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Japan's defense minister begins visits to Cambodia and Vietnam, both under Beijing's shadow 08/05/2024 08:09am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ��� Japan���s defense minister held talks with senior officials in Cambodia, a top ally of China, on Monday as he began a Southeast Asian trip that will also take him to Vietnam, whose relations with Beijing are complicated by maritime disputes. Japan has historically main Car Review: BMW i5 M60 is like an all-electric M5 with sports car performance 08/05/2024 06:37am • The new BMW i5 M60 is an all-electric midsize luxury sedan. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The “Ultimate Driving Machine” is moving to the future with all-electric vehicles and the i5 M60 looks to carry on the tradition with the vaunted M division making sports cars that just happened to be a midsiz Olympic track's best rivalry: 1,500-meter runners Kerr, Ingebrigtsen really do not like each other 08/05/2024 06:15am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Maybe it was the time Jakob Ingebrigtsen started playing to the crowd before he crossed the finish line, and beat Josh Kerr anyway. Or maybe it when Kerr beat Ingebrigtsen three nights later with a gold medal on the line, then Ingebrigtsen blamed the loss on being sick. How DC-area hikers over 60 traveled Peru's Inca Trail to Machu Picchu 08/05/2024 05:30am • What does it take to climb a mountain? A group of D.C.-area hikers, all aged 60 years or older, said it takes training and wisdom. The Wisdom Walkers, a D.C.-area group that has participated in several events and led tours of D.C.-area landmarks, is a destination fitness organization dedicated to Olympic boxer Imane Khelif calls for end to bullying after backlash over gender misconceptions 08/05/2024 02:00am • PARIS (AP) ��� Olympic boxer Imane Khelif said the wave of hateful scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender ���harms human dignity,��� and she called for an end to bullying athletes after being greatly affected by the international backlash against her. The Algerian athlete spoke Albania's governing Socialist Party wins mayoral poll in a town with ethnic Greek minority 08/05/2024 01:42am • QEPARO, Albania (AP) ��� Preliminary results Monday showed Albania's governing Socialist Party candidate Vangjel Tavo won the mayoral election in the southwestern town of Himara after the previous mayor was removed in a case that has sparked tensions with Greece. Results at the Central Election Comm Missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels hits container ship in first attack in 2 weeks 08/05/2024 12:11am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� A missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck a Liberian-flagged container ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, authorities said Sunday, the first assault by the group since Israeli airstrikes targeted them. The Houthis offered no explanation for the two- Tropical Storm Debby strengthens into a Category 1 hurricane as it heads toward Florida 08/04/2024 11:47pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Debby strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane as it approached Florida on Sunday evening, according to the national weather service. Debby is the fourth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season after Tropical Storm Alberto, Hurricane Beryl and Tropical S Steele pitches Cubs past Cardinals 6-2 behind homers from Tauchman and Amaya 08/04/2024 11:24pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Justin Steele pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the Chicago Cubs topped the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 on Sunday night for their fourth win in five games. Mike Tauchman and Miguel Amaya both homered in the sixth and finished with two hits and two runs scored to help th Cooler weather helps firefighters corral a third of massive California blaze 08/04/2024 06:43pm • CHICO, Calif. (AP) ��� Fire crews battling California's largest wildfire this year have corralled a third of the blaze aided in part by cooler weather, but a return of triple-digit temperatures could allow it to grow, fire officials said Sunday. Cooler temperatures and increased humidity gave firefi High jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins Ukraine's 1st individual gold of the Paris Olympics 08/04/2024 06:17pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� It was a night for war-torn Ukraine to rejoice. Thousands of Ukrainians watched on YouTube as high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh won gold for the country she was forced to flee, then celebrated with two teammates who also medaled at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. Iryna Geras Nigerian women are first African team to make Olympic quarterfinals in basketball 08/04/2024 06:05pm • VILLENEUVE-D���ASCQ, France (AP) ��� Ezinne Kalu scored 21 points and Nigeria made Olympic history by becoming the first African team, male or female, to reach the Olympic quarterfinals in basketball when it beat Canada 79-70 on Sunday. The Nigerians (2-1) came in having only one win ��� back in the Olympic Fencing Results 08/04/2024 03:55pm • Sunday Men Foil Team Table of 8 Japan (Kazuki Iimura 2-1; Kyosuke Matsuyama 3-0; Takahiro Shikine 3-0), def. Canada (Daniel Gu 0-3; Maximilien van Haaster 0-3; Blake Broszus 1-2), 45-26, 42:02. France (Julien Mertine 1-0; Enzo Lefort 1-1-1; Maxime Pauty 1-0-2; Maximilien Chastanet 1-0-1), def. China Kitesurfing, the fastest sport at the Paris Olympics, hits the water in Marseille 08/04/2024 03:47pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� The sky in front of the Marseille marina filled with kites Sunday afternoon. Kitesurfing ��� the fastest sport at the Paris Games ��� had arrived at the Olympics. ���It���s a fresh gust of emotions, of feelings, of thoughts,��� said Max Maeder, 17, of Singapore. The athle Everything is tougher on a bike in the Olympics: eating, drinking and, yes, bathroom breaks 08/04/2024 03:36pm • PARIS (AP) ��� German cyclist Nils Politt was feeling good early in the Olympic road race on Saturday, getting into a breakaway and giving the veteran of seven Tours de France the feeling that something magical could happen on the streets of Paris. Suddenly, he began to feel something much different