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Early vote total exceeds 2016; GOP chips at Dems' advantage

With nine days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year's presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in b...

Oct 25, 2020

Typhoon displaces thousands, floods villages in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines - A fast-moving typhoon forced thousands of villagers to flee to safety in provinces south of the Philippine capital Monday, flooding rural villages and ripping off roofs, official...

Oct 25, 2020

New storm Zeta a hurricane threat to Mexico, US Gulf Coast

MIAMI - Newly formed Tropical Storm Zeta strengthened Sunday in the western Caribbean and will probably become a hurricane before hitting Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coa...

Oct 25, 2020

British police respond to oil tanker with stowaway trouble

LONDON - British police and coast guard units responded Sunday to an incident on an oil tanker in the English Channel after the crew reported they had stowaways onboard who had become verbally abusive...

Oct 25, 2020

Pope names 13 new cardinals, includes WDC Archbishop Gregory

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a surpr...

Oct 25, 2020

Thai protesters rally ahead of parliamentary debate

BANGKOK - Pro-democracy protesters in Thailand gathered again Sunday in Bangkok, seeking to keep up pressure on the government a day ahead of a special session of Parliament called to try to ease poli...

Oct 25, 2020

Spain PM works on new state of emergency to curb outbreak

BARCELONA, Spain - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Snchez called a Cabinet meeting Sunday to prepare a new state of emergency to stem surging coronavirus infections, a move that could impose curfews and ...

Oct 25, 2020

Polish women protest new abortion restriction in churches

WARSAW, Poland - Women's rights activists in Poland staged protests during Sunday church services in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation against a tightening of the nation's already restrictive ab...

Oct 25, 2020

Malaysia's king rejects PM's proposal to declare emergency

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's king on Sunday rejected a proposal by embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to declare a state of emergency to fight a new outbreak of the coronavirus. The plan...

Oct 25, 2020

Egyptians vote in second day of parliamentary elections

CAIRO - Egyptians on Sunday trickled into polling stations on the second day of voting for the country's parliamentary election amid a slight uptick in daily recorded coronavirus cases. The first stag...

Oct 25, 2020