With Six Months To Go, Winter Games Organisers Say They’ll Be Ready

With Six Months To Go, Winter Games Organisers Say They’ll Be Ready

Six months before the start of the Winter Olympics, Italian organisers say that, after years of ups and downs, they are on schedule. “Preparations are progressing steadily and according to the timeline we have set,” Andrea Varnier, the chief executive officer of Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee, told AFP. The Olympic opening ceremony…

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Airbus tells US airlines they’ll need to pay their own tariffs

Airbus tells US airlines they’ll need to pay their own tariffs

[LONDON] Airbus said it will not cover the cost of tariffs on its planes imported by US airlines, setting up a clash with carriers unwilling to shoulder surcharges imposed by US President Donald Trump. The European planemaker is responsible for any added duties on supplies it imports to its own aircraft assembly plant in Mobile,…

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Trump’s Border Czar Faces Fallout in His Hometown for Locking up Immigrant Family: ‘They’ll Take Whoever They Can’

Trump’s Border Czar Faces Fallout in His Hometown for Locking up Immigrant Family: ‘They’ll Take Whoever They Can’

Trump administration border czar Tom Homan faced public outcry in his hometown of Sackets Harbor, New York following the detention of a mother and her three children during a recent operation at a local dairy farm. The episode even drew condemnation from state governor Kathy Hochul, who labeled it as “plain cruel,” adding that she…

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Navy SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden Says Israel Isn’t Finished Killing Hamas Leaders After Sinwar’s Death: ‘They’ll Keep Doing It’

Navy SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden Says Israel Isn’t Finished Killing Hamas Leaders After Sinwar’s Death: ‘They’ll Keep Doing It’

Rob O’Neill Latin Times A former Navy SEAL who took part in the operation that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden said Israel’s strategy against the leaders of Iran-backed groups is the correct one, and that the country is “showing us how to win wars” after the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. Retired Senior…

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COP29 Climate Hosts Say They’ll Keep Expanding Fossil Fuels

COP29 Climate Hosts Say They’ll Keep Expanding Fossil Fuels

The incoming president of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan told AFP on Friday that his country would keep increasing fossil fuel production “in parallel” with investments in cleaner alternatives. Mukhtar Babayev defended his country’s hosting of the world’s most important climate summit despite its surging natural gas exports, even as UN chief Antonio…

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