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Merkel, German governors to eye results of partial lockdown
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will assess the effects of a nearly two-week-long partial lockdown with state governors in a video conference Monday. Germany went into a partial lockdown at t...
Nov 16, 2020
UAE national carrier to start flying to Tel Aviv next spring
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced Monday it would start operating daily nonstop flights to Tel Aviv next spring, a move that dee...
Nov 16, 2020
Report: Belgium nursing homes failed patients amid pandemic
BRUSSELS - Amnesty International said Belgium authorities "abandoned" thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic following an investigation published Monday ...
Nov 16, 2020
Jetliner hits brown bear while landing in southeast Alaska
YAKUTAT, Alaska - An Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to the plane, officials said. None of the passengers or cr...
Nov 16, 2020
Biden seeks window on vaccine plans as Trump stalls handoff
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to...
Nov 16, 2020
Trump campaign retreats from key claim in Pennsylvania suit
HARRISBURG, Pa. - President Donald Trump's campaign is withdrawing a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden bea...
Nov 16, 2020
Peru now has no president as crisis takes chaotic turn
LIMA, Peru - Who is the president of Peru? That answer to that question early Monday was no one. The Latin American nation's political turmoil took a chaotic turn Sunday when interim leader Manuel Mer...
Nov 16, 2020
Fire in Hong Kong apartment building kills 7, injures 11
HONG KONG - Authorities in Hong Kong said at least seven people were killed and 11 injured in a fire at an apartment building that may have started at a gathering of people from the city's Nepalese co...
Nov 16, 2020
UK's Johnson in quarantine but declares himself fit, working
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is as "fit as a butcher's dog" after being instructed to self-isolate for 14 days because he recently came in contact with someone who has since c...
Nov 16, 2020
U.S. extradition fight for Huawei CFO back in B.C. court with evidence hearings
VANCOUVER - The lengthy extradition process resumes today for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou as her lawyers fight against her removal from Canada to the United States. The legal team for Meng is ...
Nov 16, 2020