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January 21, 2020

The Latest: Huawei chief defiant over US blacklisting

The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local): 11:45 a.m. The founder of Chinese tech giant ...

January 21, 2020

Challenges for public following impeachment, Weinstein cases

Americans who want to follow President Donald Trump's impeachment saga and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape trial ...

January 21, 2020

Sri Lanka to treat war-missing as dead, issue certificates

Sri Lanka's president has decided that tens of thousands of people still missing from the country's quarter-century civil war ...

January 21, 2020

Senate impeachment timetable at a glance

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to seek a speedy impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. In a Senate ...

January 20, 2020

AP Top Stories Jan. 20 P

Here's the latest for Monday, Jan. 20th: Trump's legal team asserts he did nothing wrong; Thousands of gun-rights activists ...

January 20, 2020

Pro-gun rally in Virginia ends peacefully

Thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol to protest plans by the ...

January 20, 2020

Survivor recounts confused, chaotic cult rite that killed 7

A survivor of the cult ceremony that killed her daughter and six other people in a remote village in Panama says she was ...

January 20, 2020

Libyan oil fields remain shut, testing peace summit

Libya’s major oil fields and production facilities remained closed on Monday, its national oil company said, in a sign that ...

January 20, 2020

German court convicts Tamil man over killing of Sri Lanka FM

A German court convicted a Sri Lankan man Monday of accessory to murder in the 2005 killing of the South Asian nation's ...

January 20, 2020

EU to revamp anti-smuggler mission for UN Libya arms embargo

European Union countries have agreed to “refocus” the mission of the bloc’s anti-migrant smuggler naval operation in the ...

January 20, 2020

3 killed, 100-plus hurt in collapse during Ethiopia ceremony

At least three people were killed and more than 100 others injured when a wooden stand erected for the colorful Epiphany ...

January 20, 2020

UK looks to fast-growing Africa for trade ties after Brexit

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry touted the U.K. as an ideal business partner for Africa on Monday as ...

January 20, 2020

Davos bolsters security as protesters march toward venue

Hundreds of disgruntled protesters against the elite World Economic Forum are marching through the Alpine snows toward its ...

January 20, 2020

Germany downplays flap over Tunisia invite to Libya summit

The German government on Monday downplayed Tunisia's rejection of a last-minute invitation to a weekend conference on Libya ...

January 20, 2020

Catalan ex-police chief on trial for role in secession bid

The former head of Catalonia's regional police and three others are standing trial on charges of rebellion and sedition for ...

January 20, 2020

EU sets up $998 million budget for humanitarian aid

The European Union has set up a 900 million euro ($998 million) budget to help countries hit by humanitarian crises, with ...

January 20, 2020

Bangladesh court sentences 5 ex-cops to death for killing

A Bangladesh court sentenced five former police officials to death Monday for opening fire on a motorcade of then opposition ...

January 20, 2020

Myanmar probe: Security forces likely committed war crimes:

An independent commission established by Myanmar's government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces ...

January 20, 2020

Former German military translator on trial as Iran spy

A German-Afghan man who worked for years as an interpreter and adviser for the German military went on trial Monday on ...

January 20, 2020

Italy's Salvini dares lawmakers to vote to put him on trial

Italy's right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini is daring fellow senators to vote to put him on trial for alleged ...