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Experts dismiss dealer's claim to have long-lost Kahlo work

MADRID - Scholars in the work of surrealist Frida Kahlo have searched for more than six decades for "The Wounded Table," a 1940 oil painting illuminating her pain over the breakup of her marriage to m...

Jun 30, 2020

Airbus shedding 15,000 jobs, mostly in Europe

PARIS - Battered by the coronavirus pandemic, European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said Tuesday that it must eliminate 15,000 jobs, mostly in Europe, to safeguard its future and warned of more thin y...

Jun 30, 2020

Citroen unveils new hatchback as virus pushes event online

FRANKFURT - PSA Group unveiled one of its most important new models Tuesday with 20 people physically present and 2,600 watching online - a marketing configuration that the coronavirus seems likely to...

Jun 30, 2020

Carl Reiner, beloved creator of 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' dies

NEW YORK - Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a "second banana" to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy's front ranks as creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Sh...

Jun 30, 2020

'White power' flare-up in retirement haven reveals tensions

THE VILLAGES, Fla. - There has always been a low-boil tension in The Villages retirement community between the Republican majority and the much smaller cohort of Democrats, but a veneer of good manner...

Jun 30, 2020

Paris police react to report of armed man at shopping centre

Paris police say checks are being carried out at a popular shopping centre near La Defence business district after a witness reported seeing a man carrying a gun. Police said that they could not immed...

Jun 30, 2020

Iran journalist who fueled 2017 protests sentenced to death

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran sentenced a once-exiled journalist to death over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests that began at the end of 2017, authorities said Tuesday. Ruhollah ...

Jun 30, 2020

AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019

Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier th...

Jun 29, 2020

Venezuela's Maduro orders EU envoy to leave after sanctions

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro ordered the European Union's ambassador to leave the country on Monday hours after the bloc that's pushing for a democratic transition hit sever...

Jun 29, 2020

Using 'face doubles,' a new doc captures an anti-LGBTQ purge

Anonymous sources in documentaries have often been reduced to a shadowy, voice-distorted figure - or worse, a pixelated blur. But a new documentary premiering Tuesday on HBO has, with the aid of advan...

Jun 29, 2020