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Chinese shoppers splurge in world's largest shopping fest

HONG KONG - Chinese consumers are expected to spend tens of billions on everything from fresh food to luxury goods during this year's Singles' Day online shopping festival, as the country recovers fro...

Nov 10, 2020

US job openings rise slightly in September, hiring slips

WASHINGTON - American employers advertised slightly more jobs in September but hired fewer people as the U.S. economy struggles to recover from spring's coronavirus collapse. Job postings rose to to 6...

Nov 10, 2020

How a Brazil samba school shimmied from Carnival to COVID-19

RIO DE JANEIRO - The sultry heat of the Southern Hemisphere's summer will soon be rolling into Rio de Janeiro. In a normal year, the air would whisper into Dr. Wille Baracho's ear: Carnival is coming....

Nov 10, 2020

Three go on trial for deadly 2017 Barcelona terror attacks

MADRID - Three people went on trial Tuesday in Spain for their alleged roles in terror attacks around Barcelona that killed 16 people and injured 140 others in 2017. The three - Driss Oukabir, Mohamed...

Nov 10, 2020

Vatican faults many for McCarrick's rise but spares pope

ROME - A Vatican investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians, and determine...

Nov 10, 2020

EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data

LONDON - European Union regulators have filed antitrust charges against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of using data to gain an unfair advantage over merchants using its platform. The EU's exec...

Nov 10, 2020

Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure dies at 72

BAMAKO, Mali - Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure has died at the age of 72. Senegalese President Macky Sall on Tuesday confirmed the death of the former leader on Twitter. Mali's government...

Nov 10, 2020

Erekat, longtime spokesman for the Palestinians, dies at 65

JERUSALEM - Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died on Tuesday, weeks after being infected by the coronavir...

Nov 10, 2020

As virus spikes, Europe runs low on ICU beds, hospital staff

PARIS - In Italy lines of ambulances park outside hospitals awaiting beds, and in France the government coronavirus tracking app prominently displays the intensive care capacity taken up by COVID-19 p...

Nov 09, 2020

Asia Today: Shanghai airport worker gets virus; 8,000 tested

BEIJING - Authorities in China's financial hub of Shanghai have quarantined 186 people and conducted coronavirus tests on more than 8,000 after a freight handler at the city's main international airpo...

Nov 09, 2020