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Greece gives actor Tom Hanks honorary Greek citizenship
Tom Hanks may officially consider himself Greek. Greece's President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has signed an honorary naturalization order allowing the 63-year-old actor to claim Greek citizenship, his offi...
Dec 27, 2019 2014 Kennedy Center Honoree Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors State Department Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
12 killed, dozens hurt after plane crashes in Kazakhstan
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - A plane with 98 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday in Kazakhstan, killing at least 12 people, Kazakh officials said. There were 54 people hospitalized w...
Dec 27, 2019 In this handout photo provided by the Emergency Situations Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, police and rescuers work on the side of a plane crash near Almaty International Airport, outside Almaty, Kazakhstan, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. ( Emergency Situations Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan photo via AP)
Indonesia, Thailand mark 15th anniversary of massive tsunami
By Yayan Zamzami And Niniek Karmini, The Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Thousands of people knelt in prayer in Indonesia's Aceh province at ceremonies Thursday marking the 15th anniversary o...
Dec 26, 2019
After deadly crashes of marquee aircraft, Boeing CEO is out
Boeing's CEO is stepping down with no end in sight for a crisis that has enveloped the manufacturer and its marquee aircraft, the Max 737. The Chicago manufacturer said Monday that Dennis Muilenburg w...
Dec 23, 2019 (The Associated Press)
Evangelical tussling over anti-Trump editorial escalates
As the political clamor caused by a top Christian magazine's call to remove President Donald Trump from office continues to reverberate, more than 100 conservative evangelicals closed ranks further ar...
Dec 23, 2019 (AP file photo/ Evan Vucci)
Saudi sentences 5 to death for Jamal Khashoggi’s killing
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death on Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Co...
Dec 23, 2019 In this Oct. 2, 2019 file photo, a Turkish police officer walks past a picture of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi prior to a ceremony, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, marking the one-year anniversary of his death. A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October 2018 by a team of Saudi agents. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
Queen Elizabeth II attends church; Philip still in hospital
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II attended church near her rural retreat Sunday as her husband Prince Philip spent his second night in a London hospital. Palace officials have not provided an update on the ...
Dec 22, 2019
Notre Dame Cathedral to miss first Christmas in centuries
PARIS - Notre Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars - a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed. Yet an accidental fire in peacetime finally stopped the Paris cathedral from celebrating Midni...
Dec 20, 2019
UK lawmakers OK Johnson’s Brexit bill, pave way to exit EU
LONDON - British lawmakers gave preliminary approval Friday to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit bill, clearing the way for the U.K. to leave the European Union next month. The House of Commons vo...
Dec 20, 2019
Palace: Prince Philip in hospital as ‘precautionary measure’
LONDON - Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was admitted to a London hospital Friday "as a precautionary measure," Buckingham Palace said. The palace said the 98-year-old Philip was adm...
Dec 20, 2019
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