By Agence France-Presse A clean-up operation was underway Thursday after giant waves flooded a key U.S. military base on the Marshall Islands in the heart of the South Pacific. Huge breakers pummelled the US garrison at Kwajalein Atoll last weekend on Roi-Namur island, where some of America’s most sophisticated space and missile tracking equipment is […]
By Agence France-Presse The Paris Games has the chance to “kickstart a resurgence of the Olympic brand” following the last two Covid-affected editions and the doping-blighted 2014 Sochi Winter Games, former IOC marketing executive Terrence Burns has told AFP. With just six months to go to the opening ceremony in the French capital, organisers face […]
By Agence France-Presse Zion Suzuki has “the full support” of Japan’s squad at the Asian Cup after the goalkeeper was racially abused online, their coach said on Tuesday. The 21-year-old Suzuki, whose father is Ghanaian-American and mother Japanese, said he had been racially abused on social media following Japan’s shock 2-1 defeat to Iraq in […]