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Bezos and the Blue Originin team may not qualify as astronauts

New Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules say astronaut hopefuls must be part of the flight crew and make contributions to space flight safety. That means Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson may not yet be astronauts in the eyes of the US government.
 
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French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted with flower garlands and Tahitian dancers on the tarmac as he touched down Saturday night for his first official trip to French Polynesia. Residents in the sprawling archipelago of more than 100 islands located midway between Mexico and Australia are hoping Macron confirms compensation for radiation victims following decades of nuclear testing as France pursued atomic weapons.
 
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US Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of US Central Command, speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan 25 July 2021. Reuters

KABUL, July 25 (Reuters) - United States will to continue to carry out airstrikes to support Afghan forces facing attack from the insurgent Taliban, a regional U.S. commander said on Sunday as U.S. and other international forces have drawn down troops in Afghanistan.
 
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An Algerian judo athlete has been suspended and sent home from the Tokyo Olympics after refusing to face an Israeli opponent. Fethi Nourine and his coach Amar Benikhlef told Algerian media they were withdrawing to avoid a possible second-round matchup with Israel’s Tohar Butbul in the men’s 73kg division on Monday.
 
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Isabell Werth and Bella Rose at the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam.

German world number one Isabell Werth and her two team mates topped each of their three groups at the Olympic equestrian dressage qualifiers on Sunday to make Tuesday's team final ahead of Britain and Denmark.
 
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Ha Noi, 10 July 2021 – This week Viet Nam received 2,000,040 doses of Moderna vaccine donated to the COVAX Facility by the United States Government. Today’s shipment is part of the 80 million doses of vaccine that the President committed in May from the U.S. vaccine supply, of which approximately 41 million doses are shared through COVAX, to support global needs.
 

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PINT OF PATIENCE: Jimmy Nooks, from Capel Street, in Dublin city, has a pint of Guinness in PJ Slattery’s pub, in Dublin, on the first day restrictions are lifted on indoor service, after many pubs had been closed for almost 500 days. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie
 
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Reuters / Monday, July 26, 2021

Edie Armstrong reacts when she hears that her son, U.S. swimmer Hunter Armstrong, will be moving on after just making it through the men's 100m backstroke preliminary race during the 2021 Olympic Games, in Dover, Ohio. "That gave me a small heart attack," Edie Armstrong said jokingly. "Don’t ever do that to me again Hunter." REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
 
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Mary Simon conducts an inspection of the guard after being sworn in as Canada’s first indigenous Governor General during a ceremony in Ottawa, Canada. Reuters/Christine Muschi
 
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Biles says she wasn't in right "headspace" to compete and withdrew from the Olympic gymnastics team final.

At just 24 years old she has won every single all-round competition she’s been in since 2013 and has a record 25 world medals. That’s not even mentioning her swag of four Olympic gold medals.
 
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Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccines minister, said the government plans to recognise foreign jabs
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Americans will be allowed to enter the UK and avoid quarantining if they produce vaccine cards proving they have been double-jabbed. Ministers are expected to sign off plans this week for US citizens arriving in the UK to be able to present the cards they were given when they were vaccinated as sufficient proof.
 
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Protesters tear down a barricade during a demonstration against the ‘green pass’, a document proving its carrier has received a vaccine against Covid-19, which will be needed to gain entry to several venues from next month

Photograph: Giuseppe Lami/EPA
 
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Gaziantep, Turkey
Amal, a giant puppet depicting a refugee girl, walks through the streets with Syrian refugee children. The 3.5-metre tall artwork will visit Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the UK to focus attention on the urgent needs of young refugees

Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA
 
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Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako after his accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 2019
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Japan has ruled out allowing women to ascend to the imperial throne despite popular support and a shortage of male heirs that threatens to break a succession line that can be traced back two millennia.

Government advisers working on a way to solve the looming succession crisis will not even consider the option to allow imperial princesses to reign as emperors, according to Japanese media.
 
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In a civil suit, an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein described Ghislaine Maxwell as the “highest-ranking employee” of his claimed sex trafficking enterprise
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A British woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape and alleged that Ghislaine Maxwell supervised the recruitment of his victims has written a memoir, due to be published weeks before the start of Maxwell’s trial in November.

Sarah Ransome, the granddaughter of Lord Gordon Macpherson, second baron of Drumochter, has said she was recruited as a supposed masseuse for Epstein in 2006 when she was 22 and newly arrived in New York from Scotland, hoping to study at a fashion college.
 
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi right, meeting with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan’s Taliban in Tianjin, in this photo taken on 28 July 2021 and released by China’s Xinhua News Agency.

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ISLAMABAD - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly pressed the leaders of Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban group Wednesday to "make a clean break" from all terrorists, including the anti-China East Turkistan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, during a meeting he hosted.
 
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Migrants and homeless people wait behind the fences of the Place des Vosges in Paris, to be relocated after spending the night in tents installed the day before during an action organized by the Utopia association to ask for housing. The group began their sit-in on Thursday to protest about what they say is a lack of available accommodation in Paris.
 
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Iryna Kindzerska of Azerbaidjan reacts after defeating Shiyan Xu of China during the Women +78 kg Contest for Bronze Medal A contest at the Judo events of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, Japan, 30 July 2021. EPA-EFE/RITCHIE B. TONGO
 
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China has shut down a nuclear reactor for “maintenance” because of what it said was minor fuel damage, after an increase in radiation levels prompted warnings from its French designers of an “imminent radiological threat”.

The authorities switched off the new-generation European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) at Taishan in Guangdong province yesterday, more than a month after saying minor fuel rod damage had led to the “common phenomenon” of a build-up of radioactive gases that were no cause for concern.
 

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