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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…
AP source: US to announce charges against British IS members
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is preparing to announce charges Wednesday against two men from Britain who joined the Islamic State and were part of a cell that beheaded Western hostages, a law enforcemen…
2 guilty of supporting deadly Westgate mall attack in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court on Wednesday found two men guilty for supporting the days-long 2013 attack on Nairobi’s upscale Westgate Mall that left 67 people dead.
Families await freed hostages' return in Mali's capital
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Relatives and supporters on Wednesday anxiously awaited the return of a prominent Malian politician and a French aid worker released by Islamic extremists, after families were notified of their …
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Iranian state TV says the country has hit a record number of daily deaths from the coronavirus, with 239 new fatalities
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says the country has hit a record number of daily deaths from the coronavirus, with 239 new fatalities.
Hurricane Delta has made landfall near Puerto Morelos along the northeastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Delta has made landfall near Puerto Morelos along the northeastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico as a Category 2
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Pakistan to keep top suspect in Daniel Pearl murder in jail
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A British-born Pakistani man who has been on death row over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl will remain in jail for another three months despite his acquittal by a lower court …
Egypt frees journalist detained while covering Luxor unrest
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have released a local journalist detained over the weekend in the southern city of Luxor where she was covering the alleged killing of a man during a police raid, her lawyer said W…
2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two researchers Wednesday for a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized science by providing a way to alter DNA, the code of life — technology already being u…
UN 'outraged' by attack on food aid convoy in South Sudan
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program says it is “outraged” by an attack on a convoy carrying food aid in South Sudan that left one crew member missing and three with gunshot wounds.
Armenia, Azerbaijan continue fighting as EU calls for calm
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continued Wednesday morning, with Armenian officials saying the territory's capital came u…
Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded for 'genome scissors'
STOCKHOLM (AP) — French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer th…