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Google Celebrates Olympics With An Entire JRPG

Kotaku 2021-07-23
photo: Creative Commons / Marcin Wichary
Today isn’t the first time a Google Doodle has been a game, but this is surely the most intricate so far. This Friday morning, if you open a new Chrome page or begin a search, you can click on a pixel-art icon that starts an Olympic-themed JRPG, complete with anime sequences by Studio 4°C, played...

Biden's belief that Putin is conspiring with China to take down democracy betrays his complete ignorance of Russia's own politics

Russia Today 2021-07-23
photo: AP / Patrick Semansky
Russia and China are betting that autocracy will beat democracy. That’s according to US President Joe Biden. But apart from generating headlines, his explosive claim seems to have little to do with the reality in either country. Not only is lumping the two states together a mistake, so too is the...

Cop26: Glasgow warns poor must not be hit hard by climate action

The National 2021-07-23
photo: AP / Salvatore Laporta
Glasgow, the host city of the Cop26 climate change summit, has told leaders that efforts to stop global warming will fail unless the world's poorest see the benefits of such policies. The plea comes as protesters are set to converge on Parliament Square in central London on Friday, urging Prime...

G20 environment ministers' summit kicks off in Italy

Anadolu Agency 2021-07-23
photo: AP / Salvatore Laporta
A meeting of the environment and energy ministers of the Group of 20 rich nations began Thursday in Naples hosted by Italy, the rotating president of the G20. The ministers, along with representatives of relevant organizations, met at the historic Royal Palace of Naples to hold discussions and seek...

US no more 'only big kid' in geopolitics, CIA may now deploy 'China specialists': Director

Hindustan Times 2021-07-23
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China is the biggest geopolitical challenge to the US in the 21st century, the CIA director said, adding that the technology sector is the biggest area of competition between the two countries. PUBLISHED ON JUL 23, 2021 07:41 AM IST The United States has to come to terms with the fact that it is no...

U.S., Japan, S. Korea reproclaim close ties

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 2021-07-22
photo: Creative Commons / Chad J. McNeeley
TOKYO -- The U.S., Japan and South Korea on Wednesday reaffirmed their commitment to work together on North Korea's denuclearization and other regional threats but made no progress in bringing closer together the two U.S. allies. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who held talks in Tokyo...

China thanks Taiwan president, indirectly, for concern over floods

Yahoo Daily News 2021-07-22
photo: Creative Commons / KOKUYO
Read full article 22 July 2021, 6:09 am·1-min read Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen attends the launch of the first of a new generation of coast guard patrol ships in Kaohsiung, BEIJING (Reuters) - China's government on Thursday offered an indirect thank you to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen...

Battle for power in Haiti extends to lobbying in Washington

Indian Express 2021-07-22
photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery
Written by Kenneth P. Vogel and Natalie Kitroeff The struggle for power in Haiti after the assassination of the country’s president has spilled onto K Street, where rival Haitian politicians, business leaders and interest groups are turning to lobbyists to wage an expensive and escalating proxy...

Peru arrests state hospital workers for charging COVID-19 patients $21,000 per bed

Reuters 2021-07-22
photo: Creative Commons / Galería de fotografías del Ministerio de Defensa
LIMA, July 21 (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Wednesday they had dismantled an alleged criminal ring that had charged as much $21,000 per bed for seriously ill COVID-19 patients in a state-run hospital, aggravating care in a country hit by one of the world's deadliest outbreaks of the...

Six times Fauci and Rand Paul clashed in hearings

The Hill 2021-07-21
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite, Pool
Anthony Fauci, the country's leading infectious diseases expert and chief medical adviser to President Biden, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), an ophthalmologist and member of the Senate Health Committee, have frequently clashed in hearings throughout the coronavirus pandemic. In the latest tense...

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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to reporters as he leaves the hospital after recovering from an intestinal obstruction in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, July 18, 2021.

Brazilians fear Bolsonaro is preparing for military coup

Irish Independent 2021-07-24
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Police stand in front of the Town Hall as protesters gather in Sydney, Saturday, June 13, 2020, during a day of demonstrations across Australia in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and refugee rights

Thousands protest lockdown in Sydney, several arrested

Star Telegram 2021-07-24
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File - Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones.

Stonehenge could lose world heritage status following Liverpool

The Independent 2021-07-24
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Search and rescue personnel remove remains on a stretcher as they work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building where scores of people remain missing more than a week after it partially collapsed, Friday, July 2, 2021, in Surfside

Miami tower collapse: No sign of final victim as search ends

RNZ 2021-07-24

Nature

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Orca in body of water

Baby orca dies in New Zealand after fruitless search for mother

Gulf News 2021-07-24
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File - A burnt out tree stands where an entire forest used to in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The land has been destroyed by poor farming practices, illegal logging and fires, resulting in significant greenhouse gas emissions.

The state of the forests, deforestation, and what we can do about it

WorldNews.com 2021-07-23
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In this undated photo provided by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Hardy Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef, is viewed from the air off the coast of Australia

Australia avoids UNESCO downgrade of Great Barrier Reef

Wtop 2021-07-23
photo: AP / Ilya Timin
The scene of a forest fire in Pryazhinsky District of the Republic of Karelia, about 700 km (438 miles) south-west of Moscow, Russia on Wednesday, July 21, 2021.

Russia battles with ‘catastrophic’ wildfires as scrutiny turns to lack of fire defence funding

The Independent 2021-07-23

Sport

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Polish professional tennis player Iga Swiatek

Olympics-Tennis-Swiatek makes fast start as players struggle in Tokyo heat

Metro USA 2021-07-24
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Fireworks illuminate the sky over the Olympic Stadium as the Olympic Cauldron is lit at the end of the opening ceremony in at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.

The COVID Olympics get underway

Columbia Journalism Review 2021-07-23
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An athlete returns the ball during a table tennis training session at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo 2020: 12-year-old Syrian, Hend Zaza makes history as youngest athlete at Olympic Games

The Independent 2021-07-22
photo: Creative Commons / Arturo Pardavila III from Hoboken
Max Kepler Spring 2016

Max Kepler’s homer powers Twins past White Sox, 7-2

Fox Sports 2021-07-22

Gaming

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Katie Ledecky after the women's 800-meter freestyle during wave 2 of the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Omaha, Neb.

Ledecky getting better and better - US swim coach

Supersport 2021-07-22
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Jill Biden stops in Alaska en route to Olympics

Artesia Daily Press 2021-07-22
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016

World record for most expensive video game auction is now $870,000

Ars Technica 2021-07-09
photo: AP / Jeff Roberson
Simone Biles competes in the floor exercise during the women's U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials Sunday, June 27, 2021, in St. Louis.

Simone Biles secures spot on United States Gymnastics team for next month's Tokyo Olympics

CNN 2021-06-28

Health

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File - Tibetans take a yak butter tea break in Tibet along the Friendship Highway under a glacier. The Tibetan plateau has lost nearly 25% of its ice since the 1970s.

Viruses over 15,000 years old found in melting Tibetan glacier

The Independent 2021-07-23
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Lt. Cmdr. Howard Pryor, a Navy doctor, makes an incision into an epidermal inclusion cyst on the head of a patient in the surgery room of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

AI breakthrough will 'transform' biology

BBC News 2021-07-22
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Chickens-chicken-livestock-bird flu (sl1)

India probes its first human death from bird flu

News24 2021-07-22
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Close-up of monkeypox lesions on the arm and leg of a female child

More than 200 contacts tracked in US for rare monkeypox disease

London Evening Standard 2021-07-22

Science

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File - This image shows the globular cluster NGC 6380, which lies around 35 000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio (The Scorpion).

Can we really move heavy industry to space to solve the climate crisis, as Jeff has suggested?

The Independent 2021-07-22
photo: Creative Commons / Reimund Bertrams
Earth - Planet - Asteroid.

A giant asteroid is heading towards the Earth: All you need to know

Yahoo Daily News 2021-07-22
photo: Creative Commons / Bhupinder Nayyar
Facebook logo

Facebook decided faith groups are good for business. Now, it wants your prayers

Canada Dot Com 2021-07-22
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File - A light-colored “paver stone,” like the ones seen in this mosaic image, will be the likely target for first sampling by the Perseverance rover. This image was taken July 8, 2021, in the “Cratered Floor Fractured Rough” geologic unit at Jezero Crater.

Mars rover: Nasa's Perseverance prepares to drill first rock sample

BBC News 2021-07-21

Business

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Chevrolet Bolt EV rear badge

GM issues new recall for nearly 69,000 Bolt EVs for fire risks

Yahoo Daily News 2021-07-23
photo: AP / Richard Drew
The Wall Street sign is juxtaposed against the sculpture on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Oct. 3, 2008. Stocks surged while credit markets remained strained Friday ahead of an expected House vote on the government's $700 billion financial rescue plan and after Wells Fargo Co. agreed to buy Wachovia Corp. in a $15.1 billion d

Asian markets mixed after modest gains on Wall St

The Argus Press 2021-07-23
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Wall Street sign

Wall Street inches higher in pivot back to growth stocks

Reuters 2021-07-23
photo: European Community / Xavier Lejeune
Computer screens displaying an illustration on cybersecurity

Major websites hit by global outage

FBC News 2021-07-22

Coronavirus

photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
In this file photo dated Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, a worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital where Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, worked in Wuhan in central China

'Not a blame game': WHO urges collaboration after Beijing rejects proposed second probe into Covid-19 origins

Russia Today 2021-07-23
photo: AP / Rod McGuirk
Australia's Treasurer Scott Morrison addresses reporters outside Parliament House in Canberra

Sydney outbreak a 'national emergency' as cases spike

The Jakarta Post 2021-07-23
photo: US DoD / Lisa Ferdinando
File - Army Cpt. Isaiah Horton, a doctor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, receives a COVID-19 vaccination, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2020.

Wuhan virus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

BBC News 2021-07-23
photo: John Davisson/Invision/AP
File - In this April 27, 2014 file photo, Eric Clapton performs at the 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans.

Eric Clapton says he will not play venues that require proof of vaccination

NME 2021-07-22