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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…
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Navalny's medevac from Russia to Germany in limbo
MOSCOW (AP) — Family and allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were fighting Friday to get him moved to a German clinic from the Siberian hospital where he has been in a coma for over 24 hours after lo…
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Spain: 5 more migrants die on dangerous Canary Islands route
ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (AP) — Five more migrants have died while trying to reach the southern Canary Islands from west Africa, bringing to 20 the number of who lost their lives this week attempting to navigate perilous…
Police investigate arrest of Black woman seen in viral video
LOGANVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia police department is investigating an arrest captured on video showing a white officer using a stun gun on a Black woman.
Lebanon begins partial lockdown amid spike in virus cases
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon on Friday began a two-week partial lockdown and nighttime curfew after coronavirus cases increased sharply following an explosion in Beirut that killed and injured thousands of people.
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Biden vows to defeat Trump, end US 'season of darkness'
Libya's government announces cease-fire, calls for elections
CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s U.N.-supported government Friday announced a cease-fire across the oil-rich country and called for demilitarizing the strategic city of Sirte in an initiative supported by the rival parliament …
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Fire hits electricity plant in south India, at least 6 dead
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A massive fire in a government-run underground electricity plant killed at least six workers in southern India, an official said Friday.
Libya’s UN-backed government announces cease-fire, urges demilitarizing contested city of Sirte, calls for elections
CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s UN-backed government announces cease-fire, urges demilitarizing contested city of Sirte, calls for elections.
The Latest: Slovakia reports biggest 1-day increase of 123
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia has registered the highest day-to-day increase of COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
Russian doctors say Navalny wasn't poisoned, refuse transfer
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian doctors treating opposition leader Alexei Navalny don't believe he was poisoned and refused to transfer him to a German hospital on Friday.
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