Sochi

As the Russia-Ukraine grain deal remains in limbo, Turkish President Erdogan travels to Sochi for talks with his Russian counterpart.

Russia is one step away from staying home this Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee says 31 athletes from 12 countries tested positive in retests of their doping samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

The director of Russia’s anti-doping lab said dozens of Russian athletes used a cocktail of drugs to win medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, reported The New York Times on May 12.

A look at our world through local headlines on March 15, 2014: “Siberian princess goes global 2,500 years after her death,” “Buried in Kuwait,” and more.

Adelina Sotnikova won the first-ever Olympic gold for Russia in the women’s figure skating. Her victory, however, is not reflected fairly by Western media.

NEW YORK—Inspired by the athletic feats performed thousands of miles away in Sochi, more and more New Yorkers, young and old alike, are getting out to try the various Olympic winter sports for the first time.

Canada’s relatively stable economy and strong animal welfare values have put it on the map as a haven for stray dogs.

For the last several days the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, has been in Russia, taking in the fanfare of the Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony and making a point of expressing political solidarity with the regime of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

Scores of migrant workers helping construction and building efforts for the Winter Olympics in Sochi are being exploited, a rights group said.