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TOUR 2024: How well do you know the Tour de France? Try the AP's quiz 06/27/2024 11:18am • How well do you know the Tour de France? Try this quiz ahead of cycling's biggest races, which starts on Saturday: ___ 1. From which city does the 2024 Tour de France start? a. London b. Florence, Italy c. Duesseldorf, Germany ___ 2. Where does the race finish? a. Paris b. Nice, France c. Brussels, Zimbabwe police quash opposition courthouse protest over prolonged detention of activists 06/27/2024 10:58am • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ��� Zimbabwe police on Thursday used batons to break up a courthouse protest by opposition supporters, angered by the continued detention of dozens of activists arrested in mid-June, after they allegedly gathered without official police clearance. Dozens of opposition Citizens Cristiano Ronaldo just avoided being hit by a fan who jumped from the crowd to get to him at Euros 06/27/2024 10:00am • DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) ��� Cristiano Ronaldo narrowly avoided being hit by a fan who jumped from the crowd to get close to the soccer star when Portugal played Georgia at the European Championship on Wednesday. A video widely circulated on social media shows someone leaping over the top of the p Prosecutors seek 8-month rehabilitation for Australian man charged with drug possession in Bali 06/27/2024 07:31am • DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) ��� Prosecutors in Indonesia on Thursday demanded an eight-month medical rehabilitation for an Australian man charged with possessing methamphetamine on the tourist island of Bali, after his earlier charge of drug trafficking was dropped which would have carried the death pe Swedish police investigate three unexplained deaths at an electric vehicle battery plant 06/27/2024 06:56am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Police in northern Sweden said Thursday they were looking into the unexplained deaths of three men who had died within a short period after working at an electric vehicle battery plant in the Arctic. They want to find out whether the deaths are linked, whether a crime ha Want to follow swimming in Paris? Then get up to speed on WADA, doping, China and trimetazidine 06/27/2024 06:00am • TOKYO (AP) ��� The Paris Olympics open next month and the agency that oversees doping enforcement is under scrutiny following allegations it failed to pursue positive tests of Chinese swimmers who subsequently won medals ��� including three gold ��� at the Tokyo Games in 2021. The focus on the World Rescuers seek to bring down bodies found on Japan's Mount Fuji 06/27/2024 05:35am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Three bodies were found inside a crater at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan���s most famous mountain, with one of them already brought down from the slopes, police said Thursday. The identities of the people, including gender or age, were not confirmed. An effort to bring back the two A Greek police officer guarding a top judge's house is injured in a predawn gasoline bomb attack 06/27/2024 04:51am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� A Greek police officer guarding the house of a top judge was hospitalized with burns after a gasoline bomb attack in Athens early Thursday, authorities said. The motive for the predawn attack in a city suburb was not clear and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. P Bolivian general arrested after apparent failed coup attempt as government faces new crisis 06/27/2024 02:05am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� Led by a top general vowing to ���restore democracy,��� armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday in what the president called a coup attempt, then quickly retreated ��� the latest crisis in the South American country facing a political battl Here's what led Kenyans to burn part of parliament and call for the president's resignation 06/27/2024 01:56am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Kenya's president came to power by appealing to the common people, describing himself as a ���hustler��� and vowing relief from economic pain. But when he was forced to give up on a controversial tax hike that led to deadly chaos in the capital, Nairobi, it was a clear sign Man who killed 2 Connecticut officers likely fueled by a prior interaction with police, report says 06/26/2024 11:06pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� The ambush killings of two Connecticut police officers was likely fueled by an angry interaction the gunman had with police earlier, along with building pressures in his personal life and his abuse of alcohol and drugs, according to a report released Wednesday by the state�� What to know from the first day of US journalist Evan Gershkovich's trial in Russia 06/26/2024 11:00pm • Here's a look at what we know about the first day of the trial for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been charged in Russia with espionage ��� charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government deny. Where was the trial he ld? It was held Wednesday in the Sverdlovsky Regional The Latest | Bolivian official says general wanted to take power, navy vice admiral also arrested 06/26/2024 10:51pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� An apparent failed coup attempt erupted Wednesday in Bolivia, where armored vehicles rammed into the doors of the government palace and President Luis Arce said the country stood firm against attacks on democracy. Arce confronted the general commander of the army ��� Juan Jo Feds charge 5, including man acquitted at trial, with conspiring to bribe Minnesota juror with $120K 06/26/2024 10:42pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Five people were charged Wednesday with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the acquittal of defendants in one of the country���s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases, the U.S. Attorney���s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday. Prosecutors drop nearly 80 arrests from a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas 06/26/2024 10:39pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Nearly 80 criminal trespass arrests stemming from a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas have been dismissed, a prosecutor said Wednesday, the latest dropped charges against demonstrators arrested on college campuses across the U.S. this spring. Delia Garza, a Democrat