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Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy won the men’s 100 meters gold at the Tokyo Olympics Sunday.

French boxer Mourad Aliev lodged a furious protest with an hour-long ring-side sit-in Sunday after being disqualified in his super heavyweight quarterfinal bout, expressing his contempt by spitting out his … Read More

Alexander Zverev said that “nothing is bigger” than winning an Olympic gold medal after brushing aside Karen Khachanov to take the men’s singles title in Tokyo Sunday.

Caeleb Dressel powered to his fifth swimming gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics Sunday as the United States won their duel in the pool with Australia, while Xander Schauffele claimed … Read More

Egypt’s military said Sunday it has killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an affiliate of the Islamic State group has been active for nearly … Read More

Waiting in line to receive a COVID-19 jab from the Tunisian army, Zubeir Bin Ammar was in little doubt that the military and President Kais Saied were succeeding where the … Read More

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has tasked Prime Minister Hussein Arnous with forming a new government following an election in May that extended Assad’s two-decade-old presidency.

Afghan government forces struggled against Taliban assaults on several major cities Sunday as the insurgents stepped up a nationwide offensive that saw a key airport in the south come under … Read More

Iran’s ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi will be inaugurated on Tuesday as the new president of the Islamic republic, a country mired in deep economic crisis and hit by crippling US sanctions.

Iran was not involved in an attack on an Israeli-managed petroleum product tanker off the coast of Oman, the Iranian Foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, referring to an incident … Read More