CAPE TOWN (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya on Sunday expressed her disappointment with IOC President Kirsty Coventry over the decision to ban transgender women athletes from competing in women’s events at the Olympics. Semenya, who is South African, said she expected more from a woman leader like Coventry, who is from Zimbabwe …
Still dealing with the fallout from a contentious Africa Cup of Nations final, African soccer’s governing body has announced a raft of “changes and improvements” to its statutes and regulations. The structural, legal and administrative reforms will help the Confederation of African Football regain trust in its impartiality and ensure that the scenes from the …
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, on Sunday warned the United States against a ground invasionthreatening to set American troops “on fire” and step up attacks on U.S. allies, according to Iranian official media. Ghalibaf said Iranian forces are “waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and …
From California to Minnesota, elected leaders and civil rights groups are scrambling to distance themselves from César Chavez’s name in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls during the 1960s as he became the face of the farmworkers’ movement. Efforts have been swift and widespread to rebrand events ahead of what …
March 28, 2026 | Kymone Freeman holds an American flag while demonstrators stream past him over the Frederick Douglass Bridge in Washington. It is the third time in less than a year that Americans have taken to the streets as part of a grassroots protest movement called “No Kings,” in opposition to President Donald Trump’s …
By Asif Shahzad and Alexander Cornwell ISLAMABAD/TEL AVIV, March 29 (Reuters) – Pakistan said on Sunday it was preparing to host “meaningful talks” to end the conflict over Iran in coming days even though Tehran earlier accused Washington of preparing a land assault while seeking negotiations. Speaking after talks between regional foreign ministers, Pakistan’s Foreign …
Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday that social media platforms are “specifically designed to addict” adolescents and teenagers “similar to cigarettes” were marketed to young users by manufacturers earlier, and there needs to be regulation to reflect that. “We know, based on Surgeon General [Vivek] Murthy’s report, that there is increasing and very valid …
Democratic Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday accused President Trump of “flat-out lying” about negotiating with Iran last week amid market turmoil and the ongoing war. “Last Sunday, he realized, ‘I’ve got a financial cataclysm in the market,’ so he just made that statement up,” Himes said on …
KYIV, March 29 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed a possible security partnership on Sunday with Jordan’s King Abdullah over defending against drone attacks amid rising tensions over the Iran conflict. “We discussed a possible partnership in the security sphere and the overall situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region,” …
CAIRO, March 29 (Reuters) – Arab foreign ministers agreed unanimously on Sunday to nominate Egyptian diplomat Nabil Fahmy as secretary-general of the Arab League, succeeding Ahmed Aboul Gheit, whose second term in charge ends in June 2026, Egyptian state media outlets reported. The decision came during a video conference. Under the Arab League charter, the …