LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC invited eight top Russian tennis players plus Aryna Sabalenka and Victoria Azarenka from Belarus on Thursday to compete as neutral athletes at the Paris Olympics — though some already declined the expected offer. The Russian men invited to compete in the Olympic tournament at Roland Garros from July 27-Aug.
Kawhi Leonard, Tyrese Haliburton and Joel Embiid are all good to go for the start of USA Basketball’s men’s national team training camp in Las Vegas next week, the first step toward what the Americans hope is a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal. Leonard missed 12 of the Los Angeles Clippers’ final 14 games this
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday reshuffled his top officials in what observers saw as part of maneuvering ahead of the 2025 presidential election. Lukashenko, who has ruled the country of 9.5 million with an iron hand for three decades and declared his intention to seek a seventh term next year
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma have been cast as prime villains in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a deal for the company to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids through bankruptcy court. The deal was to be financed largely through the
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch beach volleyball player convicted and imprisoned eight years ago for raping an underage girl in Britain has qualified for the Paris Olympics. Steven van de Velde and partner Matthew Immers were one of two men’s teams from the Netherlands that qualified for the beach volleyball competition at the
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A train traveling from the Czech capital of Prague to the Hungarian capital of Budapest collided with a bus in southern Slovakia on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead and five injured, officials said. More than 100 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after
A group of nonprofits argued in a legal filing that the federal law requiring TikTok’s parent company to sell the platform, or face a ban, is an unconstitutional measure that restricts speech and makes it impossible for users to associate on the app. The legal brief, submitted late Wednesday to a federal court in Washington
NEW YORK (AP) — When Alessandra Ferri, one of the most celebrated dramatic ballerinas of this or any time, takes the stage Friday at the Metropolitan Opera House to channel Virginia Woolf, logic dictates it will be her last dance appearance. It’s not merely that she’s now 61 — albeit dancing exquisitely — and sharing
Politika | 27.06.2024 | access_time 11:35 Uticajni član vladajuće Srpske napredne stranke (SNS), poslanik i advokat Vladimir Đukanović postao je vlasnik tri luksuzna stana na Voždovcu, tri garažna mesta na toj beogradskoj opštini i dva apartmana na Zlatiboru, objavio je danas portal BIRN. Kako se navodi u tekstu, advokat koji između ostalog brani Predraga Koluviju
Ekonomija | 26.06.2024 | access_time 16:25 Foto: Posetioci štanda CATL-a na 12. Međunarodnoj konferenciji i izložbi o skladištenju energije (ESIE) u izložbenom i kongresnom centru Šougang u Pekingu (Sinhua/Jin Dongsun) Kompanija Contemporari Amperek Technologi Co., Ltd. (CATL), najveći kineski proizvođač litijum-jonskih baterija za automobile, počeo je u utorak izgradnju svoje prve fabrike baterija na severu
