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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will start Saturday’s sprint race at the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix from first place on the grid after edging out his two Ferrari rivals by less than one-tenth in qualifying. Championship leader Verstappen clocked 1 minut…

From the crowded terminals in Chicago’s O’Hare to the somewhat confusing layouts of Washington Dulles and Los Angeles’ LAX, US airports are not without their flaws. To expand capacities, improve energy efficiency and make terminals more passenger frien…

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has paid tribute to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was assasinated during a political event earlier Friday. Abe was prime minister 2006-2007 and 2012-2020, with Tokyo elected host of …

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, the most influential Japanese politician of the past two decades, has died after he was shot by a gunman during an election campaign event. The alleged shooter served in the country’s navy for three years unti…

Two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge will in September return to the Berlin marathon which he won in world record time in his last outing in 2018. Kenya’s Kipchoge, 37, clocked the record 2 hours 1 minute 39 seconds four years ago for his third Ber…

Former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe is in “serious condition” after being shot at a campaign event in the city of Nara on Friday, says Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Kishida condemned the attack “in the strongest terms” after cutting short an election cam…

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi called for an end to conflict and for a solution to a looming global food crisis to be found as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cast a shadow over a G20 foreign ministerial meeting in Bali. The presence of Russian…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is leaving the Bali G20 foreign ministers’ meeting early, skipping the sessions planned for Friday afternoon as well as the official dinner on Friday evening, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed. “Lavrov is…

Elections should be repeated at some Berlin polling stations, lawmakers on a committee investigating the debacle of last year’s vote recommended, according to reports on Thursday. The lawmakers on the committee assessing the failings of the Bundestag e…

Kiev reported several people killed or injured in shelling by Russian forces on Thursday as Moscow continues to target the eastern region of Ukraine. Three people died in the Kharkiv region while five more were wounded, the authorities said. “The enemy…