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Updated 1 month 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 6 years ago
Priest, a seminary rector, slain in El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest has been shot to death along a road in El Salvador and church authorities on Saturday called for investigation of the slaying.

Updated 6 years ago
Fury over Beirut blast fuels protests, clashes with police

BEIRUT (AP) — Public fury over this week’s massive explosion in Beirut took a new turn Saturday night as protesters stormed government institutions and clashed for hours with security forces, who responded with hea…

Updated 6 years ago
US response to the virus is met with incredulity abroad

ROME (AP) — The United States’ failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the world’s most powerful country edges closer to a global record of 5 million …

Updated 6 years ago
Census Bureau drop-outs complicate door-knocking efforts

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Bob Garick was looking forward to being a field supervisor during the door-knocking phase of the 2020 census, but as the number of

Updated 6 years ago
Hundreds rally against detention of Thai protest leaders

BANGKOK (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in Thailand on Saturday, after police arrested two leading anti-government protest leaders in an apparent attempt to stifle growing political unrest.

Updated 6 years ago
Schools face big virus test as students return to classroom

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part.

Updated 6 years ago
Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear …

Updated 6 years ago
With dwindling survivors, Nagasaki marks 75th anniversary of US atomic bombing that killed more than 70,000 people

TOKYO (AP) — With dwindling survivors, Nagasaki marks 75th anniversary of US atomic bombing that killed more than 70,000 people.

Updated 6 years ago
Days of torrential rain in S. Korea leave at least 30 dead

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — More than a week of torrential rain in South Korea has left at least 30 dead and 12 missing in landslides, floods and other incidents, the government said Sunday while warning of further d…

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: India doctors ask for support as 196 die so far

NEW DELHI, India —The Indian Medical Association says 196 doctors have died of COVID-19 so far and, in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requested adequate care for physicians and their families.

Updated 6 years ago
Fire kills 11 patients in southern India's COVID-19 facility

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A fire killed 11 coronavirus patients early Sunday at a southern Indian hotel being used as a COVID-19 facility, officials said, in the second such incident this month.

Updated 6 years ago
New Zealand marks 100 days of virus elimination

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand on Sunday marked 100 days since it stamped out the spread of the coronavirus, a rare bright spot in a world that continues to be ravaged by the disease.

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: Beirut protesters enter government buildings

BEIRUT (AP) — The latest on the explosion in Beirut (all times local):

Updated 6 years ago
7 killed in Mexico's most violent state despite capo arrest

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hopes that the recent arrest of a Mexican gang leader could calm the country’s most violent state appeared dashed Saturday as the bullet-ridden bodies of seven men were found in a field and a riv…

Updated 6 years ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

Trump end run around Congress raises questions on his claims