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Aug 17, 2022

Leon Edwards sets sights on UFC belt as British MMA booms

The Jamaican-born, Birmingham-raised fighter is aiming to become only the second British champion in the circuit's 29-year-history.
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BUSINESS / Women at Work
Aug 16, 2022

Creating parity in the field of science in Japan

Noriko Osumi is one of the highest-ranking female scientists in Japan, and has worked to address the structural causes behind the severe lack of women within certain academic fields.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 16, 2022

Peloton, Calm and LinkedIn add to growing list of tech layoffs

According to Layoffs.fyi, a website tracking job cuts at startups and recently public companies, more than 37,000 positions were eliminated at 467 firms globally in the second quarter.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 15, 2022

Japanese photographer blows whistle on treatment of ‘comfort women’

The 51-year-old photographer from Japan finds himself at the center of a current scandal about the treatment of the women, more than three-quarters of a century after the end of WWII.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2022

The Group of 20 in an age of war

From a demographic perspective, the G20 is a much more legitimate grouping — in terms of representing a diverse, complex world — than the G7.
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Aug 14, 2022

Male artistic swimmers finally get the pool to themselves

Giorgio Minisini's historic gold medal at the European championships came seven years after the discipline first allowed men to compete, only if accompanied by a female partner.
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BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2022

Gaming industry feels squeeze after pandemic boom

Makers of consoles, accessories and software are experiencing a similar post-pandemic effect to tech titans as people begin to return to normal lives.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Aug 13, 2022

Dog days of summer bring grab bag of fashion fixtures

A departed legend, gaming deals and disrupted shows — summer's end is full of news for fashion watchers.
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TENNIS
Aug 11, 2022

Nick Kyrgios not surprised by win over No. 1 Daniil Medvedev

Nick Kyrgios extended the best run of his career by taking out world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev at the Canadian Masters on Wednesday — a win that surprised everyone but the Australian.
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WORLD
Aug 11, 2022

Trump taps small, trusted pool of lawyers as legal woes mount

Overlapping circles when it comes to who has represented the former U.S. president and those around him could pose conflicts of interests as cases progress.
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BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2022

U.S. rethinks approach to China tariffs in wake of Taiwan response

The president's team has been wrestling for months with various ways to ease the costs of duties imposed on Chinese imports during predecessor Donald Trump's tenure.
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Rugby
Aug 10, 2022

England head coach Eddie Jones rebuked for private school criticism

The 62-year-old Australian's comments were labeled 'divisive and disrespectful' by England's 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning coach Clive Woodward.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 10, 2022

Nancy Pelosi trip hinders Biden effort to galvanize Asia against China

The shockwaves from the highest-level U.S. visit to Taiwan in a quarter century are still reverberating around the region days after she flew back to Washington.
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WORLD
Aug 10, 2022

The U.S.-China rift moves climate politics into an era of competition

The next three months before countries meet in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27 will show whether the era of cooperation has given way to competition.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 9, 2022

Upping the ante: Key takeaways from China’s major drills around Taiwan

China's largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan have provided analysts with potential insight into how Chinese forces might operate around the self-ruled island in case of a conflict.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2022

China thinks it’s winning the race against the West — but is it?

The readiness to take a hard line on Taiwan is strengthened by the conviction among Chinese that the global balance of power is shifting and the tide of history favors their country.
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Aug 9, 2022

Women's cricket stars eye Olympic chance after Commonwealth Games

Women's cricket was on the Commonwealth Games program for the first time in Birmingham and had the spotlight to itself, with no matching men's tournament.
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Aug 9, 2022

Mike Tyson slams 'slave master' Hulu series for 'stealing' life story

While the eight-part limited series on Hulu shows the former heavyweight boxing champion in the ring during various famous bouts, it concentrates on his turbulent private life.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 9, 2022

More Chinese women delay or give up on having babies after 'COVID zero' ordeal

Strict controls on people's lives may have caused profound damage on their desire to have children, demographers say.
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WORLD
Aug 8, 2022

A year on, Afghans hide out fearing death by data

In the past year, human rights groups and the U.N. have documented the killing or enforced disappearance of hundreds of former members of the security forces.
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Aug 8, 2022

Track star Allyson Felix speaks out against 'shocking' rollback of abortion rights in U.S.

Allyson Felix, the most decorated woman in track and field history, called the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling ending the constitutional right to an abortion "shocking" and a "step back" for women on Sunday.
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Special Supplements
Aug 8, 2022

Women from ASEAN who are following their dreams in Japan

The ASEAN-Japan Centre in Tokyo, established by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states and Japan, produced a series of documentary videos that take a closer look at women from ASEAN countries who are active in Japan. There are about 500,000 women from ASEAN in Japan, and these videos...

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