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Pandemic politics: Biden shuns 'false promises' of a fast fix for Covid-19

Focused firmly on Covid-19, Joe Biden vowed not to campaign in the election homestretch on the false promises of being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch

US Senate hearing: Tech chiefs vow to defend upcoming election from chaos

At a US Senate hearing, the heads of technology giants Twitter, Facebook and Google vowed to defend their platforms from being used to sow chaos ahead of the election next week

US polls: SC allows North Carolina to accept absentee ballot till Nov 12

The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to 9 days after Election Day, in a win for Democrats

VW recalls over 218,000 Jettas to fix fuel leaks that can cause fires

The recall covers certain cars from the 2016 through 2018 model years

Carmakers Fiat Chrysler and PSA confirm progress toward full merger

Fiat Chrysler and PSA Peugeot on Wednesday confirmed progress toward their full merger to create the globe's fourth-largest carmaker, with completion expected by the end of March 2021

Italian regulator investigates Google over abuse in digital ad market

Italian regulators opened an investigation into Google over alleged abuse of dominant role in the country's online ad market, adding to the global scrutiny that the Silicon Valley company is facing.

Japan PM Yoshihide Suga says plan to release Fukushima water coming soon

Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that his government is working on the of a plan to release the massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant

France braces for another possible lockdown as coronavirus deaths mount

France is bracing for a potential new lockdown as the president prepares a televised address aimed at stopping a fast-rising tide of virus patients filling French hospitals and a growing death toll

US elections: Melania Trump slams Biden, Dems in first solo campaign stop

Melania Trump lined up squarely with her husband on her first solo trip of the 2020 campaign, slamming Joe Biden, Democrats and the media as she pushed the president's reeelection message

CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, Google to face grilling from Republican senators

CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias

Armenia, Azerbaijan continue fighting despite US-brokered ceasefire

Both Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other for violating the truce that took effect Monday

New protests loom as Europeans tire of Covid-19 restrictions; 28 arrested

All of Europe is grappling with how to halt a fall resurgence of the virus before its hospitals become overwhelmed again.

Judge: US can't replace Donald Trump in columnist's slander suit

A federal judge on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump's request that he be replaced as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s

Bomb at seminary in Pakistan's Peshawar kills 7 children, wounds 70

A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least seven children and wounding 70 others

Trump's nominee Amy Coney Barrett takes 1st oath to join US Supreme Court

Amy Coney Barrett has taken the first of two oaths she needs to officially join the Supreme Court

Donald Trump charges into battleground states despite rising Covid cases

Trump on Monday embarked on a final-week charge through nearly a dozen states ahead of the election, overlooking a surge of coronavirus cases in the US and a fresh outbreak in his own White House

Big power shutoffs in California as powerful winds boost fire danger

Large swaths of California had no electricity on Monday as utilities tried to prevent the chance of their equipment sparking wildfires

US election: First lady Melania hits campaign trail for Donald Trump

Melania Trump is set to make her first solo campaign-trail appearance of 2020 for President Donald Trump.

China retaliates against 6 US-based news media in latest feud with US

China has ordered six US-based news media to file detailed information about their operations in China the latest volley in a monthslong battle with the Trump administration

Vladimir Putin offers NATO site inspections to avoid missile buildup

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed on Monday that NATO and Russia should conduct mutual inspections of each other's military bases