PARIS (AP) — Canadian figure skaters will not join the United States and Japan on the podium at the Paris Olympics next week when team event medals finally are awarded from the 2022 Beijing Winter Games marred by a Russian doping case. Nor will there be Russian skaters on the bronze-medal step on Wednesday, despite
NANTERRE, France (AP) — Slovakia swimmer Tamara Potocka collapsed poolside Friday morning after a qualifying heat of the women’s 200-meter individual medley at the Paris Olympics when she had an asthma attack, a team spokesman said. Potocka, 21, was given first aid and carried off on a stretcher while wearing an oxygen mask. Medical personal
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When Ri Il Gyu, North Korea’s No.2 diplomat in Cuba, finally decided to flee to South Korea in frustration over his highly repressive, corrupt homeland last November, he finished all necessary prep work alone. About a week later, one night, he told his family that they should leave Cuba in
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Carlotta formed over the Pacific Ocean on Friday and continues to strengthen as it moves away from Mexico, forecasters said. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Carlotta’s top sustained winds reached 80 mph (130 kmh) as it moved farther away from any coast. The center said ocean swells generated by
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police on Mexico’s Caribbean coast said Friday they have found the bodies of four men, including a policeman, shot to death near a resort just south of Cancun. The victims all had apparently been shot in the head and were found dumped near the highway leading out of Cancun, said Luis
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — New details emerged Friday on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West were from its security services. Families of freed dissidents, meanwhile, expressed their joy at the surprise release. While journalists Evan Gershkovich
PARIS (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz moved one win away from becoming the youngest man to win an Olympics tennis singles gold medal by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 in the Paris Games semifinals on Friday. Alcaraz is a 21-year-old from Spain who already owns four Grand Slam titles — including in June at Roland Garros
PARIS (AP) — Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya of Belarus won the first medal by a neutral athlete at the Paris Olympics, taking silver in women’s trampoline on Friday behind Britain’s Bryony Page. Bardzilouskaya’s score of 56.060 was just behind Page’s tally of 56.480 in the eight-woman final. Sophiane Methot of Canada earned bronze at 55.650. Bardzilouskaya is
Kultura | 01.08.2024 | access_time 16:55 Džez festival Nišvil koji se ove godine održava od 9. do 18. avgusta imaće 1.000 izvođača, 150 bendova, 20 scena i 300 programa, istakao je danas direktor tog festivala Ivan Blagojević. On je podsetio da Nišvil ove godine obeležava tri značajna jubileja i to 30 godina postojanja, 30 godina
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has asked Denmark to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who has been in custody in Greenland since his arrest last month under a Japanese warrant, officials said Friday. Watson, a 73-year-old Canadian American citizen, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose high seas confrontations with whaling vessels
