CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The remarkable return of Lindsey Vonn reached a key moment Sunday at the Winter Games, where the 41-year-old American was racing in the women’s downhill on a badly injured left knee with hopes of her first Olympic gold medal since 2010. Vonn was scheduled to b...

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...

The Environmental Protection Agency has re-approved weedkillers containing a contentious chemical for use on genetically engineered cotton and soybeans.The decision, announced late Friday, faced immediate backlash from environmental groups as well as “Make America Healthy Again” activists who are aligned with President Trump and ha...

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...

The Washington Post’s CEO has announced he is quitting the job, days after the newspaper slashed a third of its staff.CEO and publisher Will Lewis shared the decision in a message to employees on Saturday, which was later posted on X by the paper’s White House bureau chief.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Washington Po...

Saudi Arabia has reaffirmed its support for Sudan’s territorial unity and integrity, denouncing “criminal attacks” by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in North and South Kordofan states that have killed dozens of people, including women and children.In a statement on Saturday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs condem...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Several dozen protesters were arrested Saturday outside a federal building in Minneapolis as police broke up a protest marking the first month since a Minnesota woman was killed by an immigration agent.Renee Good was killed Jan. 7 while driving away from immigration agents...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat insisted Sunday that Tehran’s strength came from its ability to “say no to the great powers,” striking a maximalist position just after negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program and in the wake of nationwide protests.F...

Polls have opened in Thailand in a closely watched general election, with progressive reformers and military-backed conservatives vying for control in a country that has cycled through three prime ministers in as many years.Polling stations opened at 8am local time (01:00 GMT) on Sunday and are set to close at 5pm (10:00 GMT).Recom...

Dr. Vivien Sil Mabouang, the head of health services in a lush, green district in the center of Cameroon, drives the mud village roads with newfound worry about the health threat from the rivers and streams that thread through the land.Black flies breed in the fast-flowing water, and when they bite people, they can pass on larval w...

Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has slammed Israel’s “interference” in his country, saying its recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland has further increased instability and weakened international order.In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera broadcast on Saturday, Mohamud said Somalia “will never allow” the est...

Bangladesh is heading to the polls for the first time since student-led protests dramatically ousted its longtime leader, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, amid a brutal crackdown on demonstrators, and forced her to flee the country in 2024.More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in the February 12 elections, which are...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As Bad Bunny prepares to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, Cardi B says she’s proud to see him step onto the world’s biggest stage, praising his cultural impact and willingness to speak out during heightened immigration arrests.“I’m proud of everything that he’s bee...

Doing something romantic for Valentine’s Day does not need to involve a heart-shaped box of chocolates, roses or an atypically expensive dinner, according to relationship experts.In fact, therapists encourage couples craving intimacy and a deeper connection to focus less on grand gestures an...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as utility workers he’d seen outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis.They wore high-visibility vests and spotless white hard hats, he noticed, even while parked in their vehicle. His...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods say they saw a surge of interest in Denmark and beyond after the recent flare-up in tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland.The creator of the “Made O’M...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — It is pre-dawn in the historic Podil district of the Ukraine capital, Kyiv, and warm light from the Spelta bakery-bistro’s window pierces the darkness outside. On a wooden surface dusted with flour, the baker Oleksandr Kutsenko skilfully divides and shapes soft, damp pie...

CHENNAI, India (AP) — Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat against New Zealand on Sunday in what shapes as the toughest group at the T20 World Cup.Both teams are placed in Group D that also includes last tournament’s finalist South Africa and two associate nations — Canada and the Uni...

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...

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Falcons rookie star James Pearce Jr. was arrested near Miami on Saturday night after fleeing officers and then crashing his car following what police said was a domestic dispute with WNBA player Rickea Jackson.Pearce, the first-round pick who led the Falcons in sacks a...

Jeffrey Epstein, as has become clear again with the latest Department of Justice file dump, will go down in history as perhaps this century’s most horrifically accomplished social climber. He knew pretty much everybody, name-dropping, favor-trading, sex-trafficking and possibly blackmailing his way all the way up, up, up.Only Vladi...

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — A vehicle plowed into and injured pedestrians at the entrance of a grocery store in a scenic California mountain town Saturday, police reported. Four people, including some children, were hurt when the 49-year-old man drove into the front of the Truckee Safeway in the...

Voters in Japan are casting their ballots in a parliamentary election expected to deliver a resounding victory for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s conservative coalition.The snap vote on Sunday comes as Takaichi seeks a new mandate to push through an ambitious agenda, including increased defence spending and tougher immigration mea...

World leaders warn that Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at the Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn that Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at the Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea will convene a major political conference later this month, the country’s state media said Sunday, where leader Kim Jong Un is expected to outline his domestic and foreign policies for the next five years. The ruling Workers’ Party congress, which Kim pr...

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, companies like Waymo and Tesla that operate fleets of robotaxis come to mind first.But a new start-up is focusing on a different goal: automating multi-ton excavators and other construction vehicles to speed the building of housing, data centers and more.Bedrock Robotics plans to announce on We...

World leaders warn that Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at the Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn that Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at the Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

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....

BANGKOK (AP) — Voters in Thailand head to the polls on Sunday for an early general election seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics.The battle for support from 53 million registered voters comes against a backdrop of slow...

Telehealth company Hims & Hers dropped its plan to offer a knockoff version of the weight-loss pill Wegovy on Saturday — two days after it announced the new drug and one day after the Food and Drug Administration threatened to restrict access to the ingredients needed to copy popular weight-...

President Donald Trump’s administration can continue to detain immigrants without bond, marking a major legal victory for the federal immigration agenda and countering a slew of recent lower court decisions across the country that argued the practice is illegal.A panel of judges on the 5th C...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother Nancy Guthrie on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return. “We received your message, and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” Guth...

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff.Lewis sent an email to the Post’s staff, saying that “difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Arnold, the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated rock band 3 Doors Down, died Saturday, months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer. He was 47. The band said in a statement that Arnold “passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved one...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says he hopes talks with the United States will resume soon, while US President Donald Trump pledged another round of negotiations next week following mediated discussions in Oman.Araghchi told Al Jazeera on Saturday that Iran’s missile programme was “never negotiable” in Friday’s talks, and...

Syria and Saudi Arabia have signed a major investment package spanning aviation, energy, real estate and telecommunications as Damascus’s new leadership seeks to rebuild after a devastating 14-year civil war.Syrian Investment Authority chief Talal al-Hilali announced a swath of deals on Saturday, including the development of a new...

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police arrested at least several demonstrators Saturday outside a federal building in Minneapolis, breaking up a protest marking the one-month anniversary of a Minnesota woman’s death at the hands of an immigration officer.Renee Good was killed on Jan. 7 as she was driving...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — That ever-growing bench of Japanese snowboarders runs deep. Jumps very high, too.The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night, where Kira Kimura and Ryoma Kimata flew and stom...

TOKYO (AP) — Polls opened Sunday in parliamentary elections that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling party a big enough win to push through an ambitious conservative political agenda.Takaichi is hugely popular, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which...

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...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Search and rescue personnel on Saturday finished recovering the bodies of a group of miners who were trapped earlier this week inside an informal coal mine following a methane gas explosion.The country’s mining regulatory agency announced on social media that four bod...

MILAN (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance sat with influencer and boxer Jake Paul as they watched the U.S. women’s hockey team ease to a 5-0 win over Finland at the Winter Olympics on Saturday.Vance and his family entered during the intermission at the end of the first period, with the U.S....

Japan said it has taken a significant step in the controversial and complex race to mine the world’s ocean floors for valuable minerals.Near the remote Japanese island of Minamitorishima, a team of scientists said in recent days that they had successfully pumped up mud from the seafloor, 6,000 meters beneath the waves, that is rich...

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...

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump received rare blowback from Republican lawmakers over a video posted to social media that included a racist image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, depicted as primates.Since Trump’s return to the White House, Republican l...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin’s quest for Olympic figure skating gold might not be so easy after all.Same goes for his American team.Reigning silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama landed a pair of near-perfect quads, one in combination with a triple toe loop, and scored 108.67 points for his short progr...

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...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Dozens of relatives and friends of Venezuelan opposition leaders, human rights defenders and others detained for their political activities protested Saturday outside a notorious prison in the capital to demand the immediate release of their loved ones.The demonstra...

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...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — When the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt finally reopened this week, Palestinian officials heralded it as a “window of hope” after two years of war as a fragile ceasefire deal moves forward.But that hope has been sidetracked by disagreements over w...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — An Israeli bobsled pilot says the apartment that he and some fellow Olympians have been using while finishing their training for the Milan Cortina Winter Games was robbed Saturday, with passports and “thousands of dollars” worth of other items among what was t...

MILAN (AP) — On the ice, Jutta Leerdam is an Olympic medalist speedskater for the Netherlands who is entered in the 500 and 1,000 meters at the Milan Cortina Winter Games. Off the ice, Leerdam gets a lot of attention for her engagement to YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul — who is also at thes...

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...

PREDAZZO, Italy (AP) — Anna Odine Stroem of Norway won the Olympic gold medal on the normal hill in women’s ski jumping Saturday ahead of Slovenian favorite Nika Prevc, who has dominated the sport this season.Prevc took silver and Nozomi Maruyama of Japan won bronze.Stroem jumped 101 meters...

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...

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

World leaders warn Israel’s genocide in Gaza risks upending global order at Al Jazeera forum in Doha.

MILAN (AP) — Tourists to Milan during the Winter Olympics hoping to see Leonardo da Vinci’s “ The Last Supper” were in for an unwelcome surprise: Access to the masterpiece is closed to the public for 3 1/2 days. The painting, created between 1494 and 1498 by the Italian Renaissance artist, i...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s presidential council stepped down on Saturday after almost two years of tumultuous rule alongside a U.S.-backed prime minister, who is expected to remain in power as the country prepares for the first general elections in a decade.Days before the nine-mem...

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...

MILAN (AP) — Francesca Lollobrigida led a tricolor day for Italy at the Milan Cortina Olympics.The speedskater won gold in the women’s 3,000 meters after Giovanni Franzoni took silver in the men’s downhill ahead of Italian teammate Dominik Paris for bronze on the same slope Saturday.Swiss sk...

An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while he was visiting his home state last month. But the man’s lawyer said his health makes it unlikely he would have been able to carry out the threat.In addition to the charge for threatening Vance, prosecutors a...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO (AP) — There are four matches happening at once in Cortina’s curling stadium, yet you’d hardly know it. All attention in the venue seems trained on young, high-ponytailed Stefania Constantini, the defending gold medalist who hails from Cortina and is battling for a spot in...

MILAN (AP) — Speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida won host Italy’s first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games on Saturday, taking the women’s 3,000 meters in an Olympics-record time.With fans rising to their feet and roaring for her as she competed on her 35th birthday, Lollobrigida finished...