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Nearly 3 months after vote, Belarus protests still go strong

KYIV, Ukraine - Nearly three months after Belarus' authoritarian president's re-election to a sixth term in a vote widely seen as rigged, demonstrators keep swarming the streets of Belarusian cities t...

Oct 31, 2020

Asia Today: Australia to spend on vaccines for wider region

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the Pacific and Southeast Asia "as part of a shared recovery f...

Oct 31, 2020

If 2020 is like 2000, Trump believes he's got the votes

WASHINGTON - More than 86 million Americans have already voted in the presidential election, but President Donald Trump thinks he can count on one hand the votes that will determine the outcome. "I th...

Oct 31, 2020

Biden, Obama make a final appeal to Michigan's Black voters

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Joe Biden enters the final weekend of the presidential campaign with an intense focus on appealing to Black voters whose support will be critical in his bid to defeat Presi...

Oct 31, 2020

Rain-fueled landslide in El Salvador kills 9; 1 missing

NEJAPA, El Salvador - A landslide left nine people dead, seven injured and one missing after torrential rains in El Salvador, civil defence officials said Friday. The slide occurred Thursday night whe...

Oct 31, 2020

'Borat' star gives church $100K after member appears in film

OKLAHOMA CITY - Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who stars in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," donated $100,000 to the church of a woman who believed she was taking part in a documentary but instead was being fe...

Oct 31, 2020

Unrest erupts over police killing of Black man near Portland

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Tensions boiled over into unrest late Friday following a vigil for a Black man shot and killed by law enforcement in a city near Portland, Oregon, in southwestern Washington state. ...

Oct 31, 2020

Death toll reaches 27 in quake that hit Turkey, Greek island

IZMIR, Turkey - Rescue teams on Saturday plowed through concrete blocks and the debris of eight collapsed buildings in search of survivors of a powerful earthquake that struck Turkey's Aegean coast an...

Oct 31, 2020

Georgia governor tests negative for COVID-19 after exposure

ATLANTA - Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tested negative for COVID-19 after having had "direct exposure" to someone who tested positive, but he is quarantining as a precaution, according to a stat...

Oct 30, 2020

Actress Lori Loughlin reports to prison in college scam

BOSTON - Authorities say "Full House" actress Lori Loughlin has reported to a federal prison in California to begin serving her two-month sentence for her role in the college admissions bribery scanda...

Oct 30, 2020