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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…
Yemeni officials say armed men kill rebel official in Sanaa
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials said armed men shot dead a rebel official Tuesday as he was heading to his office in the capital Sanaa, the most senior Houthi to be killed in more than two years.
Hurricane warning for New Orleans as Zeta swirls over Mexico
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves for yet another tropical weather strike Tuesday after Zeta raked across the Yucatan Peninsula on a track that forecasters said would …
Thousands in Bangladesh protest against French cartoons
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Around 10,000 people in Bangladesh rallied in the South Asian nation's capital on Tuesday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem caricatures depicti…
Here's why Ant Group is about to shatter IPO records
HONG KONG (AP) — Stella Su, who lives and works in Shanghai, has used an ATM only once in the past year. Instead of cash, in recent years she has done almost all her business using the digital wallet Alipay –- shop…
AMD buying Xilinx in all-stock deal valued at $35B
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers.
The Latest: Canary Islands tourists will need negative tests
MADRID -- Spain’s Canary Islands aim to pass a law this week demanding a negative COVID-19 test result from tourists wanting to visit the archipelago off northwest Africa.
2 arrested in Bosnia for wartime killing of 78 civilians
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Authorities in Bosnia have detained two people suspected of taking part in the killing of at least 78 civilians during the 1992-95 war, the prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
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Biden goes on offense in Georgia while Trump targets Midwest
The Latest: German area goes into de-facto virus lockdown
BERLIN — A second German district has gone into a de-facto lockdown as new coronavirus infections surge in the country and across Europe.
Bomb at seminary in Pakistan kills 8 students, wounds 136
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 o…
Bangladesh holds massive protest against French cartoons
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Around 10,000 people in Bangladesh rallied in the South Asian nation's capital on Tuesday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem caricatures depicti…
Spanish unemployment rises to 16.3% amid pandemic
MADRID (AP) — Spain says 355,000 more people were left unemployed in the third quarter, bringing the total jobless rate up to 16.3% from 15.3% in the previous three-month period as surging infections and new virus …
Police shoot and kill man after yelling at him to drop knife
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man on a Philadelphia street Monday afternoon after yelling at him to drop his knife.
The Latest: France ponders new restrictions as cases soar
PARIS — France’s government is holding emergency virus meetings Tuesday and warning of possible new lockdowns, as hospitals fill up with new COVID patients and doctors plead for backup.
Police: Virginia man found in car trunk after crash in Miami
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities found the body of an aspiring hip-hop artist inside the trunk of a Virginia man's car after he crashed on a Miami highway, police said.