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Shanghai police say suspect detained in games tycoon's death

BEIJING - Police in Shanghai say they have detained a suspect in the death by possible poisoning of the billionaire founder of a Chinese video game company that makes films based on the popular scienc...

Dec 29, 2020

Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Croatia; 1 death reported

ZAGREB, Croatia - A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, causing major damage to homes and other buildings in a town southeast of the capital. Authorities said a girl was killed and at le...

Dec 29, 2020

Famed French designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98

PARIS - France's Academy of Fine Arts says Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98. A licensing maverick, Cardin's n...

Dec 29, 2020

Nashville bomber left hints of trouble, but motive elusive

NASHVILLE - In the days before he detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, Anthony Quinn Warner changed his life in ways that suggest he never intended to survive the blast that killed him...

Dec 28, 2020

Amid pandemic, Pacific islands work to offset food shortages

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Coronavirus infections have barely touched many of the remote islands of the Pacific, but the pandemic's fallout has been enormous, disrupting the supply chain that brings crucial...

Dec 28, 2020

House votes to override Trump's veto of defence bill

WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House voted overwhelmingly Monday to override President Donald Trump's veto of a defence policy bill, setting the stage for what would be the first veto override...

Dec 28, 2020

China sentences lawyer who reported on outbreak to 4 years

BEIJING - A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a former lawyer who reported on the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak to four years in prison on charges of "picking fights and provoking trouble," ...

Dec 28, 2020

US cuts military aid to El Salvador amid intense lobbying

MIAMI - The U.S. is slashing foreign military aid to El Salvador despite staunchly pro-American President Nayib Bukele's intense lobbying in Washington to counter criticism he has taken his country do...

Dec 28, 2020

Marc Basnight, longest serving NC Senate leader, dies at 73

RALEIGH, N.C. - Former state Sen. Marc Basnight, a Democrat from North Carolina's barrier islands who became one of North Carolina's most powerful contemporary political leaders while serving a record...

Dec 28, 2020

Fire damages immigrant gathering spots in southwest Missouri

NOEL, Mo. - At least two people were being treated for injuries at hospitals in southwest Missouri after a fire destroyed a grocery store and an adjacent mosque that were gathering spots for immigrant...

Dec 28, 2020