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Biden White House seeks to turn page on Trump
WASHINGTON - The end of former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial opens a new chapter for his successor in the White House. But while President Joe Biden and his team are eager to move past th...
Feb 14, 2021
2 impeachment trials, 2 escape hatches for Donald Trump
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's first impeachment trial centred on a phone call Americans never heard with the leader of a country very far away. The trial went on for two weeks of he-said-she-said. There...
Feb 14, 2021
Spain: Catalans vote in test of separatist movement
BARCELONA, Spain - The strength of the separatist movement in Spain's northeastern Catalonia is being tested on Sunday as 5.3 million voters are called to cast ballots in a regional election held unde...
Feb 14, 2021
Germany tightens border checks to keep out virus variants
BERLIN - Germany on Sunday implemented tighter border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol province in an effort to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus vari...
Feb 14, 2021
China fires back at US allegations of lack of transparency
BEIJING - China fired back at the U.S. on Sunday over allegations from the White House that Beijing withheld some information about the coronavirus outbreak from World Health Organization investigator...
Feb 14, 2021
United Arab Emirates publishes first photo from Mars probe
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates on Sunday published the first image for its Mars probe now circling the red planet. The picture, taken Wednesday, shows sunlight just coming acro...
Feb 14, 2021
Firefighters battle Afghan-Iran border blaze for a 2nd day
KABUL - Firefighters struggled for a second day Sunday to battle a massive fire that began when a fuel tanker exploded at a major crossing in Afghanistan's western Herat province on the Iranian border...
Feb 14, 2021
Indian rescuers find 11 more bodies after glacier flooding
NEW DELHI - Rescuers searching muck-filled ravines and valleys for survivors after the sudden collapse of a Himalayan glacier triggered massive flooding in northern India a week ago found 11 more bodi...
Feb 14, 2021
Myanmar anti-coup protesters keep pressure on junta
YANGON, Myanmar - Vast numbers of people all over Myanmar flouted orders against demonstrations Sunday to march again in protest against the military takeover that ousted the elected government of Aun...
Feb 14, 2021
Lebanon administers 1st vaccines to health workers, elderly
BEIRUT - Lebanon administered Sunday its first jabs of COVID-19 vaccine, with an intensive care unit physician and a well-known 93-year-old comedian becoming the first to receive Pfizer-BioNTech doses...
Feb 14, 2021
