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The 2026 Winter Olympics sports program opened with the first curling matches scheduled in Italy's Cortina on Wednesday night, two days before the official opening ceremony. Several hundred spectators watched as eight teams unpacked their equipment in the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. The matches had barely begun when a brief power outage blacked out the scoreboards

Iranian and US officials confirmed on Wednesday that a meeting between their countries would be held in Muscat, the capital of Oman, on Friday. Earlier Wednesday, a report surfaced that negotiations between the sides were falling apart over disagreements about the format and venue, raising doubts about the talks' fate. However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas

Time is running out: The nuclear arms reduction deal between the United States and Russia, known as New START, is set to expire by the end of Wednesday. Key world leaders, including Pope Leo XIV, have been publicly calling for the agreement's extension or preservation. START stands for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The most recent

Ryan Routh was given life in prison on Wednesday as punishment for his attempted assassination of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election. Routh, who was found guilty last September on five criminal counts, was sentenced at the US District Court in Fort Pierce, Florida, by Judge Aileen Cannon. Routh, who

It is a bitterly cold winter's day in the central Anatolian Turkish city of Tokat. The thermometer says it's -3 degrees Celsius (27 degrees Fahrenheit). Sunduz Akkan, a mother of three, bundles up and heads to the Sik Makas factory where she worked until October. The plant's roughly 1,700 employees stopped getting their paychecks in mid-2025.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking in Washington on Wednesday, announced that his nation's security agencies had "foiled a series of cyberattacks" of "Russian origin." Tajani said the attempted attacks targeted numerous "Foreign Ministry offices, starting with Washington, and also some Winter Olympics sites, including hotels in Cortina." Past Olympic-related cyberattacks came in Paris in 2024

Armed extremists attacked a pair of villages in western Nigeria overnight, a lawmaker and medics said on Wednesday, killing at least 162 people in one of the deadliest assaults of its kind in recent months.  The attacks targeted the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara state, Mohammed Omar Bio, a member of parliament representing

The Trump administration said it was drawing down the number of immigration enforcement officers deployed in Minnesota, following weeks of unrest in Minneapolis where 2 people have been killed in altercations with US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agents. Tom Homan, whose official title is White House "border czar," told reporters that 700 out of around

On Wednesday, a court in Hungary ruled that Maja T.*, an anti-fascist activist from the city of Jena in the eastern German state of Thuringia, was guilty of seriously injuring several suspected right-wing extremists in Budapest in February 2023. The attacks had apparently been directed at individuals thought to have participated in the annual "Day of Honor" rally of neo-Nazis from all

The governments of Tonga and the Cook Islands have condemned misuse of their flags amid reports that at least 29 ships were flying their colors in a bid to dodge international sanctions. The majority of the vessels are crude oil carriers that appear to be operating between Iran and China, with the vessels loading Iranian crude