[ad_1] Basketball’s roots in China go way back. Christian missionaries introduced the game in the late 19th century. Mao tolerated it when other Western entertainments were...
[ad_1] When Iran’s national soccer team takes the field on Thursday for an otherwise humdrum World Cup qualifier, there will be outsize interest not in the...
[ad_1] Good morning. (Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today delivered to your inbox.) On Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Pacific Gas &...
[ad_1] (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering the latest developments in Turkey’s operation against the Kurds in Syria,...
[ad_1] JAIN AND I had met a few hours before our visit to Alibag on a dock in Mumbai, near the iconic Taj hotel and the...
[ad_1] SANLIURFA, Turkey — Fighting lit up the sky early Thursday as Turkish troops pressed their air and ground offensive against United States-allied Kurdish fighters in...
[ad_1] FIFA finally acted. At an awards event in September, the organization’s president, Gianni Infantino, promised in front of the world that Iranian women would be...
[ad_1] ATLANTA — Ten runs. Five hits. Oddly enough, no home runs. For the St. Louis Cardinals, that was Wednesday’s glorious first inning. For the Atlanta...
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — Apple removed an app on Wednesday that enabled protesters in Hong Kong to track police, a day after facing intense criticism from...
[ad_1] Mr. Trump and other top administration officials, as well as his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, embarked in recent months on a campaign to pressure...