By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) -International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will not seek to remain in the post after the end of his second term in 2025 despite calls from members to stay on, he said on Saturday. Bach, a German lawyer in charge since 2013, surprised members at the end of their session …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Grammy-nominated American hip hop star Travis Scott has been released from police custody in Paris and will not face any charges, said a representative for Scott on Saturday. Scott, 33, had been arrested on Friday at Paris’ luxury Georges V hotel after a scuffle with a security guard. “Travis Scott has been …
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By Helen Reid and Lori Ewing PARIS (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola won gold in the men’s marathon at the Paris Games on Saturday while Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, who had been bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic crown, failed to finish. Belgium’s Bashir Abdi took silver, improving on his bronze from Tokyo, and Kenya’s Benson …
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By Gabriel Araujo, Andre Romani and Luana Maria Benedito SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A regional turboprop plane fell into what aviation experts called a flat spin before crashing in a residential neighborhood near Sao Paulo in Brazil on Friday, killing all 61 people on board. Regional carrier Voepass said the plane, bound for Sao Paulo’s international …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Three people were killed in two Russian attacks on Ukraine’s eastern frontline Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, local officials said on Saturday. One civilian was killed and several others were injured in a Russian missile strike on the town of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, the local governor said. “This morning, the Russians hit …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi SUMY REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian volunteers evacuated dozens of residents, and their pets, from northern Sumy region in anticipation of more Russian attacks in response to Ukraine’s cross-border military incursion into the Kursk region. The residents trundled toward the pick-up point, their overflowing carrier bags loaded onto carts, as Russian forces …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -An 18-year-old Iraqi national was detained in Vienna in connection with investigations into an alleged plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, Austria’s interior minister said on Friday. The Iraqi comes from the same circle as the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots, Interior Minister Gerhard …
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By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Russia moved extra tanks, artillery and rocket systems to its southern Kursk region and imposed anti-terrorism measures in border areas as it battled a shock incursion by Ukraine’s military. Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, posted a video purporting to show them in control of a town near the border, the first pictorial evidence …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro SAINT-DENIS, France (Reuters) – After enduring years of construction work on the Olympic Village opposite her block of flats, 15-year-old schoolgirl Enda Fofana had hoped for a free ticket to see the Paris 2024 Games. It never materialised. The teenager lives in Seine-Saint-Denis, a gritty, racially mixed suburb reaching northeast away from …
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By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) -Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Friday he was back in Belgium after dodging arrest during a brief return to Spain and never had the intention of surrendering himself. “I’m in Waterloo after extremely difficult days,” he wrote on X. Puigdemont has lived in self-imposed exile since leading a …
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