The USA has found strange allies in its fight to keep wrestling in the Olympics/ Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and IOC President Jaques Rogge on Feb. 7 applaud during a ceremony to mark one year out to the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia./ ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Wrestlers from the world’s top wrestling nations plan to lie on their mats Thursday in Tehran in a unique show of unity to protest a decision by the International Olympic Committee to drop wrestling from the 2020 games. Csaba Hegedus, a senior official with the international ...
(AP) — Wrestlers from the world's top wrestling nations plan to lie on their mats Thursday in in a unique show of unity to protest a decision by the , announced the decision at a meeting attended by officials from the world's top wrestling countries late Wednesday in Tehran. Iran's Wrestling ...
Associated Press/Vahid Salemi - U.S. freestyle wrestling team members arrive at the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. (AP ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Arch foes Iran and the U.S. have found some common ground in the fight to save wrestling as an Olympic sport. U.S. wrestling coach Zeke Jones says the mission has brought the two countries closer despite decades of diplomatic estrangement. He calls the sport an important ...
have found some common ground in the fight to save wrestling as an says the mission has brought the two countries closer despite decades of diplomatic estrangement. He calls the sport an important "ambassador," suggesting possible cooperation to fight an The U.S. team is in Tehran for an ...
The new museum will show all of the artefacts discovered by Howard Carter and his team in the tomb of Tutankhamun/ Near one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza - Egypt is officially opening what it intends as a cultural highlight of the modern age. The ...
right protesters broke into Sde Teiman base after military police questioned reservists over the video/ The Israeli military's top lawyer has resigned after saying that she was responsible for the leaking of a video that purportedly shows soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee last ...
Red Cross staff transferred the two coffins to Israeli forces in Gaza/ Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister's office. Israeli forces will now ...
Footage shows scale of ultra-Orthodox protest against conscription/ Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes to a legal exemption for religious students from conscription in the military. Almost all sects and factions of ...
The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to "dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure" (file photo)/ Israeli troops carried out an incursion into a south Lebanese town overnight, killing a municipal employee, state media report, amid an escalation of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The ...
First responders say Israel's overnight strikes hit residential areas, schools and tents housing displaced families/ When is a ceasefire no longer a ceasefire? It depends on who you ask. According to US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, "nothing is going to jeopardise" the truce between ...
Four people were killed in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza/ At least 104 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says. The Israeli military said it struck "dozens of terror targets and ...
by the Israeli army three years ago alleges that new revelations from an American military officer who investigated her killing reveals a US cover-up. Tony Abu Akleh's comments come after the New York Times reported that a US colonel said he concluded in 2022 that Ms Abu Akleh, a ...
Efforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in Gaza/ Israel has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had taken the coffin from Gaza back ...
Released Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures to crowds as he returns to his home in Kfar Saba, central Israel/ The father of a released Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave in a Gazan tunnel by Hamas has told the BBC his son's health is "improving every day". Avishai David was ...