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Pompeo brings anti-China roadshow to Indian Ocean islands
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday brought the Trump administration's anti-China campaign to Indian Ocean islands considered particularly at risk for what American o...
Oct 27, 2020
UN watchdog: Iran building at underground nuclear facility
BERLIN - Inspectors from the U.N.'s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous one exploded in what Tehran called a sabotage a...
Oct 27, 2020
3 social media CEOs face grilling by GOP senators on bias
WASHINGTON - The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are facing a grilling by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias. The Senate Commerce Co...
Oct 27, 2020
Qatar apologizes, investigates forced airport examinations
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Qatar apologized Wednesday after authorities forcibly examined female passengers from a Qatar Airways flight to Australia to try to identify who might have given birth to...
Oct 27, 2020
Anxiety 2020: Voters worry about safety at the polls
WASHINGTON - Gary Kauffman says he does not scare easily. So when men waving President Donald Trump flags drive by his house in downtown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he stands on his front steps and wave...
Oct 27, 2020
Best Betts: Dodgers win first World Series title since 1988
ARLINGTON, Texas - Mookie Betts came to the Dodgers to make a World Series difference. With a mad dash to home plate, he put Los Angeles over the top. The end of a frustrating championship drought for...
Oct 27, 2020
US accuses Syria of delaying constitution ahead of election
TANZANIA, Tanzania - The United States and several Western allies on Tuesday accused the Syrian government of deliberately delaying the drafting of a new constitution to waste time until presidential ...
Oct 27, 2020
Store guard stabbed 27 times for asking women to wear masks
CHICAGO - Two sisters accused of stabbing a West Side Chicago store security guard 27 times with a knife after he asked them to wear face masks and use hand sanitizer were ordered held without bond Tu...
Oct 27, 2020
UN urges Libyan rivals to implement cease-fire, pursue peace
TANZANIA, Tanzania - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday welcomed the permanent cease-fire agreement signed by the rival sides in Libya and called on the parties to implement it and "show the same de...
Oct 27, 2020
Virus pushes twin cities El Paso and Juarez to the brink
A record surge in coronavirus cases is pushing hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, confronting health officials in Texas and Mexico with twin disasters in the tig...
Oct 27, 2020