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Philippines: 16 dead, thousands of homes damaged in typhoon
MANILA, Philippines - At least 16 people were killed as Typhoon Goni lashed the Philippines over the weekend, and about 13,000 shanties and houses were damaged or swept away in the eastern island prov...
Nov 02, 2020
Thousands continue protests against Indonesia’s new jobs law
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Thousands of workers in Indonesia on Monday continued their protests against the country's new jobs law that critics say will erode labour rights and weaken environmental protecti...
Nov 02, 2020
Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. - President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday's election, as his rift with the nation's top infectious disease expert widens while the nation...
Nov 02, 2020
Ex-South Korean President Lee back to prison after ruling
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was sent back to prison on Monday, four days after the country's top court upheld his 17-year prison term for corruption crimes....
Nov 02, 2020
Barrett to join Supreme Court arguments for the first time
WASHINGTON - Justice Amy Coney Barrett is expected to join her Supreme Court colleagues on Monday to hear arguments for the first time. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the high court began hearin...
Nov 02, 2020
Turkey pulls 2 girls out of rubble three days after quake
IZMIR, Turkey - In what one rescue worker called "a miracle," extraction teams brought two girls out alive Monday from the wreckage of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish city of Izmir,...
Nov 02, 2020
2020 Watch: Will loser of the election accept the result?
WASHINGTON - Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into the final week of the 2020 campaign: Days to general election: 1 ___ THE NARRATIVE It's almost over. By this time next we...
Nov 02, 2020
French schools reopen in mourning after beheading of teacher
PARIS - French schools held a nationwide minute of silence Monday in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded for opening a class debate on free speech by showing students caricatures of the prophet of I...
Nov 02, 2020
Indonesian Muslims protest France's defence of cartoon
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian Muslims marched to the heavily guarded French Embassy in Indonesia's capital on Monday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem c...
Nov 02, 2020
Midwestern states with few virus rules have low unemployment
OMAHA, Neb. - Five of the six states with the nation's lowest unemployment rates are in the Midwest, have Republican governors and have almost no restrictions intended to slow the spread of the corona...
Nov 02, 2020
