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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…
Stocks edge lower in early trading as a market rally stalls
Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street Thursday as more evidence piles up showing how badly the coronavirus pandemic is hurting companies and the job market. The S&P 500 gave up 0.1%. The number of people…
Virus means Mexican emigrants send fewer dollars to hometown
NEW YORK (AP) — In the weeks he spent flat on his back in his Brooklyn bunk, wracked with pain and struggling to breathe, Axayacatl Figueroa could think of nothing but the small town and the family he had left behi…
FBI: Researcher being harbored at Chinese consulate in SF
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI believes the Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a Chinese researcher who is charged in federal court in California with lying about her military background.
Virus Outbreak, ADVISORY
The viral pandemic’s resurgence caused the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits to rise last week for the first time in nearly four months, evidence of the deepening economic pain the outbreak is causi…
The Latest: Israel sends research team on testing to India
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Defense Ministry says it will send a research delegation to India to test out different diagnostic technologies to determine whether someone has been infected by the coronavirus.
AP Entertainment Digest for Thursday, July 23
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Johnson stresses 'sheer might' of UK as he visits Scotland
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that the United Kingdom's response to the coronavirus pandemic has shown the country's “sheer might” as he sought during a trip to Scotland on Thursday to …
Pakistan returns 200-year-old temple to Sikhs in southwest
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A 200-year-old Sikh temple that served as a school for Muslim girls for seven decades was returned to the Sikh community in Quetta, enabling them to worship there for the first time in 73 ye…
French foreign minister urges Lebanon to resume IMF talks
BEIRUT (AP) — French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian urged Lebanese politicians on Thursday to resume talks with the International Monetary Fund, saying they are the only way out of the country's dire economic …
Pandemic tough on Argentina's already overworked care givers
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Even before the new coronavirus hit, Argentina's health care workers were struggling, most of them often working more than 12 hours a day at multiple jobs to make ends meet amid the c…
North Macedonia: top Albanian summoned on Kosovo war crimes
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The leader of the main ethnic Albanian party in North Macedonia said he has been invited to appear as a witness at the special international court on alleged crimes during and after t…
1.4 million seek jobless aid, first increase since March
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time since the pandemic struck in March, evidence of the deepening economic pain the outbreak is causing…
Bombing at open-air market wounds 20 in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — At least 20 people were wounded when a bomb went off at a busy open-air market in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, police said.
Saudi Arabia says 84-year-old King Salman undergoes a successful surgery to remove his gallbladder
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says 84-year-old King Salman undergoes a successful surgery to remove his gallbladder.
Thailand claims breakthrough in Japanese tourist murder case
BANGKOK (AP) — Improved DNA testing has shed new light on the unsolved murder of a female Japanese tourist 13 years ago, suggesting a link to a male of East Asian heritage, Thai officials said Thursday.