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Australia’s economy takes sharpest dive since the 1930s

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s economy has suffered its sharpest quarterly drop since the Great Depression because of the pandemic, with data released on Wednesday confirming the country is in its first recession in 28 years. The latest national accounts showed the economy shrank 7% in the June, the biggest

Former Indian President Mukherjee passes away

New Delhi (ANI): Former President Pranab Mukherjee passed away on Monday at the Army Hospital (Research and Referral) Hospital where

Japan PM Shinzo Abe says he’s resigning for health reasons

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said Friday he is stepping down because a chronic health problem

Trump lashes Biden, defies pandemic on White House stage

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as

New Zealand mosque shooter sentenced to life without parole

By NICK PERRY Associated Press CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New

Finland’s Social Democrats elect PM Marin, 34, as leader

JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has assumed the leadership of her own party

Trump delivered on some big 2016 promises, but others unmet

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s broken his pledge never to take a vacation or play golf

California ‘dream house,’ decades in the making, is in ashes

By ADAM BEAM and NOAH BERGER Associated Press VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — When he closes his eyes at night, Hank

Russian doctors say Navalny wasn’t poisoned, refuse transfer

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian doctors treating opposition leader Alexei Navalny don’t believe he was poisoned and refused to transfer him

Biden vows to defeat Trump, end US ‘season of darkness’

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with a vow to be a unifying