• The Canadian Press

    AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

    Israeli leader Netanyahu faces growing pressure at home after Biden's Gaza proposal

  • Associated Press

    Paris is aiming for the most sustainable Olympics yet. Organizers acknowledge the plan isn't perfect

    Of all the decisions Paris Olympics organizers made about where to hold each sport, sending surfing competitions to the other side of the world — in the Pacific waters of Tahiti — provoked the strongest reactions. Paris Olympic officials had set an ambitious target of halving their overall carbon footprint compared with the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Games. Tahiti’s surfing reef is too far offshore for fans to see the action clearly from the beach, so organizers say they calculated that most would watch on television instead of taking flights, a major source of carbon emissions.

  • The Canadian Press

    Chinese defense minister accuses US of causing friction with its support for Taiwan and Philippines

    SINGAPORE (AP) — China's defense minister on Sunday acknowledged the importance of newly renewed military-to-military communications with the United States as tensions escalate in the Asia-Pacific, while at the same time accusing Washington of causing the friction with its support for Taiwan and the Philippines.