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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …
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Official: 4 sent to hospital after N Carolina plane crash
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A small plane crashed on Monday at a central North Carolina airport, sending four people -- three of them students -- to the hospital, authorities said.
China counts more virus deaths, illnesses as impact broadens
BEIJING (AP) — China reported 1,886 new virus cases and 98 more deaths in its update Tuesday on a disease outbreak that has caused mild illness in most people, an assessment that promoted guarded optimism from glob…
UN: Impact of long Libya war on civilians is `incalculable'
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N humanitarian coordinator for Libya said Monday the impact of the country’s nine-year war on civilians “is incalculable,” pointing to its intensity escalating “exponentially” since a re…
Aging Shiite cleric a powerhouse in Iraq. What comes after?
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — When Iraq’s top Shiite cleric underwent surgery for a fractured bone last month, it sent shivers around the country and beyond. “May God heal Iraq,” read a photo of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani…
Vandals cover Plymouth Rock in red graffiti
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The iconic Plymouth Rock and other sites were covered in red graffiti Monday during a vandalism spree discovered at the site marking the landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts 400 years ago…
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American cruise passengers quarantined at US military bases
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — More than 300 American cruise ship passengers, including 14 who tested positive for coronavirus, were being quarantined at military bases in California and Texas on Monday after…
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Bomb kills Pakistani policeman assigned to anti-polio team
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bombing targeted a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing a policeman and wounding three others, officials said. The police were assigned to escort health w…
HSBC net profit falls 53%, bank to sell assets in overhaul
Europe's biggest bank has reported that its net profit fell 53% in 2019 to $6 billion.
Turkey seeks 695 arrests over links to U.S.-based cleric
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants against 695 people suspected of links to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed by Turkey for a failed coup attempt in 2016, state media reporte…
Toxic gas leak kills 4 more people in coastal Karachi area
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A toxic gas leak killed four more people in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, police said Tuesday, bringing the death toll so far to nine in the incident that has sickened hundreds …
SC authorities to say how missing girl, neighbor were killed
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say they plan to reveal how a 6-year-old South Carolina girl was killed after disappearing from her front yard, and how evidence about her disappearance was found in the trash of a…