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Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 2:43 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The world premiere of a documentary on Pope Francis was supposed to have been a bright spot for a papacy locked down by pandemic and besieged by a corruption scandal.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 12:23 PM CDT
|By DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE
The deal, which would deepen Sudan’s engagement with the West, follows Trump’s conditional agreement this week to remove the North African nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if it pays compensation to American victims of terror attacks.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 11:58 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Worldwide, the virus has infected more than 41 million people and killed more than 1.1 million, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 6:54 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Transcripts released Thursday show financier Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend was combative and defensive under tough questioning four years ago about her ex-boyfriend’s interactions with underage girls.
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Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
From Italy to the United Kingdom, nations are trying to get a handle on a surging pandemic.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 1:21 PM CDT
|By NICOLE WINFIELD
Question swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis' bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 8:02 AM CDT
Snowden is a former NSA contractor who fled the U.S. to avoid prosecution after allegedly publicly disclosing classified information in 2013.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 4:23 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
New virus cases in the U.S. have surged in recent weeks from a daily average of about 42,000 in early October to about 58,000 — the highest level since late July.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 1:39 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Imperial College London says the study involves healthy volunteers aged 18 to 30.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 10:28 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
A Danish man convicted of torturing and murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine made a dramatic but brief escape from a suburban Copenhagen prison Tuesday, reportedly taking a hostage to break out before police recaptured him.
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Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 10:15 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Russia said Tuesday it’s ready to accept a U.S. proposal to freeze the number of nuclear warheads and extend the two nations' last arms control pact for one year and Washington responded that it’s prepared to make a quick deal.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 12:35 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Iran’s single-day death toll from the coronavirus smashed a record set less than a week ago, with 337 dead confirmed Monday.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 12:26 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan is warning that “distressingly high” levels of violence threaten to derail ongoing peace talks.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 6:42 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
China’s shaky economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is gaining strength as consumers return to shopping malls and auto dealerships while the United States and Europe endure painful contractions.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Flooding in central Vietnam has killed at least 36 people since last week.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 6:49 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos has been arrested in Los Angeles.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 5:27 PM CDT
|By ELAINE GANLEY
The French anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into the slaying for murder with a suspected terrorist motive, the prosecutor’s office said.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 3:15 PM CDT
Hundreds of Argentine flags dotted the sand of a beach at the Mar del Plata resort, a poignant memorial to the victims of the novel coronavirus in one of this South American country’s virus hotspots.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 11:43 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Doctors are warning that Europe is at a turning point as the coronavirus surges back across the continent, including among vulnerable people, and governments try to impose restrictions without locking whole economies down.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 10:17 AM CDT
|By By JILL LAWLESS and RAF CASERT
The British government says trade talks with the European Union are effectively over and the country must prepare for a no-deal break with the bloc, despite EU leaders declaring that negotiations will continue next week.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 1:49 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Tanzania’s government is hoping helicopters and planes will help put out a fire raging on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The coronavirus pandemic is threatening the future of a generation of the world’s children, depriving them of schooling and sending them to work.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 1:46 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
French police have searched the homes of the former prime minister, the current and former health ministers and other top officials in an investigation into the government response to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 9:45 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The European Union and Britain imposed sanctions Thursday on six Russians, some among the highest-ranked officials in the nation, and a state research institute over the nerve agent poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2020 at 3:18 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The European Union has unveiled new plans to help slow down global warming.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2020 at 1:49 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Another American detained in Yemen had died in captivity.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2020 at 11:30 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
European countries, and even regions inside countries, are applying drastically contrasting strategies to get a handle on the pandemic.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:04 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The World Health Organization said Tuesday there were more than 700,000 new COVID-19 cases reported in Europe last week, a jump of 34% compared to the previous week.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2020 at 12:31 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Pakistani police have arrested the second assailant in a gang rape of a woman whose car broke down on a deserted highway at night last month.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 at 2:11 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
For the second day in a row, Iran has announced its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus with 272 people killed.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2020 at 10:27 AM CDT
|By DALATOU MAMANE, FRANK JORDANS and VANESSA GERA
While the Norwegian Nobel Committee maintains absolute secrecy about whom it favors for the prize, guesses this year focused on Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and the World Health Organization.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2020 at 8:57 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The plan consists of five prizes of 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) awarded each year for the next 10 years, providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2020 at 2:18 PM CDT
|By Christine Armario
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the harried health officials of Peru faced a quandary. They knew molecular tests for COVID-19 were the best option to detect the virus – yet they didn’t have the labs, the supplies, or the technicians to make them work.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2020 at 1:49 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Authorities have found 13 bullet-ridden bodies stuffed into two SUVs in northern Mexico
Updated: Oct. 6, 2020 at 1:43 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
A German court has convicted a male nurse of three cases of murder for injecting elderly patients with fatal doses of insulin because he was tired of caring for them or wanted to steal their belongings.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2020 at 3:37 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Paul Rusesabagina is a founder of the Rwanda Movement for Democratic Change, a coalition of opposition groups, which has an armed wing known as the National Liberation Front.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2020 at 10:00 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
French authorities consider bars to be major infection hot spots because patrons don’t respect social distancing rules as much as they do at restaurants.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2020 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Mexican workers have confounded economists by sending home huge sums of money during the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 11:23 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Germany after being poisoned in Russia by a nerve agent, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attack in comments released Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The Embassy confirmed the woman was a U.S. citizen in a statement and said they were “heartbroken” to report her death.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 4:00 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Cardinal George Pell has returned to Rome after his acquittal on child sexual abuse charges to find the Vatican mired in a financial corruption scandal.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2020 at 12:01 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad recently republished by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said Tuesday.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2020 at 11:12 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The measures will also bring an end to mink farming, where animals are raised for their fur, within the next five years.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 at 12:27 PM CDT
|By KATHY GANNON
The court delayed until next week hearing the appeal over the lower-court acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row since his conviction in 2002 over Pearl’s killing.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 at 12:23 PM CDT
|By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
The rocket targeted the international airport but struck a residential home close by on Monday, two security officials said.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 at 9:30 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The Health Ministry reported 82,170 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, driving the overall total to 6,074,703.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 2:09 PM CDT
France’s counterterrorism prosecutor’s office says it has opened an investigation into a knife attack Friday near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that wounded at least two people.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 8:54 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Navalny, a longtime foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was discharged from the hospital earlier this week.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 6:59 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Rusesabagina, a Belgian citizen and U.S. permanent resident who has been a prominent critic of President Paul Kagame, is charged with 13 offenses that also include financing terrorism.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 2:40 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
A Chinese pharmaceutical company says its coronavirus vaccine candidate will be ready for the world by early next year.