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The World Cup final is set, with Messi and Argentina facing Yamal and Spain for the title on Sunday
The best offense. The best defense. The World Cup final is set, and fittingly, a clash of styles awaits. Lionel…
GOP-led Senate committees issue report on Bidens, Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday on the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine.
Germany sets up fund for victims of 1980 Oktoberfest bombing
BERLIN (AP) — The German government is setting up a 1.2 million-euro ($1.4 million) fund to help survivors of a deadly far-right attack on Munich's Oktoberfest in 1980, in what the justice minister described Wednes…
UN labor agency: Growing rich-poor gap amid COVID pandemic
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. labor agency warned Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic has led to a massive drop in income for workers around the world and of rising inequality between rich countries that have injected…
Russian frigate and container ship collide in Danish waters
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Russian frigate has collided with a Marshall Islands-flagged container ship off Copenhagen, Denmark’s navy said. Weather reports show that there was thick fog in the area at the time of…
Duterte gets rare praise for raising sea feud ruling at UN
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president got rare praises Wednesday from his key critics for invoking before the United Nations a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated China’s vast territorial claims …
Late-stage study of first single-shot vaccine begins in US
Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus.
The Latest: More restrictions in store for hard-hit Madrid
MADRID — Health authorities in Madrid may extend to more communities the restrictions on movement it imposed on areas of the Spanish capital with high coronavirus infection rates.
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'Unfathomable': US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000
German virus app transmitted 1.2M test results in 100 days
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's coronavirus tracing app has been used to transmit 1.2 million test results from labs to users during its first 100 days, officials said Wednesday.
Milan Fashion Show seeks to inject optimism in hybrid event
MILAN (AP) — The Italian fashion industry is moving to inject optimism into luxury's dismal year, staging 23 live runway shows and 37 presentations during a hybrid live-digital Milan Fashion Week that aims to excit…
Pakistan says Indian fire killed 2 soldiers in Kashmir
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's military said two of its soldiers were killed Wednesday by Indian fire in an “unprovoked cease-fire violation” in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
The Latest: UK government defends virus control strategy
LONDON — The British government is defending its strategy for combatting a second wave of coronavirus infections from criticism that new restrictions didn’t go far enough to stop the exponential spread of the virus.
UN unearths record low temperature for Northern Hemisphere
GENEVA (AP) — For all the recent talk of global warming, climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency calls a new record low in the Northern Hemisphere — near…
Global shares mostly higher after Wall Street rebound
World stocks were mostly higher on Wednesday as European shares advanced despite fresh data showing the regional economic recovery may be faltering.
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