MEXICO CITY (AP) The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Tuesday ordered the closure of 83 more civic groups and non-governmental organizations. The move brought to 200 the number of such closures this year, and a total of 320 since protests against the Ortega regime erupted in 2018.
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A knife-wielding Palestinian woman threatened an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank and was shot dead yesterday, the Israeli army said, an account that was disputed by Palestinian officials. “An assailant armed with a knife advanced toward an IDF [Israel Defense Force] soldier who was conducting routine security activity” near al-Aroub village, the army said in a statement. “The soldiers responded with live fire.” A hospital in the nearby Palestinian city of Hebron confirmed the woman’s death. The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the killing as a “field execution.” The Palestinian Prisoners Club, an organization that monitors
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