|
Paris 2024
-
News
8/12/2024 11:24:16 AM
It's Los Angeles' turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA's local business — Tom Cruise — who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, plane and parachute kicked off the countdown to 2028.
|
|
Paris 2024
-
News
8/2/2024 7:29:54 PM
The stands at Champs de Mars filled up quickly. One fan dressed in a white martial arts uniform waved a French flag back and forth. A woman next to him held up a poster with the face of one of the biggest sports stars in France. Crowds of people bounced up and down so excitably it shook the floor of the arena, where judo is being played in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
|
|
World
-
Region
7/29/2024 5:14:05 PM
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized a Togo-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf and arrested its nine-person crew over fuel smuggling, the military force said Monday on its Sepahnews website.
|
|
Paris 2024
-
News
7/26/2024 8:43:09 PM
Celebrating its reputation as a cradle of revolution, Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century on Friday with a rule-breaking opening ceremony studded with stars and fantasy, showcasing the city’s resilience as authorities dealt with suspected acts of sabotage that targeted France’s flagship high-speed rail network.
|
|
Paris 2024
-
Features
7/26/2024 7:08:31 PM
Most countries will have two athletes hoisting a large flag in the boats along the Seine River for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony Friday.
|
|
Paris 2024
-
News
7/24/2024 3:55:51 PM
Tennis star Coco Gauff will join LeBron James as a flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic team at Friday’s opening ceremony.
|
|
Paris 2024
-
News
7/22/2024 2:36:36 PM
LeBron James wasn’t totally sure what the opening ceremony was all about when he was picked for his first Olympics in 2004.
|
|
World
-
Africa
7/19/2024 3:36:35 PM
Kenyan flag carrier Kenya Airways said on Friday it was experiencing disruptions to its booking system, echoing widespread technical problems reported by companies across the globe.
|
|
World
-
Region
7/16/2024 2:37:38 PM
A Comorian-flagged oil tanker capsized off Oman on Monday, the sultanate's Maritime Security Centre (MSC) said, adding that a search was under way for its missing crew of 16.
|
|
Egypt
-
Society
7/15/2024 1:02:04 PM
Egyptian Minister of Social Solidarity Maya Morsy announced that 73,000 new families were added to the country’s flagship Takaful and Karama (Solidarity and Dignity) cash assistance programme in July.
|
|
World
-
Region
7/11/2024 3:16:29 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels likely fired an Iranian-made anti-ship cruise missile at a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea in December, an assault that now provides a public evidence-based link between the ongoing rebel campaign against shipping and Tehran, the U.S. military says.
|
|
Life & Style
-
Health
7/10/2024 9:50:49 PM
Climate change combined with pollution from farming and forestry could flip northern Europe's Baltic Sea from being a sponge for CO2 to a source of the planet-warming gas, scientists studying told AFP.
|
|
World
-
Region
7/10/2024 8:50:57 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted United States-flagged container ship in the Gulf of Aden late on Tuesday, officials said, the latest assault by the group on the crucial maritime trade route.
|
|
World
-
Africa
7/6/2024 4:44:44 PM
Britain's new Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday said he was "not prepared" to continue with the previous Conservative government's flagship scheme to deport migrants to Rwanda.
|
|
World
-
International
6/29/2024 9:28:56 AM
War and funding shortfalls have hampered progress toward the United Nations' flagship development goals which include action to combat climate change, the organization's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday.
|
|
War on Gaza
-
War on Gaza
6/23/2024 10:51:34 AM
Tens of thousands of protesters waving Israeli flags and chanting slogans against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government rallied Saturday, demanding new elections.
|
|
War on Gaza
-
War on Gaza
6/5/2024 8:01:00 PM
Israeli police deployed in strength in occupied east Jerusalem Wednesday ahead of an annual march by Israeli colonialists that comes with tensions sky-high nearly eight months into the brutal Israeli war on Gaza.
|
|
War on Gaza
-
War on Gaza
6/5/2024 1:47:00 PM
Hundreds of Israeli settlers broke into the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem under heavy protection from the Israeli police, ahead of the provocative "Flag March" that the colonial associations intend to organize Wednesday, WAFA news agency reported.
|
|
Egypt
-
Tourism
5/13/2024 1:59:18 PM
EgyptAir, the national flag carrier, has begun issuing flight tickets for the 2024 Hajj season, which will be available until 10 June via three offices located in Greater Cairo.
|
|
World
-
Region
5/9/2024 6:41:32 PM
Iran on Thursday freed seven of the 25 crew on a Portuguese-flagged ship seized in the Gulf on April 13, Portugal's foreign ministry said.
|