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India celebrates Diwali amid pandemic, pollution fears

NEW DELHI - More than a billion Indians celebrated Diwali on Saturday amid twin concerns of a resurgence in coronavirus infections and rising air pollution that is enveloping the country's north in a ...

Nov 14, 2020

Armenians torch their homes on land ceded to Azerbaijan

KALBAJAR, Azerbaijan - In a bitter farewell to his home of 21 years, Garo Dadevusyan wrenched off its metal roof and prepared to set the stone house on fire. Thick smoke poured from houses that his ne...

Nov 14, 2020

Lebanon begins two-week lockdown to limit spread of virus

BEIRUT - Lebanese police on Saturday patrolled the streets of the capital Beirut, ordering shops to close as the country began a two-week lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus that has kille...

Nov 14, 2020

Thai protesters rally again, promoting a diversity of causes

BANGKOK - Pro-democracy protesters in Thailand rallied again on Saturday, promoting a diversity of causes and taking an opportunity to display their rejection of the country's power structure directly...

Nov 14, 2020

Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden

WASHINGTON - Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms...

Nov 14, 2020

Biden likely to break barriers, pick woman to lead Pentagon

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the depa...

Nov 14, 2020

Gucci, Gus Van Sant challenge fashion cycle with film collab

MILAN - Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele has been looking to transcend the runway show, and the coronavirus pandemic has provided an apt moment. Michele teamed up with American film director...

Nov 14, 2020

Lebanese general was in Syria over missing American reporter

BEIRUT - A top Lebanese security official said Saturday that he visited Syria for two days to speak with officials there about American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in the war-torn cou...

Nov 14, 2020

Pakistan says it has evidence of India sponsoring attacks

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Saturday said India was sponsoring "terrorism" aimed at destabilizing the country and targeting its economic partnership with China, accusations that top Pakistani officials de...

Nov 14, 2020

Ethiopia's Tigray region bombs airports as conflict spreads

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia's defiant Tigray regional government has fired rockets at two airports in the neighbouring Amhara region as a deadly conflict threatens to spread into other parts of Africa's...

Nov 14, 2020