Sport

Olympics-Sailing-Badloe and Lu grab RS:X windsurfing gold

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

ENOSHIMA(JAPAN)-Kiran Badloe cruised to Olympic gold in the men’s windsurfing RS:X class on Saturday with Thomas Goyard taking silver as a disqualification cost Italy’s Mattia Camboni the bronze, which went to Kun Bi of China. In the women’s race, Lu Yungxiu of China held off

Sport

Olympics-Archery- World champion Ellison knocked out as Turkey’s Gazoz clinches gold

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

TOKYO (JAPAN) -The world’s top-ranked male archer Brady Ellison of the United States was knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Olympic individual event on Saturday, ending his quest for a first gold at his fourth Games. Ellison lost 7-3 to Turkey’s Mete Gazoz who went on to win the event and claim his country’s […]

Asia

Tokyo daily COVID-19 infections touches record high

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

TOKYO (JAPAN) -Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Olympic host city Tokyo hit a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, the metropolitan government said, surpassing 4,000 for the first time and overshadowing the Games. The new record comes a day after Japan decided to extend states of emergency to three prefectures near Olympic host Tokyo and […]

Europe

Russia confirms 23,807 new COVID-19 cases, 792 deaths

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

MOSCOW (RUSSIA) – Russia confirmed 23,807 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, including 3,514 in Moscow, taking the national tally of infections to 6,265,873. Russia’s coronavirus task force said that 792 more deaths of coronavirus patients had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, raising the country’s COVID-19 death toll to 158,563. The federal statistics

Sport

Ben Stokes to go on ‘indefinite break’ for mental wellbeing, recovery from injuries

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has taken an indefinite break from all cricket with immediate effect to focus on his mental wellbeing and continue his recovery from an injury to his left index finger, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Friday. Stokes, 30, has withdrawn from England’s test squad for next week’s series against India […]

Sport

Olympics- Golf- Xander Schauffele fights odds to clinch gold medal position

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

KAWAGOE (JAPAN) – A slow-burning Olympic golf tournament found life again on Saturday as American Xander Schauffele warded off attacks on all fronts to cling to a one-shot lead heading into the final round. Overnight leader by a stroke, Schauffele was stalked relentlessly by playing partners Hideki Matsuyama and Carlos Ortiz at Kasumigaseki Country Club […]

World

Worst cold snap in three decades, frosts stain Brazil coffee belt

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

VARGINHA (BRAZIL) – Flying over the coffee region in the south of top Brazilian producer state Minas Gerais, it is possible to see brownish spots stain large parts of the fields, signs that the worst cold snap in nearly three decades will hurt production for at least the next two crops. “It was worse than […]

World

Pedro Francke appointed finance minister of Peru

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

LIMA (PERU) -Peru’s Pedro Castillo appointed moderate economist Pedro Francke as finance minister late on Friday, an olive branch to rattled markets after the newly-elected president earlier named members of his Marxist Free Peru party to several other cabinet positions. Castillo named Guido Bellido, a hardliner, and Marxist from the Andean city of Cuzco who […]

Sport

Olympics-Badminton-Guatemala in semi-finals with surprising win; China takes first loss

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

TOKYO (JAPAN) – When Kevin Cordon was 12, he moved from rural Zacapa, Guatemala alone to the capital city to pursue his dreams of playing badminton at the Olympics. But that seemed beyond Cordon, now 34, who has languished low in the men’s singles rankings for years, sustaining injury after injury that kept him from […]

Asia

COVID-19 vaccines, China administered a total of 1.637 billion doses

Editorial Bureau July 31, 2021

BEIJING (CHINA) – China administered about 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines on July 30, taking its total to 1.637 billion, data from the National Health Commission showed on Saturday.