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August 7, 2022
Commonwealth Games: PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen in finals
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Birmingham: India’s Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu in the Commonwealth Games badminton men’s and women’s singles finals. Lakshya Sen defeated Singapore’s Jason Teh and Sindhu defeated Singapore’s Yeo Jia Min in the semi-finals.
Lakshya Sen, who played aggressively from the start, won the first set but Jason regained the second set. But the third set saw a brilliant comeback from Lakshya Sen. Lakshya Sen took the target without giving the Singapore player a chance. Score – 21-19,18-21,21-16.
However, PV Sindhu won without giving any chance to her opponent. Sindhu won the first two sets and entered the final with ease. Score- 21-19,21-17. He will face Canadian Michelle Lee in the final.
India continues its medal haul at the Commonwealth Games. Malayali player Eldos Paul won gold in triple jump. Abdullah Abubakar also won silver in the same event. With this, India’s gold medal tally has become 16. Eldos Paul’s gold win was unexpected. In the final, Eldos won the gold by jumping 17.03 meters in his third attempt. Eldos Paul is the first Malayali to win gold in the Commonwealth Triple Jump. Abdullah Abubakar, who was hoping for gold, gave the country silver right following. Abdullah jumped a distance of 17.02 meters.
Earlier, Amit Pankal and Neetu Ganghas won gold in boxing. In the women’s category, Neetu Ganghas and Amit Pankal won gold for the country today. Last day, India won three gold medals in wrestling. With this, India’s total gold wins have reached 17, including seven from wrestling.
In the women’s 45 kg category, Neetu won today’s first gold by defeating demi Jade Reston of England. Soon following, Amit Pankal also won gold in the men’s 51 kg category by beating another Englishman, Kieran Macdonald. This is Neetu’s first major medal in the senior category. Before this, Neetu had won gold twice in the Youth World Championship. Amit Pankal is an Asian Games gold medalist before this. He has also won silver in the World Championships.
India has improved its position in the medal table. India is currently at the fifth position with 44 medals including 16 gold, 11 silver and 16 bronze. With 155 medals, including 59 gold, Australia continues to climb in the first place. England is closely behind with 153 medals, including 50 gold. Other countries ahead of India are Canada with 84 medals including 22 gold and New Zealand with 44 medals including 17 gold.
A shocking statement from a famous Egyptian artist regarding the slaughter of “Nira Ashraf”… and reveals the secret of her sympathy with the killer!
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Al-Marsad newspaper: Actress Houria Farghali commented on the case of Naira Ashraf, expressing her sympathy with the killer, as he is an experienced and very young talk, according to Cairo 24.
She added: “I sympathized with Naira’s killer, as I sympathized with her, and the boy was difficult for me, because he is very young and has no experience, and he believes every need, and his love is very much, and blind jealousy is jealous of her, and in a man who does not change; The kind of me that no one laughs at me, and I do not like this happen to me.”
And she continued, “They were friends, and he helped her study, and he began to love her before she was a model because he loved her for her person, so she began to change her way with him, and I heard a message from the messages that spread and she said to him: I found one better than you, and in a man when you hear this talk; he delivers They are subject to murder,” according to the “Cairo 24” website.
And she concluded: “And the boy said this in court, and he did not even try to lie or beautify what he did, and many men would be sick with the disease of jealousy, but he also did not lead to murder with this view.”
China completes massive military maneuvers around Taiwan
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Published on : 07/08/2022 – 13:53
China was set to wrap up its biggest-ever military maneuvers around Taiwan on Sunday, an angry reaction to a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The show of force is coming to an end: China was closing on Sunday August 7 its largest military maneuvers ever conducted around Taiwanan angry reaction to visit by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on the island that has plunges relations between Beijing and Washington lowest in years.
U.S. number three Nancy Pelosi sparked China’s fury with her visit Tuesday and Wednesday, the largest by an American lawmaker to Taiwan in 25 years. Beijing reacted by suspending a series of Sino-American bilateral talks and cooperation, including on climate change and defence.
The Chinese military has also launched the largest military exercises in its history, deploying fighter jets, warships and ballistic missiles in what analysts consider a mock blockade and invasion of Taiwan.
On Sunday, it conducted “joint practical exercises at sea and in the airspace surrounding the island of Taiwan, as planned”, said the Chinese army’s Eastern Command, which oversees the country’s eastern maritime space – and therefore Taiwan.
These exercises were intended to “test joint firepower in the field and long-range air strike capabilities”, he added.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense confirmed that China had deployed “planes, ships and drones” around the strait, “to simulate attacks on the main island of Taiwan and on boats in our waters”.
Other “live fire” exercises planned
These vast maneuvers were to be completed at midday, even if Beijing intends to conduct new “live fire” exercises until August 15 in the Yellow Sea which separates China from the Korean peninsula.
Taiwan’s transport ministry said that as of noon, six of the seven “temporary danger zones” that China had asked airlines to avoid had returned to normal, a sign that the drills were coming to an end.
“The flights and navigations concerned may gradually resume,” he said in a statement.
The seventh zone, located in waters east of Taiwan, will remain to be avoided until Monday 10 a.m. (2 a.m. GMT), according to the same source.
On the Chinese side, the Ministry of Defense did not respond to a request for confirmation of the end of the maneuvers.
To prove how close it had come to the Taiwanese coast, the Chinese army on Saturday published a photo it said it took from one of its military ships, showing a Taiwanese navy building just a few hundred meters away. . This shot may be the closest to the Taiwanese coastline ever taken by mainland Chinese forces.
The Chinese military has also released video of one of its fighter pilots showing the coastline and mountains of Taiwan from its cockpit in full flight.
According to Chinese state television CCTV, missiles flew over Taiwan this week during exercises around the island – which would be a first.
Taipei has consistently condemned the moves in recent days, lambasting its “malicious neighbour” and calling on Beijing on Saturday to “immediately stop raising tension and carrying out provocative actions aimed at intimidating the Taiwanese people”.
A warning from Beijing
Several experts explained to AFP that these exercises served as a warning: the Chinese army now seems able to conduct a total blockade of the island and prevent American forces from coming to its aid.
“In some areas, its capabilities may even exceed those of the United States,” notes Grant Newsham, a former US Navy officer and researcher at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies.
“If a (future) battle is confined to an area directly around Taiwan, then the Chinese navy will be a strong opponent. And if… the Americans and the Japanese do not intervene, things will be very difficult for Taiwan.”
The scale of the maneuvers and Beijing’s decision to withdraw from crucial bilateral climate and defense dialogues have triggered a shower of condemnation from the United States and its allies.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced Saturday in Manila the “total disproportion” of the Chinese reaction.
China should not “hostage” talks on issues such as climate change because it “doesn’t punish the United States, but the whole world”, he added.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that “it is impossible to solve the world’s most pressing problems without effective dialogue and cooperation between the two countries”, according to his spokesperson.
With AFP