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Hungary will seek solution to Ukraine oil transit impasse by September, minister says 07/26/2024 10:26am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will seek to resolve a dispute with Ukraine over the transfer of Russian oil by September to avoid a potential energy crisis, an aid to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday, Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, alleged that Kyiv was “blac US women's field hockey team is embracing an underdog role at the Paris Olympics 07/26/2024 10:23am • COLOMBES, France (AP) — Players sang as they stretched after their final pre-Olympic practice, an upbeat workout that showed off the joy among the U.S. women's field hockey team to be back on this international stage. They are happy to be here, even as a long shot to medal after failing to qualify Simone Biles submits an original skill on uneven bars ahead of Paris Olympics 07/26/2024 10:20am • PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles is looking to add to the list of skills named after her in gymnastics' Code of Points. The American superstar submitted an original skill on uneven bars to the International Gymnastics Federation on Friday. If Biles successfully completes it during women's qualifying o Russia detains former deputy defense minister on corruption charges in the latest military arrest 07/26/2024 09:24am • MOSCOW (AP) — A former Russian defense ministry official was arrested on corruption charges, the Russian security services said Friday, the latest in a series of high-profile military arrests. Former Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov was detained in Moscow and ordered held in custody pe Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns 07/26/2024 09:21am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood's video game performers announced they would go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections. The strike — the se EU sends first $1.6 billion from frozen Russia assets to Ukraine 07/26/2024 06:53am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union announced Friday it had made 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) available to support Ukraine, the first tranche of money generated from profits on frozen Russian assets. In May, the EU’s 27 member states reached an agreement to use the interest ear Megan Thee Stallion headlines Broccoli City music fest this weekend as event moves to DC's Audi Field 07/26/2024 06:51am • Broccoli City Fest returns to the nation's capital this weekend for two huge days of music. This year marks the very first time the festival will be held at Audi Field in Southwest D.C. "It's really exciting to be at this new venue," festival co-founder Jermon Williams told WTOP. "You thin Unbowed by Oct. 7 aftermath, Israeli, Palestinian teens come together for future of troubled region 07/26/2024 06:30am • GENEVA (AP) — They are teens from the U.S. and a torn Middle East: mostly Christians, Jews and Muslims, who have been taking part in a years-long program to become leaders and peace-builders. While a lot changed on Oct. 7, they persist in working for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians. Lightning and a burning car pushed into a gully are blamed for wildfires scorching the West 07/26/2024 05:33am • A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Meanwhile other blazes scorched the Pacific Northwest. Flames from the fire the man is accused of starting exploded into what is now the Park Fi Gang kills at least 26 villagers in remote Papua New Guinea, officials say 07/26/2024 05:32am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — At least 26 people were killed by a gang in three remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s north and eight villagers remained missing Friday in the latest violence in the South Pacific island nation relating to contested land ownership and sorcery allegations, officials India's moidam royal burial mounds are its latest World Heritage Site 07/26/2024 04:57am • NEW DELHI (AP) — The Charaideo Moidam royal burial complex and shrines, built by northeast India's Ahom dynasty, has been inscribed as a new World Heritage Site, the United Nations' cultural agency said on Friday. UNESCO experts, who are deliberating on a list of sites nominated for the World Her They expected an Olympic boon. But some Paris businesses are experiencing a bust 07/26/2024 04:52am • PARIS (AP) — On a typical summer day, tourists flock to the historic Marais district of Paris, wandering its charming medieval streets dotted with ultra-chic boutiques, gazing at stunning private mansions, strolling through the elegant 17th-century square Place des Vosges, and filling humming rest Swimming in stadiums becomes the norm as sport sets up in a rugby arena for 2024 Paris Olympics 07/26/2024 04:22am • NANTERRE, France (AP) — The main swimming pool for the Paris Olympics is set up inside a 30,000-seat rugby stadium on the city's western edge. Sound strange? Not really. It's the new norm. The biggest swim meets are being held in massive venues, which could provide a boost to the sport's populari Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza's ranks of thousands of orphans 07/26/2024 04:15am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The 2-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her little body riddled with scars from shrapnel. She squirmed, her breath heaving, as doctors examined her and the tube in her chest. Siwar Abdel-Hadi is now an orphan. She How is wave forecasting done and how does it impact the Paris Olympics surfing competition? 07/26/2024 04:08am • TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — The search for the perfect wave has been a part of surfing culture for decades, with surfers traveling from location to location in their quest for the best swells. But with the development of surf forecasting— the prediction of wave swell behavior and breaking— that