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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…
The Latest: Laura surge swamps Holly Beach and Cameron, La.
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The Latest: Africa reports sharp decline in new infections
JOHANNESBURG — Africa’s top public health official says the continent has seen a 20% decrease in confirmed coronavirus cases in the past week, but he warns that “we shouldn’t go home celebrating that our pandemic i…
Thai headmaster accused of killing 3 gets death sentence
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand handed a death sentence Thursday to an elementary school principal convicted of fatally shooting three people including a toddler during a robbery of a gold shop earlier this year.
AP Week in Pictures, Middle East
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Middle East, Afghanistan & Pakistan Region between Aug. 20-26, 2020.
Turkey accuses France of stoking tensions in east Med
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Thursday accused France of stoking tensions in the eastern Mediterranean, where NATO allies Turkey and Greece are locked in a stiff standoff over competing claims over offshore energ…
Videos show Laura's winds battering a skyscraper in Lake Charles, Louisiana, blowing out windows as glass, debris fly
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Videos show Laura's winds battering a skyscraper in Lake Charles, Louisiana, blowing out windows as glass, debris fly.
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The Nation's Weather for Friday, August 28, 2020
The Latest: Laura batters buildings near Louisiana coast
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Laura weakens to Category 3 hurricane as storm causes flash flooding, catastrophic storm surge in southwestern Louisiana
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Laura weakens to Category 3 hurricane as storm causes flash flooding, catastrophic storm surge in southwestern Louisiana.
Fires set, windows broken as Oakland protest turns violent
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Protests over the shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin turned violent late Wednesday night.
Laura slams Louisiana coast with fierce wind, surging sea
LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast for hours with ferocious wind, torrential rains and rising seawater as it roared ashore over southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border early Thursda…
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Netherlands extradites far-right suspect to Germany
BERLIN (AP) — A German man wanted on allegations he helped spearhead a far-right group that posted pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic material online has been extradited from the Netherlands, federal prosecutors said Thursd…
Family of convicted Hezbollah member denounces 'injustice'
BEIRUT (AP) — The family of a Hezbollah member convicted in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri described Thursday the guilty verdict handed down by a U.N.-backed tribunal as a “gr…
Europe is going back to school despite recent virus surge
PARIS (AP) — A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicolored fountain pens, crisp notebooks – and plenty of masks. Despite resurgent coronavirus infecti…