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British Airways CEO Alex Cruz replaced as company fights for survival

British Airways CEO Alex Cruz has been replaced after 4 1/2 years on the job as the COVID-19 pandemic pummels airlines around the world.

Oman to impose value-added tax amid coronavirus, oil price collapse

Oman''s state-run news agency reported the 5 per cent tax "will be applied to most goods and services at each stage of the supply chain."

Chinese foreign minister begins Southeast Asian tour in Cambodia, sign FTA

China's foreign ministry announced that Foreign Minister Wang Yi will make official visits this week to Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos and Thailand, along with a transit visit to Singapore

EU agrees to impose sanctions on Russia officials over Navalny attack

Navalny, an anti-corruption investigator and major political opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on August 20 during a domestic flight in Russia

With coronavirus infections spiking, Jordan's king swears in new Cabinet

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday swore in a new prime minister and Cabinet, tasking the new government to manage the country through an economic and health crisis

Harris says GOP trying to 'ram through' Barrett as presidential poll nears

Democratic vice presidential nominee and Senator Kamala Harris is criticizing Republicans for trying to ram through Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faces Senate despite Covid crisis

Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are set to begin as a divided Senate charges ahead on President Donald Trump's pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Armenia, Azerbaijan accuses each other of attacks despite cease-fire deal

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of attacks over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh despite a cease-fire deal in an effort to end the worst outbreak of hostilities in the region in decades

China set to test all 9 million people in Qingdao city for Covid-19

China's government says all 9 million people in the eastern city of Qingdao will be tested for the coronavirus this week after nine cases linked to a hospital were found

Donald Trump's task: Resetting campaign that GOP fears is slipping

Trump is running out of time to recover from a series of setbacks that have rattled his base of support and triggered alarm among Republicans who fear the White House is on the verge of being lost

Asian shares mostly higher after US rally, economic aid package hopes

Asian shares were mostly higher in muted trading on Monday, as worries about the pandemic kept optimism in check despite a rally that closed out last week on Wall Street

Joe Biden harnesses history to describe urgency of 2020 election campaign

Presidential hopefuls tend to declare every upcoming election the most important one that voters have faced in their lifetime. Joe Biden goes bigger

Two small aircraft collide mid-air in France, killing at least five people

The tourism aircraft, reportedly a four-seat single engine plane, fell into an uninhabited sector

Amid coronavirus, many businesses in precarious spot as 2020 ends

The final three months of the year, usually a boom time for many small businesses thanks to holiday shopping and celebrations, looks precarious as the coronavirus maintains its grip on the economy.

Amy Coney Barrett to senators: Courts 'should not try' to make policy

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will tell senators that courts should not try to make policy, leaving those decisions to the political branches of government

China grants $90 million to Sri Lanka after visit by top official

The announcement follows a visit to the Indian Ocean island nation Friday by a Chinese delegation led by Yang Jiechi, a Communist Party Politburo member and a former foreign minister

Biden visit Tuesday caps push into Ohio, once a longshot for Democrats

Joe Biden is set to make his first general election campaign visit Monday to Ohio, signaling the former vice president's hopes of winning the state

Fake asteroid? NASA expert identifies mystery object as old rocket

Chodas speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the Centaur upper rocket stage that successfully propelled NASA''s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was dis

Libya set to resume oil production at Sahara field amid peace talks

Libya's prized, light crude has long featured in the North African country''s civil war with rival militias and foreign powers jostling for control of Africa''s largest oil reserves

China allows consular access to detained Canadians first time since Jan

Canada continues to press Beijing to release Kovrig and Spavor, both detained since December 2018 following Canada's arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese Huawei official and the daughter of the company's