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Northern California city struggles with coronavirus mystery
Residents of a Northern California community are at the epicenter of what officials are calling a turning point in the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus, as investigators try to retrace the steps of a hospitalized patient they believe to be the first in the U.S. to be infected without traveling internationally or being in close contact with anyone who had it.
First virus-free guests abandon blocked Spanish island hotel
Some guests have started to leave a locked-down hotel in Spain's Tenerife island after undergoing screening for a new virus that is infecting hundreds worldwide.
Prayers at fire-bombed mosques as India's riot toll grows
Muslims in a northeastern neighborhood of India's capital returned for weekly prayers at fire-bombed mosques on Friday, two days after a 72-hour clash between Hindus and Muslims that left at least 40 dead and hundreds injured.
Texas man sentenced to death for killing officer, friend
A North Texas man was sentenced to death late Thursday for the 2018 killings of a Dallas-area police officer and another man.
Scars of violence haunt India's capital after deadly riot
India's hard-line Hindu nationalists watched anti-government protests centered in Muslim communities for months in anger that finally boiled over in the worst communal rioting in New Delhi in decades, leaving 38 people dead and the Indian capital shell-shocked.
UN agency says 35 migrants rescued off Libyan coast
A commercial ship has rescued 35 Europe-bound migrants off Libya's Mediterranean coast and returned them to the capital, Tripoli, the U.N. migration agency said.
Turkey raises death toll to 33 troops in Syrian airstrike
Turkey on Friday raised the death toll from a Syrian government airstrike on its forces in northwestern Syria the previous night to 33 Turkish troops, the highest number of Turkish soldiers killed in a single day since Ankara first intervened in the Syrian conflict in 2016.
Winter weather kills 1, injures 8 in southern Germany
Heavy winds and snowfall early Friday led to accidents in southern and southwestern Germany that killed a woman in a car and injured eight on a bus.
Ardern calls out Australia: Don't deport 'your problems'
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called out her Australian counterpart at an extraordinarily abrasive joint news conference Friday for his country's rigid policy of deporting foreign criminals to homelands they left as children.
Publisher, 2 politicians charged over Hong Kong protests
Outspoken Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai and two prominent opposition politicians were charged Friday with illegal assembly over a pro-democracy march last year as the territory's Beijing-backed government appeared to move to settle scores over the protests.