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Olympics | Feature: 'The swimmer in the stands' shocks the world as a 'flying fish'

BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

By sportswriter Li Jia

PARIS, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Breaking through the waves reveals true gold. At the moment Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle touched the wall and broke the record, all doubts, grievances, and frustrations vanished.

"Awesome! It feels incredible!" exclaimed Pan after roaring to China's first swimming gold in Paris with a world record time. His explosive speed left his competitors far behind. He

CPJ welcomes reports of Gershkovich, Kurmasheva release, says Russia must stop stifling journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists 

New York, August 1, 2024–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) editor Alsu Kurmasheva will be released as part of a prisoner exchange, and calls on Russia to release other jailed journalists and stop harassing those in exile. “Evan and Alsu have...

Transit officials say taxi driver drove onto tracks as train was approaching and was killed

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Authorities say a cab driver was killed and his passenger was injured when a commuter train hit the taxi at a grade crossing on Long Island. The crash happened at about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday at a Long Island Rail Road crossing gate in Manorville. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says cabbie Daniel Seagren drove through the gate as lights were flashing and bells were sounding to signal an approaching train. The MTA says the train hit the cab as it was stopped on the tracks. Seagren was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Читать дальше...

Olympics 2024: Sift, Anjum fail to qualify for women's 50m 3P finals

Business Standard 

Indian shooters Anjum Moudgil and Sift Kaur Samra failed to qualify for the final of the women's 50m rifle 3 positions event, finishing 18th and 31st respectively at the Paris Olympics here on Thursday. Appearing in his second Olympics, Anjum managed to score 584 with 26 inner 10s, while Sift shot 575 with the help of 22 inner 10s in the qualifications of the women's 3P event. Sift, the reigning Asian Games champion, endured a horrendous outing in standing, shooting 93 and 94 to finish down in the pecking order. Читать дальше...

Dance and celebrate for free at Wembley Park’s Sounds of the World

Express.co.uk 

Dance your heart out for free and learn some show-stopping new moves at "Sounds of the World," a fabulous celebration of global music and culture that comes to Wembley Park, Wembley Park, in north west London on Sunday, August 4. The family-friendly event will take place at the Sound Shell stage, located on the iconic Olympic Way in front of Wembley Stadium, transforming the neighbourhood into a melting pot of musical diversity featuring talented artists from around the world.

Deadly explosion in the Golan Heights: Tracing a rocket’s trajectory

France24.com (en) 

An explosion on a football pitch in a Druze village in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the Lebanese border killed 12 people on July 27, all of them children. This region has been the theatre of military conflict between Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a close ally of Hamas and Iran, and Israel since October 2023. While Hezbollah denies any responsibility, our investigations indicate that the deadly explosion could have been caused by a “Falaq-1”, an Iranian-made rocket used by Hezbollah.

Jay Powell is now officially on a collision course with the 2024 election - Yahoo Finance

Top Stories (us) - Google News (ru) 

  1. Jay Powell is now officially on a collision course with the 2024 election  Yahoo Finance
  2. The Fed is about to do something it hasn’t done since the pandemic  CNN
  3. What will mortgage interest rates look like when the Fed cuts rates?  CBS News
  4. Fed Chair Powell gives the market exactly what it wanted to hear  CNBC
  5. Fed Chair Powell says September interest rate cut could be ‘on the table’ as inflation cools  The Associated Press