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Continue ReadingBiles then left the competition floor, returning to the sidelines for the rest of the competition to support her teammates, who went on to win the silver medal. She later told reporters that she didn’t feel right in the buildup, and had backed out because she “didn’t want to risk the team a medal for […]
Continue ReadingThe director of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Summer Olympics has been fired after footage from a 1998 comedy sketch showed him making an antisemitic Holocaust joke. Kentaro Kobayashi was relieved of his duties just one day before the opening ceremony for the Summer Games is set to take place in Japan. The organizing […]
Continue ReadingBy the time Christopher Ahn signed on to the mission inside North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, the plan was already finalized. Other people had mapped out how to restrain the staff, how to hoover up any useful intel materials, and most important, how to make it look like the diplomat they were grabbing was being […]
Continue ReadingAmid protests, athletes testing positive for COVID-19, a scandal involving the opening ceremony director, and a coronavirus surge in Tokyo, the 2020 Olympics kicked off (one year late) on Friday with a dazzling opening ceremony. Despite the largely empty stands and curious choreography (which, to be fair, happens every year — remember the UK’s beds […]
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Continue ReadingAs parts of the world witness devastating drought and heat waves due to the climate crisis, China’s Henan province, which has a population of over 100 million people, has been experiencing torrential downpours and flooding. And the capital city of Zhengzhou has seen the worst of the conditions, where one local weather commentator called it […]
Continue ReadingAnti-government protests have erupted in Cuba this week over the lack of access to food and basic medical supplies amid a rise in COVID cases. The country has suffered from massive inflation and long blackouts as long-standing US sanctions that restrict access to basic goods and financing, and decades of government corruption and mismanagement, have […]
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Everard was killed in a seemingly random attack while walking home from a friend’s place in March. Her murder set off a tidal wave of grief and anger in the UK. View Entire Post ›
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“I watched my career shift from being the busiest I had ever been to obviously have everything come screeching to a halt.” View Entire Post ›
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