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France church attack: Assailant's family demands answers
SFAX, Tunisia - A third suspect is in French custody Saturday in connection with an Islamic extremist knife attack that killed three people in a Nice church, as the family of the suspected Tunisian as...
Oct 31, 2020

Canada crawling toward AI regulatory regime, but experts say reform is urgent
OTTAWA - On Thursday, privacy watchdogs revealed that five million images of shoppers' faces were collected without their consent at a dozen of Canada's most popular malls. Real estate company Cadilla...
Oct 31, 2020

Nearly 3 months after vote, Belarus protests still go strong
KYIV, Ukraine - Nearly three months after Belarus' authoritarian president's re-election to a sixth term in a vote widely seen as rigged, demonstrators keep swarming the streets of Belarusian cities t...
Oct 31, 2020

The Latest: China reports 6 new cases in far west outbreak
BEIJING - China has reported six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in an outbreak in Xinjiang, bringing the total in the far-west region to 51. Six were in serious condition, Xinjiang health authorities...
Oct 31, 2020

Biden, Obama make a final appeal to Michigan's Black voters
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Joe Biden enters the final weekend of the presidential campaign with an intense focus on appealing to Black voters whose support will be critical in his bid to defeat Presi...
Oct 31, 2020

Asia Today: Australia to spend on vaccines for wider region
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the Pacific and Southeast Asia "as part of a shared recovery f...
Oct 31, 2020

If 2020 is like 2000, Trump believes he's got the votes
WASHINGTON - More than 86 million Americans have already voted in the presidential election, but President Donald Trump thinks he can count on one hand the votes that will determine the outcome. "I th...
Oct 31, 2020

'Borat' star gives church $100K after member appears in film
OKLAHOMA CITY - Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who stars in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," donated $100,000 to the church of a woman who believed she was taking part in a documentary but instead was being fe...
Oct 31, 2020

Rain-fueled landslide in El Salvador kills 9; 1 missing
NEJAPA, El Salvador - A landslide left nine people dead, seven injured and one missing after torrential rains in El Salvador, civil defence officials said Friday. The slide occurred Thursday night whe...
Oct 31, 2020

Unrest erupts over police killing of Black man near Portland
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Tensions boiled over into unrest late Friday following a vigil for a Black man shot and killed by law enforcement in a city near Portland, Oregon, in southwestern Washington state. ...
Oct 31, 2020