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Defending champion Italy to take on Argentina in Davis Cup Finals in November

Sep. 19, 2024 10:24 AM EDT

MADRID (AP) — Defending champion Italy will take on Argentina in the first round of the Davis Cup Finals in November. Thursday's draw for the last eight in the southern Spanish city of Malaga also set up the United States against Australia, Germany against Canada and the...

Paris Olympics anti-doping program found almost 50 cases. More likely with re-tests over 10 years

Sep. 19, 2024 07:39 AM EDT

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The anti-doping program for the Paris Olympics caught five athletes after earlier finding 40 rule violations among competitors who had been expected to take part in the Games, the agency that ran the operation said Thursday. Summing up its Olympic...

Two years after Mahsa Amini death, Western allies sanction a dozen Iranian officials

Sep. 18, 2024 11:38 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S., Canada and Australia hit a group of Iranian officials with sanctions Wednesday for their participation in suppressing protests and detaining people in relation to the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died in the custody of Iran's morality police two years ago...

Trump says he will meet with Narendra Modi during Indian prime minister's visit to US

Sep. 17, 2024 21:00 PM EDT

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s meeting next week with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when Modi visits the U.S. Modi is scheduled to be in the United States this weekend, along with the leaders of Australia and Japan, for a summit of...

Marines give highest noncombat medal to family of Osprey crew chief who died trying to save pilots

Sep. 16, 2024 16:48 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps in a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters on Monday presented their highest noncombat medal to the parents of Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last year after his V-22 Osprey crashed in Australia. Collart, 21, survived the crash but went...

Papua New Guinea violence leaves between 20 and 50 people dead, UN official says

Sep. 16, 2024 05:59 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United Nations official said Monday. The fighting started days ago and is continuing in the Porgera Valley, near the site of a landslide in May estimated to have...

Steve Stricker with a stunning shot wins his 1st PGA Tour Champions title of the year

Sep. 15, 2024 20:04 PM EDT

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Steve Stricker ended a four-hole playoff with a shot out of the rough that banged into the pin and set up a tap-in birdie Sunday, his third straight Sanford International victory and his first PGA Tour Champions title of the year. Stricker had a two-shot...

Germany's first hobby horsing championship gallops through Frankfurt

Sep. 14, 2024 10:34 AM EDT

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany's first hobby horsing championship got underway in Frankfurt on Saturday, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses. Roughly 300 riders — mostly youngsters, but there are...

Germany sails two warships through Taiwan Strait for the first time in two decades

Sep. 13, 2024 09:23 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Germany sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Friday in its first transit of the disputed waters in more than two decades, as Berlin seeks to increase its defense engagement in the Asia-Pacific region. China claims the self-governing democratic island of...

Biden to host 'Quad' leaders from Australia, India and Japan in his Delaware hometown

Sep. 12, 2024 12:45 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Australia, India and Japan next weekend in his Wilmington, Delaware, hometown, the White House announced, as he looks to burnish his legacy before leaving office in January. Biden was the first American president to...