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Ukraine has once again called for the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics. In an open letter on Friday, the country said some of the athletes competing under a neutral flag, who have qualified for the Games, support Russia's war in Ukraine. The letter was addressed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United World Wrestling (UWW). Ten wrestlers were named in the letter - including Russian freestyle specialists Zaur Uguev and Zaurbek Sidakov, who each won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Several links to videos and social media posts as a...
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Turkey's election authority on Wednesday reversed a local body decision to block a newly elected pro-Kurdish party mayor from taking his post following a party appeal, the state news agency Anadolu reported. The decision followed demonstrations and arrests in several Turkish cities. Police used force to disperse protesters in certain places, according to local media, including the Cumhuriyet newspaper. The Supreme Election Council (YSK) in Ankara decided that Abdullah Zeydan, from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), get his mandate as mayor of south-eastern Van provinc...
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Turkish authorities detained a total of 89 people across the country for joining "unauthorized" demonstrations Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter. The protests in south-eastern Turkey and the Aegean province of Izmir followed an election authority decision to prevent a newly elected mayor from the pro-Kurdish People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) in the south-eastern city of Van from taking his post. DEM's Abdullah Zeydan was denied his mayoral mandate even though he was elected mayor in Sunday's local elections with around 55% of the vote, the part...
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The 2025 European championships in artistic gymnastics will not be held in Tel Aviv, Israel as originally planned, organizers European Gymnastics said on Monday. The organization's executive committee has decided to withdraw the tournament from country "due to the current situation in Israel," amid the war between the nation and Palestinian extremist organization Hamas, a statement said. European Gymnastics said it's reopening the bidding process for the event and bids can be sent until April 23. "We acknowledge the efforts done by the Israeli Gymnastics Federation, the excellent host of sever...
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Germany and Malaysia must both use their influence to reach an amicable solution to the war in Gaza, despite their opposing views on the conflict, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Friday. Anwar credited German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for being “very accommodating” in seeking to understand the position of Malaysia – a predominantly Muslim country - towards Gaza and the Islamist Hamas organization, which Kuala Lumpur refuses to recognize as a terrorist group. “I don’t buy this propaganda,” Anwar said in an interview with dpa, adding: “We see freedom fighters. The West see terrorists...
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“Vote blue no matter who” was Madelyn Shick’s mantra before she could even vote after former US president Donald Trump's rise in 2016. She argued with people supporting third party candidates, but now she’s on the other side of that dispute. Shick, 22, said she can’t vote for any candidate who hasn’t already called for a permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, including President Joe Biden. “It’s hard to say that Trump will be much worse, and that’s coming from someone who wore Biden shirts, wore Biden pins, and really, really, really, thought we had to keep Trump out,” said Shick, a rece...
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Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was booed by spectators after her silver medal in the 400 metre medley at the world swimming championships in Qatar on Sunday. The reaction was heard when the 20-year-old was interviewed shortly after her race, although other swimming fans gave her encouraging applause. Qatar is regarded as one of the most important political mediators in the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Reports say the emirate supported Hamas financially for many years before the outbreak of the war, with Israel's knowledge and approval. Many peo...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law to confiscate the property of opponents of the war and enemies of the state. The law provides for confiscating property allegedly acquired through the dissemination of alleged false information about the Russia military or by calls to endanger Russia's national security. How the law will be applied, or those offences defined, remains unclear. A decree with Putin's approval was published in the Russian legal database on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tried to pre-empt criticism of the new law on Wednesday, saying that "we beli...
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US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against any relaxing of Western support for Ukraine during the German leader's visit to the White House on Friday. Scholz said that if the US Congress did not manage to vote in favour of further funding for Kiev, the ability of the Ukrainian armed forces to defend their own country against the Russian invasion would be threatened. Support from the United States was "essential," Scholz said. "We are both convinced that this must happen, but also confident that the US Congress will in the end come to a decision [to provide aid]," he...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sharply criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's interview with a right-wing US talk show host. During a visit to the US capital on Friday, Scholz said that it was an interview "that honestly only mocks what real actions have been done by Russia in Ukraine and tells a completely absurd story about the cause of this war." But "there is a very clear cause," Scholz stressed, namely the Kremlin leader's desire to annex part of Ukraine. "And all the stories that are told about it do not change the fact that that is exactly the purpose of his imperialist effort...
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