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EU moves ahead with tariffs on US but hopes for Biden change
BRUSSELS - The European Union pressed ahead Monday with plans to impose tariffs and other penalties on up to $4 billion worth of U.S. goods and services over illegal American support for plane maker B...
Nov 09, 2020
Cambodia's new virus rules restrain holiday celebrations
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodians marked their Independence Day holiday Monday, but new coronavirus restrictions kept them from celebrating at karaoke parlours, beer gardens, museums, cinemas and othe...
Nov 09, 2020
Suu Kyi's party claims to have won majority in Myanmar polls
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy party claimed Monday that it has won enough seats in Parliament to constitute an absolute majority and retain power. It made the claim ...
Nov 09, 2020
Trump's election night party adds to virus scrutiny
WASHINGTON - It was supposed to be a scene of celebration. Instead, the Trump campaign's election night watch party in the White House East Room has become another symbol of President Donald Trump's c...
Nov 09, 2020
EXPLAINER: A closer look at Arizona
A CLOSER LOOK AT ARIZONA State officials said Friday there are 150,000 votes still to be counted in Arizona, a Western presidential battleground state where Democrat Joe Biden had a .92 percentage poi...
Nov 09, 2020
McCarrick: What's known about the abusive US ex-cardinal
ROME - The Vatican on Tuesday will release its report into the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-influential American cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a...
Nov 09, 2020
Already flooded, South Florida feeling wrath of Eta
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Beaches and coronavirus testing sites were closed, public transportation shut down and some evacuations in place early Monday after Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in the Flor...
Nov 09, 2020
Pakistan's supreme court orders release of detained TV mogul
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's supreme court on Monday granted bail to the owner and editor-in-chief of country's largest independent group of newspapers and television stations, months after his arrest in a ...
Nov 09, 2020
China holding off sending congratulations in US election
BEIJING - China said Monday it has taken note of Joe Biden's declaration of victory in the U.S. presidential election but is holding off on sending any message of congratulations. Foreign ministry spo...
Nov 09, 2020
World markets rise on relief over U.S. election outcome
TOKYO - World markets advanced Monday as investors evinced relief over the end of U.S. presidential election limbo after Joe Biden was declared the president-elect. France's CAC 40 jumped 1.7% in earl...
Nov 09, 2020