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A Ukrainian athlete was banned for his helmet. How does the IOC enforce its rules on political statements?
The Olympics have long been a platform for political posturing, with countries boycotting or being banned from sending athletes to Games over geopolitical conflicts. But the International Olympic Committee bars political demonstrations from podiums and competitions. What constitutes an inappropriate political demonstration, however, can be complicated. Source link
Air Transat aims to repatriate all its customers in Cuba within days
Air Transat is aiming to get all of its customers out of Cuba by next Wednesday, amid a call for Canadians to avoid delaying their exit from the country. Source link
Bondi attacks Dems during Epstein testimony
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attacked Democrats during her fiery House Judiciary Committee testimony as she faced criticism from lawmakers over the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files. Source link
Why is the U.S. cutting Cuba off from the rest of the world? | About That
U.S. President Donald Trump is applying severe economic pressure to an already-strained Cuba mired in a food and power crisis. Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is choosing now to cut off the country’s oil supply, and why, for Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it’s also personal. Source link
Republicans, Democrats want to hear from government about anti-drone laser that closed El Paso airport
The brief shutdown of El Paso airport by the Federal Aviation Administration because of safety concerns posed by the use of a military laser-based anti-drone system was unacceptable, said the top Democrat on the Senate’s commerce committee said on Thursday. Source link
Syria's leader targeted for assassination often, UN report says, as U.S. hands over military base
Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as part of the war against the Islamic State group, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Source link
Trump border czar says controversial Minneapolis immigration operation to end
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and the deaths of two U.S. citizens is nearing an end, U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar said Thursday. Source link
Canadian mining company employees worked amid gunfire, Mexican cartel checkpoints, says family member
Vizsla Silver Corp.’s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel. Source link
As tensions simmer between U.S. and Iran, Iraq is feeling the heat
Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the U.S., Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the Middle East. But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki — a candidate for the job once more — is a sharp reminder of the tightrope […]
Trump is set to scrap a longstanding legal basis for U.S. climate action. Here's what that could mean
The Trump administration is expected this week to rescind a legal opinion that has guided emissions controls in the U.S. since the Obama era, withdrawing the so-called endangerment finding of the Environmental Protection Agency. Source link