NEW YORK (AP) — A segment of fans in Yankee Stadium’s right field bleachers chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” during the playing of “O Canada” on Friday night before the game between New York and the Toronto Blue Jays. Most of the 45,000-plus fans in the ballpark ignored the chanting during the anthem sung by Max Greenberg
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. The move comes two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced that the official appointed to
TORONTO (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek withdrew Friday from a U.S. Open tuneup in Toronto after winning a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. Swiatek was one of several players to withdraw from the National Bank Open, which begins Tuesday. Grand Slam champions Barbora Krejcikova, Elena Rybakina and Maketa Vondrousova also pulled out Friday along
Ekonomija | 02.08.2024 | access_time 10:40 Narodna banka Srbije (NBS) je tokom prošle godine zbog “povećane globalne neizvesnosti”, na međubankarskom tržištu kupila rekordnu količinu evra kako bi održala stabilnost srpske valute, piše u petak ekonomski portal Nova ekonimija. “U 2023. godini NBS je intervenisala neto kupovinom deviza u iznosu od 3,9 milijardi evra, što je
WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly confirmed famine at one of the sprawling camps for war-displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region is growing uncontrolled as the country’s combatants block aid , and it threatens to grow bigger and deadlier than the world’s last major famine 13 years ago, U.S. officials warned on Friday. The U.S. Agency
The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard was held in Doha on Friday after his shock assassination in Tehran on Wednesday. The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard was held in Doha on Friday after his shock assassination in Tehran on Wednesday. Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]
Conservationists are celebrating the recent birth of an onager foal, one of the rarest animals on Earth, at Chester Zoo. Experts say the birth will shine a spotlight on ‘overlooked’ equid species of which there are no more than 600 left in the wild. Chester is a leading part of a European-wide conservation breeding programme
PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek used a towel to wipe tears from her eyes at the Paris Olympics after earning a bronze for Poland’s first tennis medal at any Summer Games by beating Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-1 on Friday. The match took just 59 minutes, and Swiatek played much more cleanly than
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team had a 23-point lead over Serbia with seven seconds remaining in its opening contest at the Paris Games earlier this week. Had this been the Golden State Warriors with such a lead in the final moments, Stephen Curry would have simply let time expire. Here
PARIS (AP) — The United States was eliminated from the Olympic men’s soccer tournament on Friday after a 4-0 loss to Morocco in the quarterfinals. Soufiane Rahimi, Ilias Akhomach, Achraf Hakimi and Mehdi Maouhoub scored the goals at Parc des Princes that ended U.S. hopes of a medal at the Paris Games. Morocco, which enjoyed
