A towering bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending an oil tanker truck falling onto boats in the water below.
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Stocks are closing lower on Wall Street Monday as markets tumble worldwide on worries about the pandemic's economic pain. The S&P 500 fell 1.2%, though a last-hour recovery helped it more than halve its loss from earlier in the day. European stocks slid earlier on the possibility of tougher restrictions to stem rising coronavirus counts. Bank stocks fell after a report alleged several are profiting from illicit dealings with criminal networks. Wall Street has struggled this month amid fears that stocks are expensive with the pandemic still worsening and Congress not delivering more economic aid.
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2 men working to map WW II bombs are killed by one
Solomon islands – An Australian and a Briton working to map a deadly legacy of unexploded World War II munitions have been killed in the…
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Europe adopts tougher virus restrictions as infections surge
As the U.S. closed in on 200,000 coronavirus deaths Monday, the crisis deteriorated across Europe, with Britain working to draw up new restrictions, Spain clamping down again in Madrid and the Czech Republic replacing its health minister with an epidemiologist because of a surge of infections.
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Meghan's lawyers deny she cooperated with royal book authors
Lawyers for a British newspaper publisher that's being sued for invasion of privacy by the Duchess of Sussex argued Monday that she made personal information public by cooperating with the authors of a book about her relationship with Prince Harry. Her lawyers deny the claim.
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On 75th anniversary of UN, its chief appeals for peace
Born out of World War II's devastation to prevent the scourge of conflict, the United Nations marked its 75th anniversary Monday with an appeal from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to preserve the longest period in modern history without a military confrontation between the world's most powerful nations.
