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Ricky Gervais returning to host the 2020 Golden Globe Awards

LOS ANGELES - Look out Hollywood, Ricky Gervais is returning to host the Golden Globe Awards. Gervais memorably hosted the Globes from 2010 to 2012, skewering many of the attendees with irreverent jok...

Nov 12, 2019

Protections for 660,000 immigrants on line at Supreme Court

WASHINGTON - Protections for 660,000 immigrants are on the line at the Supreme Court. The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday on the Trump administration's bid to end the Deferred Action for Childh...

Nov 12, 2019

Queen, politicians out in force as UK remembers its war dead

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II joined Britons in remembering their war dead, as the country's political leaders paused campaigning for the Dec. 12 election to take part in a sombre Remembrance Sunday ser...

Nov 12, 2019

Court says EU states must label Israeli settlement products

BRUSSELS - The European Union's top court ruled Tuesday that EU countries must identify products made in Israeli settlements on their labels, in a decision welcomed by rights groups but likely to spar...

Nov 12, 2019

Angered at EU, Turkey threatens to release IS prisoners

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday issued a veiled threat suggesting Turkey could release the Islamic State group prisoners it holds and send them to Europe, angered at...

Nov 12, 2019

Afghan president: 3 Taliban released for held US, Australian

KABUL - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday announced that his government has released three prominent Taliban figures in an effort to get the insurgents to free an American and an Australian pro...

Nov 11, 2019

Express trains collide in Bangladesh, killing at least 15

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Two speeding trains collided in eastern Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people and injuring scores on Tuesday, officials said. Local police chief Shayamal Kanti Das said the collis...

Nov 11, 2019

Israeli airstrike kills Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza home

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says it has struck a Gaza City house, targeting a commander from the Islamic Jihad group in a resumption of pinpointed killing. The Iranian-backed Palestinian group co...

Nov 11, 2019

Woody Allen and Amazon end legal battle

NEW YORK - Woody Allen and Amazon.com have ended their legal battle. The filmmaker had sued Amazon in February after the online giant ended his 2017 contract without ever releasing a completed film, "...

Nov 11, 2019

Safety officials probing records of work on Southwest jets

DALLAS - Southwest Airlines says it will speed up inspections of dozens of used planes it bought from foreign airlines after federal regulators threatened to ground the jets because they might not mee...

Nov 11, 2019