, something done by no other country, not even those much richer than Mexico. It was among a raft of 20 constitutional reforms that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has almost no hope of getting passed in …