Kabul terrorist attack highlights Bidens’s Afghanistan dilemmas

Kabul terrorist attack highlights Bidens’s Afghanistan dilemmas

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 dayss

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

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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Faucis’s new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democratss

Faucis’s new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democratss

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 spats: Russian Olympic Committee hits back after US swimmer questions whether gold medal winner was s’100s% cleans’

Doping spats: Russian Olympic Committee hits back after US swimmer questions whether gold medal winner was s’100s% cleans’

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 thems

Why Olympians bite their medals and what they do with thems

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 s’the twistiess’: How fear affects the mental health and physical safety of gymnastss

Simone Biles and s’the twistiess’: How fear affects the mental health and physical safety of gymnastss

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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Death toll rises as passengers recount horror of China subway floodss

Death toll rises as passengers recount horror of China subway floodss

Death toll rises as passengers recount horror of China subway floods

 

At least 33 people have died and eight remain missing in central China, as authorities ramp up rescue and recovery efforts following devastating floods that submerged entire neighborhoods, trapped passengers in subway cars, caused landslides and overwhelmed dams and rivers.

Torrential rains have battered Henan province since last weekend, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and causing 1.22 billion yuan (about $190 million) of economic damage,
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The Milwaukee Bucks are NBA champions for the first time in 50 years as Antetokounmpo scores 50 pointss

The Milwaukee Bucks are NBA champions for the first time in 50 years as Antetokounmpo scores 50 pointss

The Milwaukee Bucks are NBA champions for the first time in 50 years as Antetokounmpo scores 50 points

 

 

With the Milwaukee Bucks seeking their first NBA championship in 50 years, their superstar guided the way, putting up 50 points in a legendary NBA Finals-clinching win Tuesday night against the Phoenix Suns.

Led by MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, who also had 14 rebounds and five blocked shots,

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A Pacific islands’s Covid-19 crisis has become a political power play between China and Australias

A Pacific islands’s Covid-19 crisis has become a political power play between China and Australias

A Pacific island’s Covid-19 crisis has become a political power play between China and Australia

 

 

China and Australia have found another battleground for their deepening diplomatic standoff: the Pacific Islands’ pandemic response.

Canberra has hit back at Beijing’s claims it is derailing the rollout of Chinese vaccines in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the most-populous Pacific island nation. “We support Papua New Guinea making sovereign decisions,”
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1300 people assumed missing in one German district after deadly floods hit Western Europes

1300 people assumed missing in one German district after deadly floods hit Western Europes

1300 people assumed missing in one German district after deadly floods hit Western Europe

 

About 1,300 people remain unaccounted for in Germany after the heaviest rainfall in a century caused deadly flash floods to devastate parts of Western Europe, prompting a large-scale rescue effort.

Fast moving torrents of water inundated entire towns and villages in western and southern Germany, causing buildings to collapse and leaving residents stranded,

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