内容摘要：and other U.S. conservatives, who see the Polish election as part of a global battle between liberal and populist right-wing forces.

and other U.S. conservatives, who see the Polish election as part of a global battle between liberal and populist right-wing forces.

Low-level delegations from Russia and Ukraine held theirin Istanbul on May 16. The talks, which lasted two hours, brought no significant breakthrough, although both sides agreed to the

of the war. It was carried out last weekend and freed 1,000 captives on each side.Fidan on Friday voiced a belief that the successful swap has “proved that negotiations can yield concrete results.”“There are two paths in front of us. Either we will turn a blind eye to the continuation of the war, or we will reach a lasting peace within the end of the year,” he told reporters in Kyiv.

Associated Press writers Hanna Arhirova and Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s presidential election has come down to a stark ideological choice: a liberal pro-European mayor versus a staunch nationalist conservative. They are polling so close that the outcome is impossible to predict in the run-off round on Sunday.

It’s not just a domestic affair. President Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind the nationalist candidate, Karol Nawrocki, and dangled the prospect of closer military ties if Poles choose him over liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski.Thirty-six women from the Maya Achi Indigenous group came forward in 2011 to seek justice for the abuses they

. They came from Rabinal, a small town about 55 miles (88 kms) north of the capital.Six of them testified against the three men convicted Friday.

As the all female three judge panel prepared to announce the verdict, several elderly women huddled around a young woman who translated the judges’ words from Spanish to Achi.Judge María Eugenia Castellanos, president of the tribunal, said the women had been brave to come on repeated occasions to testify. “They are crimes of solitude that stigmatize the woman. It is not easy to speak of them,” she said.