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Milano-Cortina’s breathtaking vistas come with brutal distances. Thomas Maloney Westgard’s ears must have been burning. As the Irish cross-country veteran settled into the athlete village in Predazzo—lunch finished, a small Italian coffee warming his hands—an Irish broadcast crew meant to interview him was learning, the hard way, why these Winter Olympics have been billed among the most geographically challenging in history. What looks like 540 kilometers on a map between Milan and Cortina can feel much longer when it climbs…

OSLO — Nobel officials canceled a planned press conference with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado amid uncertainty over the Venezuelan opposition leader’s whereabouts and whether she will collect the award in person at Wednesday’s ceremony. The event, scheduled for 1 p.m. local time, was first postponed and then called off after organizers said they could not confirm Machado’s attendance. “Maria Corina Machado herself said how difficult it was to come to Norway. We hope she will attend the Nobel Prize award…

The CMT spoke for the primary time in regards to the demonstrations in opposition to the institution of a army transitional council led by Mahamat Idriss Déby, certainly one of the sons of the Chadian president who was killed on the entrance on April 19, which shook the capital and a few provincial cities on Tuesday. and Wednesday.…