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Israel to allow its citizens to visit Saudi Arabia

January 26, 2020

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Interior Ministry said Sunday that it will now allow Israelis to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious or business visits.The announcement is the latest sign of quiet but warming relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. It...

Ringing in Brexit? Plans to celebrate UK exit divide country

By JILL LAWLESS | January 26, 2020

LONDON (AP) — With Brexit just days away, Britons are fighting over the chimes of Big Ben. And the White Cliffs of Dover are a battleground.As the United Kingdom prepares to leave the European Union on Friday, people are divided over how to mark a historic...

Tennis Fed Cup event moved from China amid viral illness

January 26, 2020

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The International Tennis Federation has moved a regional Fed Cup qualifying event out of China because of concerns over the outbreak of a viral illness that has already caused 56 deaths.The ITF issued a statement Sunday saying...

Italians vote in 2 regions; Salvini eyes return to power

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | January 26, 2020

ROME (AP) — Right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini is telling Italians who are voting in two regions to use their ballots to help his anti-migrant party return to national power.Voting began Sunday morning in Emilia-Romagna, a northern region where...

German military resumes training troops in northern Iraq

January 26, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — The German military resumed training Iraqi troops in the country's Kurdish north on Sunday, about three weeks after it was suspended following the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in Baghdad.The military said the commander of the...

Kim’s aunt reemerges after years of speculation about fate

By HYUNG-JIN KIM | January 26, 2020

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's aunt made her first public appearance in about six years, state media reported Sunday, quelling years of rumors that she was purged or executed by her nephew after helping him inherit power...

Volatility defines Democratic race as candidates flood Iowa

By BILL BARROW | January 25, 2020

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates roared back into Iowa on Saturday touting fresh endorsements, critiquing their rivals and predicting victories in the caucuses that will soon launch the process of deciding who will challenge...

Peter MacKay begins bid to lead Canada’s Conservative party

By ROB GILLIES | January 25, 2020

TORONTO (AP) — Former Canadian Cabinet minister Peter MacKay criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday as he officially announced he is running to be leader of Canada's Conservative Party.MacKay served as foreign minister and defense minister...

Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election

By ERIC TUCKER, LISA MASCARO, and ZEKE MILLER | January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's lawyers plunged into his impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump's dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding...

Turkish leader slams ‘propaganda’ as quake deaths rise to 29

By ANDREW WILKS | January 25, 2020

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 29 on Saturday night as rescue crews searched for people who remained trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said.Speaking at a televised...

Xi calls situation grave as China scrambles to contain virus

By KEN MORITSUGU | January 25, 2020

BEIJING (AP) — China's leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak's epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to contain an illness that has infected more than 1,200 people...

FBI says monitoring of ex-Trump aide should’ve ended sooner

January 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has concluded that it should have ended its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser earlier than it did because there was “insufficient predication" to continue eavesdropping, according to an order...