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Ethiopia's Tigray region bombs airports as conflict spreads

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia's defiant Tigray regional government has fired rockets at two airports in the neighbouring Amhara region as a deadly conflict threatens to spread into other parts of Africa's...

Nov 14, 2020

Democrats keep winning the popular vote. That worries them.

Democrats won the popular vote in this year's presidential election yet again, marking seven out of eight straight presidential elections that the party has reached that milestone. And, for some Democ...

Nov 14, 2020

Trump skips Southeast Asia summit for third year in a row

HANOI, Vietnam - President Donald Trump skipped a summit with his Southeast Asian counterparts for the third year in a row on Saturday, with rival China set to expand its influence with a massive free...

Nov 14, 2020

Iota threatens second tropical hit for Nicaragua, Honduras

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Tropical Storm Iota was brewing in the Caribbean Sea early Saturday, threatening a second tropical strike for Nicaragua and Honduras, countries recently ransacked by a Category ...

Nov 14, 2020

US top diplomat arrives in France on touchy 7-nation tour

PARIS - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Paris on Saturday at the start of a seven-country tour of Europe and the Middle East, a trip that is certain to be awkward since all the nations ...

Nov 14, 2020

Turkey's COVID-19 deaths returns to April levels

ISTANBUL - Turkish health ministry statistics show 93 people died in one day of COVID-19 amid a surge in infections, bringing the daily death toll to numbers last seen in April. In figures released la...

Nov 14, 2020

Bloomberg's big spending struggles to sway election outcomes

WASHINGTON - After pouring more than $1.2 billion of his personal fortune into presidential politics this election, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has little to show for it. His only win during ...

Nov 14, 2020

Biden faces tough choice of whether to back virus lockdowns

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic. For now, it's a question the president-...

Nov 14, 2020

Wall Street shrugs, stocks rise even as Trump won't concede

NEW YORK - A huge fear for Wall Street coming into this month was a contested U.S. presidential election, one that could drag the market through more painful uncertainty. Now, more than a week after E...

Nov 13, 2020

In Georgia, Trump's shadow looms over pair of Senate runoffs

ATLANTA - President Donald Trump won't be on the ballot in January when Georgia voters settle two Senate runoffs that will determine control of the U.S. Senate. But both Republicans and Democrats are ...

Nov 13, 2020