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Turkish, Kurdish forces battle for border town in NE Syria
Ceylanpinar, Oct 15 (AP/UNB) — Turkish artillery is pounding suspected Syrian Kurdish positions near a town in northeast Syria as Turkey's military incursion enters its seventh day.
EU's Barnier says Brexit deal still possible this week
Luxembourg, Oct 15 (AP/UNB) — The European Union said Tuesday that a Brexit divorce deal is possible this week but that the British government's proposals so far are not sufficient to seal an agreement.
Police: Militants killed driver over apple cargo in Kashmir
Srinagar, Oct 15 (AP/UNB) — Two suspected militants shot and killed a truck driver near an apple orchard in Indian-controlled Kashmir where he had picked up fruit boxes, police said Tuesday.
Harold Bloom, author of 'Anxiety of Influence,' dies at 89
New York, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal "The Anxiety of Influence" and melancholy regard for literature's old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89.
It's a tie: Atwood and Evaristo share fiction's Booker Prize
London, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy.
UK's Prince William, Kate arrive in Pakistan for 5-day visit
Islamabad, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate arrived in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad on Monday on a five-day visit, which authorities say will help further improve relations between the two countries.
'Glory to Ukraine': Nationalist groups protest president
Kyiv, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Brandishing red flares and shouting "glory to Ukraine," thousands of far-right and nationalist activists marched Monday through Kyiv, protesting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's leadership and his long-awaited peace plan for eastern Ukraine.
Not so fast: Many Nobel winners endured initial rejections
New York, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Some of the world's most innovative ideas and creations have started out in a rejection pile.
3 EU nations say Brexit talks likely to go beyond summit
London, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Brexit divorce talks in Brussels are making such slow progress that three European Union nations predicted Monday the negotiations could spill beyond this week's crucial Brexit summit.
3 economists who study poverty win Nobel Prize
Stockholm, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what works and what doesn't in the fight to reduce global poverty.