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EU officials formally sign post-Brexit trade deal with UK

BRUSSELS - The European Union's top officials on Wednesday formally signed the long fought-over post-Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and E...

Dec 30, 2020

UK approves use of 2nd COVID-19 vaccine with easier storage

LONDON - Britain on Wednesday authorized emergency use of a second COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first country to greenlight an easy-to-handle shot that its developers hope will become the "vaccine f...

Dec 29, 2020

Athletes act: Stars rise up against racial injustice in 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY - As the NBA neared its restart in late July, its players vowed to keep the calls for social justice reform at the forefront in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonn...

Dec 29, 2020

Reports: Convicted US spy Pollard arrives in Israel

JERUSALEM - Israeli media say Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, has landed in the country with his wife. The U.S. Justice Department announced in November that...

Dec 29, 2020

China sentences 10 seeking to flee Hong Kong to prison terms

BEIJING - A Chinese court has sentenced 10 people who sought to flee Hong Kong by speedboat earlier this year to between seven months and three years in prison. The Yantian District Court in the south...

Dec 29, 2020

Argentine Senate weighs fate of abortion in pope's homeland

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The decades-long fight by Argentine women's groups for legal abortion was being decided by the Senate in a debate that spilled into the early hours of Wednesday before a vote...

Dec 29, 2020

Month on, women hold the fort at India farmer protests

NEW DELHI - The men arrived first. And they arrived with a bang. Tens of thousands of them, marching like an army, driving trucks and trailers, prepared to choke key highways that feed into India's bu...

Dec 29, 2020

Iranian women's group empowers amid pandemic by making masks

TEHRAN, Iran - As the coronavirus pandemic ravages Iran, home to the Mideast's worst outbreak, a women's group hopes to empower its members by helping them make and sell face masks. The organization c...

Dec 29, 2020

Louisiana congressman Luke Letlow dead from COVID-19

BATON ROUGE, La. - Luke Letlow, Louisiana's newest Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office. He was 41 ye...

Dec 29, 2020

Officer who sought warrant at Taylor home could be dismissed

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville police have taken steps that could result in the firing of an officer who sought the no-knock search warrant that led detectives to the apartment where Breonna Taylor was ...

Dec 29, 2020