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No visible progress yet on key day for final Brexit deal
BRUSSELS - One of the most intense days in the long-running Brexit trade negotiations started off with little good news about any progress Monday, with the United Kingdom and the European Union seemin...
Dec 07, 2020
Trump cementing death penalty legacy up to Biden inaugural
CHICAGO - As Donald Trump's presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five startin...
Dec 07, 2020
EU weighs new dawn for trans-Atlantic ties under Biden
BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers were debating Monday ways to work together more closely with the United States on global diplomacy, with the bloc hopeful that the arrival of President-elec...
Dec 07, 2020
Erdogan calls for energy talks as EU considers Med sanctions
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for negotiations over energy exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean, days ahead of an European Union summit that could...
Dec 07, 2020
Hong Kong police arrest 8 over university protest
Hong Kong authorities arrested eight people Monday in connection with an unauthorized protest at a university campus last month, amid a widening crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese ter...
Dec 07, 2020
Will the US ever have a national COVID-19 testing strategy?
NEW YORK - As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden's administration will put in place something Donald Trump's has not - a comprehensive national testing strategy. Such...
Dec 07, 2020
Egypt's El-Sissi pays state visit to France; activists angry
PARIS - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was meeting Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron for talks on fighting terrorism, the conflict in Libya and other regional issues as part of a ...
Dec 07, 2020
In Georgia, Loeffler again refuses to say Trump lost
ATLANTA - Sen. Kelly Loeffler repeatedly refused to acknowledge that President Donald Trump lost reelection in November, as she debated her Democratic opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, ahead of twin Geo...
Dec 07, 2020
Asia Today: South Korean minister warns of virus 'war zone'
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea's health minister said Monday that the Seoul metropolitan area is now a "COVID-19 war zone," as the country reported another 615 new infections and the virus ap...
Dec 07, 2020
Psychiatrist to testify for sixth day at Toronto van attack trial
TORONTO - A psychiatrist retained by the defence will testify for a sixth straight day at the trial for the man who killed 10 people while driving a van down a Toronto sidewalk. Dr. Alexander Westphal...
Dec 07, 2020