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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 …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27 stories of an unfinished high-rise development. The vandalism is the latest twist in the saga of the three-tower project across the street from where the Grammy Awards will be hosted Sunday, the Crypto.com Arena — which is near the Los …

BANGKOK (AP) — Los mercados bursátiles en China cerraron a la baja el viernes a pesar de una serie de medidas para apuntalar el debilitado sector inmobiliario, al tiempo que el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) pronosticó la desaceleración de su economía en los próximos años. En su informe, el FMI prevé que la economía crecerá a una tasa anual de …

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in late 2022 are seeking a change of venue, saying he cannot receive a fair trial in the community where the killings occurred. Anne Taylor, Bryan Kohberger’s lead public defender, this week asked Judge John Judge of Idaho’s 2nd Judicial District in …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy rain flooded California roadways and much-needed snow piled up in the mountains as the first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pummeled the state Thursday. The storm focused its energy on the southern and eastern parts of the state after initially hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday, where it halted cable car service. The downpours …

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 …

Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the twin toxic towers of fire that forced them from their homes last February after officials decided to blow open five tank cars filled with vinyl chloride they worried might explode days after a Norfolk Southern train derailed. The National Transportation Safety Board released more …

BERLÍN (AP) — Los fiscales en Austria han apelado una decisión judicial según la cual un hombre que mantuvo cautiva a su hija durante 24 años y la violó repetidamente, teniendo con ella siete hijos, puede ser trasladado de un centro de detención psiquiátrica a una prisión normal. Ferdinand Schuster, portavoz del tribunal estatal de Krems, confirmó el jueves una …

LONDON (AP) — A woman and her two young daughters had a corrosive substance thrown on them in London, where they were receiving treatment at a hospital Thursday, police said. The city’s Metropolitan Police force said officers received reports that a man pushed a 3-year-old girl to the ground and threw an alkaline substance at her, her 8-year-old sister and …

The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended across the Pacific to near Hawaii. Here’s a look at the phenomenon: ___ WHAT IS AN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER? Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much …