Monthly Archives: May 2023
Malaysia finds 100 old artillery shells on Chinese barge, says it likely plundered WWII...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's maritime agency said on Tuesday a Chinese barge likely plundered two World War II British shipwrecks in the...
North Korea says spy satellite ‘crashed into sea’
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea launched a military spy satellite Wednesday, but it crashed into the sea soon after as an "accident occurred" during...
World 172 Seyboth Wild stuns Medvedev at French Open
PARIS (AFP) - World number two Daniil Medvedev was knocked out of the French Open in the first round on Tuesday, losing in five...
Hirsutes you, sir!: French Open’s Paire joins pantheon of great sports beards
PARIS (AFP) - France’s enfant terrible of the tennis courts Benoit Paire (AFP, pic below) thrilled the Roland Garros crowd in a battling five-set...
Rolling thunder: Contestants chase cheese wheel down a hill
LONDON (AP) - The big cheese of extreme United Kingdom (UK) sports events is back.
Hundreds of spectators gathered on Monday to watch dozens of...
Japan PM’s son to resign after public outrage over private party at official residence
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday his son is resigning as his executive policy secretary to take responsibility for...
30 peacekeepers injured in fierce clashes with Serbs
PRISTINA, KOSOVO (AP) - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, yesterday raised the number of its troops injured in...
Spain prime minister’s shock election call brings unruly coalition to heel
MADRID (AP) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s snap general election call breaks apart the coalition he built with the far-left United We Can...
Five Greek border police officers arrested on suspicion of working with migrant smugglers
ATHENS (AFP) - Five Greek border police officers were arraigned yesterday as suspected accomplices of a smuggling network that illegally brought migrants into the...
Free concert, other celebrations in Jordan ahead of kingdom’s first major royal wedding in...
AMMAN, JORDAN (AP) - Several thousand cheering and flag-waving Jordanians packed a sports stadium for a free concert in the capital of Amman as...