• The Canadian Press

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

    PARIS (AP) — 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. Tahitians and others railed against the building of a new viewing tower on Teahupo’o reef because of fears it would hurt marine life.

  • 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 TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister faced growing pressure Saturday after U.S. President Joe Biden announced a proposed agreement to end the fighting in Gaza, with many Israelis urging Benjamin Netanyahu to embrace the deal but far-right allies threatening to collapse his government if he does. Netanyahu called a permanent cease-fire in Gaza a “nonstarter” until long-standing conditions for ending the

  • BBC

    China says its spacecraft lands on Moon's far side

    The mission hopes to bring rocks back to earth from the far side of the Moon for the first time.