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Sep 4, 2020

The Latest: Model projects 1.9M more deaths by end of 2020

A widely cited model predicts worsening outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere will lead to 1.9 million more coronavirus deaths in 2020 unless governments act

Aug 31, 2020

Poland marks 40 years since key pro-democracy agreement

Poland is celebrating 40 years since it took a crucial step toward democracy with the creation of the Soviet bloc’s first free trade union, Solidarity, which changed the course of the nation’s history

Aug 31, 2020

Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises

Lebanon is marking its centennial this week, with many Lebanese feeling that their experiment as a nation has failed and questioning their willingness to stay in the crises-riddled country

Aug 30, 2020

Lebanese Hezbollah says it's open to reformist government

Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief says his group supports the formation of a government that would be able to improve economic conditions in the crisis-stricken country and undertake major reforms

Aug 30, 2020

Israel responds to explosive balloons with tank fire on Gaza

The Israeli military says it has struck militant targets in Gaza in response to continued launches of explosives-laden balloons out of the Hamas-run territory

Aug 28, 2020

Trump lashes Biden, defies pandemic on White House stage

President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as he accepted his party’s renomination on the South Lawn of the White House

Aug 26, 2020

'Fighting for you': First lady makes her case for Trump vote

First lady Melania Trump has cast her husband as the best hope for America’s future in a Rose Garden address

Aug 25, 2020

Millennial Money: 6 Great Recession lessons that still apply

The Great Recession inspired many money lessons that are relevant for the current coronavirus-related economic downturn

Aug 22, 2020

Future for Liberia's rubber farmers shaky amid economic woes

The rubber industry in Liberia has gotten so bad that some farmers are cutting down their rubber trees with hopes of producing palm oil instead

Aug 21, 2020

Biden vows to defeat Trump, end US 'season of darkness'

Joe Biden has accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, vowing to take on national crises and declaring that “we will overcome this season of darkness.”