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Updated 5 days, 15 hours ago

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…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
The Latest: 15 vaccine clinical trials underway in Africa

JOHANNESBURG — Fifteen clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines are underway across the African continent, according to a comment published in the journal Nature by Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
3 scientists share Nobel physics prize for cosmology finds

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Hurricane Delta now Category 2, roars at Mexico's Yucatan

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a Category 2 hurricane with 110 mph (175 kmh) winds Tuesday on a course to hammer southeastern Mexico and then grow to a potentially catastrophic Category…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 a.m. EDT

Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Dutch military police shoot knife-wielding man at airport

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch military police who shot a man armed with a large knife at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and arrested another man said Tuesday that they do not believe a terrorist motive was behi…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
The Latest: Italy weighing mandatory mask wearing outdoors

ROME — Italy’s health minister says the government is examining a proposal to make masks mandatory outdoors as the country enters a difficult phase of living alongside COVID-19, with the number of infections growin…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Top Israeli, UAE diplomats meeting in Berlin for talks

BERLIN (AP) — The foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Israel are meeting in Berlin on Tuesday for talks that Germany hopes will strengthen nascent ties between the two nations and bolster broader Midd…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Dutch hospital: Gynecologist fathered at least 17 children

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A gynecologist who worked at an artificial insemination program at a Dutch hospital fathered at least 17 children using his own sperm without informing the parents, the hospital announ…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
UK's Johnson to sink millions into wind power

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to pledge that every home in the country will be powered by offshore wind in a decade.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Kyrgyzstan cancels general election results after unrest

MOSCOW (AP) — The Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan declared the results of the weekend's parliamentary election invalid on Tuesday after mass protests erupted in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek and other cities.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Maldives ex-vice president jailed again for money laundering

MALE, Maldives (AP) — The former vice president of the Maldives has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to money laundering and embezzlement under orders from the former president.

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
Unrest in Kyrgyzstan: govt buildings seized, ex-leader freed

MOSCOW (AP) — Opposition supporters in Kyrgyzstan have seized several government buildings in the country's capital, freed the ex-president from jail and announced plans to oust the president and form a new governm…

Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 9 months ago
EU court rules against Hungary's Orban over Soros university

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's highest court ruled Tuesday that changes by Hungary to its law on higher education which effectively forced a university founded by George Soros to leave the country were not in…