Tokyo unveils heat-busting stadium, 7 months before Olympics
(AFP) – Tokyo formally unveiled its 60,000-seater main Olympic Stadium Sunday, more than seven months before the 2020 Opening Ceremony — with a host of...
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Battle of the Bulge heroes remembered 75 years on
(AFP) – The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of a...
US tests ballistic missile over Pacific
(AFP) – The United States tested a medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday, the second test in four months of an offensive missile that would have...
Britain votes in divisive ‘Brexit election’
(AFP) – Britain voted on Thursday in a deeply divisive election that posed a historic choice between an imminent split from the European Union or...
Russia’s only aircraft carrier on fire in port
(AFP) – Russia’s only aircraft carrier caught fire Thursday while undergoing maintenance in an Arctic shipyard, news agencies reported, raising concerns for the future of...
Lawmakers green light US space force
(AFP) – The United States is getting a new space force along with $738 billion in military spending under an agreement backed by lawmakers on...
World’s ‘largest collection’ of rare whiskies on sale
(AFP) – Lovers of very expensive whisky will get the chance to bid on nearly 4,000 rare bottles acquired by a late US soft drink...
Russia banned from Olympics, World Cup over doping
(AFP) – The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday banned Russia for four years from major global sporting events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the...
At least 265 dead in floods, landslides as rains batter East Africa
(AFP) – Two months of relentless rains have submergedvillages and farms and sent rivers of mud crashing into houses across East Africa, with at least...
Auschwitz survivor’s ‘duty to the dead’
(AFP) – Leon Schwarzbaum is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz — the Nazi death camp that Chancellor Angela Merkel will be visiting for...
