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Nicol Delago poised to earn Italy's ski team another win. Lindsey Vonn 3rd in downhill

TARVISIO, Italy (AP) — The Italian ski team is on a roll with less than three weeks to go before a home Olympics. And so is 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn.

Nicol Delago was in position to claim her first World Cup victory in a downhill on Saturday, with Vonn in third place for her fifth podium in five downhills this season.

Delago was looking to match Italian teammate Giovanni Franzoni, who claimed his first victory in a super-G in Wengen, Switzerland, on Friday.

The Milan Cortina Winter Games open on Feb. 6 with the women racing in Cortina d’Ampezzo and the... Read More

Journalists in Bangladesh demand protection amid rising attacks

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Journalists, editors and owners of media outlets in Bangladesh on Saturday demanded that authorities protect them following recent attacks on two leading national dailies by mobs.

They said the media industry in the South Asian country is being systematically targeted in the interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. They said the administration failed to prevent attacks on the Daily Star, the country’s leading English-language daily, and the Prothom Alo, the largest Bengali-language newspaper, both based in Dhaka, the... Read More

Ugandan police deny arrest of opposition leader as country awaits final election results

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Police in Uganda on Saturday denied reports that the main opposition candidate in this week's tense election had been arrested, terming the reports as “deceitful and inciteful.” They urged citizens to remain peaceful as the country awaits the results in the presidential vote.

Uganda held a general election on Thursday amid an internet shutdown that has been in place for four days, with the military heavily deployed across the country and pockets of violence erupting as people protested parliamentary election results in various parts of the country. Read More

Family of Iranian protester searched for her body in a pile of corpses and buried her on a roadside

BEIRUT (AP) — Robina Aminian's family believes the college student was killed by a bullet fired by Iranian security forces at close range, straight into the back of her head.

But her death in the nationwide protests that challenged the Islamic Republic's theocracy was only the start of the family's agony. In the aftermath of the killing, Aminian's mother had to look through piles of bloodied corpses to find her daughter's body. Then the family raced to escape authorities who might demand payment to release the body and buried her hastily in an unmarked roadside pit.
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Why US cities are reverting 1-way streets back to their original 2-way design

Excessive speeding was so common on parallel one-way streets passing a massive electronics plant that Indianapolis residents used to refer to the pair as a “racetrack” akin to the city's famous Motor Speedway a few miles west.

Originally two-way thoroughfares, Michigan and New York streets switched to opposite one-way routes in the 1970s to help thousands of RCA workers swiftly travel to and from their shifts building televisions or pressing vinyl records. But after the RCA plant closed in 1995, the suddenly barren roads grew even more enticing for lead-footed drivers —... Read More

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Nicol Delago poised to earn Italy's ski team another win. Lindsey Vonn 3rd in downhill

Journalists in Bangladesh demand protection amid rising attacks

Ugandan police deny arrest of opposition leader as country awaits final election results

Family of Iranian protester searched for her body in a pile of corpses and buried her on a roadside

Why US cities are reverting 1-way streets back to their original 2-way design

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