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Hong Kong police arrest 60 for protesting on China holiday

Hong Kong police arrested at least 60 people on suspicion of unauthorized assembly on China's National Day holiday Thursday after crowds gathered on the streets of a popular shopping district chanting...

Oct 01, 2020

25 years after UN women's meeting, equality remains distant

TANZANIA, Tanzania - Twenty-five years ago, the world's nations came together to make sure that half of Earth's population gained the rights, power and status of the other half. It hasn't happened, an...

Oct 01, 2020

EU leaders seek end to embarrassing Belarus sanctions clash

BRUSSELS - European Union leaders sought Thursday to end an embarrassing standoff that prevents them from imposing sanctions on senior officials in Belarus who stand accused of falsifying presidential...

Oct 01, 2020

Armenia says it shot down Azerbaijani drone near capital

YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia's military said its rockets shot down an Azerbaijani drone near the capital on Thursday night, as heavy fighting persisted in the conflict over the separatist region of Nago...

Oct 01, 2020

Pandemic takes toll on business of pisco producers in Peru

ICA, Peru - In the house where for decades she has bottled pisco, the grape brandy of South America's Pacific coast, Rosa Grados has thousands of stored litres that she has not sold because of the cor...

Oct 01, 2020

WikiLeaks' Assange won't get US extradition ruling this year

LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely spend the rest of 2020 inside a British prison cell before finding out whether he can be sent to the United States to face espionage charges, the ...

Oct 01, 2020

New rules for Liverpool as virus cases in England quadruple

LONDON - Britain imposed tighter restrictions on social gatherings in the port city of Liverpool and three towns as scientists reported Thursday that the number of COVID-19 cases in England has quadru...

Oct 01, 2020

Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo

NEW YORK - The image is haunting, depicting a gaunt-faced man with a familiar beard, staring ahead lifelessly. The right eye is bulging and appears disfigured from an unseen wound. Some experts believ...

Oct 01, 2020

Frederick Wiseman on the life of American institutions

NEW YORK - Frederick Wiseman has spent more than half a century documenting American institutions. With a small crew, he has tirelessly made lengthy, sober, engrossing filmic portraits of life in Jack...

Oct 01, 2020

Hundreds of Honduran migrants set out for US amid pandemic

CORINTO, Honduras - About 2,000 Honduran migrants hoping to reach the United States entered Guatemala on foot Thursday morning, testing the newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the coronaviru...

Oct 01, 2020