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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…
Oil companies accused of wanting to dump plastics in Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The oil industry has asked the United States to pressure Kenya to change its world-leading stance against the plastic waste that litters Africa, according to environmentalists who fear the con…
Belarus: Students detained while protesting nation's leader
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities resumed detaining protesters in the country's capital Tuesday as university students took to the streets to demand the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader a…
UN agency laments summer's 'deep wound' to Earth's ice cover
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a “deep wound” in the cryosphere -- the planet’s frozen parts -- amid a heat wave in the Arctic,
Massachusetts voters to decide Markey, Kennedy primary fight
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters on Tuesday were deciding one of the higher profile battles on this year's primary ballot — the contest pitting incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Edward Markey against U.S. Rep. Joe K…
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Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Tuesday, September 1, 2020
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Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Sheriff: LA deputies killed Black man who dropped a handgun
Los Angeles (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was investigating the fatal shooting of a Black man by two deputies Monday afternoon.
Lebanese philanthropist Lady Cochrane dies of blast injuries
BEIRUT (AP) — One of Lebanon's most prominent philanthropists and a pioneer defender of the country's heritage, Lady Yvonne Sursock Cochrane, has died from injuries she suffered in the massive Aug. 4 explosion that…
Detentions resume in Belarus as students take to the streets
MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Tuesday resumed detaining protesters in the capital, Minsk, where students took to the streets demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader after an electi…
French paper attacked in 2015 reprints Muhammad caricatures
PARIS (AP) — The French satirical paper whose staff was decimated in a violent attack by Islamic extremists in 2015 is reprinting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad cited by the killers, declaring "history cannot …
Daughter says 'Hotel Rwanda' hero was 'kidnapped' in Dubai
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as saving the lives of more than 1,200 people from genocide was “kidnapped” while in Dubai, his daughter asserts, while a video shared by Rwandan aut…
Pakistan warns ex-PM Sharif must return to face graft case
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Tuesday warned the country's ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to return home by Sept. 10 to face a corruption hearing or risk being declared a fugitive from justice.
Jailed Zimbabwean journalist has virus symptoms, says lawyer
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean journalist in jail for more than a month is “visibly ill” and exhibiting symptoms “consistent with COVID-19,” one of his lawyers said, but prison authorities claim the journalis…
Oil companies want Kenya to loosen strict stance on plastics
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The oil industry has asked the United States to pressure Kenya to change its world-leading stance against the plastic waste that litters Africa, according to environmentalists who fear the con…
Pope: Use pandemic to give the environment a vital "rest"
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how the Earth can recover “if we allow it to rest” and must spur people to adopt simpler lifestyles to help a planet “groaning” under the constant demand for econ…