VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Santi Aldama had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Spain defeated Greece 84-77 on Tuesday to earn its first victory of the Paris Olympics and remain in contention to advance to the knockout round. Sergio Llull finished with 13 points. Spain improved to 1-1 in Group A with one group-stage game
PARIS (AP) — Sam Mikulak pulled Stephen Nedoroscik close and tasked the American pommel horse specialist with the impossible. The U.S. men’s gymnastics team’s first Olympic medal in 16 years a solitary routine away, Mikulak told the pommel horse specialist that he didn’t need to go all out. That 80% would be good enough, even
MILAN (AP) — Despite protests by animal rights activists, an alpine Italian province on Tuesday confirmed the killing of a female bear believed responsible for an attack on a French hiker earlier this month. Activists said the killing of the bear identified as Kj1 leaves her three cubs in “serious difficulty to survive.” The International
TOKYO (AP) — One person died and nearly 150 others were sickened after eating grilled eel prepared by a restaurant chain and sold at a department store near Tokyo, officials said. Among those sickened, two required hospitalization. Keikyu Department Store said 147 customers as of Monday had reported symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea after
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bulletproof vehicle carrying local staff working for a U.N. development agency in Pakistan’s volatile northwest bordering Afghanistan on Tuesday, but no one was harmed, police said. The attack on the vehicle of the United Nations Office for Project Services happened in Dera Ismail
Swimming has been off-limits in the long-polluted Seine River in Paris for more than a century. So with Olympic swimming events on tap for the river, the city poured in $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros) to try to clean it up. With the Paris Games underway, officials are keeping a close eye on water quality.
LONDON (AP) — U.K.-based oil giant BP PLC said Tuesday it will reward shareholders to the tune of $7 billion this year through the purchase of its own stock, even as it reported a near 30% decline in profits in the first half of 2024. BP said in a statement its underlying replacement cost profit
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh observed a day of mourning Tuesday in memory of more than 200 people killed in recent weeks during violence that evolved from student protests over the South Asian country’s quota system for government jobs. After weeks of peaceful protests by students looking to change the system — which reserved 30%
Politika | 30.07.2024 | access_time 10:50 Poslanici Skupštine Srbije nastavili su danas sednicu, a na početku su poslanici iskoristili svoje pravo da utorkom od nadležnih zatraže objašnjenja ili obaveštenja.Poslanik Ekološkog pokreta Aleksandar Jovanović pitao je ministra unutrašnjih poslova Ivicu Dačića koliko je građana bilo juče na ulicama Srbije ne protestima protiv Rio Tinta, koliko u
PARIS (AP) — Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez has revealed that she fought at the Paris Olympics while seven months pregnant. Hafez posted on Instagram that she was “carrying a little Olympian one” hours after she had reached the round of 16 in women’s saber Monday. The 26-year-old fencer from Cairo upset Elizabeth Tartakovsky of the
