Athletes at the last Summer Olympics remember the sadness and longing of competing with nearly no one in the stands, thanks to pandemic-era restrictions in Tokyo three years ago. Not just zero spectators and eerily quiet stadiums, which were bad enough. Worse, perhaps? There were no parents or siblings. No lifelong pals or childhood coaches.
MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgio Melon i has admonished the youth wing of her far-right Brothers of Italy party after an Italian news outlet published videos showing some of its members glorifying fascism. “I have said and repeated dozens of times, but perhaps I need to repeat it: There is no space in Brothers
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Early last week, floodwater in rural Minnesota pushed debris against a more than century-old dam and then carved a path around it , eroding so much of the riverbank that most of a house fell into the river. Several days later, intense rain damaged a dam that holds drinking water for
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s governing center-right party on Wednesday booted out a lawmaker and former minister who allegedly manhandled an airport worker who wouldn’t let him board a domestic flight he’d turned up late for. Lefteris Avgenakis, who has held the sports and agriculture portfolios, apologized over the incident earlier this month at Athens
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan and Iran on Wednesday signed a contract for the delivery of 10 billion cubic meters a year of Turkmen gas that Iran will then ship on to Iraq . The deal was announced by Turkmenistan’s foreign ministry, which did not state the monetary worth of the contract. The ministry’s statement
NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine stepping into a life-sized whale carcass decoy and steering it into deep water. You’re looking — yes, looking — for a group of hungry sharks to spark a feeding frenzy. To attract them, you shoot out hundreds of gallons of synthetic blood and chum. Then watch them lose it. That’s
PARIS (AP) — Days ahead of France’s crucial parliamentary elections, renowned Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld is sticking to his advice that if voters are faced with a duel between Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and a far-left competitor, they should choose the far right. The advice from Klarsfeld, an 88-year-old Jewish historian who has
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Polish man was charged on Wednesday with assaulting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen last month, his lawyer said. A 39-year-old man walked up to Frederiksen in a downtown Copenhagen square on June 7 and punched her on her right upper arm. The prime minister suffered minor whiplash but was otherwise
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A former senator in Pakistan was killed Wednesday when a vehicle carrying him and supporters struck a roadside bomb in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border, police said. Two other people were killed. Two other people were wounded in the attack in Bajur, a district in
Politika | 03.07.2024 | access_time 13:45 Predsednica Skupštine Srbije Ana Brnabić izjavila je danas uoči sastanaka sa zvaničnicima u Berlinu da će jedna od tema razgovora biti i iskopavanje litijuma. “Radujem se razgovorima u Berlinu na različite teme, pre svega političke, ali i ekonomske. Nemačka je naš najvažniji trgovinski partner. Jedna od tema će svakako
