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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Tired of gasoline shortages and skyrocketing prices, Simón Huanca took matters into his own hands. The 53-year-old Indigenous artisan imported a Chinese electric car to navigate El Alto, Bolivia’s highest city, using the vehicle to transport both his family and the alpaca wool for his weaving workshop. He also installed a dedicated charger in his own garage, mainly for convenience, but also because there are only three public charging stations serving the vast metropolitan area of El Alto and neighboring La Paz, home to more than 1.6 million people. “Since last year, I’ve been trying to…

JAKARTA, Indonesia — More than 300 foreign nationals were arrested in a raid on an alleged online gambling operation in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, police said Saturday, in one of the country’s largest crackdowns on illegal digital betting networks. The 321 foreigners, mainly from Vietnam, were arrested at a commercial building near the city’s Chinatown section that investigators described as a hub for more than 70 online gambling websites, targeting players outside Indonesia, based on marketing records and digital evidence collected during the raid. Those arrested include 228 Vietnamese, 57 Chinese and the rest came from Laos, Myanmar, Thailand,…

TENERIFE, Canary Islands — One the 17 American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship In the Canary Islands has tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms, U.S. health officials said late Sunday. The charter flight was carrying 17 Americans evacuated off the MV Hondius following its arrival in Tenerife, the largest island in the Spanish archipelago off the West African coast. The aircraft was due to arrive in Omaha, Nebraska, early Monday. The Americans would first be flown to the University of Nebraska, which has a federally funded quarantine facility, to assess whether they have been…

Russia accused Kyiv of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, while Ukrainian officials said that one person had been killed and more injured by Russian drone and artillery strikes in the past 24 hours. Two people were injured by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the area’s Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said. Separately, Russia’s Ministry of Defense accused Kyiv of committing more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, state media reported, citing a daily briefing on Sunday. The ministry said Ukrainian forces had attacked civilian targets in several Russian regions and carried out strikes against Russian military positions…

The public should not panic about the deadly hantavirus outbreak that started on a cruise ship whose passengers and crew began disembarking Sunday at Spain’s Canary Islands, a U.S. health official said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been preparing for the 17 Americans who are disembarking to return to the United States, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the agency’s acting director, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This is not COVID. This is not going to lead to [that] kind of outbreak,” Dr. Bhattacharya said. “We shouldn’t be panicking when the evidence doesn’t warrant it.” Hantaviruses are carried…

In a box office battle of the sequels, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” had the slight edge over “Mortal Kombat II” in North American theaters this weekend. According to studio estimates Sunday, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” earned a chart topping $43 million in its second weekend, while “Mortal Kombat II” took in $40 million in its first. This weekend had wide variety of newcomers playing in wide release, including the family-friendly whodunnit “The Sheep Detectives” and a James Cameron co-directed Billie Eilish concert film. But it was the holdover that triumphed. “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” which has grossed…

The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday said it is gathering information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines plane after it hit and killed a person on the runway at Denver International Airport during takeoff. The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday,” according to a post on the airport’s official X account. Passengers were evacuated via slides, and the emergency crew bused them to the terminal. An airport spokesperson said 12 passengers suffered minor injuries and five were taken to hospitals.…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan rose to 14 police officers, authorities said early Sunday, as a self-proclaimed breakaway group of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. A suicide bomber and several gunmen detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the post in Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, late Saturday, said senior police official Sajjad Khan. The attack triggered an intense shootout, and some officers were killed in the exchange, while others died later after the building collapsed. Rescuers conducted an hourslong search operation using…

Researchers found a brain-eating amoeba in the waters of three National Park sites — Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area — with Olympic National Park and Newberry National Volcanic Monument testing negative. Affected locations include Firehole River, Boiling River, and Lewis Lake Hot Springs in Yellowstone; Polecat, Huckleberry and Granite Hot Springs in Grand Teton; and multiple hot springs in Lake Mead, Nevada. The amoeba was found in 63 of 185 water samples, or 34%, across these three sites. High concentrations of this brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, are the cause of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis with a fatality…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For 21 years, Steve Fowler and Sam Wilson have performed together in a band on Memphis’ renowned Beale Street. And for the past decade, the men have been neighbors on a quiet, leafy avenue. But as of Thursday, they will no longer cast the same ballot despite living across the street from each other. That’s because Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature redrew the congressional district of Memphis, which has long enjoyed its own Democratic-leaning U.S. House seat. Now, the city is split into three Republican-leaning districts, its majority-Black population sliced up and bound to mostly white, rural and conservative…