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Beijing mdash; A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior. A new Chinese champion mdash; from California. An ace American skier who faltered and went home empty-handed. The end of the Olympic line for the world s most renowned snowboarder. All inside an anti-COVID closed loop enforced by China s authoritarian government.The terrarium of a Winter Games that has been Beijing 2022 came to its end Sunday, capping an unprecedented Asian Olympic trifecta and sending th yeezy slide e planet s most global sporting event off to the West for the foreseeable future, with no chance of returning to this corner of the world until at least 2030.It was weird. It was messy and, at the same time, somehow sterile. It was controlled and calibrated in ways only Xi Jinping s China could pull off. And it was sequestered in a bubble that kept participants and the city around them mdash; and, by extension, the sporadically watching world mdash; at arm s length.On Sunday night, Xi and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach stood together as Beijing handed off to Milan-Cortina, site of the 2026 Winter Games. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star kicked off a notably Western-flavored show with Chinese characteristics as dan adidas campus femme cers with tiny, fiery snowflakes glided across the stadium in a ceremony that adidas samba , like the opening, was headed by Chinese director Zhang Yimou.Unlike the first pandemic Olympics in Tokyo last summer, which featured all but empty seats at the opening and closing, a Mtoz 2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year winners revealed
Benjamin Netanyahu has swept the race for leader of Israel s hardline Likud Party, Likud executive director Gad Arieli said late Tuesday, citing interim results.The partial tally gave 75 percent of the vote to Netanyahu and 20 percent to far-right West Bank settler Moshe Feiglin. A third candidate, World Likud Chairman Danny Danon, took 5 percent.Final results were expected early Wednesday.Netanyahu has soared in the polls since last summer s inconclusive Lebanon war, reports CBS News correspondent Robert Berger, while Prime Minister Ehud Olmert s popularity has plunged. If Olmert s fragile government collapses, early elections could take place next year.Meanwhile, Israeli troops and aircraft attacked Islamic militants in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, killing two Hamas fighters and two civilians and wounding 15 people, Hamas and Palestinian medical officials said. Hamas said one of its stanley flask men died in a stanley mug pre-dawn air strike, east of the town of Khan Younis, and a second was killed along with his 70-year-old mother when ground troops fired at their house.An Israeli army statement sai stanley termoska d that in an operation against terror threats from the southern Gaza Strip, forces fired at armed militants in four separate incidents and hit the targets on each occasion. A spokesman said aircraft carried out three attacks and ground forces shot a gunman posing a threat to soldiers.Berger reports the Israeli Army said the operation was aimed at preventing Palestinian rocket fire and findi
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BEIRUT President Bashar Assad s forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where adidas originals the opposition said a chemical weapons attack the day before killed between 100 and 1,300 people.The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday as absolutely baseless. The United States, Britain and France have demanded that a team of U.N. experts already in Syria be granted immediate access to investigate the site.After a hastily called meeting on Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council called for a thorough, impartial and prompt investigation into the latest allegations of chemical weapons use in the raging conflict. adidas campus Syrian rebels say hundreds killed in gas attack 03:17 Syrian opposition figures and activists have reported widely varying death tolls from Wednesday s attack, from 136 to as high as 1,300. But even the most conservative tally would make it the deadliest alleged chemical attack in Syria s civil war.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had no word on casualties in the Thursday morning bombing of eastern Ghouta. It said Syrian warplanes conducted several air raids on eastern and western suburbs o adidas samba adidas f Damascus, including three that took pl Ephw Mexico Judge OKs Producer s Arrest in Death
Peru s attorney general filed homicide charges against disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori Wednesday in connection with two state-sponsored massacres in the early 1990s, a statement said.Prosecutors allege that the now-exiled Fujimori co-authored the two massacres and knew in detail the operations of the paramilitary death squad known as the Colina group, the attorney general s office statement said.The Colina group is accused of gunning down 15 people in 1991 during a barbecue at a Lima tenement building. Some of the paramilitary group s members were convicted in the kidnapping and murder of nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University in 1992.Prosecutors also are accusing Fujimori of the murder of former intelligence agent Mariela Barreto, whose dismembered and decapitated body was found in March 1997, the statement said.Congress paved the way for the charges Aug. 27 by lifting the constitutional immunity of Fujimori, who has been in his parents native Japan since November when his 10-year rule co stanley us llapsed in a growing corruption scandal. The homicide and forc gourde stanley ed disappearance charges, which Peruvian officials say constitute crimes against humanity, are the most serious to date against Fujimori, who says he plans to stay in Japan indefinitely.Fujimori also faces charges of abandonment of office and dereliction of duty, which carry a maximum two-year prison sentence. He denies any wrongdoing and claims he is the stanley cup usa subject of vulgar political persecution
