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 ...
Students at several universities in Iran have staged anti-government protests - the first such rallies on this scale since last month's deadly crackdown by the authorities./ The BBC has verified footage of demonstrators marching on the campus of the Sharif University of Technology in the capital ...
The Palestinian Authority has delivered little improvement to the lives of Palestinians/ With Israeli settler violence surging in the occupied West Bank, al-Mughayyir, north-east of Ramallah, has found itself on the frontline. It faces regular incursions by the Israeli army and has seen farmland ...
Sara Shahverdi is "doing something unusual" in Iran, filmmakers say/ Growing up in the Iranian capital Tehran, filmmaker Sara Khaki recalls seeing many examples of strong women in a male-dominated society./ These were women "fighting for their independence and demanding space for their lives", ...
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said a proposal for an agreement with the US will be ready in days/ US President Donald Trump has said he is considering a limited military strike on Iran in order to pressure its leaders to agree a deal to curb the nuclear programme./ The president ...
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Khaled Meshaal, part of Hamas's "old guard", who has already led the group, is said to be one of the frontrunners/ Hamas is holding an election for a new interim leader, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the armed group's affairs has told the BBC./ Voting is taking place across Gaza, ...
The UN estimates the cost of damage in Gaza at $70bn/ Several countries which have signed up to Donald Trump's Board of Peace have contributed more than $7bn (£5.2bn) towards a Gaza "relief package", the US president has said./ Trump made the announcement during the first meeting of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ A drone view shows a property seized by authorities, where the authorities say they discovered a sophisticated tunnel used for large‑scale fuel theft from Mexico's state energy company Pemex and for storing drugs, in Sayula, ...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in October 2025./ reveals that while aggressive trade policies implemented in 2025 have successfully driven a significant wedge between midsize American businesses and Chinese suppliers, the decoupling has come with a staggering price ...