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Protesters attack US Embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes
BAGHDAD - Angered by deadly airstrikes targeting an Iran-backed militia, dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a m...
Jan 01, 2020
Climate change, Brexit divorce: EU faces challenges in 2020
BRUSSELS - December served up a warning of the massive challenges ahead for the European Union. Freak storms wreaked havoc on parts of southern Europe, showing how the impact of extreme weather will d...
Jan 01, 2020
Overnight clashes extend Hong Kong protests into new year
Hong Kong police used tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons against anti-government protesters over New Year's Eve and into the early hours of Wednesday, extending the months-long movement into a n...
Jan 01, 2020
Australia sending aid by sea to towns cut off by wildfires
PERTH, Australia - Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that destroyed homes and sent thousands of residents and holidaymakers ...
Jan 01, 2020
Cheers, tears, prayers for 2020: A new decade is ushered in
Revelers around the globe are bidding farewell to a decade that will be remembered for the rise of social media, the Arab Spring, the #MeToo movement and, of course, President Donald Trump. A look at ...
Jan 01, 2020
Financial tug-of-war emerges over fire victims' settlement
SAN FRANCISCO - A financial tug-of-war is emerging over the $13.5 billion that the nation's largest utility has agreed to pay to victims of recent California wildfires, as government agencies jockey f...
Jan 01, 2020
Feds will investigate deadly Tesla crash in California
GARDENA, Calif. - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the crash of a speeding Tesla that killed two people in a Los Angeles suburb, the agency announced Tuesday. Agency...
Jan 01, 2020
Taiwan's Tsai defends Anti-Infiltration Law aimed at China
TAIPEI, Taiwan - China has been relentless in its attempts to influence and infiltrate Taiwan's politics and society but the island's new ban on political interference should have no effect on normal ...
Jan 01, 2020
Trump deploys more troops to Mideast after embassy attack
WASHINGTON - Charging that Iran was "fully responsible" for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 mor...
Jan 01, 2020
China convicts 3 researchers involved in gene-edited babies
BEIJING - A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his resear...
Dec 31, 2019