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SEOUL — Policymakers should defy more and more efficient and complex Chinese disinformation efforts if they're to get a sensible grasp of the problems and preserve East Asia’s scorching spots from exploding into warfare. Amid an intensifying China-U.S. battle for affect raging throughout a number of domain...

Police in Delhi had been concerned in scuffles with Indian Olympic wrestlers at a #MeToo protest within the Indian capital metropolis.The wrestlers allege they had been assaulted and abused by police on Wednesday night time after they tried to usher in folding beds to their sit-in protest, the place they're demonstrating towards the president of the wrestling federation after he was accused of sexual assault. They have been tenting within the open for the final 12 days and heavy rain had flooded their protest website.Female wrestlers alleged there have been no feminine officers and that they had been assaulted by policemen, together with one who was drunk.Delhi Police has denied the allegations, saying no power was used and 5 police personnel had been injured within the scuff...

AIGLE, Switzerland — The International Cycling Union will assessment its guidelines regulating transgender athletes and expects to make a contemporary choice in August, the governing physique of the game mentioned Thursday. The UCI mentioned it might “analyze the current situation” with out referring to th...

Two folks have been killed and several other others have been handled for shock after a practice crash close to the western German metropolis of Cologne. The practice is known to have crashed into a bunch of people that had been engaged on the tracks close to the city of Huerth at round 11am native time, the German information company dpa reported. Emergency staff, police and psychologists attended the scene and the route was closed to additional practice visitors.Five folks skilled psychological trauma after witnessing two of their colleagues being hit and killed, dpa reported.A police spokesperson mentioned a number of folks had been additionally injured, although officers couldn't give an actual quantity. Image: A big contingent...

PANAJI, India — Russia is unlikely to face backlash over its conflict in Ukraine at an upcoming assembly of Central Asian overseas ministers and as a substitute may flex its affect with the regional group. The assembly of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ministers Friday in India’s picturesque state o...

Former US president Donald Trump has described his civil rape trial as a "political attack", based mostly on the "false accusations" of a lady he describes as "a fake".He repeated his denials of the costs of rape and defamation by writer E Jean Carroll, as he performed golf at his Trump Doonbeg resort in Ireland's Co Clare. Asked by Sky News if he would attend the rape trial, which he has to not date, Trump replied: "I will probably attend [the trial] and I think it's a disgrace that it's allowed to happen, false accusations against a rich guy, or in my case against a famous, rich and political person."Carroll, 79, says Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman division retailer dressing room within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, after which defamed her by mendacity about it on-line....

GENEVA — The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. well being company to China two years in the past to collectively look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO aspect of ...

Russia has accused the US of being behind what it claims was a drone assault on the Kremlin - lower than a day after it alleged Ukraine was accountable.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Russia is aware of the US is deciding on targets and Ukraine is simply finishing up Washington's plans. "Attempts to disown this, both in Kyiv and in Washington, are of course, absolutely ridiculous," he mentioned."We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv but in Washington."He didn't present any proof of this. The assault on the house of Russian President Vladimir Putin occurred within the early hours of Wednesday, prompting Putin responsible Ukraine for what he mentioned was a "terrorist act".Ukraine battle newest: US 'und...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has closed its airspace to flights by Armenian plane in retaliation for the erection of a monument within the Armenian capital that Ankara says honors folks answerable for the killings of Turkish officers, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu mentioned Wednesday. In an interview with N...

A person has died after he was put right into a chokehold throughout a confrontation on a New York City subway practice.Jordan Neely's dying was dominated a murder by the town's health worker on Wednesday, who stated he died from compression of the neck.The homeless 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator had been yelling he was hungry and able to die on a practice in Manhattan, witnesses and police stated, when he was restrained by no less than three different passengers.The incident, which occurred at round 2.27pm on Monday, was filmed by a contract journalist and posted on-line.It confirmed a person mendacity beneath Mr Neely - a veteran Marine - holding him in a headlock place for a number of minutes as he tried and failed to interrupt free.A second passenger pinned Mr N...