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The presence of 335 Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) athletes at these Games has seemed to surprise those who had assumed the ban for state-sponsored doping might have restricted Russia’s physical presence in some way. Or indeed that Russia’s athletes would have to compete in Japan as something other than Russia, beyond a few shifts in branding and a change of song.

Except, apparently not. Right now it is hard to remember a Games where Russia – who have been punished but feel no guilt, and who technically aren’t here at all – have seemed more insistently present. Source: The Guardian
 

Protestors wave French flags and hold signs which read ‘freedom’ during a demonstration in Paris, France [Michel Euler/AP Photo]


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Some 3,000 security forces deployed around the French capital for a third weekend of protests against a health pass that will be needed to enter restaurants, cinemas, trains and museums.

When France’s vaccination campaign began in January 2021, it was based on the principle of free and informed consent. But the announcements of compulsory vaccination for health workers and the widespread adoption of the health pass have changed that. Without making vaccination compulsory for the entire population (which would mean abandoning the principle of consent entirely), the pass makes vaccination necessary to participate in public life.
 

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, is hugged during a ceremony in Auckland, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, to formally apologize for a racially charged part of the nation's history known as the Dawn Raids. The Dawn Raids are known as the time when the Pasifika people were targeted for deportation in the mid-1970s during aggressive home raids by authorities to find, convict and deport visa overstayers. (Brett Phibbs/New Zealand Herald via AP)
 
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People sit before the start of Cinespia’s screening of The Wizard of Oz at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in California. Summer screenings have returned to the cemetery after a hiatus amid the pandemic last summer. Judy Garland is laid to rest at the cemetery where many movie legends are buried. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is a full-service cemetery, funeral home, crematory, and cultural events center which regularly hosts community events such as live music and summer movie screenings.
 
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Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy celebrates after it was decided that he and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar would share first place in the high jump final and each get a gold medal. He is holding a cast from an old injury on which is inscribed ‘Road to Tokyo 2020, 2021’
Photograph: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images
 
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A security personnel stands guard on top of a vehicle outside United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) office compound in Guzara district of Herat province on July 31, 2021. | Photo Credit: AFP

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned an attack on the UN’s main compound in Herat, Afghanistan, saying assaults against personnel and premises of the world organisation are prohibited under international law and may constitute war crimes.
 
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Virginia Oliver, 101, inspects a lobster before she bands them, in Penobscot Bay in Maine, July 31, 2021. Oliver is the oldest licensed lobsterwoman in the northeastern state, and local historians describe as perhaps the oldest active one in the world.
 
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ASCOT, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 22: Royal Ascot Race Meeting Thursday - Ladies Day. Prince Andrew, ...
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Things have not been going well lately for Robert Maxwell’s favorite daughter Ghislaine. Over the winter of 2020-21, she, her siblings and legal team, and presumably her husband Scott Borgersen put together a fourth, resolutely jacked-up bail offer, worth some $30-million, including the offer to fully renounce her French and British citizenship to allay the court’s perception of a high flight risk. It was rejected in March. Her fifth attempt at bail was rejected in June. For a different alleged offender, with a less-moneyed, glitzy, jet-setting past and without the suicide of his or her notorious crime boss in the hands of his jailers, it would have been a solid offer. But the government clearly prefers to keep Ghislaine Maxwell in closer view……

Source: Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/guymar...thers-in-epsteins-black-book/?sh=57f8a224da00
 

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A view of the site where Vitaly Shishov, who led a Kyiv-based organization that helps Belarusians flee persecution, was found dead in Kyiv, Ukraine. Reuters/Gleb Garanich
 
Simone Biles of the US congratulates Guan Chenchen of China after competing in the womens beam final at the Tikyo Olympics. Reuters/Mike Blake


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An Australian Defence Force member watches over a vaccination clinic at the Bankstown Sports Club as the city experiences an extended lockdown in Sydney, Australia. Reuters/Loren Elliott
 
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August 3, 2021: Evzones of the Greek Presidential Guard in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens Greece, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Authorities in Greece have closed the Acropolis and other ancient sites during afternoon hours as a heatwave scorching the eastern Mediterranean continued to worsen.
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INSIDE I'M DANCING: Peter Berne holds a free ticket to a dance night during the Féile an Phobail arts festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after receiving his first Covid-19 vaccination at the Falls Park Bowling Pavilion. Five hundred young people are to be offered free tickets to the event to incentivise their being vaccinated. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
 
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Belarusian opposition politician Pavel Latushka poses with Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, on her arrival in Warsaw, Poland August 4, 2021.

Tsimanouskaya flew on an Austrian Airlines flight which left Tokyo earlier on Wednesday and arrived in the Austrian capital at 3 pm local time. Initially, the 24-year-old had planned to travel by the Polish company LOT, but changed her itinerary last minute. She was escorted away from the Vienna airport under police protection and boarded another flight later in the day for Warsaw.

She said coaches were angered by her criticism and ordered her to pack and go to the airport. She refused to board a flight home and sought protection from Japanese police. Poland, which has long been critical of dictator Lukashenko and harboured many activists from Belarus, has granted her and her husband humanitarian visas.
 
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Fruit and vegetable processor SPC has become the first Australian company to mandate vaccines for all onsite staff and visitors. The Shepparton-based cannery wants all its 450 onsite workers to be fully vaccinated by November, in what could be a legal test-case for the country. All of SPC's 450 onsite workers will receive paid vaccination leave and up to two days of special leave to recover. SPC chair Hussein Rifai said the company had implemented very strict Covid protocols but the Delta variant demands a different response.
 
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Lifeline has recorded its busiest day ever, a sad outcome likely linked to Australia's current lockdowns. Suicide Prevention Australia, CEO, Nieves Murray said lockdowns had raised tensions. "The recent lockdowns have significantly shifted the social and economic landscape in Australia and will exacerbate the risk factors that are clearly linked to distress such as economic hardship, employment, relationship breakdown and loneliness, particularly for young people."
 
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Aude Alaskar and his new wife

The family of a 27-year-old Sydney man who died after contracting Covid-19 claim he returned a negative test result the day before his death, making his suddenly deteriorating health even more shocking. He was unvaccinated.
 
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Two days off-Wow; over here were offering 100 bucks-so i guess stupidity can't be fixed, but it can be rewarded.

#547, putting a human face of victims makes the gut wrench
 
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HEALTH PASS PROTEST: Anti-health pass demonstrators stage a protest next to a cafe terrace, outside the Constitutional Council, in Paris. France's Constitutional Council is deciding on Thursday whether the health pass – required to grant citizens access to cafes, restaurants, trains and hospitals starting next week – is in line with the nation's principles. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
 


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