Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — The sport of modern pentathlon, a niche outlier at the Olympics, is getting rid of its horse competitions after the Paris Games and bringing in “American Ninja Warrior”-style obstacle courses for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. It’s a quirky
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. One wore a veil, the other fought with her head bare. Nahid Kiyani Chandeh and Kimia Alizadeh were once friends and roommates as part of the junior Iran taekwondo team. Now an entire world separates them. They clashed Thursday at the Paris Olympics
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. BEIJING (AP) — China is trying to fight fire with fire in the face of persistent doping allegations that have dogged its swimmers at the Paris Olympics. The China Anti-Doping Agency called Thursday for more intensive testing of American track and field competitors
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials on Thursday flagged that the sleek Samsung smartphones provided to North Korean athletes at the Paris Olympics would violate U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country over its nuclear and missile program . The South
A new report from Human Rights Watch says Israeli soldiers killed at least seven people and severely wounded two, including a 5-year-old, when they attacked a home in Gaza City where a Palestinian family was sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war in December. Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis with Israeli restrictions on aid and ongoing
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Western allies have condemned remarks by its far-right finance minister, who suggested that causing the starvation of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians “might be just and moral” until hostages captured in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel are returned home. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors on Thursday asked for a 15-year sentence in the treason trial of a Russian-American woman, who has pleaded guilty, Russian news agencies reported. Ksenia Khavana, whom Russian authorities identify by her maiden name of Karelina, was arrested in Yekaterinburg in February, accused of collecting money for Ukraine’s military. She pleaded
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A top official in the Kursk region of Russia that borders Ukraine said Thursday that fighting is continuing in an area where Ukrainian forces made a significant incursion this week. Ukrainian officials haven’t commented on the scope of the operation around the town of Sudzha. But Kursk’s acting deputy governor, Andrei
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police hurled tear gas at protesters calling for the president’s resignation in the Kenyan capital on Thursday as a new Cabinet was sworn in. The protests in Nairobi were organized by activists upset with President William Ruto even after he dismissed almost all of his ministers and added opposition members to
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean media says one North Korean resident escaped to the South across waters on the western portion of the border between the two countries and expressed intent to resettle in the South. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing anonymous military sources, said the unidentified individual crossed an estuary where
