PARIS (AP): The Latest from the French Open (all times local): ___ 2:55 p.m. Nadia Podoroska is the first female qualifier in the Open Era to reach the French Open semifinals. The 131st-ranked Argentine tossed her racket high into the air after beating third-seeded Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-4. Podoroska could meet another qualifier in the […]
Read MoreDavos: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would have loved to have met Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg at Davos but added that she should not focus her anger on the United States. “I would have loved to have seen her,” Trump told reporters before leaving the luxury Swiss resort, while claiming that […]
Read MoreDavos, Switzerland: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s led a “spectacular” turnaround of the U.S. economy and urged the world to invest in America, but had less to say about climate change issues that are a focus of this year’s gathering of top business and political leaders in the Swiss Alps. Trump kept to […]
Read MoreDavos (Switzerland): The head of the World Economic Forum says it’s “reassuring” that US President Donald Trump and climate activist Greta Thunberg will both return to its annual meeting in Davos this year, noting that concerns about the environment will be a key topic. WEF founder Klaus Schwab sees vast changes in business, society and culture over […]
Read MoreTokyo: Pope Francis on Saturday issued a call for nuclear disarmament as he arrived on a long-awaited trip to Japan, which will take in visits to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, targets of the “catastrophic” atomic bomb. Shortly after touching down in Japan, the 82-year-old Argentine turned straight to the “tragic episode in human […]
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