SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — China remained on course for an unprecedented Olympic diving sweep , taking the top two spots in the semifinals of men’s 10-meter platform Saturday. In the final diving event of the Paris Games, Cao Yuan posted the top score of 504.00 points, followed by teammate Yang Hao at 490.55. That gave
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned Saturday following protests by a group of students and other demonstrators as the country’s interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus started functioning days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and flee to India. Asif Nazrul, law, justice and parliamentary affairs
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tension between the desire of some victims’ families to see a final legal reckoning and the significant obstacles that may make that impossible.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s newly-elected president reappointed a U.S.-educated official who came under United Nations sanctions 16 years ago as head of the country’s nuclear department, state TV reported Saturday. Mohammad Eslami, 67, will continue his work as chief of Iran’s civilian nuclear program and serve as one of several vice presidents. Eslami’s reappointment
CAIRO (AP) — Clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in Libya’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation, officials said Saturday. The hours-long clashes, which involved heavy weapons, occurred Friday in Tripoli’s eastern neighborhood of Tajoura between Rahba al-Duruae militia
PARIS (AP) — Nikola Jokic had the fifth triple-double in Olympic history and Serbia beat Germany 93-83 to win the Olympic men’s basketball bronze medal on Saturday. Jokic finished with 19 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists to help Serbia claim its first medal since winning silver in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Serbia bounced
BANGKOK (AP) — At least 150 civilians from Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority may have been killed this week in an artillery and drone attack in the western state of Rakhine that survivors suspect was carried out by a major force in the resistance to military rule. The Arakan Army, the military wing of the state’s
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Saturday announced what it called a counterterrorism operation to increase security in the border region where an incursion this week by Ukrainian forces caught Russian troops off-guard and exposed its military vulnerabilities in the 2 1/2-year-old war. The Russian Defense Ministry said fighting was continuing in the Kursk region
Follow along for the latest updates from today’s Olympic action. VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Mie Hoejlund scored five goals as Denmark beat Sweden 30-25 to win the bronze medal in women’s handball at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. It was the Danish women’s first Olympic medal in handball since winning the last of their three
Follow along for the latest updates from today’s Olympic action. PARIS (AP) — From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking’s Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions from viewers about whether the essence of the hip-hop art form was captured at
