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Maduro taps US fugitive to revamp Venezuela oil industry

MIAMI - President Nicols Maduro on Monday named a powerful ally sanctioned by the U.S. as a drug kingpin, along with a cousin of the late socialist leader Hugo Chvez, to revamp Venezuela's oil industr...

Apr 27, 2020

Film festivals team up to offer free global fest on YouTube

NEW YORK - Film festivals worldwide are teaming up to launch "We Are One: A Global Film Festival," which will play out over 10 days and be available for free on YouTube. Tribeca Enterprises, the compa...

Apr 27, 2020

Comics keep laughs coming even with clubs closed by COVID-19

LOS ANGELES - Whenever she's down, Tiffany Haddish says she finds a good joke can bring her right back up. That's why the popular star of TV, film and stand-up decided to crack wise about ways to surv...

Apr 27, 2020

Michelle Obama documentary 'Becoming' to premiere on Netflix

NEW YORK - A documentary portrait of Michelle Obama titled "Becoming" will premiere on Netflix next week, the streaming company announced Monday. The film, described as "an intimate look into the life...

Apr 27, 2020

Questions swirl as Fed meets amid deepening economic crisis

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has largely calmed turbulent financial markets. Yet a far tougher task remains: Helping rescue an economy and job market that appear to be free-falling into the worst ...

Apr 27, 2020

'The Rise of Skywalker' to hit Disney Plus on May 4

NEW YORK - "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" will begin streaming on Disney Plus on May 4, about two months earlier than scheduled. The Walt Disney Co. said Monday that "The Rise of Skywalker" will l...

Apr 27, 2020

Nations, US states each chart their own path on reopening

LONDON - A thinner-looking British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to work Monday after a bout with the coronavirus and warned strongly against easing the country's lockdown, even as other Europ...

Apr 27, 2020

South Korea maintains Kim Jong Un health rumours are untrue

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea's government has dismissed rumours that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in fragile condition, as speculation about his health intensifies amid the North's si...

Apr 27, 2020

Back at work, Boris Johnson urges patience over UK lockdown

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged his lockdown-weary nation to be patient Monday, arguing that easing social and economic restrictions too soon would create a second deadly spike of ...

Apr 27, 2020

Questions over Kim's health highlight intelligence limits

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's prolonged public absence has led to rumours of ill health and worries about how it could influence the future of what one analyst calls No...

Apr 27, 2020