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Stadiums are reopening but detentions of major football figures overshadow the sport, as scandal engulfs basketball

Sergio Agüero may be one of the greatest strikers of his generation, but he won an even rarer accolade in 2015, when he became the first – and last – Premier League footballer to take a selfie with Xi Jinping, China’s football-loving leader.
The , taken at Manchester City’s stadium – with then prime minister David Cameron – comes from an era when Xi was fostering warm relations with the UK and pushing China to become a world football superpower by 2050, both ambitions that seem distant possibilities today.

The participants remembered lives lost to violence and called out the anti-Asian sentiment they say fuels the attacks.

Washington split with old allies in order to pursue its own interests in Iraq. Its support for Kyiv is equally conditional
In the two decades since the second Iraq war, the United States appears like the Bourbon kings who had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq was a story of geopolitical failure and domestic political disaster. To understand the foolhardy decision to launch the war, one must first understand the US grand strategy of , which Washington has pursued since 1945.
The “war on terror” provided political cover for the further pursuit of supremacy, despite threatening democratic government with lies, fraud and violence. George W Bush’s rash actions did provoke some about the damage being inflicted but from the corridors of power. Instead the US has refused to move on, believing that countries are “either with us or against us”.
Randeep Ramesh is chief leader writer for the Guardian and author of The War We Could Not Stop: The real story of the battle for Iraq
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Osaki and other Asian American and Pacific Islander women with ties to the Valley spoke with The Republic about how both motion pictures accurately reflected their cultural experiences.

Osaki and other Asian American and Pacific Islander women with ties to the Valley spoke with The Republic about how both motion pictures accurately reflected their cultural experiences.

Osaki and other Asian American and Pacific Islander women with ties to the Valley spoke with The Republic about how both motion pictures accurately reflected their cultural experiences.

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Asian American and Pacific Islander women with ties to the Phoenix area spoke about how two films accurately reflected their cultural experiences.

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Federal government welcomes decision to hear MH17 case
The federal government has welcomed the International Civil Aviation Organization Council’s decision to hear Australia and the Netherlands’ case against Russia for the downing of flight MH17.
We have maintained since May 2018 that the Russian Federation is responsible under international law for the downing of Flight MH17.
We now look forward to presenting our legal arguments and evidence to the ICAO Council as we continue to seek to hold Russia to account.

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