Sports Juggernaut in the Making, China Throws Down the Gauntlet

“A group of people came to gather up oil and they weren’t supposed to be there,” the disaster agency said in a statement. At least five homes were gutted by the fire, the agency said. Firefighters and other emergency personnel, along with villagers, were still trying to contain the blaze on Wednesday evening. Indonesia’s Ministry…

The Argentine Ministry of Health this Thursday confirmed 12,701 new positives of COVID-19, which are already accumulating a total of 2001,713 cases, almost 200 days after the first positive diagnosis on March 3 in Buenos Aires, when a neighbor of the city arrived on the country after passing through Italy. Health officials added another 345…

Mr. Bramhall was subsequently suspended from his position as a consultant surgeon at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth hospital in 2013. He resigned a year later, and said his act had been a mistake. Joyce Robins, who represented Patient Concern, a campaign group, was quoted by The Guardian as saying at the time: “This is a patient…

Image copyrightEPA An extra 300 Met Police officers are being deployed in areas of London worst affected by a spate of violent crime. Six people have been killed in shootings and stabbings in the capital in the past seven days. Commissioner Cressida Dick denied her officers had lost control of the streets as calls were…

The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, denied on Friday that there are political prisoners in the country and has announced that he will await the referendum on the new constitution in 2022.

SHANGHAI — China’s financial hub of Shanghai will limit its population to 25 million people by 2035 as part of a quest to manage “big city disease”, the cabinet has said. The State Council said on its website late on Monday the goal to control the size of the city was part of Shanghai’s masterplan…