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SANTIAGO, Chile – The president of Chile’s right-wing Democratic Union party is quitting the party over a campaign financing scandal. Lawmaker Ernesto Silva announced his resignation Wednesday. Ivan Moreira, another legislator who has admitted receiving “irregular” financing for his campaign, also quit. Two prominent Chilean businessmen and four associates are …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia has issued a warning about a potential militant plot to kidnap Western oil workers. The warning, issued late Friday, said officials received information about a threat to kidnap the workers, including Americans, from oil fields in the kingdom’s Eastern province. …

JERUSALEM – Exit polls from Israeli elections showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and its nationalist and religious allies deadlocked with the center-left Zionist Union, an Arab alliance and more dovish parties. The upstart centrist Kulanu party has emerged as the kingmaker in the elections, and could tip the …