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School bus draped with message targets UK's Prince Andrew

LONDON - A yellow school bus with a banner depicting the face of Britain's Prince Andrew drove past Buckingham Palace on Friday, urging him to testify in the investigation of the late sex offender Jef...

Feb 23, 2020

US home sales fell 1.3% in January

WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales retreated 1.3% in January from the prior month, but low mortgage rates helped enable an increase in purchases from a year ago. The National Association of Realtors said Fr...

Feb 23, 2020

Intel officials say Russia boosting Trump candidacy

WASHINGTON - Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, according to three officials familiar w...

Feb 23, 2020

Survivor: German shooter emptied magazine, calmly walked out

HANAU, Germany - Piter Minnemann and his friends were eating when they heard shots fired outside the door of the snack bar in Hanau where they had gathered. Minnemann, 18, recalled that he had just go...

Feb 23, 2020

Italy reports 1st virus death, cases more than quadruple

CODOGNO, Italy - Italy reported its first death from the new virus from China early Saturday and the number of people infected more than quadrupled due to a cluster of cases that prompted officials to...

Feb 23, 2020

Raf Simons joining Prada in full creative collaboration

MILAN - Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons - two of the fashion world's biggest creative names - will collaborate on Prada collections from Spring/Summer 2021 going forward indefinitely, the designers annou...

Feb 23, 2020

US, Taliban truce takes effect, setting stage for peace deal

ISLAMABAD - A temporary truce between the United States and the Taliban took effect on Friday, setting the stage for the two sides to sign a peace deal next week aimed at ending 18 years of war in Afg...

Feb 23, 2020

Virus closes doors at Armani, but other Milan shows go on

MILAN - After Giorgio Armani's last-minute decision to show his latest collection in an empty theatre due to concerns about the new virus, the rest of Milan's runway shows scheduled for Sunday are to ...

Feb 23, 2020

Eight dead in Turkey as 5.7 earthquake strikes western Iran

ANKARA, Turkey - Eight people were killed in Turkey in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck western Iran early Sunday morning, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said. The quake centred on the...

Feb 23, 2020

Court in Thailand orders popular opposition party dissolved

BANGKOK - Thailand's constitutional Court on Friday ordered the popular opposition Future Forward Party dissolved, declaring that it violated election law by accepting a loan from its leader, charisma...

Feb 23, 2020