Saeid Mollaei, a former Iranian judoka now representing Mongolia, took home the silver medal in the men’s 81-kilogram division, losing the gold to Takanori Nagase of Japan. It was the first Olympic medal for Mollaei, two years after he left his native Iran, revealing that his national team coaches had ordered him to lose in … Continued
WNBA players, who have been protesting racism all season by leaving the court during the national anthem, say they have decided not to continue their demonstration during the Olympics and will remain on the court during the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Team captain Sue Bird, who is engaged to United States women’s soccer star — and woke … Continued
China sanctioned former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and six other U.S. individuals or entities in retaliation for human rights penalties levied against the Chinese government Friday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the sanctions were a response to the recent Hong Kong Business Advisory issued by the State Department earlier this month, which warned U.S. companies against engaging in business … Continued
On Thursday, the Chinese government confirmed that it will not cooperate with a proposed second investigation into the possible origins of the coronavirus conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), as reported by CNN. The announcement was made by Deputy Head of China’s National Health Commission Zeng Yixin, who said at a press conference that he … Continued
The unprecedented and growing number of Cubans doggedly protesting the ruling communist regime may represent the best chance in decades to topple the island nation’s authoritarian leadership, a significant feat that experts say could have far-reaching implications on the scale of 1989’s fall of the Berlin Wall. Faced with food, water, and medicine shortages, and … Continued
China has rejected the next stage of a World Health Organization-led probe into the origins of Covid-19 because investigators intend to treat the theory that it may have leaked from a Wuhan lab as plausible. Zeng Yixin, vice-minister of the National Health Commission, told journalists at a press conference on Thursday that he had been … Continued
Moscow was seen taking a radical new course on Israel’s air strikes over Syria after the raid near Aleppo early Tuesday, July 20. First, its military for the first time revealed details of the Israeli raid and claimed as never before that Russian-made systems downed “seven of eight guided missiles.” Second, the disclosure came from … Continued
A top Chinese official lashed out Thursday at plans for a second-phase study of whether the coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan instead of developing in nature. “The plan disregards common sense and defies science,” Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the Chinese National Health Commission, said at a press conference in Beijing. A … Continued
An international group of lawmakers has issued a statement to denounce the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) human rights atrocities on the eve of the 22nd year of the persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong in China. “Twenty-two years ago, the Chinese Communist Party began a campaign of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners,” the cross-party Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) stated … Continued
When Toyota Motor Corp. said this week it wouldn’t run any ads in Japan tied to the Olympics, it sent a message louder than any TV commercial about the host nation’s grim mood. Toyota is Japan’s most valuable company and a global Olympics sponsor, the top rank shared by only 13 others world-wide. The Olympics … Continued
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) reported this past weekend that a man had died from the rare Monkey B virus (BV). The virus, which is also referred to as “Macacine alphaherpesvirus 1” by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, comes from monkeys of the genus Macaca and is generally transmitted … Continued
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the head of Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Unilever, Tuesday that the ice cream maker’s move to halt sales in “the Occupied Palestinian Territory” could carry “severe consequences.” “Prime Minister Bennett spoke with Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever which owns Ben & Jerry’s and made it clear that he … Continued
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