CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A crowd cheered Saturday as workers in Charlottesville removed a Confederate statue near the site of a violent white nationalist rally three years ago.
Th...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Explaining his deceptive assurances about the pandemic, President Donald Trump suggested he was doing what Winston Churchill had done, soothing the public in a time of danger. That's...
KAOHSIUNG (Taiwan News) – It has been an extremely difficult year for the Kuomintang (KMT).
Its populist candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) was heavily defeated in the presidential elections and then...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Anti-apartheid crusader and Nelson Mandela's personal lawyer George Bizos has died at 92, his family said Wednesday.
He died of natural causes at home, the family...
LONDON (AP) — More than 100 British lawmakers have signed a letter to the Chinese ambassador condemning what they described as “a systematic and calculated programme of ethnic cleansing against the Ui...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A VW dealership in Mexico City apologized Tuesday for a photo hanging in its offices that showed a VW bug at a Nazi rally and the automaker pledged to take unspecified “actions” in ...
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 8, the 252nd day of 2020. There are 114 days left in the year.
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PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Menzel, a Czech director whose 1966 movie “Closely Watched Trains” won the Academy Award for the best foreign language film has died. He was 82.
Menzel’s wife, Olg...
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Today is Monday, Sept. 7, the 251st day of 2020. There are 115 days left in the year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's war against the coronavirus is imposing the heaviest strain on the Treasury since America's drive to defeat Nazi Germany and imperial Japan three-quarters of a ...
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Today is Thursday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2020. There are 119 days left in the year.
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“I didn’t even know what a meme was,” confesses cartoonist Matt Furie in the documentary “Feels Good Man,” demonstrating just how ill-equipped he was to resist the dark forces that engulfed him and hi...
When exactly did World War II end in the Pacific? Russia now has a different answer to that question than the West.
In mid-April, Russia's parliament voted to move the day commemorating the end o...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has accepted the appointment of a new German ambassador after an unusual delay of about three months.
There has been a lot of speculation in Poland about...
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 1, the 245th day of 2020. There are 121 days left in the year.
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