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Gas prices climb across WA through April
MOSES LAKE — Gas prices across Washington continued their upward trajectory throughout April, mirroring national v…
The Latest: California bill would ban evictions until Feb.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have reached an agreement on a bill to temporarily protect people from evictions.
AP PHOTOS: Pandemic casts pall over Muharram in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For Nasir Hussain, observing the Muslim month of Muharram, which marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson in the battle of Karbala, is an article of faith.
Divisions emerge between Mali junta, opposition leaders
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Tensions mounted on Saturday between Mali's military junta and the country's longtime political opposition after the coup leaders failed to invite prominent opposition figures to a planned forum…
Berlin police shut down protest against virus restrictions
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police ordered a protest by people opposed to Germany's pandemic restrictions to disband Saturday after participants refused to observe social distancing rules.
Columbia taking slave-owning doctor's name off campus dorm
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University is taking the name of its medical school’s founder off of a campus dormitory because he owned slaves and once advertised a reward for the return of one who ran away, the universi…
Were they a threat? Police shootings reignite legal debate
In the span of 48 hours, two Black men in U.S. cities hundreds of miles apart were shot by police in episodes that set off a national conversation about the need for officers to open fire on people walking away fro…
‘Protect our babies:’ Hospital cares for babies in hurricane
As the wind howled and the rain slammed down, a team of nurses, respiratory therapists and a doctor worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed southwestern Louisiana.
Debate churns over rebel statue after board votes to keep it
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Refusing to give up, some north Mississippi residents are still urging an all-white board of county officials to move a Confederate monument away from an old courthouse on the town square in Ox…
Thousands march in Mauritius over oil spill, dead dolphins
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Honking and drumming, tens of thousands of people protested Saturday in the capital of Mauritius over the government’s handling of an oil spill from a grounded Japanese ship and the alarming dis…
Global Forecast-Fahrenheit
Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Saturday, August 29, 2020
UN expresses concern over 'dramatic turn' in Libya crisis
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm over what it called “a dramatic turn of events” in Libya's civil war, after a power struggle between leaders of the Tripoli-based government surfaced in the …
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Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Saturday, August 29, 2020
2-story restaurant collapses in China, killing 17 people
BEIJING (AP) — Seventeen people were killed in China after a two-story restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday morning, state media said.
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France's horses killed in mysterious ritual-like mutilations
PARIS (AP) — Armed with knives, some knowledge of their prey and a large dose of cruelty, attackers are going after horses and ponies in pastures across France in what may be ritual mutilations.