قام لاعب الهوكي الأسترالي مات داوسون بأمر غير مألوف للمشاركة في أولمبياد باريس بعدما فضل بتر جزء من أحد أصابعه لضمان جاهزيته لخوض دورة الألعاب الأولمبية للمرة الثالثة.
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Russia warned the West on Friday that billing in roubles for billions of dollars of natural gas exports to Europe could be just days away, Moscow's toughest response yet to crippling sanctions imposed by the West in response to Ukraine war.
With the (...)
The U.S. destroyer Ralph Johnson's sail-through of the Taiwan Strait on March 17 was a "provocative" act by the United States and sent the wrong signals to pro-Taiwan independence forces, the Chinese military said on Saturday.
Such an act was "very (...)
The United States warned China after "intense" talks on Monday not to help Moscow in its offensive in Ukraine, while an anti-war protester interrupted Russian state TV news.
Moscow has not captured any of the 10 biggest cities in Ukraine since (...)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday that the Russian invasion of Ukraine may have ushered in a new era after the post-Cold War period, and the way the world responds will likely shape that new era.
Japan, keeping pace with its Group (...)
A global food crisis looms unless the war in Ukraine is stopped because fertiliser prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford soil nutrients, Russian fertiliser and coal billionaire Andrei Melnichenko said on Monday.
Several (...)
"Happening" (L'événement), a hard-hitting French drama about illegal abortion in the 1960s, won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice festival on Saturday.
The film, by director Audrey Diwan, wowed viewers on the Lido waterfront with its (...)
Barcelona began the post-Lionel Messi era with an entertaining 4-2 home win over Real Sociedad in their first game of the LaLiga season on Sunday.
A header from Gerard Pique gave the Catalans the lead in the 19th minute to the delight of 20,000 fans (...)
Tunisia's interior ministry has put under house arrest a senior official of the Ennahda party which opposes the president's seizure of governing powers, one of his colleagues said on Friday.
Anouar Maarouf is the most prominent member of the party (...)
Reigning world champion Tamyra Mensah-Stock stormed into the semi-finals of the women's wrestling competition with consummate ease on Monday, winning both her matches by technical superiority on her Olympic debut without dropping a point.
The United (...)
Moments before winning her bronze medal in Tokyo on Sunday, Denmark's Pernille Blume had a double dose of Olympic nerves and battled to stay focused as partner Florent Manaudou of France stepped up for the men's 50m freestyle final.
Swimming's (...)
Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom savoured an Olympic 50m freestyle silver medal on Sunday after a fightback from injury that she said had been the challenge of her life.
The 27-year-old world record holder broke her elbow when she fell on ice in February, a (...)
China's Shi Tingmao claimed her second gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics with victory in the women's 3 metre springboard diving on Sunday, becoming the second woman to retain both individual and synchronised titles at the Games.
Shi's victory enabled (...)
The International Olympic Committee does not plan to call for a moment of silence at the Tokyo Games on Aug. 6, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, instead aiming to honour it in the Tokyo 2020 closing ceremony, organisers (...)
Defending champion Elaine Thompson-Herah led home a Jamaican clean sweep in the Olympic women's 100 metres final on Saturday, posting an amazing 10.61 seconds to become the second-fastest woman in history.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who had been (...)
Asian countries from Australia to Japan and the Philippines announced tighter COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, as they battle worsening coronavirus outbreaks, driven by the more contagious Delta variant.
Detected in some 96 countries, the Delta (...)
The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.
As the first anniversary (...)
The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast has risen to four and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day on Friday after the evacuation of dozens of villages and some hotels.
More than 60 wildfires have broken out across 17 (...)
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun told the country's public prosecutor on Friday he was ready to give a statement about last year's port blast in the capital Beirut if needed.
"No one is above the law no matter how high up, and justice can only be (...)
Washington is sending USAID Administrator Samantha Power to Ethiopia this week while warning of punitive measures if aid is unable to reach the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands of people are believed to be experiencing famine.
A statement (...)
Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday declared Tehran would not accept Washington's "stubborn" demands in talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal and said the United States had failed to guarantee that it would never abandon the pact again.
"The Americans (...)
An Iraqi army helicopter crashed during a combat operation in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing all five crew members, the Iraqi military said in a statement.
The helicopter went down near the northern town of Amerli, 170 km (105 miles) north of (...)
A massive forest fire in southern Turkey spread to the town of Manavgat as the flames were fanned by strong winds on Wednesday, according to the local mayor, and TV footage showed residents running for their cars as streets were engulfed in (...)
Ibrahim Hoteit lost his younger brother, Tharwat, in the huge explosion that ripped through the port of Beirut last August. He went around hospitals collecting body parts, starting with Tharwat's scalp, and buried his remains in a small (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday the negotiating process with Iran could not go on indefinitely.
Addressing a news conference in Kuwait, he said the United States had demonstrated good faith and the desire to return to (...)
