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HONOLULU – Instead of a trial, most of the people arrested in April for blocking construction of a giant mountaintop telescope will likely participate in a Hawaiian culture-based form of mediation. Three defendants in the case filed a motion asking for a hooponopono (ho-OH’-po-noh-po-noh) as an alternative to a trial. …

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they have arrested the former governor of the state of Aguascalientes on financial fraud charges. The Mexican Attorney General’s office said Thursday that an arrest warrant for Luis Armando Reynoso Femat was executed in Leon, a city in Guanajuato state. He was then taken …

SKHIRAT, Morocco – Libyan political leaders have reached a new version of a U.N.-brokered peace deal, putting pressure on the Tripoli leadership to sign on and build a unity government in hopes of ending the country’s chaos. The Tripoli government refused to participate in the latest discussions Saturday in the …