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Spokesman: China to sanction US arms suppliers to Taiwan

BEIJING - China's government said Monday it will impose sanctions on U.S. military contractors including Boeing Co.'s defence unit and Lockheed Martin Corp. for supplying weapons to rival Taiwan, step...

Oct 26, 2020

Women's groups plan more protests over Poland abortion law

WARSAW, Poland - Women's rights activists are planning more protests in Poland after a top court tightened the predominantly Catholic nation's already strict abortion law. Angry street protests have b...

Oct 26, 2020

Armenia, Azerbaijan accuse each other of truce violations

YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday accused each other of violating the new cease-fire announced the day before in a bid to halt the fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Kara...

Oct 26, 2020

Crew safe, 7 detained after UK special forces raid tanker

LONDON - All crew members of an oil tanker that was stormed by British naval special forces after a group of stowaways threatened violence are "safe and well," the ship's operator confirmed Monday. Se...

Oct 26, 2020

Democrats ask Pence to skip Barrett vote over COVID-19 risk

WASHINGTON - A deeply torn Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, but Democratic leaders are asking Vice-President Mike Pence to stay away from presiding over Monday's sessio...

Oct 26, 2020

The Latest: Lockdown largely ending in Melbourne, Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia - Australia's former coronavirus hot spot Melbourne will largely emerge from lockdown after the city on Monday recorded its first day without a new COVID-19 case in more than four...

Oct 25, 2020

Wary of angering public, Iran has few ways to contain virus

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As coronavirus infections reached new heights in Iran this month, overwhelming its hospitals and driving up its death toll, the country's health minister gave a rare spee...

Oct 25, 2020

Feeding Houston's hungry: 1M pounds of food daily for needy

HOUSTON - In car lines that can stretch half a mile, (0.8 kilometres), workers who lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic and other needy people receive staggering amounts of food distributed b...

Oct 25, 2020

Australia asks Iran about report academic moved from prison

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia is seeking information from Iran on reports that a British Australian academic who was convicted of espionage has been moved to a mystery location, the foreign minister...

Oct 25, 2020

Trump to escalate campaigning as Biden steps up own travel

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump plans to intensify an already breakneck travel schedule in the final full week of the presidential campaign, overlooking a surge of coronavirus cases in the U.S. an...

Oct 25, 2020