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Asia Today: Australia to spend on vaccines for wider region
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the Pacific and Southeast Asia "as part of a shared recovery f...
Oct 31, 2020
The Latest: China reports 6 new cases in far west outbreak
BEIJING - China has reported six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in an outbreak in Xinjiang, bringing the total in the far-west region to 51. Six were in serious condition, Xinjiang health authorities...
Oct 31, 2020
Biden, Obama make a final appeal to Michigan's Black voters
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Joe Biden enters the final weekend of the presidential campaign with an intense focus on appealing to Black voters whose support will be critical in his bid to defeat Presi...
Oct 31, 2020
'Borat' star gives church $100K after member appears in film
OKLAHOMA CITY - Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who stars in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," donated $100,000 to the church of a woman who believed she was taking part in a documentary but instead was being fe...
Oct 31, 2020
If 2020 is like 2000, Trump believes he's got the votes
WASHINGTON - More than 86 million Americans have already voted in the presidential election, but President Donald Trump thinks he can count on one hand the votes that will determine the outcome. "I th...
Oct 31, 2020
Rain-fueled landslide in El Salvador kills 9; 1 missing
NEJAPA, El Salvador - A landslide left nine people dead, seven injured and one missing after torrential rains in El Salvador, civil defence officials said Friday. The slide occurred Thursday night whe...
Oct 31, 2020
Unrest erupts over police killing of Black man near Portland
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Tensions boiled over into unrest late Friday following a vigil for a Black man shot and killed by law enforcement in a city near Portland, Oregon, in southwestern Washington state. ...
Oct 31, 2020
Death toll reaches 27 in quake that hit Turkey, Greek island
IZMIR, Turkey - Rescue teams on Saturday plowed through concrete blocks and the debris of eight collapsed buildings in search of survivors of a powerful earthquake that struck Turkey's Aegean coast an...
Oct 31, 2020
'No manual or checklist:' Yukon ditching fall time change this year
WHITEHORSE - As most Canadians get ready for the clocks to fall back an hour on Sunday, Yukon is sticking with daylight time.The territory decided to adopt year-round daylight time in March after a su...
Oct 31, 2020
Economic recovery threatened if some workers, households left behind, Macklem says
OTTAWA - An economic rebound that leaves behind parts of the Canadian labour force in the short term could end up jeopardizing the recovery from COVID-19 in the long run, Canada's top central banker s...
Oct 31, 2020