WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government announced Wednesday that it will halt imports of cotton and tomatoes from the Uighur region of China in its most sweeping action yet to pressure the …
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By BEN FOX
Associated Press | 1/13/21 |
MOSCOW (AP) — Top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he plans to go home to Russia next weekend despite the authorities' threats to put him once again behind bars.
Navalny, who has been …
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press | 1/13/21 |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — What has happened to Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean leader's influential sister?
That is a question many who watch the cloistered, nuclear-armed country are …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press | 1/13/21 |
MEISSEN, Germany (AP) — The caskets are stacked three high in the Meissen crematorium's somber memorial hall, piled up in empty offices and stored in hallways. Many are sealed with plastic …
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By FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press | 1/12/21 |
LONDON (AP) — The Irish government is poised to make a formal apology for abuses in church-run homes for unmarried women and their babies, where thousands of infants died and were sometimes …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers are searching for 26 people still missing after two landslides hit a village in Indonesia's West Java province over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.
At …
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis changed church law Monday to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the most sacred place on the altar, while continuing to …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press | 1/11/21 |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Monday advanced plans to build 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a move that could strain ties with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe …
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By JOSEPH KRAUSS
Associated Press | 1/11/21 |
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, have received their COVID-19 vaccinations, royal officials said Saturday.
Buckingham Palace officials said in a statement …
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LONDON (AP) — The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus …
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By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press | 1/10/21 |