Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the Ukrainian world-record high jumper, may have just won Olympic gold , but she and other winning athletes from Ukraine are not resting in Paris — they’re trying to shine the spotlight on the war tearing apart their
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — China’s Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi were the highest-scoring diving qualifiers in both the preliminaries and semifinals of women’s 10-meter platform at the Paris Olympics on Monday, setting them up as overwhelming favorites heading to the finals. In the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York. The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the justices granted
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A landslide triggered by heavy rains in southern Ethiopia’s Wolaita area killed at least 13 people and the number of fatalities is expected to rise, a local official said Monday. Samuel Fola, zone chief administrator of Wolaita, said more than 300 people have been evacuated from the area in Kindo
Međunarodna rudarska kompanija “Rio Tinto” odbacila je danas navode režisera Gorana Markovića o štetnosti projekta “Jadar” kao “netačne i paušalne”, navodeći da “naučna istraživanja pokazuju da se taj projekat može bezbedno realizovati uz poštovanje najviših domaćih ih međunarodnih standarda zaštite životne sredine”, te da će “koristiti sva raspoloživa pravna sredstva kako bi zaštitila reputaciju kompanije”.Marković
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops and set off a fire. The violence came as fears of an all-out regional war mount following the killings last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’
PARIS (AP) — Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine River Monday morning as the mixed relay event got underway after organizers said the bacteria levels in the long-polluted Paris waterway were at acceptable levels. The plan to hold the swimming portion of the triathlons and the marathon swimming events in the Seine was an ambitious
QEPARO, Albania (AP) — Preliminary results Monday showed Albania’s governing Socialist Party candidate Vangjel Tavo won the mayoral election in the southwestern town of Himara after the previous mayor was removed in a case that has sparked tensions with Greece. Results at the Central Election Commission showed Tavo won 58.62% of Sunday’s votes, while 41.38%
BEIJING (AP) — Landslides and flooding have killed more than 150 people across southern China in the past two months as torrential rainstorms batter the region. In the latest disaster, a flood and mudslide early Saturday in a mountainous Tibetan area in Sichuan province left eight people dead with 19 others still unaccounted for, state
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The center of Hurricane Debby is expected to reach the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday bringing potential record-setting rains, catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge as it moves slowly across the northern part of the state before stalling over the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina. Debby was
