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WEATHER: Nov. 12-18
Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with areas of dense fog before 11 a.m., calm wind and a high near 55. Mostly cloudy overn…
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Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
Fire breaks out at squalid migrant camp in Bosnia
BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A huge fire broke out Wednesday at a temporary migrant camp in northwestern Bosnia that has been strongly criticized by rights groups as unsuitable due to its lack of resources. Off…
5 to midnight on Brexit talks? No pressure! says France
France insisted Wednesday that European Union negotiators should not yield to any time pressure imposed by the Jan. 1 economic cutoff date in the talks with Britain on a post-Brexit trade agreement, arguing that no…
Violence a threat ahead of Central African Republic's vote
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Violence threatens Central African Republic’s presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, and some opposition candidates have pulled out of the race amid growing insecu…
Edmunds compares the 2021 Ford F-150 with Ram 1500
The Ford F-150 has long been the pickup truck to beat, not to mention the top-selling vehicle of any kind in the country. But Fiat Chrysler Automobiles took many by surprise when it introduced the tech-savvy Ram 15…
Doctors detail Navalny poison treatment in medical journal
BERLIN (AP) — German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he was poisoned with a nerve agent have detailed the case in an article for a major medical journal.
UN to halt joint UN-AU peacekeeping in Darfur by year's end
CAIRO (AP) — U.N. Security Council members decided to end the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region when the mission's mandate runs out on Dec. 31, after pressure from the cou…
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Kashmir parties opposed to Modi win seats in local polls
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — An alliance of political parties opposed to India's policies in Kashmir has won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semiautonomous …
In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for elders
PARIS (AP) — Not once in the long months since the pandemic struck has 74-year-old Jean-Francois been able to leave his nursing home in eastern France to visit his daughter or sister.
France lets some UK cargo, people in; huge backlog remains
CALAIS, France (AP) — Freight from Britain and passengers with a negative virus test began arriving on French shores Wednesday, after France relaxed a two-day blockade over a new virus variant that had isolated the…
Rights groups urge release of detained Ugandan rights lawyer
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Human Rights Watch and other rights groups are urging Ugandan authorities to free a prominent rights attorney who is being held by police over criminal allegations.
Steele, Goehner given committee assignments for legislative session
Reps. Mike Steele, R-Chelan, and Keith Goehner, R-Dryden, recently received committee assignments for the 2021 legislative session.
Collision near Hartline injures two
A two-vehicle collision on state Route 2 sent two drivers to hospitals Monday.
AP PHOTOS: Flying from Johannesburg to Paris, two hotspots
PARIS (AP) — The security officer pointing the thermometer barely glanced, but wished the traveler a “Happy Holiday.” The luggage wrappers day-dreamed of better times, and the list of departing flights didn’t even …