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President Donald Trump speaks during an event at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump misleads on mail ballots, virus vaccine

It was a week of relentless attacks by President Donald Trump on mail-in voting for the November election, and the truth took a beating
People stand by the debris of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing in Kozhikode, Kerala state, India, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. The special evacuation flight bringing people home to India who had been trapped abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off the runway and split in two while landing in heavy rain killing more than a dozen people and injuring dozens more. (AP Photo/Shijith Sreedhar)

Survivors of deadly India crash say plane swayed violently

The plane swayed violently as it approached a hilltop runway drenched in monsoon rain, and moments later the special return flight for Indians stranded abroad by the pandemic skidded off, nosedived and cracked in two, leaving 18 dead and more than 120 injured

Some Indiana farmers find surprising bounty in COVID-19 year

SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (AP) - Scottsburg-based farmer Doug Krieger said that in more than two decades of selling at southern Indiana farmers markets, he's never had a year like this one. 'It will go down record-breaking,' he said. 'We're way over triple, probably four times (the usual business). I can pack that truck just as full as I can get it and just have a few essential things to take back home.

Remains of 9 killed in California Marine sinking recovered

The military has recovered the bodies of nine people killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the Southern California coast
Museum showcases local history with kitchen things
TREMONT, Ill. (AP) - Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the Tremont Museum and Historical Society's Apron Strings and Kitchen Things exhibit is that it makes local history a personal matter for area residents. 'Almost 100% of this exhibit is (made up of) loaned items from people in this area,' said Lori Fuoss, the exhibit's co-chair. 'Depending on peoples' ages, they might remember their grandma having some of those (items), or their mother, or maybe they used them themselves. I think it just brings a lot of memories when people walk through.'
Ellen Roberts frames her daughter with the perfect background at the sunflower maze near L&A Family Farms just south of Paris, Ill., on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. A seemingly endless field of sunflowers is in bloom in east central Illinois, a golden spectacle that's drawing families from all corners of the Wabash Valley and beyond. (Joseph C. Garza/The Tribune-Star via AP)
Blooms unfold at southern Illinois farm's sunflower maze
PARIS, Ill. (AP) - A seemingly endless field of sunflowers is in bloom in east central Illinois, a golden spectacle that's drawing families from all corners of the Wabash Valley and beyond. L&A Family Farms just south of Paris, Illinois, is welcoming folks back this year to its annual sunflower maze as the first blooms unfolded.
At least 8 soldiers dead in blast outside Somali army base
A Somali police officer says at least eight soldiers are dead and more than 14 others wounded after a suicide car bomber detonated at the gates of a military base in Somalia's capital
A man and his daughter pray for the victims of U.S. atomic bombing at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. Nagasaki marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing on Sunday. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP)
Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing
The Japanese city of Nagasaki has marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban
People clash with police during a protest against the political elites and the government after this week's deadly explosion at Beirut port which devastated large parts of the capital and killed more than 150 people, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Lebanon information minister resigns in wake of deadly blast
Lebanon's information minister has resigned as the country grapples with the aftermath of a devastating blast that ripped across the capital and raised public anger to new levels
A Belarusian soldier casts his ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. After 26 years in office, the authoritarian leader of Belarus is facing the toughest challenge yet as Alexander Lukashenko runs for a sixth term. Discontent over a worsening economy and his government's dismissive response to the coronavirus pandemic has helped fuel the country's largest opposition rallies since he became its first and only elected president following the collapse of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Belarus strongman president faces strong election challenge
Belarusians are voting on whether to grant their authoritarian president a sixth term in office, following a campaign marked by unusually strong demonstrations by opposition supporters
FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, a security person wears a mask as he checks vehicles entering a compound for Saudi Aramco in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco's net income plunged by 50% in the first half of the year, according to figures published Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, offering a revealing glimpse into the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on one of the world's biggest oil producers. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
Saudi Aramco half-year profits plunge 50% from virus impact
Saudi Aramco says its net income plunged by 50% in the first half of the year, offering a revealing glimpse into the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on one of the world's biggest oil producers
File---File picture taken Aug.3, 2020 shows teacher Francie Keller welcoming the pupils of class 3c in her classroom in the Lankow primary school to the first school day after the summer holidays in Schwerin, Germany. 2020. As Germany's 16 states start sending millions of children back to school in the middle of the global coronavirus pandemic, those used to the country's famous 'Ordnung' are instead looking at uncertainty, with a hodgepodge of regional regulations that officials acknowledge may or may not work. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP, File)
Masks in class? Many questions as Germans go back to school
Germany has won plaudits for managing to slow the spread of the coronavirus quickly, efficiently and early
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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