MOSCOW (AP) – Moscow will observe the limits of the last nuclear arms pact with the United States that expired last week as long as it sees that Washington is doing the same, Russia’s top diplomat said Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered authorities to form a medical team to examine imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who recently told his attorney that he has lost roughly 85% of vision in his right eye.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s former interior minister was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for abetting then-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief declaration of martial law in 2024. The verdict for Lee Sang-min came a week before a different judge at the same Seoul court rules on whether Yoon’s actions amounted to rebellion.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Bulgarian President Iliana Yotova moved Thursday to quell the country’s chronic political instability by appointing a senior central bank official as interim prime minister until national elections in April. Andrey Gyurov, deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, will lead a caretaker government.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – When Lourdes Barreto fled her home in Brazil’s northeastern state of Paraiba as a teenager – a move that launched her into sex work and a lifetime of activism – she never imagined that six decades later a samba school in Rio de Janeiro would pay tribute to her life’s journey.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – The United States government on Wednesday further asserted its self-appointed role in turning around Venezuela’s dilapidated oil industry with the arrival of Energy Secretary Chris Wright to the South American country for a firsthand assessment.
HIIUMAA, Estonia (AP) – Temperatures in northern Europe have been so low that citizens of Estonia can now drive across a 20-kilometer (12 1/2-mile) stretch of frozen sea linking the country’s two main islands.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – How many Democrats are too many?
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