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Glimmers of Hope for a Winter With Tropical Travel

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 13:27:21 {widget1} TORONTO — I have been dreaming about Calgary all week — the airport, specifically. Starting on Monday, Calgary International Airport will offer incoming international passengers a chance to spend just 48 hours in quarantine, rather that the two

Navy Commandos Rescue American Kidnapped in Niger

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 18:30:12 {widget1} WASHINGTON — U.S. Special Operations commandos carried out a predawn raid on Saturday to rescue an American citizen who had been kidnapped this week from his home in southern Niger. Commandos from the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 rescued the

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As Tanzania’s President Wins a Second Term, Opposition Calls for Protests

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 13:33:53 {widget1} CAIRO — After a pivotal poll marred by violence, opposition arrests and accusations of rigging, Tanzania’s electoral commission said late Friday that President John Magufuli had won a second five-year term — a move that led the opposition to

Poll Watchers Endure, Minus the Partisan Drama

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 16:08:48 {widget1} Their role got a moment of notoriety this spring, when the Republican National Committee pledged to deploy 50,000 poll watchers in presidential battleground states for the 2020 general election. They were part of what Justin Clark, the senior

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England Weighs Another Nationwide Virus Lockdown

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 13:46:58 {widget1} LONDON — For weeks, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has fended off calls to impose another nationwide lockdown on England. But now, confronted with grim projections of a spiraling death toll from the coronavirus, he is weighing plans to lock down

Americans Surge to Polls: ‘I’m Going to Vote Like My Life Depends on It’

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 14:22:40 {widget1} “The issues that are facing this country are generational,” said Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at University of Florida. He said the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, coupled with the heightened political

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Philippines Braces for Typhoon Goni, Likely to Be Year’s Strongest Storm

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 09:55:41 {widget1} MANILA — Emergency response teams backed by the Philippine police and military scrambled on Saturday to prepare for Typhoon Goni, which officials expect to be the strongest storm to hit the country this year. Goni, which as of Saturday afternoon

Campaign 2020: Let’s Never Do This Again

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 09:03:40 {widget1} ATLANTA — The masks, when used, can muffle the dueling chants of a live-action partisan clash. But the messages of this election season still have a way of carrying. “No more years!” anti-Trump locals shouted at his supporters this past week in

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New Zealand’s Advance Preview of a Post-Coronavirus World

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-30 14:38:42 {widget1} The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Roughly three weeks ago, I stepped off a plane and into a parallel universe. Here in New Zealand, coronavirus lurks far from the limelight, the

For Socially Distanced Parties, Magicians Have New Bag of Tricks

ByadminOctober 31, 2020

2020-10-31 10:07:59 {widget1} It was a Sunday evening, and Ken Scott’s audience was spellbound. Parents and children were oohing and ahhing as he delivered a string of miracles. A wave of the hand over a Statue of Liberty postcard and the statue vanished. A Crunch bar