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The party of former first lady Sandra Torres, who lost Guatemala’s presidential elections this week, filed a complaint Friday alleging fraud in the way the votes were counted. Torres, a candidate who came to exemplify the political establishment in a country that’s grown tired of endemic corruption, has remained silent since her Sunday loss. GUATEMALAN […]

A three-year probe against Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister and his family over corruption allegations has been closed by Monaco’s judicial authorities for lack of evidence, the premier’s office said Friday. Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s office said that Morgan Raymond, the deputy public prosecutor in Monaco, told the Lebanese premier’s legal team that they have closed […]

The British Museum was alerted more than two years ago to the possible theft or disappearance of valuable artifacts when an art historian became suspicious about objects for sale on eBay. But the museum’s director, Hartwig Fischer, said Friday that he didn’t treat the whistleblower’s warning seriously enough and announced his resignation as investigators figure […]

Boeing Co is preparing to restart deliveries of its 737 MAX jets to China after a four-year halt, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The initial handovers are expected to take place within weeks, according to the report. US APPROVES $12B ARMS PACKAGE FOR POLAND INCLUDING APACHE HELICOPTERS  “For (737 […]

Journalist Talal Salman, who founded one of Lebanon’s largest Arabic-language independent newspapers, died Friday after a long illness, the state-run National News Agency said. He was 85. An Arab nationalist whose role model was late Egyptian President Gamal Abdul-Nasser, Salman devoted much of his writing to the Palestinian cause and calls for Arab unity. Salman […]

Police have arrested a fourth teenager in a drive-by shooting that killed a sleeping 5-year-old girl. Albuquerque police said the 17-year-old was arrested Thursday without incident. His 15-year-old brother and two other teenagers, ages 15 and 16, were already in custody. All four are being held on suspicion of murder and other charges. The Associated […]

The government of the Bahamas has unveiled several bills aimed at legalizing marijuana for medical and religious purposes and decriminalizing possession of small amounts, joining other Caribbean nations that have taken similar steps. If approved, those caught with less than one ounce of marijuana would pay a $250 fine and the incident would not appear […]

The conflict in Sudan is fueling “a humanitarian emergency of epic proportions” that threatens the entire country, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned on Friday. Martin Griffiths also said that the protracted conflict in the African country “could tip the entire region into a humanitarian catastrophe.” Some places are already out of food, said Griffiths, the […]

Estonia’s strongly pro-Ukrainian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, came under increasing pressure Friday to resign, after Estonian media revealed her husband’s role in a company that indirectly did business in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Kallas, 46, one of Europe’s most outspoken supporters of Ukraine, had urged all EU companies to stop […]

Israel’s far-right national security minister lashed out at supermodel Bella Hadid on Friday for criticizing his recent fiery televised remarks about Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. In an interview earlier this week with Israel’s Channel 12 following two deadly Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the occupied territory, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir argued that […]