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8:20 AM on Thursday, November 20

South Africa's leader says there are last-minute talks on U.S. taking part in the G20 summit in a reverse of its boycott

7:56 AM on Thursday, November 20

Cholera remains a major challenge in Africa, says the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

7:36 AM on Thursday, November 20

Court in Nigeria sentences separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment for terrorism-related offenses

7:22 AM on Thursday, November 20

Lebanon's authorities say the country's most wanted drug trafficker has been arrested after years on the run

6:27 AM on Thursday, November 20

Global sales of personal luxury goods are expected to decline for the second consecutive year

6:22 AM on Thursday, November 20

Starbucks’ union is expanding its week-old strike against the company

6:01 AM on Thursday, November 20

K-pop is turning up in force at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, with fans-turned-activists hosting protest and events to mobilize their millions-strong online community to back concrete climate actions

6:00 AM on Thursday, November 20

The Weeknd’s After Hours ’Til Dawn Tour has officially crossed the $1 billion mark according to Live Nation

5:55 AM on Thursday, November 20

New U.S. jobless claim applications fell last week, remaining within the healthy range of recent years, according to the government’s first weekly layoffs data since before the government shut down on Oct. 1

5:52 AM on Thursday, November 20

Spain’s Supreme Court has found the country’s attorney general guilty of leaking confidential information about the boyfriend of a leading conservative politician and government rival

5:32 AM on Thursday, November 20

US employers add a surprising 119,000 jobs in September according to data delayed for weeks by the government shutdown

5:12 AM on Thursday, November 20

Students preparing to study abroad often have long checklists, but the experience of learning and living in another country can be challenging in unexpected ways

5:02 AM on Thursday, November 20

GE Appliances says it has awarded more than $150 million in new contracts to U.S. suppliers as a result of its decision to shift production from China to Kentucky

4:49 AM on Thursday, November 20

A Nigerian court has convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of terrorism-related charges

4:28 AM on Thursday, November 20

Italy will first host Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifying playoff in March but then would go on the road to reach its first tournament after back-to-back failures at this stage

3:58 AM on Thursday, November 20

Spanish legacy media companies in Spain have scored a victory against social media giant Meta after a Madrid-based court ordered that it must pay news outlets nearly half a billion euros in damages

2:43 AM on Thursday, November 20

The U.N. atomic watchdog’s board of governors is demanding Iran fully cooperate and provide the agency's inspectors with “precise information” about its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, and also grant them access to the country’s nuclear sites

9:01 PM on Wednesday, November 19

A Kettering Foundation-Gallup poll finds that about half of U.S. adults believe democracy is functioning “very” or “moderately” poorly in the United States, while only around one-quarter think it’s doing “very” or “moderately” well

4:53 PM on Wednesday, November 19

The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus

9:22 AM on Wednesday, November 19

Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during an immigration crackdown in North Carolina centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city