BEIJING (AP) — Eight people died after a vehicle hit pedestrians in the central Chinese city of Changsha. A statement from the Kaifu branch of the Changsha Public Security Bureau did not give a cause or any more details but said that a 55-year-old male suspect had been detained. Five other people were injured, two
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer NANTERRE, France (AP) — Zhang Yufei hopes her international rivals will believe she is competing clean after the Chinese swimming star estimates she took between 20 and 30 drug tests monthly in the lead up to the Paris Olympics. “I don’t think there’s a single athlete, Chinese or foreign, who would test
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAILE TUSNAD, Romania (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says the European Union is sliding toward oblivion in a rambling anti-Western speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order.” In remarks Saturday in Baile Tusnad, a majority-ethnic Hungarian town in central Romania, he also threw his support behind
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A heat wave blanketing Iran has forced authorities to cut operating hours at various facilities Saturday and order all government and commercial institutions to shutter the following day. The temperature reached 107 degrees Fahrenheit in the capital, Tehran, according to weather reports. State-run IRNA news agency said banks, offices,
Continue ReadingAP National Writer PARIS (AP) — Longtime men’s gymnastics rivals China and Japan appear headed for another tight finish at the Olympics. The sport’s two superpowers surged to the top of qualifying at Bercy Arena on Saturday. China, seeking its fourth Olympic team title, posted a team total of 263.028. Japan, a seven-time Olympic champion,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BENI MELLAL, Morocco (AP) — In the unrelenting heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal’s main
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BENI MELLAL, Morocco (AP) — In the unrelenting heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal’s main
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French railway company SNCF says it has made significant progress in restoring high-speed train services after acts of sabotage disrupted several lines ahead of Friday night’s Olympic Games opening ceremony on the Seine River. SNCF said its agents worked through the night into Saturday in adverse weather conditions to improve the TGV
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine authorities say the cargo of industrial fuel oil on a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak in small amounts. They are were scrambling to start a delicate undersea operation to siphon off the toxic shipment from the sunken vessel. The 65-meter
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Kylie Atwood, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concern over Beijing’s “destabilizing actions” in the South China Sea in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, as the two sought to keep communications open despite a deepening rivalry. Blinken met with Wang in Laos
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Olympic organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea’s athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony of the Paris Games. As the South Korean athletes waved their nation’s flag on a boat floating down the Seine River on Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — The UNESCO World Heritage committee has decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit about its dark history of abusing wartime Korean laborers. The decision Saturday is a sign of improving ties between Tokyo and
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Several athletes have delivered standout performances at the 2024 Olympics, but the US in particular brought the star power to the Paris Games on Sunday. LeBron James led Team USA to an emphatic win over Serbia and Simone Biles fought through a calf injury in a triumphant return to
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Before Tokyo three years ago, the U.S. Olympic swim coaches pondered how to best support their athletes and help fire them up before a race, given there were no family or friends or fans in the stands. They turned to clanging cowbells. While spectators return to the pool in
Continue ReadingBy Lucas Lilieholm, Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman, Benjamin Brown, and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — At least 30 people have been killed and over 100 injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Deir-al Balah, central Gaza, where thousands were sheltering, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military said it had launched the strike
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit a school used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people including several children, as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international mediators about a proposed cease-fire. Seven children and seven women were among the dead taken from the
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Aaron Pellish, CNN Nashville (CNN) — For a time, Donald Trump would have made for an unlikely headliner at a cryptocurrency confab. As president, Trump declared bitcoin “not money” and criticized it as “highly volatile and based on thin air.” He cautioned that crypto assets helped facilitate illegal underground markets. “We have
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — California’s largest wildfire of the year has burned an area larger than the size of the city of Phoenix, destroyed dozens of buildings and forced thousands of residents to flee their homes as wildfires wreak havoc in the Western United States. Meanwhile, homes and businesses in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department is accusing TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion. Government lawyers wrote in documents filed late Friday
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