MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian piano player has died in jail while awaiting trial on charges linked to his criticism of Moscow’s military action in Ukraine, news reports said Tuesday. Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, reported that pianist Pavel Kushnir died on July 28 in a jail in Birobidzhan, a city in fareastern Russia
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Turns out NASCAR’s best are just like many of us — they like watching the Olympics, too. From Kyle Busch pulling for U.S. gold medal-winning sprinter Noah Lyles , Chase Elliott eager to watch Olympic golf and Joey Logano shouting out Sha’Carri Richardson
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — The short turnaround in Olympic golf put Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire of Ireland on the same stage as the men at Le Golf National. The size of the crowd was amazing, the noise so chilling that Meadows said
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Australia’s Arisa Trew scored a 93.18 on her final run to win gold in women’s park skateboarding Tuesday at the Paris Olympics . The 14-year-old Trew was in third place before she executed a superb third run, highlighted by a
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The midpoint of the Olympic track meet used to be time for Jamaican sprint stars — Usain Bolt , Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and all the rest — to catch their breath, recover from their victory parties, then start gearing up
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five U.S. service members and two contractors were injured when two rockets hit a military base in Iraq, U.S. officials said Tuesday, providing a bit more detail about the Monday strike. The officials said five of those injured were being treated at the al-Asad airbase and two were evacuated, but all seven
NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese American scholar was convicted Tuesday of U.S. charges of using his reputation as a pro-democracy activist to gather information on dissidents and feed it to his homeland’s government. A federal jury in New York delivered the verdict in the case of Shujun Wang , who helped found a pro-democracy
GENEVA (AP) — A Chinese-American teen is vying to set a record as the youngest person to fly solo to all seven continents in a quest that also aims to drum up donations for research into childhood cancer . Ethan Guo, who turned 19 last month, began his quest in May in Memphis, Tennessee. He
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City journalist was arrested on felony hate crime charges Tuesday after filming a pro-Palestinian protest earlier this summer in which activists hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum. Samuel Seligson, an independent videographer, was not involved in the vandalism and is only
Klimatske promene | Izvor: Beta | 06.08.2024 | access_time 12:50 Jul ove godine je bio najtopliji u Srbiji od kada postoje merenja, odnosno od 1951. godine, sa srednjom mesečnom temperaturom vazduha 24,9 stepeni, saopštio je Republički hidrometeorološki zavod (RHMZ) u novom mesečnom biltenu. To je za gotovo šest stepeni više od proseka pre nekoliko decenija
