KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukraine army’s surprise charge into Russia this week was a stunning maneuver that caught the Kremlin’s forces unawares. The strategic goal of Ukraine’s biggest cross-border incursion in almost 900 days of the war remains unclear, but it counters Russia’s unrelenting effort in recent months to punch through Ukrainian defenses at
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia declared the situation in the Kursk region a “federal level” emergency and sent reinforcements there on Friday, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured over the border in what appeared to be Kyiv’s biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began. Meanwhile, a Russian plane-launched missile slammed into
Protesters gathered outside Bulgaria’s parliament in response to a controversial legal amendment adopted the day before that bans talk of LGBTQ+ and so-called “non-traditional sexual choices” in schools. The protest was organized by feminist, LGBTQ+ and other rights groups calling for a reversal of that amendment, banning what supporters call “LGBTQ+ propaganda in schools”. (AP
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. PARIS (AP) — The memory of Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum hovers over the men’s Olympic marathon. His competitors will wind through the streets of Paris on Saturday chasing a gold medal he would have been favored
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The sport climbing competition is coming to a close at the Paris Games with athletes celebrating the decision to separate the speed discipline from boulder and lead. The sport made
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. PARIS (AP) — An Egyptian Olympic wrestler was arrested in Paris on sexual assault charges, French prosecutors said Friday. A 26-year-old athlete was detained early Friday after allegedly groping a woman from behind outside a
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish diplomats on Friday appealed for the release of seven citizens who were detained in Nigeria in what Warsaw believes was a misunderstanding amid protests taking place in the West African country. Six Polish students and a lecturer from Warsaw University, who were taking part in a program to study the
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday had a message for local governments: clean up homeless encampments now or lose out on state funding next year. Standing in front of a cleared homeless encampment in Los Angeles, Newsom vowed to start taking state funding away from cities and counties that are not
Wrexham is at the halfway stage of its unlikely journey toward the Premier League . Next stop: League One. Hot off a successful preseason tour to the west coast of the United States, the Welsh club co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds begins its domestic season on Saturday with a home match against Wycombe Wanderers in
PARIS (AP) — Athletes proudly displayed their Olympic rings tattoos on various parts of their body during the Paris Olympics. Take Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece. His tattoo sat just below his neck and was surrounded by the Olympic wreath. Eleftherios Petrounias, of Greece, has an Olympic tattoo showing during the men’s artistic gymnastics
