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Winzar Kakiouea, a 100-meter runner, is the only competitor at the Paris Games from the Pacific island nation of Nauru. His debut came and went in a flash.

Biles won her second Olympic vault title — eight years after her first in Rio — with her signature Yurchenko double pike and then a vault called a Cheng.

Ignoring the efforts of President Biden and the condemnation of many allies, the Israeli prime minister is forcing the pace of the war and feeding the revolt of the far right.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III directed the new deployments after speaking with his Israeli counterpart.

The Sicilian capital, Palermo, has a long history of cultural melding. Its new arrivals from Sri Lanka have embraced St. Rosalia.

After winning the 200 individual medley, Marchand joins Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz as the only male swimmers to win four gold medals at a single Olympics.

Gunmen and a suicide bomber struck a seaside hotel in one of the deadliest such assaults in the country in months. The Islamist militant group Al Shabab claimed responsibility.

Whether we’re participating in them or listening to them, the goal is to forget about the outcome and just connect.

The Canadian Medical Association has called for a ban on payments for procedures long covered by public systems and is warning about contracting services out.