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Trump joins growing list of virus-infected world leaders

JOHANNESBURG - President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, joining a small group of world leaders who have been infected. Trump is 74, putting him at higher risk of serious complic...

Oct 02, 2020

The Latest: WH doctor says Trump will continue with duties

WASHINGTON - The Latest on President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump testing positive for the coronavirus (all times local): 1:40 a.m. President Donald Trump's White House doctor has issued ...

Oct 01, 2020

Top White House official tests positive for coronavirus

WASHINGTON - Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's closest aides, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Hicks, who serves as counsellor to the president and travelled with him to a Wednesday ...

Oct 01, 2020

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