World News Desk

• China Urges U.S. to Stop Increasing Ties with Taiwan

• In Ruins, Syria Marks 50 Years of Assad Family Rule

• Hong Kong’s Last Pro-Democracy Lawmakers Resign

• UN: Pandemic Threatens Latin America’s Next Generation

• Aung San Suu Kyi’s Party Claims to Have Won Majority in Myanmar Polls

• Guatemalan Villagers Tell of Harrowing Escape from Landslide that Pushed Storm Eta’s Death Toll Near 150

• A Worried Asia Wonders: What Will Joe Biden Do?

• Does Weather Affect the Spread of the Coronavirus Outside?

• What’s Next? Saturday’s Election Verdict Is Not Last Step

• Ivory Coast Opposition Leader Calls on Military to Disobey President

• Denmark to Cull 15 Million Minks to Prevent Spreading Mutated COVID

• Space Station Marks 20 Years of People Living in Orbit

• Fighting Over Nagorno-Karabakh Drags Past 6th Week. What’s Behind the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict?

• Lab Tests Show Risks of Using CRISPR Gene Editing on Embryos

• EU: Brexit Trade Talks Still Face “Too Many Difficulties”

• Presidency Hinges on Tight Races in Battleground States

• Philippines Braces for Another Cyclone, After Typhoon Kills 20

• ISIS Attack on Afghan University Leaves 22 Dead, 22 Wounded

• Children Pulled Alive in Dramatic Turkey Quake Rescues; Death Toll Hits 94

• Study: 1 to 2 Million Tons of U.S. Plastic Trash Goes Astray