Japan’s defense minister draws red line in island dispute with China

Japan’s defense minister draws red line in island dispute with China

 

 

Japan is drawing a red line around an island chain also claimed by China, pushing back at Beijing’s increasingly aggressive military posturing, and setting the stage for a potential showdown between the region’s two biggest powers.

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said the Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China,

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Late Young Boys winner stuns Manchester United on Cristiano Ronaldo’s second Champions League debut

Late Young Boys winner stuns Manchester United on Cristiano Ronaldo’s second Champions League debut

 

 

It took Cristiano Ronaldo less than 13 minutes to score on his second Champions League debut for Manchester United, opening the scoring against Swiss team Young Boys.

With practically his first touch of the match, the Portuguese forward turned home a stunning ball from international teammate Bruno Fernandes to open his account in this season’s competition,

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China rushes to contain ‘school centered’ Delta outbreak before major holiday season

China rushes to contain ‘school centered’ Delta outbreak before major holiday season

 

Chinese authorities are rushing to contain a widening Delta variant outbreak in the southern province of Fujian ahead of a major upcoming national holiday, when hundreds of millions of people are expected to travel across the country — creating a window for the highly infectious variant to spread far and wide.

The outbreak, dubbed China’s “first school-centered flare-up”

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Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth. They just got $15 million to make it happen

Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth. They just got $15 million to make it happen

 

 

Bringing extinct creatures back to life is the lifeblood of science fiction. At its most tantalizing, think Jurassic Park and its stable of dinosaurs.

Advances in genetics, however, are making resurrecting lost animals a tangible prospect. Scientists have already cloned endangered animals and can sequence DNA extracted from the bones and carcasses of long-dead,

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Kabul terrorist attack highlights Biden’s Afghanistan dilemma

Kabul terrorist attack highlights Biden’s Afghanistan dilemma

 

America’s longest war is ending as it began, with the nation mourning the dead of a terrorist attack and an outraged President vowing to hunt down the culprits in Afghanistan.

The bloody coda to a tortured 20 years — the loss of 13 US troops and more than 60 Afghans in blasts outside Kabul’s airport on Thursday — exemplified the human tragedy and ultimate futility of a conflict that failed in its core purpose: purging Afghan soil of terrorism.

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Why Biden will end the final mission in Afghanistan in just 7 days

Why Biden will end the final mission in Afghanistan in just 7 days

 

The instincts that drove President Joe Biden’s decision to end the US presence in Afghanistan by August 31 were revealed by what he talked about before he announced it to the American people.

In a televised statement billed as an update on a remarkable airlift that has now saved more than 70,000 people, 

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Fauci’s new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democrats

Fauci’s new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democrats

 

President Joe Biden just got some deeply unwelcome news: The pandemic that he was elected to end could drag on deep into a midterm election year, with all the political and economic destruction that could bring.

The warning by the government’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the crisis won’t be under control until spring of next year —

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Doping spat: Russian Olympic Committee hits back after US swimmer questions whether gold medal winner was ‘100% clean’

Doping spat: Russian Olympic Committee hits back after US swimmer questions whether gold medal winner was ‘100% clean’

 

 

The issue of doping reared its head at Tokyo 2020 on Friday as the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) hit back at comments from American swimmer Ryan Murphy which questioned whether Evgeny Rylov’s 200m backstroke gold medal was “100% clean.”

Murphy, who was the reigning Olympic champion in both the 100m and 200m backstroke disciplines,

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Why Olympians bite their medals and what they do with them

Why Olympians bite their medals and what they do with them

 

 

The sight of a jubilant Olympian standing atop the podium after being victorious in their discipline with a gold medal between their teeth is an iconic one.

We’ve seen it numerous times at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games already, across a host of disciplines.
The official Tokyo 2020 account even went as far on Sunday to try to remind people that the medals are not,

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Simone Biles and ‘the twisties’: How fear affects the mental health and physical safety of gymnasts

Simone Biles and ‘the twisties’: How fear affects the mental health and physical safety of gymnasts

 

 

You can learn a lot about a subculture by the slang it develops. Gymnastics has a lot of slang around fear: the twisties, headcasing, mental block, bailing, balking.

Gymnastics is obviously physically demanding with a high injury rate. But it is extremely difficult psychologically as well. Many of the skills could kill you.

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