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The Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony — live blog
The postponed 2020 Olympic Games officially start in front of empty stands due to the COVID-19 situation in Japan. Join us for all the updates! SOURCE: DW News
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Pegasus spyware: Mexico one of the biggest targets
It was Saturday afternoon when Marcela Turati discovered that she was one of the 25 journalists in Mexico who had been allegedly targeted by Pegasus spyware technology, just hours before an international network of researchers released information about the surveillance project that sent shockwaves around the world. At first, Turati was stunned and couldn’t believe it — but it soon…
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Tokyo 2020: Germany’s men’s football team outclassed by Brazil
The repeat of the 2016 Rio Olympics final saw Stefan Kuntz’s players suffer a defeat to a Brazil team that looked dominant from the opening kickoff. Captain Maxi Arnold was sent off for a second bookable offense. SOURCE: DW News
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Tokyo 2020: Germany among nations to have gender-balanced flag bearers
For the first time, two flag bearers, one man, one woman, will carry the German flag in the March of Nations at the Olympic Games. While not compulsory, it’s a change that is being encouraged by the IOC: SOURCE: DW News
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Egypt: ‘Facebook Girl’ may be free, but oppression remains rife
This week’s Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha, brought great news to around 40 detainees in Cairo’s prisons: that they were free to go. Among them were three popular journalists and three human rights activists. However, these releases don’t yet mean they have been acquitted: All 40 still have to appear in court at trials slated for at some time later this…
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Thailand: Critics fear crackdown under COVID emergency powers
Repeated extensions of Thailand’s emergency legislation have granted Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha sweeping powers to curb the spread of COVID-19, but critics have warned that these present a risk to civil liberties. “The emergency decree… has granted the prime minister broad powers… and has threatened the right to freedom of expression and access to information which is an integral component…
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Poland and Hungary lash back against EU rule of law report
Bad faith, blackmail, political attack, double standards: Such were the terms used in reactions from government politicians in Poland and Hungary after the European Union presented its second report on the state of the rule of law in EU member states in Brussels on Tuesday, July 20. The report describes the situation in Poland and Hungary in particular as highly…
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The EU declares war on money laundering
“The rules we have in place to prevent money laundering are among the toughest in the world,” said the vice president of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, “but they must also now be systematically applied.” There hasn’t been enough of this in recent years. In practice, many EU member states don’t actually implement the rules or are simply too lax…
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News+++Tanzania arrests opposition leader+++Fighting domestic violence in Niger+++Kidnapped Nigerians freed+++Slow Niger Delta clean up angers locals+++Sexual harassment on Rwanda’s mines+++Veritcal farming grows in Kenya SOURCE: DW News
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Nigeria cracks down on separatists as security issues mount in the north
Activist Sunday Adeyemo, known popularly in Nigeria as Sunday Igboho, was arrested in neighboring Benin on Monday evening, according to media reports. He was about to take a flight to Germany at the time. A senior Benin police official confirmed the arrest, saying Igboho “will be extradited to Nigeria as soon as the two countries have agreed on conditions.” It…
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Tokyo Olympics unable to heal Japan-South Korea rift
Hopes that Japan and South Korea might finally be able to build new bridges through a summit of their leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo Olympic Games have been dashed after Seoul announced that President Moon Jae-in would not be going to the opening ceremony on Friday. The northeast Asian neighbors have long been at loggerheads over differing interpretations…
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Tokyo 2020: IOC claims Games to be gender-balanced, but equality is not so simple
Tokyo will be the most gender-balanced Olympics yet, but the participation of women in sports is not evenly distributed throughout the globe. In which countries are women more likely to succeed in elite-level sports? SOURCE: DW News
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‘We’re not all bad:’ Football ultras supporting Germany flooding-aid efforts
In the wake of the floods in Germany, help has been arriving. In addition to the emergency services, local aid organizations and other volunteers, football fans have been using their organizational abilities to help out. SOURCE: DW News
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Ethiopia: Fear Tigray conflict could trigger all-out war
Special forces and militias from a number of Ethiopia’s regions are mobilizing to back the federal government’s military operations in Tigray, signaling a widening of the conflict. Regular forces from Amhara — a large region abutting the south of Tigray — have been fighting alongside federal troops ever since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched the military offensive in Tigray…
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President Pedro Castillo has radical plans for Peru
Only one road leads to Puna. The village in Tacabamba District consists of two dozen houses scattered around a few fields and paths — and a school where Jose Pedro Castillo Terrones taught until 2017. From here it takes a whole day to travel to the regional capital, Cajamarca, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) away. Born in Tacabamba in 1969,…
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Thailand News Today | Foodpanda boycott? Airlines self-grounding, 32K Covid cases per day? | July 20
Foodpanda is facing a public backlash and calls for a boycott after they said they planned to fire a rider who they branded a terrorist. Asia Aviation, the largest shareholder in Thai AirAsia, says the latest partial lockdown is critically threatening their financial status, with no government aid on the horizon, or even being discussed. Empty or unused school buildings…
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Tokyo 2020: Major sponsor Toyota distances itself from Olympic Games
Japanese carmaker Toyota has announced it will not run Olympics-related TV commercials during the Tokyo Games. The decision underlines how polarizing the Olympics have become in Japan as COVID-19 infections rise. SOURCE: DW News
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Commercial space cowboys reach for the stars
In the wake of NASA’s Apollo and space shuttle missions, it seemed that the halcyon days of space exploration had had their run. Interest waned and many people no longer saw the point. More recently, however, interest has been piqued again, not least by the myriad of international missions to Mars. The latest craze is commercial space tourism as offered…
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Tokyo 2020: Nigeria pinning basketball hopes on American diaspora
Nigeria are potential Olympic medal candidates with a basketball team made up mainly of US-based players. But some question whether relying on the diaspora is a sustainable long-term model for basketball in the country. SOURCE: DW News
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Czech gold for future generations?
Jilove u Prahy is a picturesque town with almost 5,000 inhabitants and a great many historical monuments. This region, along the River Sazava, a tributary of the Vltava near Prague, is a popular recreational area for citizens of the Czech capital. In the 14th century, Jilove u Prahy was the third-most-important town in the kingdom of Bohemia, after Prague and…
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Tokyo 2020: ‘Zero fairness’ in Olympic Games preparation
For athletes gearing up for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, preparation has been anything but easy. But there have been huge discrepancies from sport to sport and country to country, and fairness has gone out the window. SOURCE: DW News
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Racist abuse sees Germany’s men’s football team walk off in pre-Olympics friendly
Germany’s men’s Olympic football team walked off during a pre-tournament friendly against Honduras five minutes from time due to alleged racist abuse. Centre-back Jordan Torunarigha was the target of the insults. SOURCE: DW News
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Ramaphosa vows army will return order to South Africa+++ Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is in Burundi for a two-day State visit+++ UN Population Award goes to Niger policewoman SOURCE: DW News
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Getting paid to play — Kenya’s esports boom
The future of professional sports in Kenya — from where some of the world’s top athletic performers originate — is still rather uncertain in the face of the COVID pandemic. Athletes preparing for the Tokyo Olympics, or anyone wanting to get out and exercise, have had to make do with alternative spaces as coronavirus measures put many gyms and stadiums…
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EU left behind as US pushes ‘vaccine diplomacy’ in Southeast Asia
The European Union’s international vaccine drive runs the risk of falling behind other major international powers, especially in Southeast Asia, where the United States is ramping up their vaccine-donation programs to compete with China’s contributions. US President Joe Biden pledged in May to donate 80 million vaccines worldwide from America’s domestic-supply, of which approximately 75% will be shared through the…
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A battle for sacred lands as nature wins new rights
In Uganda’s Albertine Rift, an immense network of grasslands and mountains that supports great biodiversity, two energy giants are preparing to extract the largest onshore oil deposit in sub-Saharan Africa. SOURCE: DW News
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Olympic Games: After doping scandal, Russian athletes take Tchaikovsky to Tokyo
The Olympic Games in Tokyo will be a new experience for Russian athletes competing under a neutral flag. The country’s doping scandal has cast a shadow over their preparations – and will continue to do so in Japan. SOURCE: DW News
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Vaccines are latest regional power play in the Middle East
Last week, Egypt announced that it had successfully manufactured its first million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. It’s an important step for Egypt’s 104 million people, of whom only about 1% are fully vaccinated. But it could also be seen as progress toward the country’s foreign policy goals, as vaccine diplomacy gathers pace in the Middle East. Vaccine diplomacy refers…
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Why is India deploying female soldiers to Kashmir?
India deployed female soldiers to the restive Indian-administered Kashmir for the first time, in a bid to improve local relations and promote gender equality within the ranks of its paramilitary. However, the efforts have drawn widespread criticism and questions over how effective the move is, both in strengthening ties with local women and improving gender equality within the armed forces.…
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Naomi Osaka: Netflix, nationalism and marketing at the Tokyo Olympics
A month has passed since Naomi Osaka withdrew from the public eye citing depression. The 23-year-old tennis star is set to return to the court at the Olympic Games in Tokyo – and her marketing company is in overdrive. SOURCE: DW News
