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Emirates to get 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners for $8.8 billion

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai's carrier Emirates announces firm order for 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners in deal valued at $8.8 billion. Emirates CEO and Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum sa...

Nov 19, 2019

Gotabaya Rajapaksa sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was sworn in as Sri Lanka's president on Monday and appealed to minority Tamils and Muslims who voted against him to give their support...

Nov 19, 2019

Pope arrives in Thailand to encourage Catholic minority

BANGKOK - Pope Francis has arrived in Bangkok to begin a tour of Thailand and Japan. He's on a mission to boost the morale of those countries' tiny minority Catholic communities and speak about issues...

Nov 19, 2019

Last campus protesters hold out, as Hong Kong schools reopen

Hong Kong schools have reopened after a six-day shutdown but students were facing transit disruptions as the last protesters remained holed up on a university campus. City officials tried to restore a...

Nov 19, 2019

Campus under siege as Hong Kong police battle protesters

HONG KONG - Police tightened their siege of a university campus where hundreds of protesters remained trapped overnight Tuesday in the latest dramatic episode in months of protests against growing Chi...

Nov 19, 2019

Reid: Iowa, NH not diverse enough to provide Dems’ guidance

LAS VEGAS - Iowa and New Hampshire get to weigh in first on the Democratic presidential contest next year, but the states are not ethnically diverse enough to offer any insight into how a candidate wi...

Nov 19, 2019

As Epstein died, guards allegedly shopped online and slept

NEW YORK - Two jail guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself were charged Tuesday with falsifying prison records to conceal they were sleeping and browsing the int...

Nov 19, 2019

CBS takes weekly Nielsen crown behind ’60 Minutes’

NEW YORK - CBS won the television ratings crown last week despite being without the most valuable ratings commodity in this era, a prime-time football game. Two relatively lacklustre games on NBC and ...

Nov 19, 2019

Loughlin, Giannulli fighting new charges in admissions case

BOSTON - "Full House" actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband are contesting expanded charges against them in the college admissions bribery scandal. Lawyers for Loughlin and Mossimo Gi...

Nov 19, 2019

Kanye West talks about serving God during visit with Osteen

HOUSTON - Rapper Kanye West told parishioners at Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch on Sunday that his recent spiritual awakening has made him realize he's no longer in the service to fame and money but...

Nov 19, 2019