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MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and has become a very dangerous Category 4 storm early Monday as it heads for the same part of Central A...

GAMMARTH, Tunisia - Libya's rival sides wrapped up a week of U.N.-brokered talks without agreeing on a transitional government that would lead the county to an election in December next year, the top ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will assess the effects of a nearly two-week-long partial lockdown with state governors in a video conference Monday. Germany went into a partial lockdown at t...

BRUSSELS - Amnesty International said Belgium authorities "abandoned" thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic following an investigation published Monday ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced Monday it would start operating daily nonstop flights to Tel Aviv next spring, a move that dee...

YAKUTAT, Alaska - An Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to the plane, officials said. None of the passengers or cr...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - President Donald Trump's campaign is withdrawing a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden bea...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to...

LIMA, Peru - Who is the president of Peru? That answer to that question early Monday was no one. The Latin American nation's political turmoil took a chaotic turn Sunday when interim leader Manuel Mer...

HONG KONG - Authorities in Hong Kong said at least seven people were killed and 11 injured in a fire at an apartment building that may have started at a gathering of people from the city's Nepalese co...