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Thailand approves transfer of 3 Iranians as Australian freed

BANGKOK - Thai officials say they have approved the transfer back to Tehran of three Iranians who were involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot. The acknowledgement from Thailand on Thursday came as a 33-...

Nov 25, 2020

Toronto police have person of interest in billionaire deaths

Toronto police said Wednesday that they have identified a person of interest in the killing of Canadian drug company billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife nearly three years ago. Police Constable Jen...

Nov 25, 2020

UN agency: Israel's Gaza blockade has devastated economy

JERUSALEM - Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has cost the seaside territory as much as $16.7 billion in economic losses and sent poverty and unemployment skyrocketing, a U.N. report sai...

Nov 25, 2020

Trump refuses to accept Biden's win as transition proceeds

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday baselessly claimed anew that he had won the election and uttered repeated falsehoods as he called into an event held by Pennsylvania Republicans to inv...

Nov 25, 2020

Trump pardons Flynn, taking direct aim at Russia probe

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday, taking direct aim in the final days of his administration at a Russia investigation that he ha...

Nov 25, 2020

As economy struggles, Fed weighs boosting bond purchases

WASHINGTON - At their meeting earlier this month, Federal Reserve officials discussed possible future adjustments to the central bank's monthly bond purchases to boost the economy. The Fed on Wednesda...

Nov 25, 2020

Trump administration denies permit for divisive Alaska mine

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Trump administration on Wednesday denied a permit for a controversial gold and copper mine near the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery in southwest Alaska...

Nov 25, 2020

The pandemic is changing Hollywood, maybe forever

NEW YORK - "No New 'Movies' Till Influenza Ends" blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding. A century later, during another pande...

Nov 25, 2020

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona dies at 60

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the "Hand of God" goal in 1986 and led his country to that year's World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine u...

Nov 25, 2020

Iran says British-Australian academic freed for 3 Iranians

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Wednesday freed a British-Australian academic who had been detained in the country for over two years, in exchange for three Iranians held abroad, state TV announced. The televi...

Nov 25, 2020