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EU says UK 'can't have cake, eat it 2020-10-21 06:52:27BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union struck a defiant tone on Wednesday as the standoff over resuming post-Brexit trade negotiations with the United Kin

Pope reverts to mask-less old ways at indoor 2020-10-21 05:27:14ROME (AP) — A day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service, Pope Francis was back to his mask-less old ways Wedn

UN envoy hails early agreements in Libya talks 2020-10-21 04:33:44GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. envoy for Libya said Wednesday the two warring factions have agreed on issues that “directly impact the lives and welfare

Stampede kills 11 Afghans seeking visas to leave 2020-10-21 03:39:23KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least 11 women were trampled to death when a stampede broke out Wednesday among thousands of Afghans waiting in a s

Many thorny global situations hinge on US election 2020-10-21 01:02:12LONDON (AP) - Four years after Donald Trump’s election reframed how many nations interacted with the United States, the way that the world&rsquo

Think tank urges China to release Canadian employee 2020-10-21 00:05:16UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The president of the International Crisis Group used a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting attended by China’s foreig

Russia calls for collective security in Gulf, US 2020-10-20 22:47:05UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia’s foreign minister called for collective efforts Tuesday to prevent a large-scale war in the Persian Gulf and got s

Stephen Neary, Marine Corps general, removed from Europe-Africa 2020-10-20 21:06:23WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps has removed a two-star general from command of Marine forces in Europe and Africa based on an investigation into a

More than 17% of Washington voters have returned 2020-10-20 20:20:32OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Voters in Washington state are returning their ballots much earlier than in previous years, with 17.6% of the state’s more

Russia to use Arctic Council chairman role to 2020-10-20 19:32:47The Arctic Council was designed as a forum for its eight member nations to discuss development and environmental protections and find common ground in

Kemi Badenoch, British Equalities Minister, denounces Black Lives 2020-10-20 18:35:21Black Lives Matter is under fire in the U.K. by Kemi Badenoch, an Equalities Minister, who says the movement exacerbates a "dangerous trend" of teac

Peter Navarro says China working overtime to defeat 2020-10-20 18:10:05China is escalating its economic aggression and information warfare against the U.S. in a bid to defeat President Trump in November's election, one o

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Remains found in unmarked grave in Tulsa, Okla., 2020-10-21 17:36:25At least 10 bodies have been found in an unmarked mass grave at a Tulsa, Okla., cemetery where investigators are searching for remains of victims of t

Rudy Giuliani caught in hotel bedroom scene in 2020-10-21 17:20:43Rudy Giuliani is shown with his hand down his pants after flirting with an actress playing a young woman pretending to be a television journalist in a

At least 13 killed in Guinea in unrest 2020-10-21 14:00:08Guinea's President Alpha Conde called for calm on Wednesday as opposition protests over initial results from Sunday's election, which showed him lea

OxyContin maker Purdue reaches plea deal in opioid 2020-10-21 12:09:23Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead

French president leads memorial for Samuel Paty, teacher 2020-10-21 11:50:17A national memorial event for Samuel Paty was underway Wednesday evening in the courtyard of the Sorbonne University in Paris, attended by French Pres

Lack of antidotes called 'serious ethical dilemma' for 2020-10-21 11:39:46Scientists seeking approval to deliberately infect healthy people with COVID-19 in trials must first convince ethics specialists that, among

South Yorkshire joins other northern England regions under 2020-10-21 11:20:24The British government on Wednesday put another 1.4 million people into England's tightest coronavirus restrictions, but faced growing criticism that

Pope Francis endorses civil union laws for gay 2020-10-21 10:45:59Pope Francis says in a new film released on Wednesday that homosexuals should be protected by civil union laws, in some of the clearest language he ha

Francis delivers mass, greets bishops without mask despite 2020-10-21 08:53:35A day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service, Pope Francis was back to his mask-less ways Wednesday despite surging

After keeping low profile on campaign trail, Obama 2020-10-21 03:10:45Former U.S. president Barack Obama will make his first appearance on the campaign trail on Wednesday for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who is locked i

Think-tank urges China to release Canadian employee 2020-10-21 02:36:52The president of the International Crisis Group used a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting attended by China's foreign minister Tuesday to appea

Soldiers open fire on Nigerian protesters in Lagos, 2020-10-20 19:35:28Lagos was under a round-the-clock curfew on Wednesday enforced by police roadblocks, as smoke rose from a flashpoint area in Nigeria's biggest city w

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Nigerian activists created #EndSARS in 2017. Now, it's 2020-10-21 21:29:27The Twitter campaign resurfaced this month after a video circulated online showing a man being beaten, apparently by police officers of the Special An

Iran and Russia have attempted to influence the 2020-10-21 19:56:39Iran and Russia have obtained voter registration information and are sending disinformation to Americans ahead of election day, the leaders of U.S. in

Democrats plan to boycott Barrett committee vote, but 2020-10-21 17:47:23Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee plan to boycott Barrett's nomination. But that won't stop it from moving forward.

How to watch the final presidential debate between 2020-10-21 17:24:54Final presidential debate: President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will face off in their last meeting, Thursday in Nashville.

Column: Trump stands accused of defamation. An obscure 2020-10-21 16:46:54The Justice Department claims that when the president calls his accuser a liar, it's official business.

Beyoncé, Diddy, Rihanna call for end to Nigeria's 2020-10-21 15:42:32Beyoncé, Diddy, Rihanna and Trevor Noah are showing support for Nigerian protesters who are demanding an end to weeks of police brutality.

'Tweeting at the television doesn't fix things.' Obama 2020-10-21 14:53:05President Obama hit the campaign trail for his former vice president, Joe Biden, in Philadelphia, Obama's first in-person rally in the 2020 race.

Trump has been attacking the presidential debate commission. 2020-10-21 08:30:54President Trump keeps attacking the Commission on Presidential Debates. What is the commission and how and why was it formed?

After being her own boss, Kamala Harris embraces 2020-10-21 08:00:29California senator has avoided overshadowing her running mate even as Trump and Republicans raise her profile.

A jailed Philippine activist is forced to attend 2020-10-21 06:00:11The death of Reina Mae Nasino's 3-month-old daughter, River, has sparked an uproar over President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on human rights defend

Plastic recycling in South Korea was already in 2020-10-21 05:00:03The surge in plastic waste caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may push over the edge an already fragile ecosystem of recycling plastic, already strained

They once knew which lines not to cross. 2020-10-21 04:00:44Journalists in the Arab world are finding that it's becoming risky not just to criticize their own countries, but also their countries' allies.

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UN judge orders extradition of Rwandan genocide suspect 2020-10-21 07:37:30A UN judge on Wednesday ruled that Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga, who has been in a French jail since May, should be sent to a deten

Khashoggi’s fiancee, rights group sue Saudi crown prince 2020-10-21 06:06:15The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a human rights group that he founded filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court on Tuesday with allegat

Seven people brought before a judge over beheading 2020-10-21 05:28:45Seven people, including two minors, were handed over to a judge overnight for the opening of a judicial investigation and possible indictments in 

Trump’s soft spot for authoritarian leaders 2020-10-21 04:58:28He "fell in love" with Kim Jong Un, praises Vladimir Putin and calls Recep Tayyip Erdogan "a friend": President Donald Trump's flattery of autocr

Teaching in France: ‘I feel like I'm on 2020-10-21 04:55:35France is holding a national tribute to Samuel Paty, the history teacher murdered outside his school because of a class he gave on freedom of spe

Brazil reaches deal to begin administering Chinese-made coronavirus 2020-10-21 04:05:55Brazil's health minister said Tuesday the country would add the Chinese-made CoronaVac vaccine against Covid-19 to its national immunization program,

Fearing for their lives, thousands flee Nagorno-Karabakh to 2020-10-21 02:03:56Since fighting erupted three weeks ago in Nagorno-Karabakh – an Armenian separatist enclave in Azerbaijan – thousands of people have fled

UK govt suffers defeat in House of Lords 2020-10-21 01:40:52Britain’s upper house of Parliament delivered a resounding condemnation of the government’s contentious new Brexit legislation on Tuesday,

France to pay respects to beheaded teacher with 2020-10-20 23:00:16France will pay tribute Wednesday to a history teacher beheaded in a quiet Paris suburb as President Emmanuel Macron promised to intensify a clampdown

African monitors say Guinea election conducted properly, opposition 2020-10-20 22:42:19African monitors said Tuesday that Guinea's weekend election was conducted properly, but the political opposition to incumbent Alpha Condé

NASA spacecraft successfully grabs sample of rocks from 2020-10-20 21:53:22A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth o

Nigerian police kill protesters defying curfew in Lagos, 2020-10-20 20:03:35Several protesters were killed by Nigerian security forces in Lagos on Tuesday, Amnesty International said, after witnesses reported armed men opened

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Joe Biden breaks silence on Hunter emails scandal, 2020-10-21 17:37:28 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said the story of his son Hunter using the family name to make business deals overseas is a “desper

Spain tops 1 million Covid-19 cases & UK 2020-10-21 17:16:38 Spain has become the first Western European nation to exceed 1 million coronavirus cases, while the UK reported 26,688 new infections on Wednesday -

Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko investigated for plotting 2020-10-21 16:21:22 The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has launched a criminal case into an alleged coup plot by former President Petro Poroshenko and his a

TikTok bans ‘white nationalism’ and ‘misinformation’ about Jews 2020-10-21 16:19:16 Video sharing app TikTok has expanded its hate speech rules, and will remove a host of pro-white and anti-Jewish content. The move comes as multiple

Greece, Egypt and Cyprus jointly condemn Turkey’s ‘aggression’ 2020-10-21 16:10:02 Turkey’s natural gas exploration and military activities in the disputed waters of the Eastern Mediterranean have been roundly condemned by its

Debate commission member breaks 'strict vow of silence' 2020-10-21 15:51:51 Former US Senator John Danforth has violated a “strict vow of silence” observed by members of the Commission on Presidential Debates, bla

A Biden landslide? Democrats assume victory, while Trump 2020-10-21 15:49:00 The liberal media is abuzz with talk of a landslide victory for Joe Biden in next month’s election. But they’ve been disastrously wrong b

Nigerian president appeals for ‘calm’ after soldiers fire 2020-10-21 15:41:05 President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari called for “understanding and calm” a day after soldiers opened fire on police-brutality protesters

Germany's health minister tests positive for Covid-19 and 2020-10-21 15:37:29 German Health Minister Jens Spahn has developed “cold-like symptoms” after testing positive for coronavirus, but no other members of Chan

Shakhtar shocker: Real Madrid suffer nightmare Champions League 2020-10-21 15:02:00 Real Madrid suffered a second home defeat in five days as they slumped to a shock loss against Champions League opponents ravaged by players ruled ou

WATCH: LA Dodgers pitcher shows INCREDIBLE reflexes in 2020-10-21 14:44:39 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Victor Gonzalez showed off some incredible reflexes with a remarkable double play in Tuesday’s 8-3 win over the Tam

‘Being a Trump supporter is being a bad 2020-10-21 14:27:42 Social pressure from Google employees makes it impossible for anyone who supports US President Donald Trump to work there for long, a manager told th

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Nigeria unrest spreads after shooting of protesters 2020-10-21 19:15:06Buildings in Nigeria's main city of Lagos were torched on Wednesday and sporadic clashes erupted after the shooting of peaceful protesters by securit

Thai protesters give PM three days to quit 2020-10-21 19:05:57

Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects plan to buy China's Sinovac 2020-10-21 18:24:55

Two parallel governments control Pakistan: Former PM Nawaz 2020-10-21 17:12:34

Pope endorses same-sex civil unions in new documentary 2020-10-21 16:38:01Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,&rd

Thai protesters give PM Prayuth three-day deadline to 2020-10-21 16:21:22

Several held hostage at bank in ex-Soviet republic 2020-10-21 15:47:33

'Pakistan will not be able to escape FATF 2020-10-21 12:02:10

EU to UK on Brexit talks: 'You can't 2020-10-21 12:01:33The European Union took a defiant tone on Wednesday as the standoff over resuming post-Brexit trade negotiations with the United Kingdom intensified,

Spain's parliament debates no-confidence vote to oust govt 2020-10-21 11:39:27Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is facing a no-confidence debate in parliament brought by the nation's far-right Vox party, but it appear

Thai protesters ask court to revoke order 2020-10-21 10:50:36

China chides US official meeting with Tibet govt-in 2020-10-21 09:16:23Lobsang last Friday has tweeted saying it was the first time a president of the exiled government, called the Central Tibetan Administration, had been

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Biden seeks boost from Obama while Trump tends 2020-10-21 17:39:13Obama, who has become increasingly critical of Trump over the three and a half years since he left office, will address a drive-in rally, where suppor

Brazil’s Bolsonaro rejects announcement coronavirus vaccine purchased from 2020-10-21 17:33:55Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello had announced the purchase Tuesday in a meeting with Sao Paulo Gov. Joo Doria, a foe of Bolsonaro's whose state is p

12 peaceful protesters killed by Nigerian forces, Amnesty 2020-10-21 17:15:10The Nigerian government did not immediately comment about Amnesty International’s allegations.

Rudy Giuliani calls ‘Borat 2’ scene depiction a 2020-10-21 15:25:33The Trump lawyer and former New York City mayor fell victim to a Sacha Baron Cohen prank in 'Borat 2.'

Trump can still win the U.S. election, despite 2020-10-21 14:07:09U.S. President Donald Trump continues to lag behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the polls, but he could still secure victory, experts

Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions 2020-10-21 12:29:26Francis previously endorsed civil unions for gay couples as an alternative to same-sex marriages, but this is his first time speaking in favour of civ

Trump paid over $188K in taxes to China 2020-10-21 12:04:33China is one of only three foreign nations — the others are Britain and Ireland — where Trump maintains a bank account, according to a Tim

7 more people handed to judge in French 2020-10-21 02:49:40French officials had earlier said 16 other people, including family members of the attacker, were in police custody Tuesday.

Witnesses report Nigerian soldiers shooting protesters at anti-police 2020-10-21 01:40:00Amnesty International has said at least 15 people had been killed since the protests began, which Nigerian officials have denied.

Colleagues of detained Canadian Michael Kovrig appeal to 2020-10-21 00:32:53The president of the International Crisis Group and the United Nations ambassadors for Germany and Britain brought up Kovrig's case at a U.N. Securit

Parents of 545 migrant children separated at U.S. 2020-10-21 00:05:04The American Civil Liberties Union has sued over the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" family separation practice.

How Trump’s team ‘burned’ through $1 billion during 2020-10-20 23:42:42U.S. President Donald Trump's sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 -- and set a lot of