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Russian father and son hammer throwers share Olympic sorrow
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» MOSCOW - Russian hammer thrower Sergey Litvinov and his father have a lot in common: a first name, an athletics discipline and now a history of missing the Olympics.
Gold jumps B200 on weak dollar
Published on 30/07/2016
» Gold prices rose 200 baht to 22,200 baht per baht-weight in Bangkok on Saturday.
France church attackers 'smiled' and spoke of Koran
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» RENNES (FRANCE) - One of the jihadists who murdered an elderly French priest smiled as he carried out the attack, and nuns who witnessed the grisly murder said the killers spoke about the Koran.
Brazilian drug lord turns jail cell into luxury suite
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» ASUNCION - Paraguayan authorities got a surprise when they raided a Brazilian drug lord's jail cell... and found a three-room luxury suite complete with library, kitchen, conference room and plasma TV.
S. Sudan refugee Olympians run for glory of lost home
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» NAIROBI - There will be more South Sudanese competing at the Rio Games in the Olympics refugee team than for the African state that will be taking part for the first time.
US 'subpoenas Goldman' in 1MDB link
Reuters, Published on 30/07/2016
» US authorities have issued subpoenas to Goldman Sachs Group Inc for documents related to the bank's dealings with scandal-hit Malaysian state fund 1MDB, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Friday.
IMF: Singapore to pick up in 2017
Reuters, Published on 30/07/2016
» SINGAPORE - Singapore's economic growth is expected to accelerate next year, supported by accommodative fiscal and monetary policies, but the weak global outlook remained a risk, the International Monetary Fund said.
New cyber attack hits Democrats
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» WASHINGTON - US Democrats said Friday they had been targeted by yet another cyber attack, while Hillary Clinton's campaign confirmed that an analytics program it used was breached in an earlier intrusion.
For Rio's sports-mad population, it's Olympics every day
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro's residents, or Cariocas, don't need the Olympics to prove their city is the center of the sporting world -- they know that the second they step outside.
Genetic doping - the 'sea serpent' of cheating
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» LAUSANNE - How big a threat is genetic doping to clean competition in sport?