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Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit suspend Ruth Chepngetich after record marathon runner’s positive doping test.

Women’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended for a positive doping test.

Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Thursday that Chepngetich tested positive for a banned diuretic and masking agent in March and “opted for a voluntary provisional suspension while the AIU’s investigation was ongoing.”

The Kenyan…

By Robert Inlakesh

Back in 2013, Israel began working on a project to expand its so-called “buffer zone” deep into southern Syria and for it to eventually seize more territory in the illegally occupied Golan Heights.

The invasion of the Druze majority city of Sweida, by forces aligned with the Syrian government, opened the stage for further Israeli land-grabs in the south of the…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Georges Abdallah was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for alleged involvement in the 1982 killings of foreign diplomats.

A French court on Thursday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who was convicted in 1987 for complicity in the assassination of an Israeli and an American diplomat.

The…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

For weeks, the 541 Palestinian Christians sheltering inside the church complex had endured constant bombardment.

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for “an immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip following an Israeli attack on a Catholic church on Thursday, killing two women and wounding several others.

The appeal came in a telegram signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin in which…

France has handed over its two remaining military bases in Senegal, ending its 65-year presence in the African country. A departure ceremony was held in Dakar for the final contingent of around 350 French soldiers.

Barcelona reportedly in talks with DR Congo over football sponsorship deal with war-hit central African country.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has agreed to pay more than $46.37m in a sponsorship deal with Spanish football club Barcelona that would see a logo promoting tourism appear on some team apparel, according to a contract seen by Reuters.

The contract with Barcelona, seen on Thursday by the news agency, is dated June 29 and stipulates that a logo branding the war-hit…