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Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
More than 50 killed at collapsed gold mine in eastern Congo

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — More than 50 people are dead after landslides caused the collapse of three artisanal gold mines near the city of Kamituga in eastern Congo’s South Kivu province on Friday, officials said.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News Digest 4:20 a.m.

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Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Thousands still homeless after Greek refugee camp fire

MORIA, Lesbos (AP) — Thousands of asylum-seekers have spent a fourth night sleeping in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos, after successive fires destroyed a notoriously overcrowded migrant and refugee camp dur…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Istanbul introduces limits to gatherings as virus spreads

ISTANBUL (AP) — The governor of Istanbul has banned boating companies from hosting weddings and similar gatherings as part of new measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey's most populous city.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Lottery State-by-State

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Saturday:

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mexico rights agency faults gov't in migrant COVID-19 death

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said Friday the country’s immigration agency was to blame in the death of a Salvadoran migrant who died of COVID-19 after a stay at a detention center in…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

Smoke chokes West Coast as wildfire deaths keep climbing

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mexico: Foreigner who used racist insult can't re-enter

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Friday it has banned a foreign woman from re-entering the country after she was caught on video calling a woman in Mexico City a “horrible Indian.”

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Embed-Type-Keyword-Keyword, ADVISORY

ANTARCTICA-KEEPING COVID-FREE - Map. This digital embed locates facilities based in Antarctica and identifies which countries operate those spaces. This map is current as of September 8, 2020 and will not be update…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Egypt journalist arrested over coverage of detainee's death

CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Egyptian journalist who reported on a young man’s death in police custody has been detained on charges of reporting fake news, his employer said Friday, the latest blow to press freedoms in…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Farmers hold out at seized Mexican dam as tensions build

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of farmers continued to hold a remote dam in northern Mexico on Friday as time was running out for the country to catch up on payments and avoid breaching a 1944 water treaty with the Un…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

Smoke chokes West Coast as wildfire deaths keep climbing

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Combat vet killed by Texas deputy buried in Alabama on 9/11

MONTEVALLO, Ala. (AP) — His Army stint complete after serving in Afghanistan, Damian Daniels left Alabama to begin a new life in Texas. He bought a house, enrolled in college and supported the Black Lives Matter mo…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
About 8,800 unaccompanied children are expelled at US border

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum, authorities said Fri…