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“Holy wrath” is coming against Israel, the furious head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, declared Saturday.

The Vatican said this weekend it was “saddened” by the drag queen parody of the Last Supper on display during the July 26 opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, after critics complained loudly over the Vatican’s silence on the matter.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has called for people to “refrain from bullying” after controversy erupted around gender at the Olympics. 

Belgium said it would withdraw from the mixed relay triathlon at the Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill.

Scottie Scheffler pulled off one of the most memorable comebacks in Olympic history on Sunday and won the gold medal for the U.S. in the process.

Ukraine’s newly arrived F-16 fighter jets were put on display by President Zelensky, who said the planes will boost the country’s war effort.

Controversial Algerian Olympics boxer Imane Khelif defied the detractors and declared, “I am a woman!” after defeating Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamoni earlier this week.

An official of the World Boxing Organization says that the International Olympic Committee was warned about a boxer who failed a gender test.

Bulgarian female boxer Svetlana Staneva made an “XX” chromosome symbol with her fingers after losing to a Taiwanese fighter who failed International Boxing Association (IBA) gender tests in 2023,  in a powerful gesture to indicate that she is a woman.

Disinformation experts warned Friday activists are harnessing the resources of the Iranian regime to mastermind anti-Israel protests in Canada.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has seen his approval ratings plunge by 16 points amid widespread unrest over mass migration.

Chelsea Clinton is aspiring to take up an ambassadorship if Kamala Harris claims the presidency come November, sources confided to the New York Post, with the UK seen as the first choice in her diplomatic ambitions.

Ukraine has sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours amid a surge in long-range attacks on Russian targets.

Sir Kier Starmer has vowed that police have his full support in taking on “extremists” as anti-mass migration protests and riots.

French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati appeared to be on his way to every impressive vault when his other pole got caught on the crossbar and prevented him from clearing it.

The International Olympic Committee issued a correction over the biology of two boxers who have been allowed to compete against females.

Anti-immigration sentiment has seemingly united people with longstanding sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland.

Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer alleged to have male chromosomes, defeated Hungarian fighter Anna Luca Haroni on Saturday by unanimous decision in an emotionally charged bout as Khelif’s quest for Olympic gold continues.

Twenty-two people were injured by an explosion in the paddock area of Germany’s famous Nuerbergring racetrack.

Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday in a Facebook post that its forces struck an airfield in Morozovsk in the Russian mainland.

The riots in England over the mass stabbing attack on a children’s dance party continued on Friday evening in Sunderland.

Social media has erupted in condemnation for the Olympics for its decision to allow two boxers who failed the XY chromosome gender tests

A pivotal 100kg Olympic judo heavyweight match in Paris ended in controversy Friday after Georgia’s Guram Tushishvili was disqualified for kicking out Frenchman Teddy Riner.

Sir Keir Starmer’s total focus on cracking down on riots rather than what is behind them shows he “hasn’t got an earthly clue”, Farage warns. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with French media this week that he would support the presence of Russia at a second iteration of the failed global peace summit for his country held this year.

Another controversial boxer who had been disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA) defeated a female opponent at the Paris Olympics on Friday.

The U.S.-Russian deal that traded eight Russian criminals, spies, and assassins for hostages Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and others on Thursday was the first known prisoner exchange to include international cybercriminals.

The first F-16s have arrived in Ukraine, it is reported, but Kyiv remains tight-lipped about the jets it has spent so long pleading for. 

At least four people died after an apartment block in Russia´s Ural Mountains collapsed following a gas explosion.

Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling has joined the rising outcry against the Olympics after a boxer with XY chromosomes was allowed to fight a female boxer, resulting in a predictably disastrous match for the latter.

Declaring “far-right hatred” the immediate challenge, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced a rollout of facial recognition technology.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told Italian boxer Angela Carini, “I know you won’t give up,” and will one day “earn what you deserve” in “a competition that is finally fair.” Meloni’s comments were in response to Carini retiring from the ring at the Paris Olympics after 46 seconds of fighting Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has male chromosomes.

A columnist for the ‘Washington Post’ blasted Christians on Thursday over their outrage at the highly controversial Olympics opening ceremony.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is lashing out at critics of two fighters who failed the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) gender test in 2023, calling the questioning of their right to compete as females, “aggression.”

Imane Khelif’s first female opponent only lasted 46 seconds into the first round. We don’t know how long her next opponent will last, but we know who she will be facing.

President Joe Biden on Thursday hailed the complex prisoner-swap deal with Russia that freed unjustly imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, and two others in exchange for prisoners including Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov as a prodigious “feat of diplomacy.”