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Trial in France for extremist foiled by 3 Americans on train
PARIS - An Islamic State operative goes on trial Monday in France on terror charges for swaggering bare-chested through a train in 2015 with an arsenal of weapons and shooting one passenger. He was br...
Nov 16, 2020
Hurricane Iota powers up in new threat to Central America
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and has become a very dangerous Category 4 storm early Monday as it heads for the same part of Central A...
Nov 16, 2020
UN-led Libya talks end without naming interim government
GAMMARTH, Tunisia - Libya's rival sides wrapped up a week of U.N.-brokered talks without agreeing on a transitional government that would lead the county to an election in December next year, the top ...
Nov 16, 2020
Merkel, German governors to eye results of partial lockdown
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will assess the effects of a nearly two-week-long partial lockdown with state governors in a video conference Monday. Germany went into a partial lockdown at t...
Nov 16, 2020
UAE national carrier to start flying to Tel Aviv next spring
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced Monday it would start operating daily nonstop flights to Tel Aviv next spring, a move that dee...
Nov 16, 2020
Report: Belgium nursing homes failed patients amid pandemic
BRUSSELS - Amnesty International said Belgium authorities "abandoned" thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic following an investigation published Monday ...
Nov 16, 2020
Jetliner hits brown bear while landing in southeast Alaska
YAKUTAT, Alaska - An Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to the plane, officials said. None of the passengers or cr...
Nov 16, 2020
Biden seeks window on vaccine plans as Trump stalls handoff
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to...
Nov 16, 2020
Trump campaign retreats from key claim in Pennsylvania suit
HARRISBURG, Pa. - President Donald Trump's campaign is withdrawing a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden bea...
Nov 16, 2020
Peru now has no president as crisis takes chaotic turn
LIMA, Peru - Who is the president of Peru? That answer to that question early Monday was no one. The Latin American nation's political turmoil took a chaotic turn Sunday when interim leader Manuel Mer...
Nov 16, 2020
