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Despite UN call for Yemen truce, new clashes around key port
SANAA, Yemen - Fighting between Saudi-led coalition forces and Yemen’s Shiite rebels flared up again around the Red Sea port city of Hodeida despite U.N. calls for a cease-fire, Yemeni officials...
Nov 20, 2018
Backlash at Chinese university shows limits to surveillance
BEIJING - A Chinese university’s plan to conduct a blanket search of student and staff electronic devices has come under fire, illustrating the limits of the population’s tolerance for sur...
Nov 20, 2018
Xi: Talks on pact to avoid sea clashes could end in 3 years
MANILA, Philippines - Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday negotiations between Beijing and Southeast Asian nations on a nonaggression pact to prevent clashes in the disputed South China Sea coul...
Nov 20, 2018
Police storm Papua New Guinea Parliament for APEC summit pay
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Disgruntled police, military and prison guards stormed Papua New Guinea’s Parliament on Tuesday in a violent pay dispute stemming from an international summit ho...
Nov 20, 2018
Gunman in California mass shooting showed warning signs
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - At first, the outlines of the mass shooter’s 28 years appeared unremarkable. Ian David Long enlisted in the Marines out of high school and married at 19. Within five year...
Nov 20, 2018
3 men charged with planning mass killing in Australian city
CANBERRA, Australia - Three men inspired by the Islamic State group were charged on Tuesday with planning a mass-casualty attack in Australia’s second-largest city, police said. The Australian c...
Nov 20, 2018
400 years later, natives who helped Pilgrims gain a voice
PLYMOUTH, Mass. - The seaside town where the Pilgrims came ashore in 1620 is gearing up for a 400th birthday bash, and everyone’s invited - especially the native people whose ancestors wound up ...
Nov 20, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Trump book didn't foreshadow bin Laden attack
WASHINGTON - In an echo of his campaign rhetoric, President Donald Trump is back to portraying himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age - the one who told the country Osama bin Laden was coming...
Nov 20, 2018
Scientists work to save wild Puerto Rican parrot after Maria
EL YUNQUE, Puerto Rico - Biologists are trying to save the last of the endangered Puerto Rican parrots after more than half the population of the bright green birds with turquoise-tipped wings disappe...
Nov 20, 2018
A demand for a ring, an eruption of gunfire and 4 dead
CHICAGO - Moments before her ex-fiance fatally shot her in the parking lot of the hospital where she worked, a Chicago doctor called 911 to report that she had spotted the man and feared for her life,...
Nov 20, 2018