UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 200 global organizations urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar, saying the time for statements has passed and immediate action is needed to help protect peaceful protesters against military rule and other opponents o…
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian health officials said Wednesday they have become the first to approve Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for ages as young as 12.
LONDON (AP) — Britain's government said Wednesday it is sending two Navy patrol vessels to monitor the situation on the island of Jersey, amid an escalating dispute with France over fishing rights in the waters there following Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Major U.S. stock indexes are closing with mixed results Wednesday as a pullback in utilities and real estate companies keeps gains elsewhere in the market in check. The S&P 500 posted a gain of 0.1% to 4,167, after having been up 0.6% earlier in the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average …
Glenn Close, nominada a un Oscar a mejor actriz por su papel en "The Wife" posa en el 91o almuerzo de nominados a los Premios de la Academia en Beverly Hills, California, el 4 de febrero de 2019, izquierda, y el músico Ted Nash posa para un retrato en Nueva York el 4 de mayo de 2021. Close l…
ARCHIVO - Glenn Close, nominada a un Oscar a mejor actriz por su papel en "The Wife" posa en el 91o almuerzo de nominados a los Premios de la Academia en Beverly Hills, California, el 4 de febrero de 2019. Close y el jazzista galardonado con el Grammy Ted Nash lanzarán el viernes un álbum ti…
ARCHIVO - Glenn Close, nominada a un Oscar a mejor actriz por su papel en "The Wife" posa en el 91o almuerzo de nominados a los Premios de la Academia en Beverly Hills, California, el 4 de febrero de 2019. Close y el jazzista galardonado con el Grammy Ted Nash lanzarán el viernes un álbum ti…
ARCHIVO - Glenn Close, nominada a un Oscar a mejor actriz por su papel en "The Wife" posa en el 91o almuerzo de nominados a los Premios de la Academia en Beverly Hills, California, el 4 de febrero de 2019. Close y el jazzista galardonado con el Grammy Ted Nash lanzarán el viernes un álbum ti…
El saxofonista de jazz y compositor nominado al Grammy Ted Nash posa para un retrato en Nueva York el 4 de mayo de 2021. Nash lanzará un álbum con la actriz Glenn Close el viernes titulado "Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution". Se trata de un álbum de 11 pie…
El saxofonista de jazz y compositor nominado al Grammy Ted Nash posa para un retrato en Nueva York el 4 de mayo de 2021. Nash lanzará un álbum con la actriz Glenn Close el viernes titulado "Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution". Se trata de un álbum de 11 pie…
La actriz y cantante Glenn Close sostiene a Pip mientras posa con Ted Nash en el Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club en Nueva York el 7 de noviembre de 2019. El viernes ambos lanzarán "Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution" un álbum de 11 piezas de lectura e…
ARCHIVO - Glenn Close, nominada a un Oscar a mejor actriz por su papel en "The Wife" posa en el 91o almuerzo de nominados a los Premios de la Academia en Beverly Hills, California, el 4 de febrero de 2019. Close y el jazzista galardonado con el Grammy Ted Nash lanzarán el viernes un álbum ti…
El saxofonista de jazz y compositor nominado al Grammy Ted Nash posa para un retrato en Nueva York el 4 de mayo de 2021. Nash lanzará un álbum con la actriz Glenn Close el viernes titulado "Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution". Se trata de un álbum de 11 pie…
El saxofonista de jazz y compositor nominado al Grammy Ted Nash posa para un retrato en Nueva York el 4 de mayo de 2021. Nash lanzará un álbum con la actriz Glenn Close el viernes titulado "Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution". Se trata de un álbum de 11 pie…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexico City elevated subway line that collapsed this week, killing 25 people, was problem-plagued and poorly designed from the day of its inauguration in 2012.
Una mujer recibe una dosis de la vacuna AstraZeneca para COVID-19 en una clínica estatal de seguridad social durante la inmunización de personas mayores de 80 años en La Paz, Bolivia, el miércoles 14 de abril de 2021.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Paulo Gustavo, a popular comedian whose character Dona Herminia dealt with everyday family and LGTBQ issues in some of Brazil's biggest-box office movies and television shows, died of COVID-19, sparking an outpouring of grief across a country polarized by the pandemic. …
Una niña migrante hondureña es ayudada a salir de un camión tras haber sido retornada a El Florido, Guatemala, el 19 de enero del 2021..
ARCHIVO - En esta imagen de archivo del lunes 6 de abril de 2020, cunas y sillas colocadas en el Mountain America Expo Center en Sandy, Utah, como centro de atención alternativo ante el desbordamiento de los hospitales por la pandemia del COVID-19. La tasa de natalidad de Estados Unidos cayó…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban on Wednesday issued a threat to Afghan journalists they accuse of siding with Afghanistan's intelligence agency in Kabul, a warning that came amid a U.S. troop pullout and rising fears of more violence in the war-wrecked country.
JERUSALEM (AP) — For the past 12 years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated Israeli politics, vanquishing a stream of challengers as he maintained his tight grip on power.
BERLIN (AP) — German officials proposed Wednesday that the country could bring forward the date for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero” to 2045, after Germany’s top court ruled that existing plans place too much of the burden for curbing climate change on young people.
CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. envoy for the Horn of Africa on Wednesday met with the Egyptian president as part of Washington's new push to find a resolution to a regional decade-long dispute over Ethiopia's massive dam on the Nile River’s main tributary.
GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization chief appealed to member countries on Wednesday to quickly present and negotiate over a text that could temporarily ease trade rules that protect COVID-19 vaccine technology, as a way to ramp access to doses at a time of urgent need.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek raised 3 billion euros ($3.6 billion) in a 5-year bond auction Wednesday at a record-low, near-zero yield, authorities said.
Soldados y tanques del ejército vigilan las casetas de peaje para evitar que los manifestantes las dañen, en las afueras de Bogotá, Colombia, el martes 4 de mayo de 2021. El ministro de Finanzas de Colombia renunció el lunes luego de cinco días de protestas por una propuesta de reforma tribu…
LONDON (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy industrialized nations on Wednesday accused China of human rights abuses and economic mischief, but offered little concrete action to deal with an increasingly forceful Beijing.
Soldados y tanques del ejército vigilan las casetas de peaje para evitar que los manifestantes las dañen en las afueras de Bogotá, Colombia, el martes 4 de mayo de 2021. El ministro de Finanzas de Colombia renunció el lunes luego de cinco días de protestas por una propuesta de reforma tribut…
BEIJING (AP) — The largest section of the rocket that launched the main module of China's first permanent space station into orbit is expected to plunge back to Earth as early as Saturday at an unknown location.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after only expecting seven, according to Mali's Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born.
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has granted full diplomatic status to the European Union’s ambassador to the country, in a reversal of policy that settles one of the disputes that have strained relations between the two sides since Brexit.
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron, in an unusual gesture on Wednesday, marked the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon, the warrior-emperor who famously bequeathed France its civil code, among other major reforms, but whose legacy remains tarnished in the eyes of many.
Imagen proporcionada por Kings Features de parte de la tira cómica Daniel el Travieso promocionando el Día sin Pantalones.
ARCHIVO - En esta foto del 7 de marzo de 2020, Meghan, duquesa de Sussex, llega con el príncipe Enrique al Royal Albert Hall en Londres para asistir al Festival de Música Mountbatten. La duquesa de Sussex ganó el miércoles 5 de mayo de 2021 el resto de su demanda contra un tabloide británico…
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A group of militants in Afghanistan fired across the border at troops in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least four soldiers before fleeing, the military said. Three other troops were killed in a shootout with militants in the country's northwest.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's president said on Wednesday that his country recently hosted direct talks between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on more than one occasion, the first public recognition of Baghdad's role as mediator.
PARIS (AP) — After living in freedom for decades in France, nine Italians convicted of left-wing terrorism for attacks in the 1970s and 1980s appeared in a Paris court Wednesday for an extradition hearing.
ROME (AP) — A jury in Rome on Wednesday began deliberating the fates of two young American men who are charged with killing an Italian police officer near the hotel where they were staying while on summer vacation in 2019.
Esta fotografía del lunes 3 de mayo de 2021 muestra la Corte Suprema de El Salvador, en San Salvador.
Los nuevos miembros del partido Nuevas Ideas del presidente Nayib Bukele prestan juramento durante la Asamblea Legislativa en San Salvador, El Salvador, el sábado 1 de mayo de 2021. La decisión del nuevo Legislativo de destituir de un plumazo a los magistrados de la Sala de lo Constitucional…
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Myanmar’s security forces moved in and the street lamps went black. In house after house, people shut off their lights. Darkness swallowed the block.
MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) — The memories are so painful that Birhanu Haile sometimes forgets to eat.
BEIRUT (AP) — A German company has removed dangerous chemicals stored in dozens of containers from Beirut’s port and is shipping them abroad as part of efforts to secure the facility following last year’s massive blast, the office of Lebanon’s prime minister said Wednesday.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A prominent politician in Kashmir who challenged India’s rule over the disputed region for decades died Wednesday while in police custody. He was 78.
Una persona frente a una cartelera financiera en Hong Kong el 5 de mayo del 2021.
El líder de la oposición israelí Yair Lapid posa para una foto en su oficina en Tel Aviv, Israel, el 21 de mayo de 2020.
El político israelí Naftali Bennett llega a su reunión con el presidente Reuvin Rivlin en Jerusalén el 5 de mayo del 2021.
PFORZHEIM, Germany (AP) — Faced with an overstock of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in her practice unwanted by her patients, a doctor in western Germany took matters into her own hands Wednesday and set up shop in a grocery store parking lot, offering it on a first-come-first-vaccinate…
BUCHAREST (AP) — Romanian police will investigate a possible poaching case involving an Austrian prince who is reported to have “wrongly” killed a massive male bear in a trophy hunt on a visit to the country’s Carpathian Mountains in March, authorities said Wednesday.
En esta imagen proporcionada por la oficina de prensa de Miraflores, el actor Steven Seagal, a la izquierda, y el presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro se dan la mano luego que Seagal le obsequió a Maduro una espada samurai, en el palacio presidencial en Caracas, Venezuela, el martes 4 de may…
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