Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Egypt's El-Sissi, France's Macron at odds over human rights
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged Monday "disagreements" with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi over human rights, but said it will not prevent France from reaching economic...
Dec 07, 2020
WHO tries to bolster fragile funding with new foundation CEO
PARIS - Hoping to strengthen its funding, the World Health Organization is appointing a CEO to a foundation intended to bring in more private donations, which should leave the global health body less ...
Dec 07, 2020
Will the US ever have a national COVID-19 testing strategy?
NEW YORK - As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden's administration will put in place something Donald Trump's has not - a comprehensive national testing strategy. Such...
Dec 07, 2020
Trump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural
CHICAGO - As Donald Trump's presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five startin...
Dec 07, 2020
Erdogan calls for energy talks as EU considers Med sanctions
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for negotiations over energy exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean, days ahead of a European Union summit where leade...
Dec 07, 2020
UK's Johnson to head to Brussels amid Brexit talks deadlock
BRUSSELS - More than four years after helping set Britain's course out of the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is headed to EU headquarters to try to finish the job. With less than a month...
Dec 07, 2020
Mountie says he updated FBI on Meng arrest, but he was working for the RCMP
VANCOUVER - An RCMP officer who was tasked as a point person for U.S. investigators during the 2018 arrest of Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport says he didn't see himself as working for them. Sgt. R...
Dec 06, 2020
Biden picks Calif. AG Becerra to lead HHS, pandemic response
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his ...
Dec 06, 2020
P.E.I. introduces 'circuit breaker' lockdown as COVID-19 cases mount across Canada
Canada's smallest province introduced sweeping new measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 on Sunday as other parts of the country continued to shatter records for new diagnoses. Prince Edward Isla...
Dec 06, 2020
Trump lawyer Giuliani in hospital after positive COVID test
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Trump's inner circle to contract the disease that ...
Dec 06, 2020
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