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Louisville looks to rebound with Kentucky Derby back in May

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Kentucky Derby is back on the first Saturday in May, slowly bringing with it the sights, sounds and rituals familiar to Louisville. And local officials and business owners are ho...

Apr 25, 2021

An Oscars unlike any other to get underway Sunday

An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night, with history on the line in major categories and a telecast retooled for the pandemic. The 93rd Academy Awards will begin at 8 p.m. EDT on A...

Apr 25, 2021

Indonesia says 53 crew of lost sub are dead, wreckage found

BANYUWANGI, Indonesia - Indonesia's military on Sunday officially said all 53 crew members from a submarine that sank and broke apart last week are dead, and that search teams had located the vessel's...

Apr 25, 2021

Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz dies at 59

PARIS - Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz, best known for being at the helm of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, has died at the age of 59, luxury conglomerate Richemont said. In a statement released on Su...

Apr 25, 2021

Turkey summons US ambassador over genocide announcement

ISTANBUL - Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as "genocide." D...

Apr 25, 2021

Official: China's moon probe will carry French, Russian gear

BEIJING - China will launch its next robot lunar lander in 2024, and it will carry equipment from France, Sweden, Russia and Italy, the official news agency reported. Plans call for Chang'e 6 to land ...

Apr 25, 2021

35 years on, Chornobyl warns and inspires

KYIV, Ukraine - The vast and empty Chornobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor expl...

Apr 25, 2021

Rights commission: 58 killed in Baghdad fire in virus ward

BAGHDAD - Iraq's Independent High Commission for Human Rights reported Sunday that 58 people died in a catastrophic fire that broke out in a Baghdad hospital. Among the dead were 28 patients on ventil...

Apr 25, 2021

India's crematoriums overwhelmed as virus 'swallows people'

NEW DELHI - India's crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of...

Apr 25, 2021

Albanians vote in election after a bitter political fight

TIRANA, Albania - Albanians are voting in parliamentary elections on Sunday amid the virus pandemic and a bitter rivalry between the two largest political parties. Some 3.6 million eligible voters, in...

Apr 25, 2021