By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — As skaters and sledders vie for medals at the Beijing Olympics, another extraordinary event is quietly unfolding on nine acres in the city’s embassy district. Here, in rows of concrete grey buildings, hundreds of North Koreans are enduring perhaps the longest-running pandemic-enforced separation in the world. The
Continue ReadingBy DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — As skaters and sledders vie for medals at the Beijing Olympics, another extraordinary event is quietly unfolding on nine acres in the city’s embassy district. Here, in rows of concrete grey buildings, hundreds of North Koreans are enduring perhaps the longest-running pandemic-enforced separation in the world. The
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Freestyle skier Jon Sallinen’s first run in Olympic halfpipe qualifying wasn’t picture perfect. He drifted out of the halfpipe and collided with a photographer. He fell again on his second run. It’s all just a snapshot of a dangerous sport that leaves most of these
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The use of rapid home tests has surged in India on the back of omicron cases, which have recently begun to decline. But experts have voiced caution, saying home tests are less accurate than lab-run PCR tests and that since not all results
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Speed skater Miho Takagi of Japan bested Dutch skater Jutta Leerdam and Brittany Bowe of the United States for the 1000m gold medal. Takagi set the Olympic record to win her first career individual Olympic gold medal.
Continue ReadingBy PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Miho Takagi of Japan has won her fourth speedskating medal of the Beijing Games and the first individual gold of her career with an Olympic-record victory in the women’s 1,000 meters. The silver went to Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands. Brittany Bowe of the United States
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A 45-year-old German man has been convicted Thursday of negligent homicide for crashing his Porsche SUV into a group of pedestrians in the center of Berlin and killing four people. The September 2019 incident sparked a debate in Germany about restricting the use of powerful sports utility vehicles in cities. The victims
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Japan’s Miho Takagi won the women’s 1000m gold medal after previously earning three silvers at the 2022 Winter Olympics. American Brittany Bowe earned the bronze.
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thai royalists have stepped up their campaign to drive out the country’s branch of rights group Amnesty International, handing over copies of a petition to government ministries that they say is backed by more than a million signatures. About 200 protesters gathered opposite Government House in Bangkok. Representatives from the Labor Ministry
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday announced $1 billion in funding from his administration’s signature bipartisan infrastructure law would go toward cleanup and restoration of the Great Lakes. “It’s going to allow the most significant restoration of the Great Lakes in the history of the Great Lakes,” Biden said
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has opened a three-day conference on rebooting the Catholic priesthood amid a drop in vocations and a credibility crisis over sex abuse scandals. The cardinal who organized the conference said the event’s aim is to break down the “clericalized” concept of the priesthood that is at
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Sweden defeated South Korea 8-4 on Thursday in the final game of round robin play. Sweden will now move on to the tournament semifinals. South Korea was eliminated with the loss.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La vacuna de ARNm de covid-19 de Pfizer/BioNTech proporciona una capa adicional de protección contra la reinfección para las personas que se han infectado previamente con covid-19, así como una mayor durabilidad inmunológica con el tiempo, según dos estudios publicados el miércoles en el New England Journal of Medicine. Los estudios ofrecen
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Canadian rescuers called off the search for 12 missing crew members from a Spanish fishing vessel that sank in rough seas off Newfoundland.The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax, Canada, announced late Wednesday it was suspending the “exhaustive search” by aircraft and vessels that retrieved nine bodies from the water and rescued
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Aaron Blunck of the U.S. (92.00), New Zealand’s Nico Porteous (90.50) and Blunck’s teammate Birk Irving (89.75) posted the best three scores of qualifying in men’s freeski halfpipe qualifying and advanced to the final.
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A lawyer says Singapore’s president has ordered a delay in the execution of two men on death row who are believed to be mentally disabled. The presidential order came after lawyers for the two men filed a new legal bid to stop their hanging after losing several previous appeals. The
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United States speed skater Brittany Bowe earned the bronze medal in the women’s 1000m race at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The 33-year-old entered her third career Olympics as the reigning world champion in the distance.
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Another Olympic gold medal is hers for the taking. Eileen Gu has bigger goals than that. The 18-year-old freeskiing star spelled it all out during a candid Q&A after she breezed through her qualifying round on the halfpipe. She’s in the final and will try
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — The semifinals of the men’s hockey tournament at the Olympics does not include the United States or Canada for the first time since 2006. Sweden, Finland and the Russians are in the semis just like 16 years ago and are joined by newcomer Slovakia. Craig Ramsay-coached
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country’s coronavirus vaccination “green pass” system will be suspended as new daily cases of COVID-19 continue to decline. Naftali Bennett said Thursday after meeting with health officials that Israel’s omicron wave “has been broken” and that additional reductions in coronavirus restrictions were forthcoming. The Green Pass, Israel’s
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