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Asia Today: Thailand lets in some foreigners, opens schools

BANGKOK - Thailand has begun a fifth phase of relaxations of COVID-19 restrictions, allowing the reopening of schools and high-risk entertainment venues such as pubs and massage parlours that had been...

Jul 01, 2020

Russian vote on extending Putin's rule until 2036 nears end

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin's main political project of the year - a constitutional vote that would allow him to extend his rule until 2036 - drew closer to completion as Russia held a n...

Jul 01, 2020

Lebanon’splea to skeptical expats: Come visit,bring cash

BEIRUT - With Beirut's airport partially reopening from a three-month virus shutdown, the government is hoping thousands of Lebanese expatriates will return for the summer - and bring dollars desperat...

Jul 01, 2020

Taiwan opens Hong Kong migration office in rebuke to Beijing

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan on Wednesday opened an office to facilitate migration from Hong Kong following China's passage of a national security law for the former British colony seen as sharply restrict...

Jul 01, 2020

Businesswoman upsets 5-term congressman in Colorado primary

DENVER - Five-term Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton was upset in Tuesday's Republican Party primary by Lauren Boebert, a pistol-packing businesswoman, ardent defender of gun rights and border wall supp...

Jun 30, 2020

After security law's passage, Hong Kong marks China rule

Hong Kong's leader strongly endorsed the new security law China's central government is imposing on the semi-autonomous territory in her speech marking Wednesday's anniversary of its handover from col...

Jun 30, 2020

PM Modi says virus status 'critical,' warns of carelessness

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a live address Tuesday that the country's coronavirus death rate is under control, but that the country is at a "critical juncture." Modi's sixt...

Jun 30, 2020

1 of 2 Oklahoma officers shot during traffic stop dies

TULSA, Okla. - One of the two Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers who were shot during a traffic stop has died, authorities said Tuesday. Police Chief Wendell Franklin said Sgt. Craig Johnson died Tuesda...

Jun 30, 2020

Rudolfo Anaya, ‘godfather’ of Chicano literature, dies at 82

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel "Bless Me, Ultima," a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Anaya's niece, Belin...

Jun 30, 2020

Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump's niece

A tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece cannot be published until a judge decides the merits of claims by the president's brother that its publication would violate a pact among family membe...

Jun 30, 2020