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January 27, 2020

Macedonia imposes urgent measures due to severe pollution

North Macedonia’s government on Monday said it was imposing urgent measures in the country’s capital, Skopje, and the western ...

January 27, 2020

Berlin zoo prepares panda cubs for their big day out

Two baby pandas born at Berlin's zoo have been chipped and checked in preparation for their first public outing in a few ...

January 27, 2020

GM to invest $2.2B in Detroit to build electric vehicles

General Motors is spending $2.2 billion to refurbish an underused Detroit factory so it can build a series of electric and ...

January 27, 2020

Northeast governors slow to embrace regional climate pact

Supporters of a regional pact that would tackle transportation emissions are struggling to win over several New England ...

January 27, 2020

Turkish rescuers find last quake victims; death toll hits 41

Turkish emergency teams on Monday recovered the bodies of the last two missing quake victims from the rubble of a collapsed ...

January 27, 2020

Authorities battle Atlantic storm to intercept cocaine yacht

An international drug operation involving authorities from six countries captured a yacht carrying almost 2 metric tons of ...

January 27, 2020

'I did it': Portugal hacker says he exposed African tycoon

A Portuguese hacker is claiming responsibility for leaking confidential documents implicating the billionaire daughter of a ...

January 27, 2020

Workers criticize Amazon on climate despite risk to jobs

Hundreds of employees are openly criticizing Amazon's record on climate change despite what they say is a company policy that ...

January 26, 2020

Lessons learned from 2016, but US faces new election threats

It’s been more than three years since Russia's sweeping and systematic effort to interfere in U.S. elections through ...

January 26, 2020

India celebrates Republic Day with military parade

Thousands of Indians converged on a ceremonial boulevard in the capital amid tight security to celebrate the Republic Day on ...

January 25, 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's fusillade of misfires on fateful week

Abroad, at home and in Twitter's ether, President Donald Trump unleashed a fusillade of statements over the past week as the ...

January 25, 2020

Campaign crunch time forces progressives to eye private jets

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have spent the past year courting the Democratic Party's base with appeals to the working ...

January 25, 2020

Spacewalking astronauts plug leak, finish fixing detector

Spacewalking astronauts plugged a leak in a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday, ...

January 25, 2020

Chicago woman with coronavirus in good condition

A Chicago woman diagnosed with the dangerous new virus from China is said to be in "good condition" health officials ...

January 25, 2020

'This is huge': Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades

The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their ...

January 25, 2020

Heavy rains in Brazil cause flooding, landslides; 11 killed

Heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in southeast Brazil, killing at least 11 people, authorities said Saturday.

January 24, 2020

Second US new virus case confirmed in Chicago

A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with a new virus from China, health officials said Friday.

January 24, 2020

Dems pick Whitmer, Escobar for Trump State of Union response

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address ...

January 24, 2020

Fire kills 11 youths hunting animals in field in Venezuela

Eleven young people, mostly teenagers, who were hunting small animals died in a fire that swept through a sugarcane field in ...