MILAN (AP) — U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn has smoothed out copyright concerns with the artist behind one of the pieces of her free skate music, and the Olympic team gold medalist thinks she may have struck up a new friendship with him because of it.Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produce...

European Parliament passed new legislation letting member states deport migrants to designated “safe” countries outside the EU even if they are not from those nations.European lawmakers approved the measure on Tuesday with a vote of 396‑226 as centre and far-right members backed it.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trum...

LONDON (AP) — In an earlier era, Britain’s royal family might have tried to bury the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Not during the reign of King Charles III.Since October, the king has stripped his younger brother of the right to be called p...

MILAN (AP) — Dustin Gazley grew up in Novi, Michigan, played hockey at Michigan State, led the ECHL in scoring one season and skated in more than 300 games in the American Hockey League. Then he took his talents to Europe and settled in Bolzano in the Italian Alps.“I haven’t looked back,” Ga...

TESERO, Italy (AP) — Competitors find it hard to fault Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo because he has it all: Technique, tactics, power and speed.On Tuesday, the Norwegian cross-country skiing phenomenon was unstoppable again as he earned his second Olympic gold medal in his second outing at the Mi...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Italy’s Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner won bronze in mixed doubles curling Tuesday, defeating Britain 5-3.It was a bittersweet result for the Italians, the defending Olympic champions whose fans packed the stands throughout the round-robin in hopes to s...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has faced the biggest crisis of his leadership because of his decision to appoint a close ally of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the plum job of U.K. ambassador to the United States.Many warned him not to appoint Peter Man...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve new immigration policies that allows nations to deny asylum and deport migrants because they either hail from a country designated safe or could apply for asylum in a country outside the 27-nation bloc.The vote at European Parliamen...

LONDON (AP) — Keir Starmer fights another day.After indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files sparked a dramatic day of crisis that threatened to topple him, the U.K. prime minister was saved by a pugnacious fightback and hesitation among his rivals inside the governing Labour Party ab...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is drafting a list of concessions that it believes Russia must make to secure any long-term peace in Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat said Tuesday, as U.S.-run talks to end four years of war show little sign of progress.Russian forces used cluster munitions...

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has emerged rattled but ultimately unscathed after a day and night of drama during which a key member of his Labour Party called for him to resign over revelations about a former ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, in the Jeffrey Epstein files.Starmer has faced more than a week of mount...

French President Emmanuel Macron warned “threats” and “intimidation” by the United States are not over despite an apparent lull in tensions, urging the EU to treat recent turbulence in the transatlantic relationship as a wake-up call to push through reforms.In an interview with several publications published on Tuesday, Macron said...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures accelerate the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it has sparked a boom in ships taking routes that were previously impassable because they were frozen.The increase in shipping traffic in the Arctic, which received increased attent...

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s Arianna Fontana won her 12th Olympic medal and third gold at her sixth Winter Games to extend her record as the most decorated short track speedskater of all time Tuesday.Fontana and the Italian team dominated the mixed team relay final to the delight of the vocal home c...

The United States and Armenia have struck an agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, amid a push by Washington to strengthen ties with the West Asian country that was once a close ally of Moscow.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US Vice President JD ⁠Vance, who is on a two-day visit to the country, signed the multibillion...

An anticorruption watchdog has warned in its latest report of worsening corruption in democracies around the world, with the score of the United States slipping to its lowest, raising concerns about developments in the US and the impact of its funding cuts around the world.Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) said on Tuesda...

Kyiv, Ukraine – A heavy Russian Geran drone struck a fast-moving train in northern Ukraine on January 27, killing five, wounding two and starting a fire that disfigured the railway carriage.Such an attack was impossible back in 2022, when Russia started dispatching roaring swarms of Shaheds, the Geran-2’s Iranian prototypes.Recomme...

Kyiv, Ukraine – No one was hurt when the first Russian drone hit Taira Sluisarenko’s apartment building in eastern Kyiv on the night after her 16th birthday.“I was sitting on the bathroom floor and right away felt [the explosion] shook us more than usual,” shattering windows and outer walls of apartments several storeys above hers,...

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee has praised the sentencing of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison, saying he had committed “numerous heinous crimes, and his evil deeds were beyond measure”.Lee’s condemnation on Tuesday of the former Apple Daily newspaper owner came as officials in the United States, the...

VERNON, France (AP) — In a tightly controlled manufacturing hangar west of Paris, workers put the finishing touches on an enormous silver-colored engine. In just a few days, a similar machine will help propel the most powerful version of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket yet, flying for the first tim...

MILAN (AP) — Much like the Olympic flame, there is another symbol of triumph and transcendence — far less known — that graces one host city after another: a one-of-a-kind, wooden cross. The Cross of the Athletes has arrived in Milan for the Winter Games and holds pride of place beside the ma...

Russia has warned that Cuba’s energy crisis is becoming critical, as it accused the United States of using “suffocating measures” against the socialist island-state.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov raised the alarm on Monday, saying Moscow is discussing “possible solutions” to provide Havana with “whatever assistance” it needs.Recom...

Oil and gas exports have sustained Russia’s finances throughout its war against Ukraine. But as the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion approaches, those cash flows have suddenly dwindled to lows not seen in years.It’s the result of new punitive measures from the U.S. and the Europ...

Here is where things stand on Tuesday, February 10:Fighting Russian overnight drone attacks on Ukraine, including in the eastern Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions, killed at least four people. A mother and her 10-year-old son were killed in the attacks, which also knocked out power to tens of thousands of people, Ukrainian officials s...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin, the U.S. figure skater nicknamed the “Quad God,” became the first person to legally land a backflip on one skate in the Olympics — but he’s not the first to pull it off at the Winter Games.The 21-year-old from Virginia delivered a crucial free skate for the winning...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Korey Dropkin whooped and hollered and directed a string of fist pumps to a small pocket of American curling fans chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” The U.S. is headed to the mixed doubles final at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — and has quashed the title hopes of t...

Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will “support” UK police assessing reports that the former Prince Andrew gave confidential information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The statement on Monday came after police said they were examining reports that the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, sent tra...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battle over his remains and then by concerns about how he handled clergy sexual misconduct cases....

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. health official urged people Sunday to get vaccinated against measles at a time with active outbreaks in several states and as the United States risks losing its measles elimination status.“Please get vaccinated,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker on track to potentially win his first Oscar.The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, are one of the most...

MILAN (AP) — Host nation Italy secured a place in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women’s hockey tournament for the first time by beating Japan 3-2 on Monday.Italy improved to 2-1, with one game left against Germany, and is guaranteed one of the three quarterfinal spots in Group B, where th...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s communications chief Tim Allan has stepped down as leader of the governing Labour Party faces fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.The move on Monday came a day after Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, also quit.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Epstein files set off Norwegi...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — In any other Olympic sport, a tie game with the result hanging in the balance would create tension between teams. Not in curling. When U.S. mixed doubles curler Korey Dropkin accidentally kicked his stone off the center line Monday, in the middle of a decisive...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership is on the rocks amid an expanding scandal over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the U.S. despite the veteran politician’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Some believe the recent release of the Epstein files, which sugg...

Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its chief executive officer on Monday, 11 months after the abrupt resignation of its previous CEO.Foran led Walmart’s U.S. division for six years before departing in 2019. While there, he introduced online ordering and pickup, and accelerat...

At least four people, including a woman and her child, have been killed in Russian drone attacks on Ukraine, according to local officials.The Ukrainian air force said in a statement on Monday that Russian forces fired 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones across Ukraine overnight.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump r...

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Italian ski racer Giovanni Franzoni posted the fastest time in the downhill portion of the team combined Monday, an event that’s making its Olympic debut at the Milan Cortina Games.His teammate Alex Vinatzer will take the slalom course later in the day with a slim lead o...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors said on Monday there is “overwhelming evidence” that Kosovo’s former president and three other defendants are guilty of the murder and torture of people they considered traitors during the country’s war for independence.Hashim Thaci resigned from off...

MILAN (AP) — A record 13 backcountry skiers, climbers and hikers have died in the Italian mountains over the last week, rescuers said Monday, including 10 in avalanches triggered by an exceptionally unstable snowpack, as Winter Olympic competitions got underway.Fresh snowfall during recent s...

CAIRO (AP) — Two babies are among at least 53 people dead or missing after an inflatable migrant boat sank off Libya, the U.N. migration agency said on Monday, the latest tragedy on a dangerous route for those seeking a better life in Europe.The U.N.’s International Organization for Migratio...

Milan, Italy – The world’s largest shipping line has been enabling the transport of goods to and from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as the United States and Europe continue to promote trade despite clear responsibilities under international law, a joint investigation by Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Youth...

MILAN (AP) — Denmark’s athletes walking into the opening ceremony at the Olympics led Eurosport broadcaster Davide Livermore to highlight an upcoming men’s hockey game.“The big crunch derby on Valentine’s Day in the ice hockey rink, given all that’s happening in Greenland at the moment, is t...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party’s lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just a year and a half in office.Starmer lost his chief of staff on Sunday and is rapidly shedding support from La...

LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Princess Catherine expressed concern for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein in a statement released Monday, the latest move by the British monarchy to distance itself from revelations about the former Prince Andrew’s relationship with the convicted sex offender.B...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures speed up the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it’s set off a boom of ships taking routes that previously were frozen and not traversable.The increase in marine Arctic traffic, which received increased attention as President Donal...

KOLKATA, India (AP) — Italy’s 45-year wait finally ended Monday when it won the toss against Scotland and elected to field in its opening game at the Twenty20 World Cup, a debut in a major International Cricket Council tournament.Italy, where the sport’s national federation was formed in 198...

Here is where things stand on Monday, February 9:Fighting At least one person was killed after Russian forces launched “massive” air raids on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, according to officials. Russian forces also attacked facilities of Ukraine’s major oil and gas company Naftogaz in the eastern Poltava region overnight, cau...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Stars have been front-and-center at Super Bowl 60, from Chris Pratt and Jon Bon Jovi introducing the teams to a series of soaring pre-game performances.Highlights from Levi’s Stadium include Blue Ivy Carter leaping in an end zone before the game and Green Day deliv...

Antonio Jose Seguro of the centre-left Socialist Party has secured a landslide victory and a five-year term as Portugal’s president in a run-off vote, beating his far-right, anti-establishment rival, Andre Ventura, according to partial results.With 95 percent of votes counted, 63-year-old Seguro has garnered 66 percent. Ventura tra...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn knows the Olympic downhill course better than anyone.She’s won a record 12 World Cup races on the Olympia delle Tofane track — split evenly between six downhills and six super-Gs — and has a total of 20 podium results there, stretching back to her...

Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, according to her lawyers and a group that supports her.Mohammadi, 53, was on ⁠a week-long hunger strike that ended on Sunday, the Narges Foundation said in a statement. It said Mohammadi told her...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Canada’s mixed doubles curling team failed to reach the Olympic semifinals, a result that would have stunned fans of the sport just a decade ago, South Korea’s 9-5 victory Sunday night was the Canadians’ fifth consecutive defeat and knocked them out of content...

MILAN (AP) — This could turn out to be Italy’s best Winter Olympics ever after a record-breaking day on home snow and ice.The host nation picked up five medals on Sunday, the most Italy has ever won in a single day at the Winter Olympics.Ski star Sofia Goggia kicked it off with a bronze meda...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned anti-Olympics protesters as “enemies of Italy and Italians” after violence on the fringes of rallies in Milan and the alleged sabotage of train infrastructure.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) also joined the criticism on Sunday, condemning violence linked to the protests...

MILAN (AP) — An Italian curling athlete who blamed nepotism for her non-selection for the Milan Cortina Olympics had her appeal rejected Sunday.The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judge rejected the argument of Angela Romei that there was a “conflict of interest” when the Italian cur...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller “Send Help” repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” falling sharply in its second weekend. Super Bowl weekend is typically one of th...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has quit over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States after files revealed the extent of Mandelson’s relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.“After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appo...

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused...

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned recent anti-Olympics protests in Milan and alleged sabotage of train infrastructure, calling those responsible “enemies of Italy and Italians” early Sunday.The protesters “demonstrate ‘against the Olympics,’ causing these images to end up...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Morgan McSweeney said he took responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint...

A man accused of shooting a high-ranking Russian military official on Friday has been taken into custody, according to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).The suspect, Russian national Lyubomir Korba, was arrested and extradited from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where he fled hours after the attack, Russia’s state-run TAS...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said Sunday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a peace deal.The attack on the city of...

Polls have opened in the second round of Portugal’s elections, viewed as a high-stakes choice between the socialists and a resurgent far right.Voting began at 9am local time (09:00 GMT) on Sunday for the presidential election, with 11 million voters at home and abroad eligible to cast their ballots.Recommended Stories list of 3 ite...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Florian Wirtz took time to catch fire at Liverpool. Now he’s cooking.A run of six goals in 10 games has blown away concerns that the Germany international couldn’t handle the hustle and bustle of the Premier League. It has also shone a light on the level of expecta...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Federal Security Service said Sunday that the man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia.Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalized after being shot several times Friday...

PARIS (AP) — France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center over alleged past financial links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompted a tax investigation.Lang was summoned to appear at the French Foreign Ministry, which oversees the...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Buckingham Palace said Sunday that Nigeria’s president is set to make a state visit to the U.K. in March.Officials said President Bola Tinubu and first lady Oluremi Tinubu will travel to the U.K. on March 18 and 19 in the first state visit to Britain by a Nigerian pre...

Here is where things stand on Sunday, February 8:Fighting Russian forces launched more than 400 drones and about 40 missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Saturday, targeting the country’s power grid, generation facilities and distribution substations, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukrainian Minister...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro is heavily favored to defeat hard-right populist André Ventura in Portugal’s runoff presidential election Sunday in a vote that will test the depth of support for Ventura’s brash style of politics.Recent opinion poll...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Seeing if Lindsey Vonn can contend for a medal in the Olympic downhill at age 41 with a titanium replacement in her right knee to cap her comeback after nearly six years of retirement was already going to be one of the highlights of the Milan Cortina Olympics....

ROME (AP) — Coach Gregor Townsend dismissed any notion of resigning after Scotland’s latest Six Nations hopes were washed away in rainy Rome on Saturday and he insisted he’s still the right man for the job.Scotland lost to Italy 18-15, always trailing after giving Italy a 12-0 start. The set...

Italy says it’s unable to join US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” owing to a “constitutional limit” marking the latest setback faced by the self-styled “international peace building body”.Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told the ANSA news agency on Saturday that conflicts between Italy’s constitution and the charter of th...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — USA Luge men’s doubles slider Zack DiGregorio is a New England Patriots fan. Makes sense: He’s from Massachusetts, his mother has worked for the Patriots for more than two decades and the Patriots are about to play in the Super Bowl for the 10th time since he...

MILAN (AP) — Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon at dozens of protesters who threw firecrackers and tried to access a highway near a Winter Olympics venue on Saturday.The brief confrontation came at the end of a peaceful march by thousands against the environmental impact of the...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The race for the medals in men’s singles luge might already be down to three sliders.Germany’s Max Langenhan finished his two runs in 1 minute, 45.826 seconds on Saturday, making him the leader going into the final two runs on Sunday. All four runs count in th...

Sharp drops hit Wall Street as technology stocks sank even more and bitcoin’s price plunged again to roughly half its record set in the fall. Several discouraging reports on the U.S. job market also knocked down yields in the bond market on Thursday. The S&P 500 fell 1.2% for its sixth loss...

ROME (AP) — Italy stopped Scotland’s last-gasp charge to hang on for a precious Six Nations win by 18-15 at a rain-soaked Stadio Olimpico on Saturday.Scotland used its last scoring chance, two minutes after the fulltime hooter, to go through the phases and took 25 to reach Italy’s 22. But on...