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Patrons under plastic: Restaurants get creative in virus era
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Patrons under plastic: Restaurants get creative in virus era

PARIS (AP) — Dining at a table where each person is enclosed by a clear plastic shield might look and…
Virus, heat wave and locusts form perfect storm in India
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Virus, heat wave and locusts form perfect storm in India

NEW DELHI (AP) — As if the coronavirus wasn’t enough, India grappled with scorching temperatures and the worst locust invasion…
Israeli cyber chief: Major attack on water systems thwarted
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Israeli cyber chief: Major attack on water systems thwarted

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s national cyber chief Thursday officially acknowledged the country had thwarted a major cyber attack last month…
Croatian charity offers help as lives turn during outbreak
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Croatian charity offers help as lives turn during outbreak

PULA, Croatia (AP) — Winding stone streets, usually packed with tourists, silent as a graveyard. Restaurants closed. Beaches deserted. Hotels…
Twitter fact-checks Trump; he threatens new regs or shutdown
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Twitter fact-checks Trump; he threatens new regs or shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, the historically prolific tweeter of political barbs and blasts, threatened social media companies with…
Iran’s president pushes for harsher laws on honor killings
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Iran’s president pushes for harsher laws on honor killings

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president urged his Cabinet on Wednesday to speed up harsher laws in so-called honor killings,…
Spread of coronavirus fuels corruption in Latin America
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Spread of coronavirus fuels corruption in Latin America

MIAMI (AP) — Even in a pandemic, there’s no slowdown for swindlers in Latin America. From Argentina to Panama, a…
Spike in South Korea virus cases shows perils of reopening
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Spike in South Korea virus cases shows perils of reopening

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As Mediterranean beaches and Las Vegas casinos laid out plans to welcome tourists again, South…
Iran’s newly elected parliament convenes despite pandemic
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Iran’s newly elected parliament convenes despite pandemic

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s newly elected parliament convened on Wednesday, dominated by conservative lawmakers and under strict social distancing…
South African bans on tobacco, liquor amid virus stir debate
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South African bans on tobacco, liquor amid virus stir debate

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A soccer mom in one of Cape Town’s posh suburbs drops off a cardboard box of blankets…
With test results lost, an Afghan family fell to virus
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With test results lost, an Afghan family fell to virus

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — As in many Afghan households, dinner at Dr. Yousuf Aryubi’s home meant the whole family —…
Protesters mass in Hong Kong before anthem law is debated
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Protesters mass in Hong Kong before anthem law is debated

HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of protesters shouted pro-democracy slogans and insults at police in Hong Kong before lawmakers later…
Swift firings for Minneapolis officers in death of black man
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Swift firings for Minneapolis officers in death of black man

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck…
WHO warns that 1st wave of pandemic not over, dampens hopes
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WHO warns that 1st wave of pandemic not over, dampens hopes

BANGKOK (AP) — As Brazil and India struggle with surging coronavirus cases, a top health expert is warning that the…
Hong Kong leader says security law not a threat to freedoms
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Hong Kong leader says security law not a threat to freedoms

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader said Tuesday that national security legislation proposed by China’s legislature will not threaten…
Bethlehem Nativity Church reopens after coronavirus closure
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Bethlehem Nativity Church reopens after coronavirus closure

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem’s storied Church of the Nativity reopened to visitors on Tuesday, after a nearly three-month…
Confined Moroccans find new ways to celebrate Eid
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Confined Moroccans find new ways to celebrate Eid

CASABLANCA Morocco (AP) — Instead of mass prayers and large family gatherings filled with colorful clothes, gifts and traditional foods,…
Lebanon’s migrant workers’ plight worsens as crises multiply
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Lebanon’s migrant workers’ plight worsens as crises multiply

BEIRUT (AP) — Long before the pandemic struck, they lived and worked in conditions that rights groups called exploitative —…
US faces a Memorial Day like no other; Greek islands reopen
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US faces a Memorial Day like no other; Greek islands reopen

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Americans prepared to mark a Memorial Day like no other as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional…
UN: Libya coast guard intercepts, detains about 400 migrants
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UN: Libya coast guard intercepts, detains about 400 migrants

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s coast guard intercepted about 400 Europe-bound migrants off the country’s Mediterranean coast over the past two…
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