Since Emmanuel Macron met Monday with President Vladimir Putin to try to defuse the crisis on the Russia-Ukraine border, US officials have either remained silent or even sounded skeptical about what European countries have called progress in avertin...

Now it is ringed by towering wind turbines whose night lights and whirring sounds are tantamount to daily "torture", locals say. "Longterm visitors ask us, why did you allow this crime to take place?" laments Stamatoula Karava, a local employee inv...

The dreadlocked Hirano, a silver medallist at both the 2014 and 2018 Games, said he "didn't understand" how he could be in second place behind Australia's Scotty James after a jaw-dropping second run in Friday's event. He simply got back on his boa...

"We have got used to living here, we don't have a choice," she told AFP, standing in the doorway of the small room she shares with her disabled husband and elderly mother. Now, as fears swirl that over 100,000 Russian troops camped along Ukraine's ...

The tax is one of the biggest blows to alcohol consumption by a government often accused by its opponents of eroding the pillars of modern Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation but an officially secular state. The blow was felt particularly hard...

A heated debate has erupted over "The Betrayal of Anne Frank" by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan after it named a Jewish notary as the prime suspect in giving up Anne and her family. Dutch historians and Jewish groups have criticised the "sensati...

After concerns about Covid, human rights and man-made snow in the build-up to the Olympics in the Chinese capital, doping became the latest controversy to rock the Games. Reports of doping had swirled around the prodigious 15-year-old Valieva after...

In 2008, during the Summer Games in Beijing, Russia launched a devastating ground assault against the small Caucasus country on its southern border. Georgia was battling pro-Russian militia in its separatist region of South Ossetia, after they shel...

Amos Mosaner and Stefania Constantini claimed the first curling title of the Beijing Games on Tuesday when they beat Norwegian husband-and-wife pairing of Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten 8-5 to take gold in the mixed doubles. The pair will...

Narracott produced two superb runs in Friday's heats to lead with a combined time of two minutes, 04.34 seconds. "We aren't supposed to do well at the Winter Olympics so having the underdog tag works quite well," she said at the Yanqing National Sl...

Hours after confirming they had traded superstar James Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers -- dismantling their "Big Three" of Harden, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant -- the Nets couldn't hang on to a nine-point third-quarter lead against the Wizards. W...

Gut-Behrami, who has already won giant slalom bronze at these Games, timed 1min 13.51sec for the victory. Austrian Mirjam Puchner took silver 0.22sec behind while another Swiss, 2018 Olympic combined gold medallist Michelle Gisin, claimed bronze. ...

A festive mood prevailed at a makeshift tent settlement inhabitants have dubbed "Camp Freedom", with music and dancing as police looked on from behind barricades. It was a stark contrast to the fiery scenes Thursday, when a phalanx of officers atte...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison kicked off the day by highlighting the group's importance in building cooperation among democracies, while making a thinly-veiled allusion to his country's troubled relationship with Beijing. "We live in a v...

The case will be decided by the Court of Arbitration for Sport before February 15, when 15-year-old Valieva is scheduled to take part in the individual event at the Olympics, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said in a statement. The informati...