CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency said Friday that flood conditions in Sudan have hindered the delivery of aid to areas where many are already facing hunger and famine , including to a camp in North Darfur for those who have fled ongoing fighting. In a statement, the agency said at least 11,000
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. PARIS (AP) — It’s a game the French wanted. It’s a game the Americans probably expected. It’s a game the world most certainly will be watching. The U.S. vs. France. In Paris. For basketball gold.
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. PARIS (AP) — The journey of Olympic breaking was a long one that began with a vision — one that early pioneers of the art form in the 1970s in the Bronx hardly dreamed of.
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The treasurer of the governing body of modern pentathlon is facing a disciplinary investigation for “alleged credentials irregularities” and has left the Paris Olympics . The UIPM, which governs modern pentathlon
Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate will hold a rally in Arizona as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris passed over a prominent Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly , a former astronaut and gun control advocate, had been a
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida canceled a planned trip to Central Asia on Friday to lead the government’s response after scientists urged people to prepare for a possible “megaquake” off the country’s southern coast. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first ever “megaquake advisory” on Thursday warning of a possible future major
In his first news conference since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, former President Donald Trump said he would debate her on Sept. 10 and pushed for two more debates. The Republican presidential nominee spoke for more than an hour, discussing a number of issues facing the country and then taking
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukraine army’s surprise charge into Russia this week was a stunning maneuver that caught the Kremlin’s forces unawares. The strategic goal of Ukraine’s biggest cross-border incursion in almost 900 days of the war remains unclear, but it counters Russia’s unrelenting effort in recent months to punch through Ukrainian defenses at
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia declared the situation in the Kursk region a “federal level” emergency and sent reinforcements there on Friday, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured over the border in what appeared to be Kyiv’s biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began. Meanwhile, a Russian plane-launched missile slammed into
Protesters gathered outside Bulgaria’s parliament in response to a controversial legal amendment adopted the day before that bans talk of LGBTQ+ and so-called “non-traditional sexual choices” in schools. The protest was organized by feminist, LGBTQ+ and other rights groups calling for a reversal of that amendment, banning what supporters call “LGBTQ+ propaganda in schools”. (AP
