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UPDATED: Former Moses Lake doctor arrested after shootout with U.S. Marshals in Florida
STUART, Fla. — Former Moses Lake surgeon Thomas Earl Steffens, 72, has been arrested in Florida after an altercati…
Official news agency: Lebanese judge files charges against caretaker PM, 3 ex-ministers over Beirut port explosion
BEIRUT (AP) — Official news agency: Lebanese judge files charges against caretaker PM, 3 ex-ministers over Beirut port explosion.
Lebanese judge charges caretaker PM in port blast
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese prosecutor probing last summer’s port explosion in Beirut filed charges on Thursday against the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers, accusing them of negligence leading to…
Spain: 3 dead in inferno of building occupied by squatters
BADALONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighters in northeastern Spain found three bodies in an abandoned industrial complex occupied by migrants and other squatters that caught fire and partially collapsed, while ongoing emerg…
Jersey City marks 1 year since deadly bias attack
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Jersey City paused Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of a bias attack that killed a police officer and three people in a Jewish grocery store, and shone a light on tensions between …
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Azerbaijan stages parade to mark Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — A military parade was held Thursday in the Azerbaijani capital in celebration of the peace deal with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh that saw Azerbaijan reclaim much of the separatist region a…
Global Forecast-Fahrenheit
Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Thursday, December 10, 2020
As virus cases dip, western Switerland reopens restaurants
GENEVA (AP) — While much of Switzerland is preparing for tighter lockdown restrictions because of COVID-19, the country's French-speaking regions are going in the other direction — allowing restaurants to reopen on…
Global Forecast-Celsius
Global Forecast as of 23:00 GMT Thursday, December 10, 2020
Malaysia ends inquest into foreign teen's death near resort
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A virtual inquest into the death of a French-Irish teen, whose body was found near a Malaysian jungle resort where she vanished while on holiday, ended Thursday with a verdict due with…
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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine faces last hurdle before US decision
South Africa sees sharp rise in virus, part of African wave
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is seeing a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases and bracing for increased hospitalizations and deaths, said the country’s health minister Zweli Mkhize.
Ghana's main opposition party will contest election results
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, whose candidate came in second in a tightly contested presidential election, has said it will contest the results announced by th…
African health official blasts 'terrible' vaccine inequality
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — “It will be extremely terrible to see” rich countries receiving COVID-19 vaccines while African countries go without, especially as a new surge in cases begins on the continent of 1.3 billion …