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El Salvador’s president registers for reelection despite constitutional objections

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s president has registered for reelection in next February’s contest even though legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s constitution prohibits it. Nayib Bukele’s New Ideas party announced his registration Monday via Twitter. Bukele is highly popular in El Salvador, but is considered controversial internationally. He

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DeSantis unveils an aggressive immigration and border security policy that largely mirrors Trump’s

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis promised to end birthright citizenship, finish building the southern border wall and send U.S. forces into Mexico to combat drug cartels as part of an aggressive — and familiar — immigration policy proposal he laid out Monday

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Russia tries to project a sense of order after mercenary revolt but uncertainty still swirls

By The Associated Press Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made his first public appearance since a mercenary uprising demanded his ouster, inspecting troops in Ukraine in a video released Monday aimed at projecting a sense of order after the country’s most serious political crisis in decades. But uncertainty still swirled about his fate, as well

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Kentucky attorney general is accused of seeking donations from company his office is investigating

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron directly solicited donations for his gubernatorial campaign from executives of a Kentucky drug treatment organization that his office began investigating last year, according to an attorney for the organization. The request for contributions occurred during a call Cameron made early this

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When wealthy adventurers take huge risks, who should pay for rescue attempts?

By ADAM GELLER and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Associated Press When millionaire Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart. And that prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping search for the wealthy risktaker ended, who

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Amsterdam’s Hermitage museum is renamed after cutting ties with Russia following Ukraine invasion

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam museum that severed ties with St. Petersburg’s Hermitage collection after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year has been renamed. Starting in September, the Hermitage Amsterdam will be called H’ART Museum. It announced Monday that it has established partnerships with the British Museum, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian American

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Outrage erupts after man accused of blasphemy is stoned to death in latest mob killing in Nigeria

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Officials say a man has been stoned to death after being accused of blasphemy in northwest Nigera, sparking outrage from activists worried about growing threats to religious freedom. A police spokesman said Usman Buda, a butcher, was killed in Sokoto state’s Gwandu district Sunday after he

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Russia’s defense minister seen in first video since mercenary revolt as uncertainty swirls

By The Associated Press Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made his first public appearance since a mercenary uprising demanded his ouster, inspecting troops in Ukraine in a video released Monday aimed at projecting a sense of order after the country’s most serious political crisis in decades. But uncertainty still swirled about his fate, that of

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