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Sunday, October 20, 2019

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A protester throws a Molotov cocktail at a police station in Hong Kong, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Hong Kong protesters again flooded streets on Sunday, ignoring a police ban on the rally and demanding the government meet their demands for accountability and political rights. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong protesters set up roadblocks, clash with police

Hong Kong protesters again flood streets on Sunday, ignoring a police ban on the rally and demanding the government meet their demands
Workers prepare two unstable cranes for implosion at the collapse site of the Hard Rock Hotel, which underwent a partial, major collapse while under construction last Sat., Oct., 12, in New Orleans, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

After delay, New Orleans to demolish cranes at hotel site

City officials in New Orleans are planning to use a series of controlled explosions to take down two cranes that have been standing precariously over the remains of a partially collapsed hotel

Pelosi in Jordan for 'vital discussions' amid Syria crisis

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a bipartisan delegation of American lawmakers has visited Jordan to discuss "the deepening crisis" in Syria
FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2015 file photo, two Qantas planes taxi on the runway at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia. Australia's Qantas has completed the first non-stop commercial flight from New York to Sydney Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, which was used to run a series of tests to assess the effects of ultra-long-haul flights on crew fatigue and passenger jetlag. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Qantas completes longest non-stop New York-Sydney flight

Australia's Qantas completes the first non-stop commercial flight from New York to Sydney, which was used to run a series of tests to assess the effects of ultra long-haul flights
Anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporters take part in a "People's Vote" protest march calling for another referendum on Britain's EU membership, in London, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. Britain's Parliament is set to vote in a rare Saturday sitting on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's new deal with the European Union, a decisive moment in the prolonged bid to end the Brexit stalemate. Various scenarios may be put in motion by the vote. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
The Latest: UK minister: No-deal Brexit preparations gear up
The British minister in charge of Brexit preparations says contingency plans are being "triggered" to cope with the disruptions expected if the country crashes out of the European Union without a divorce deal
Bolivia's President Evo Morales greets followers before casting his vote in Villa 14 de Septiembre, in the Chapare region, Bolivia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Bolivians are voting in general elections Sunday where Morales is Presidential candidate for a fourth term.(AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivians pick between Evo Morales and change in tight vote
Bolivians choose between Evo Morales continuity or change under new leader in fiercely contested presidential election
A view of a deserted road in the northern Italian city of Bolzano, Sunday, Oct. 20,2 019. Italian authorities have evacuated 4,000 people from the center of the northern city of Bolzano to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction. The news agency ANSA said the bomb was defused during a three-hour operation Sunday morning. (G.news/ANSA via AP)
Italian experts defuse WWII bomb in northern city
Italian authorities have evacuated 4,000 people from the center of the northern city of Bolzano to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction
In this Sept. 6, 2019, photo, Donna Cryer holds up family photos that include her father Roland Henry, as she poses for a photo in Washington. When her father died, she tried to donate his organs, yet the local organ collection agency said no, without talking to the family or providing a reason. "It was devastating to be told there was nothing they considered worthy of donation. Nada. Not a kidney, not a liver, not tissue,' recalled Donna Cryer, president of the nonprofit Global Liver Institute and herself a recipient of a liver transplant. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Where you die can affect your chance of being an organ donor
Feds mull tighter standards for organ collection groups, as AP finds some secure donors at half the rate of others
“Self-Portrait” (1986) by Andy Warhol
Art Institute's Andy Warhol retrospective goes beyond soup cans and celebrities
Andy Warhol as you've never seen him before. The Art Institute of Chicago presents a career retrospective of the Pop Art pioneer "Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again" organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2019 file photo, U.S. soldiers survey the the safe zone between Syria and the Turkish border near Tal Abyad, Syria, on a joint patrol with the Tax Abyad Military Council, affiliated with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under the current plan all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq, and that the military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent a resurgence in that country. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
Defense chief: US troops leaving Syria to go to western Iraq
Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under the current plan all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq, and that the military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent a resurgence in that country
Mark Esper arrives in Kabul on his first trip to Afghanistan as US defense secretary
Mark Esper arrives in Kabul on his first trip to Afghanistan as US defense secretary
Indonesian President Joko Widodo salutes shortly after take his presidential oath for his second five-year term during the Inauguration ceremony at the parliamentary building in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Indonesia's popular president who rose from poverty and pledged to champion democracy, fight entrenched corruption and modernize the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation is to be sworn in for his final five-year term. (Adi Weda/Pool Photo via AP)
Indonesia's popular president sworn in for 2nd term
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been sworn in for a second and final five-year term with a pledge to take bolder actions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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