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Skateboarder Zheng Haohao from China (11), Indian swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu (14) and two Americans, Hezly Rivera (16) and Quincy Wilson (16), are just some of the young athletes competing at the Olympic Games in Paris. While this has caused excitement around the future of some sports, there are also questions about what effect this level of elite competition has on children. “Adolescence is a highly volatile period, physically, physiologically, cognitively and psycho-socially. Then you overlay the demands of competitive sports at the world class level and wow, how do you successfully navigate that?” asked Michael Bergeron, who has extensively researched young athletes and…

Skip next section Russia and China hold joint military exercises07/25/2024July 25, 2024Russia and China hold joint military exercisesRussia and China held joint air force drills near Alaska late on Wednesday, both countries confirmed. They said that the exercises were not targeted at “third countries.” Moscow said its “Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers and the Chinese air force’s Xian H-6 strategic bombers carried out an aerial patrol over the Chukchi and Bering Seas and the north Pacific Ocean.” The two strategic bombers are nuclear-capable. The US military’s North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said US and Canadian fighter jets had intercepted the aircraft in…

Over the past ten years, Venezuela has seen a brain drain of unprecedented proportions, as eight million people have left the South American country — about a quarter of its entire population. Suffering from a severe food crisis, hyperinflation, and a massive loss of skilled workers, Venezuela’s economic and humanitarian crises are mainly the result of failed economic policies under socialist President Nicolas Maduro and his firebrand predecessor Hugo Chavez. The situation has worsened amid sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe on the two leaders for their political repression and human rights violations. Sunday’s presidential elections is pitting incumbent…

There was a moment of confusion before the dust finally settled. The roads leading to the Presidential Palace in Niger’s capital Niamey remained blocked for hours on July 26, 2023, with some people demonstrating for President Mohamed Bazoum to remain in power. Just before midnight, Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane made the fateful announcement on TV: “We, the Forces of Defence and Security, united in the National Council for the Salvation of the Fatherland (CNSP), have decided to call an end to the regime that you have known,” Abdramane said, citing the deterioration of security as well as bad governance for their main reasons. Initially, there was…

A rare explosion of steam, water and rock forced tourists to run for safety at Yellowstone National Park in the US.Footage showed a column of black and grey vapour rising in the air as people warned each other to “back up”. The hydrothermal explosion happened on Tuesday at Biscuit Basin, a collection of hot springs near the famous Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming.A wooden walkway was left covered in silt, but officials said no injuries had been reported as they closed the area.Yellowstone sits on a dormant volcano, but the explosion – which sent debris an estimated 100 feet into…

On July 10, A-list actor George Clooney asked a struggling Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race with Donald Trump and make way for a fresh face. When news broke Sunday that the incumbent had dropped out and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, a host of Hollywood luminaries from actors Robert De Niro to Jamie Lee Curtis expressed their immediate support for the switch.  Curtis, star of horror classics like “Halloween,” took to Instagram soon after the announcement to heartily endorse Harris — a former attorney general of California and US senator who has yet to be formally nominated…

The French Alps was provisionally chosen to host the 2030 Winter Olympics on Wednesday. The decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is contingent on French President Emmanuel Macron signing a document to guarantee funding and security commitments no later than October 1. “I confirm the full commitment of the French nation, and assure you that I will ask the next prime minister to include not only this guarantee but also an Olympic Law in the priorities of the new government,” Macron said at the IOC session on Wednesday. “Seven years ago, we made the same commitment [for the Paris…

The Starlink satellite internet service has been activated in a hospital in the Gaza Strip with the help of Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Elon Musk said.  “Starlink is now active in a Gaza hospital with the support of @UAEmediaoffice and @Israel,” Musk posted on X. The move comes more than five months after the Israeli government approved Starlink’s use in the hospital in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Starlink, owned by Musk’s SpaceX, is a network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, or areas that have had normal communications…

Maritime traffic through the Red Sea — the vital waterway carrying goods from Asia to Europe — had already fallen by nearly 80% when Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Israel escalated their spillover conflict from the Gaza war last weekend. On Friday, the Iran-backed Houthi militia attacked the Israeli city of Tel Aviv from more than 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles) to the south, killing one person. Israel retaliated a day later with its first-ever airstrikes on Yemen’s port city of Hodeida, which the Houthis control, killing six people and wounding 83 others, the Health Ministry in Yemen said. Last year, the Houthis began attacking ships in the Red Sea in response to…

Police in Paris have said they are investigating the alleged “gang rape” of an Australian woman.The 25-year-old was said to have been allegedly attacked before midnight on 19 July or in the early hours of 20 July.Paris prosecutor’s office said an investigation has been launched into the possible gang rape.It said the woman “took refuge” in a restaurant in the 18th district after the alleged assault and told people what had happened to her.She was taken care of by firefighters, the prosecutor’s office added.Local media reported the restaurant was a kebab shop.A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office told Sky News:…