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The couples tied the knot in a mass military wedding complete with a parade, balloons and the Commander of the Taiwan Army's blessing. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/31/taiwan-gay-marriage-makes-history-in-mass-military-wedding-orig-kj.cnn

At the first meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, held over chocolate cake and sorbet at the US President's vast Mar-a-Lago private club in Florida, the two leaders seemed on the brink of establishing an unlikely and potentially special relationship. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/world/trump-china-xi-election-intl-hnk/index.html

Huge crowds turned out to protest in the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Friday against a court decision to ban nearly all abortions, making it one of the largest demonstrations seen in the country in decades. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/europe/poland-abortion-protests-scli-intl/index.html

Philippine officials on Saturday ordered the evacuation of thousands of residents in the southern part of the main Luzon island, as the world's strongest storm this year approached the Southeast Asian nation. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/asia/philippines-typhoon-goni-intl-hnk/index.html

At least four people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea off Greece and Turkey, according to Turkey's health minister. The Turkish city of Izmir has been particularly badly hit with reports of at least 20 building destroyed and cars being crushed. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/30/turkey-greece-earthquake-aegean-sea-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn

France's Paris region faced traffic jams with a combined length of 730 kilometers (454 miles) Thursday evening, as the approach of a new nationwide lockdown appeared to prompt major movements in and out of the city. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/europe/paris-traffic-lockdown-intl/index.html

Growing up as an adopted child in Ireland in the mid-1960s, Noelle Brown didn't ask questions about her past.   source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/europe/ireland-mother-baby-homes-commission-intl/index.html

San Francisco chef Cecilia Chiang, who blazed a trail for Chinese cuisine in the United States, died Wednesday. She was 100. Her granddaughter, Siena Chiang, confirmed her death with CNN. source https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cecilia-chiang-chef-obit/index.html

During commercial aviation's pandemic downturn, countless veteran airline pilots are retiring to save the jobs of their younger cohorts. But it was during Captain Paul Holmes' final flight for Delta Air Lines that a chance conversation with an air traffic controller brought him back to his early days with the airline. source https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/retiring-delta-pilot-air-traffic-controller/index.html

Last week it was the return of the world's longest flight -- Singapore to New York JFK. This week comes another new aviation record: the world's longest flight in a single-aisle aircraft. source https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/air-transat-a321-longest-flight/index.html

Billionaire tech tycoon Jack Ma is raising more than $34 billion in yet another record breaking IPO, further cementing his place in history as one of the world's great tech entrepreneurs. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/tech/jack-ma-ant-ipo-intl-hnk/index.html

Two of the world's richest men are duking it out over a brick-and-mortar retail chain on the verge of default. But when it comes to the fight for India's growing e-commerce market, every battle counts. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/tech/reliance-amazon-future-group-india-intl-hnk/index.html

The pandemic has not only upended millions of lives around the world, it's now threatening the world's oceans. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/business/ppe-ocean-waste/index.html

As much of the world struggles to contain new waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, Taiwan just marked its 200th consecutive day without a locally transmitted case of the disease. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/asia/taiwan-covid-19-intl-hnk/index.html

New Zealanders have voted in favor of legalizing euthanasia for people with a terminal illness -- clearing the way for the controversial proposition to become law in 2021. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/asia/new-zealand-euthanasia-intl-hnk/index.html

For the second time in as many weeks, France is reeling from the devastation of a brutal knife attack that authorities are ascribing to an Islamist terrorist. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/europe/france-free-speech-charlie-hebdo-nice-analysis-intl/index.html

CNN's Matt Rivers visits Neolpharma, a Mexican pharmaceutical company that says it plans to eventually produce millions of coronavirus vaccine doses. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/29/mexico-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-rivers-dnt-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn

The coronavirus pandemic has left governments in disarray and made planning even weeks ahead difficult. In Beijing this week, however, China's leaders met to set specific policy for much of the coming decade. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/asia/china-beijing-plenum-us-intl-hnk/index.html

Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the region in decades. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/asia/vietnam-typhoon-molave-destruction-intl-hnk/index.html

The Unites States has charged eight people, including six Chinese citizens, over a three-year plot to intimidate a US resident into returning to China to face criminal charges. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/asia/us-china-fox-hunt-arrest-intl-hnk/index.html

After its hugely successful "flight to nowhere" campaign, Australian national airline Qantas has rolled out an even bigger treat -- flights to, well, somewhere. source https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/qantas-flight-to-somewhere-uluru-intl-hnk/index.html

Two of Europe's largest economies -- France and Germany -- have announced sweeping new restrictions as cases of Covid-19 surge. CNN's Jim Bittermann reports. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/29/europe-france-germany-coronavirus-covid-19-lockdowns-bittermann-pkg-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn

A child has lost an arm and his mother suffered "deep wounds" in a shark attack in a marine reserve near the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/africa/shark-attack-child-intl-scli/index.html

A first-grade teacher at a Michigan elementary school is being hailed as a hero after alerting the school principal that her online student's grandmother was having a stroke. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/us/teacher-saves-grandma-life-stroke-trnd/index.html

It is now widely recognized that in Africa, the Covid-19 pandemic is on a different trajectory than much of the rest of the world, including the West. While relatively low levels of testing obscure the full picture, death rates have been significantly lower; health systems, while sometimes strained, have not been overwhelmed; and the latest serological studies suggest that while infection rates in Africa have been high, a great deal of these infections have been asymptomatic. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/perspectives/africa-covid-19-poverty-travel/index.html

The former king of Belgium, Albert II, has met with his once-secret daughter, Princess Delphine, for the first time since she was recognized as a royal, after years of legal battles forced the ex-monarch to finally acknowledge fathering her more than five decades ago. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/europe/belgian-king-albert-delphine-meet-scli-intl/index.html

Health workers in some hospitals in Liege, Belgium's third largest city and a coronavirus hotspot, have been asked to continue working even if they test positive for Covid-19 -- as long as they are not showing any symptoms of the disease. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/europe/belgium-coronavirus-hospitals-intl/index.html

A 19-year-old Hong Kong activist facing secession charges under the city's national security law was detained Tuesday amid reports he planned to attempt to claim asylum at the United States consulate. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/asia/hong-kong-chung-arrested-intl-hnk/index.html

Typhoon Molave made landfall just south of the Vietnamese resort city Da Nang on Wednesday, lashing the coast with powerful rains and winds, and inflicting further misery on an area still reeling from widespread deadly flooding. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/asia/vietnam-typhoon-molave-intl-hnk/index.html

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison responded to an incident at Doha Airport where more than 18 women were subjected to compulsory intimate medical exams after a newborn was found abandoned in a trash can. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout reports. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/28/australia-scott-morrison-doha-airport-qatar-airways-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn

Harley-Davidson, an aging brand that has faced shrinking sales over the past year, is starting an ebike company that it hopes could help it connect with a younger audience and grow its business. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/cars/harley-davidson-ebike-serial-1/index.html

Unlimited paid time off sounds great on paper. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/success/mandatory-pto-paid-time-off/index.html

Demonstrations took place in several cities of Northern Italy on Monday, following new restrictions to curb the country's second wave of Covid. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/27/italy-protests-covid-restrictions-lon-orig-mrg.cnn

Beached on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast -- a bizarre creation more at home in the deep than above the waves. It certainly doesn't look like something that could ever fly. source https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/caspian-sea-monster-ekranoplan/index.html

As Barack Obama ended his 75th day as President of the United States, the engines of a massive North Korean rocket roared to life half a world away -- sparking one of the first major international crises of his administration. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/asia/north-korea-next-president-challenges-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

A last-minute goal from Casemiro completed a stunning comeback from Real Madrid on Tuesday that earned the Spanish giants its first point of the new Champions League campaign. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/football/real-madrid-champions-league-comeback-spt-intl/index.html

At least three people have died, including children, after a boat capsized in French waters while trying to reach the UK, human rights monitoring group Channel Rescue said. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/europe/france-migrant-boat-sinking-intl/index.html

A US citizen has been abducted in Niger, the US State Department confirmed in a statement Tuesday. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/us-citizen-abducted-niger/index.html

The United States and India have reaffirmed their defensive and security relationship, as Washington continues to rally allies in Asia amid concerns over increased Chinese military activity in the region. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/asia/us-india-defense-china-intl-hnk/index.html

Seven people have died and at least 123 more have been injured in a blast at a religious school on Tuesday in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to local authorities. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/asia/pakistan-peshawar-blast-intl-hnk/index.html

Calls are growing in parts of the Muslim world to boycott French goods in protest after President Emmanuel Macron publicly defended cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which are considered blasphemous in Islam. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/europe/france-boycott-muslim-countries-macron-intl/index.html

Tens of thousands of US and Japanese troops will begin a massive island-landing exercise in the Pacific this week as part of joint military operations seen as a warning to China that Washington backs Tokyo over Beijing's claim to Japanese-controlled islands. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/asia/us-japan-military-exercises-keen-sword-china-intl-hnk/index.html

Protesters in Poland are demonstrating across the country against a near total-ban on abortions. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/26/poland-abortion-ban-protests-church-lon-orig-mrg.cnn

The US election is still more than a week away, but speculation about who might lead the Treasury Department under a Biden administration is already in full swing. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/economy/lael-brainard-joe-biden-treasury/index.html

The McDonald's social media manager ignited a conversation on Twitter Friday, gathering people who run brand social accounts to vent and talk about mental health. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/tech/mcdonalds-social-media-brands-trnd/index.html

This was going to be a big year for Japan. With the Summer Olympics due to be hosted in Tokyo, the island nation expected 40 million tourists to grace its shores. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/business/japanese-craft-breweries-turning-beer-into-gin-spc-intl/index.html

The Italian region of Lombardy was hit hard by the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and is now bracing for another surge in cases. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from an intensive care unit in one of the region's hospitals. source https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/10/26/italy-lodi-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-second-wave-wedeman-pkg-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn

Vietnam is preparing to evacuate nearly 1.3 million people ahead of Typhoon Molave, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/asia/vietnam-typhoon-molave-evacuate-intl-hnk/index.html

When Donald Trump won the United States presidency in 2016, Uyghur exile and US citizen Erkin Sidick was stunned and disappointed. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/asia/trump-biden-china-xinjiang-intl-hnk/index.html

A study of hundreds of thousands of people across England suggests immunity to the coronavirus is gradually wearing off - at least according to one measure. source https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/health/covid-19-immunity-wanes-large-study-finds/index.html