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Fighting over separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region continues

YEREVAN, Armenia - Fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh entered sixth week on Sunday, with Armenian and Azerbaijani forces blaming each other for new attacks. Nagorno-Karabakh of...

Nov 1, 2020

French Muslims, stigmatized by attacks, feel under pressure

PARIS - The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France's Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts o...

Nov 1, 2020

French manhunt underway after shooting of Greek priest

LYON, France - French police interrogated one suspect and searched for others Sunday after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot and critically wounded while closing the door to his church in the French ci...

Nov 1, 2020

Ruling due in Depp's high-stakes libel suit against tabloid

LONDON - A British judge will decide Monday whether a tabloid newspaper defamed Johnny Depp by calling him a "wife beater," a ruling with huge implications for the careers of both Depp and former spou...

Nov 1, 2020

The Latest: UK virus lockdown may last longer than 4 weeks

LONDON - A British government minister says a new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don't fall quickly enough. The lockdow...

Nov 1, 2020

Hong Kong lawmakers arrested over disruption of legislature

Hong Kong police arrested seven people Sunday over scuffles that broke out with security guards during a faceoff between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers in the city's legislature earlier this ...

Nov 1, 2020

Zambia's risk of default highlights Africa's debt crisis

KAMPALA, Uganda - Facing financial difficulties aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic, the southern African nation of Zambia appears headed for a default on debt owed to private investors. One of the...

Nov 1, 2020

Turkish politician in Erdogan's party dies from virus

ISTANBUL - A Turkish politician from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party has died from the coronavirus. Burhan Kuzu, 65, had been receiving treatment for COVID-19 since Oct. 17, the country'...

Nov 1, 2020

Super typhoon batters Philippines; 1 million in shelters

MANILA, Philippines - A super typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines with ferocious winds early Sunday, knocking down power in several towns and prompting the evacuation of about a million peopl...

Nov 1, 2020

70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 53

IZMIR, Turkey - Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, k...

Nov 1, 2020