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Indian farmers mark 100th day of protest with road blockade
NEW DELHI - Thousands of Indian farmers blocked a massive expressway on the edges of New Delhi on Saturday to mark the 100th day of protests against agricultural laws they say will devastate their inc...
Mar 06, 2021
Kriechmayr adds World Cup downhill win to world title
SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria - Vincent Kriechmayr ended his two-year-long victory drought in men's World Cup downhills by winning Saturday, three weeks after he took the world title in the discipline...
Mar 06, 2021
Shiffrin beats Vlhova, claims 45th World Cup slalom victory
JASNA, Slovakia - Mikaela Shiffrin denied her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova a home victory Saturday, winning the first World Cup slalom following the world championships. Shiffrin trailed first-run lea...
Mar 06, 2021
Protesters say out with Cyprus' 'Satanic' Eurovision entry
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Dozens of Orthodox Christian faithful held up wooden crosses and sang Church hymns outside of Cyprus' state broadcaster on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of the country's controve...
Mar 06, 2021
Sydney's LGBTQI Mardi Gras goes ahead - with restrictions
SYDNEY, Australia - Sydney's annual iconic Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras went ahead on Saturday, only in a different format due to coronavirus restrictions. It was being held at the Sydney Cricket Ground...
Mar 06, 2021
Senate works through night with virus aid on path to passage
WASHINGTON - The Senate worked through the night and past sunrise Saturday on Democrats' showpiece $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill after a deal between leaders and moderate Sen. Joe Manchin on emer...
Mar 06, 2021
Indian farmers mark 100th day of protest with road blockade
NEW DELHI - Thousands of Indian farmers blocked a massive expressway on the edges of New Delhi on Saturday to mark the 100th day of protests against agricultural laws they say will devastate their inc...
Mar 06, 2021
Manchin, key Senate swing vote, boosts West Virginia's hopes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginia has long proclaimed itself "Almost Heaven," a nod to a song and soaring mountaintop vistas. Now some joke the state name-checked in "Take Me Home, Country Roads" coul...
Mar 06, 2021
Hong Kong court puts off release of pro-democracy activists
HONG KONG - A group of 11 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists accused of subversion will stay in jail for at least another five days while judges consider whether to release them on bail, a court said S...
Mar 06, 2021
Diplomats: UN fails to approve call to end Tigray violence
CAMEROON, Cameroon - An attempt to get U.N. Security Council approval for a statement calling for an end to violence in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region and to spotlight the millions in need of huma...
Mar 06, 2021
