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Ethiopia to replace Tigray region leadership as forces clash

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia moved Saturday to replace the leadership of the country's defiant northern Tigray region, where deadly clashes between regional and federal government forces are fueling fear...

Nov 07, 2020

Joe Biden: Stumbles, tragedies and, now, delayed triumph

Days before he left the White House in 2017, President Barack Obama surprised Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, declaring his septuagenarian, white-haired lieutenant "the best vice-pre...

Nov 07, 2020

Harris becomes first Black woman, South Asian elected VP

Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice-president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men - almost all of them white - entrenched at the highe...

Nov 07, 2020

Lebanon's leader challenges US sanctions against son-in-law

BEIRUT - Lebanon's leader on Saturday asked the United States to offer evidence to back up new sanctions against the former Lebanese foreign minister, who is an important political ally of the Iran-ba...

Nov 07, 2020

Police question children for supporting teacher's beheading

LE PECQ, France - Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam's prophet, ...

Nov 07, 2020

Increasingly normal: Guns seen outside vote-counting centres

The most turbulent and norm-breaking presidential election of a lifetime has led to an extraordinary spectacle in the United States over the past three days: armed protesters gathering nightly outside...

Nov 07, 2020

Egyptians vote in 2nd stage of parliamentary election

CAIRO - Egyptians began voting Saturday in the second and final stage of the country's parliamentary elections, after a relatively low turnout in the first stage that embarrassed the government of Pre...

Nov 07, 2020

UAE announces relaxing of Islamic laws for personal freedoms

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country's Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restri...

Nov 07, 2020

Former Afghan TV presenter killed in explosion in capital

KABUL - A bomb attached to the vehicle of a former presenter on Afghanistan's TOLO TV exploded early Saturday, killing the journalist and two other civilians, Kabul police said. The death of Yama Siaw...

Nov 06, 2020

Guatemala searches for bodies as strengthening Eta eyes Cuba

PURULHA, Guatemala - Searchers in Guatemala dug through mud and debris looking for an estimated 100 people believed buried by a massive, rain-fueled landslide, as the remnants of Hurricane Eta strengt...

Nov 06, 2020