Israel’s military said Tuesday it carried out a strike on Beirut targeting the militant commander allegedly behind the deaths of 12 children and teens in a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights over the weekend. People gathered by the site of the strike, and ambulances were seen there, as well as arriving at a
Iran swore in the country’s new president on Tuesday, with the reformist politician and heart surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian pledging that his administration will keep trying to remove economic sanctions imposed by the West over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program. (AP video shot by Saeed Sarmadi) Iran swore in the country’s new president on Tuesday, with the
PARIS (AP) — Three-time gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings have moved on, and so have April Ross and Alix Klineman, the women who restored the United States to the top of Olympic beach volleyball podium in Tokyo. In their place is a new contingent trying to bring the prize home from the
PARIS (AP) — Watching the celebrations after the Paris Olympics women’s gymnastics team final Tuesday, it was impossible to tell who had won. The Simone Biles -led U.S. team? Brazil star Rebeca Andrade and her teammates? Or the Italian team led by 17-year-old Manila Esposito? Athletes from three nations erupted in cheers when the final
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — France’s miracle last-second comeback at the Paris Games on Tuesday got even better a few hours later, when the host nation clinched a spot in the quarterfinals and a trip to Paris for the knockout round next week. Also now officially in the Olympic quarterfinals: Germany and Canada. And on Wednesday
PARIS (AP) — Andy Murray sat crying on his chair after he and British partner Dan Evans saved two match points to win a second-round doubles match at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, extending his career for at least another match. Murray — who has announced he will retire after the Olympics — and Evans
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday formally ended an arms embargo on the Central African Republic, a largely symbolic move but one that was welcomed by the country’s government as a sign of confidence as it seeks to end more than a decade of intercommunal conflict. The unanimous vote essentially reaffirmed
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela was tense on Tuesday as incumbent President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s main opposition coalition both claimed that they had won Sunday’s presidential election. The national electoral authority proclaimed Maduro the winner. The opposition represented by Edmundo González said it has evidence to the contrary. Electoral authorities installed more than
PARIS (AP) — The fans at fencing are among the loudest and most passionate at the Paris Olympics , especially when France is challenging for a gold medal. They usually leave disappointed. Italy overcame a passionate “Marseillaise”-singing crowd at the Grand Palais to hand France its fourth fencing silver medal of the Games in the
PARIS (AP) — For almost five full games at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek’s high-bouncing topspin shots were being sent back over the net by No. 52 Wang Xiyu of China with crushing baseline groundstrokes of her own. Wang even held a break point that would have given her a 3-2
