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Bach said there was “never any doubt” about Yu-ting and Khelif being women. The decision came shortly after Khelif beat Russian boxer Azalia Amineva, who was previously undefeated. Jan Woitas / dpa / picture alliance via Getty Images“I strongly condemn the baseless attacks on our athlete, Imane Khelif, by certain foreign outlets,” Abderrahmane Hammad, Algeria’s minister of youth and sports, wrote on X. “Simply put, Imane Khelif and the other athletes being targeted met the criteria to compete in the Olympics. Yu-ting, 28, beat Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova on Friday and will face Bulgaria’s Svetlana Kamenova Staneva on Sunday.

Persons: Imane Khelif, Thomas Bach, Lin Yu, Hungarian Anna Luca Hamori, Khelif, “, Bach, ” Bach, Angela Carini, Carini, Yu, Fabio Bozzani, Umar Kremlev, Vladimir Putin, Azalia Amineva, ”, Amar Khelif, Sheng Jiapeng, ” Carini, Harry Potter ”, J.K, Rowling, she’s, ” Rowling, Donald Trump, Jan Woitas, Imane, Abderrahmane Hammad, ” Ismaël, Nikki Hiltz, ” Khelif’s, Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori, Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova, Svetlana Kamenova Staneva Organizations: Olympic, Hungarian, IOC, Paris Games, Khelif, Getty, International Boxing Association, Tokyo Games, Reuters, International Olympic, Algerian national, Olympic Games, Black Justice, “ Locations: Italy, Algerian, Anadolu, New Delhi, Russia, Paris, ’

☆ Stephen Nedoroscik’s legend grows with Olympic bronze on pommel horse
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Dana O'Neil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Nedoroscik sat in the agonizing bronze-medal position with one more competitor to go in the pommel horse final, unable to do anything but sit and watch. The set up was an about face from Nedoroscik’s hero-making turn during the men’s team final. Then the pommel horse specialist waited the entire meet before performing his routine, the last man up on any apparatus. Stephen Nedoroscik finishes his pommel horse routine in the final and the crowd goes WILD! Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan, the gold medalist, is a two-time World Champion and Max Whitlock of Great Britain has won the last two Olympic golds on pommel horse.

Persons: PARIS, Stephen Nedoroscik, Nedoroscik, Hur Woong, Rhys McClenaghan, Nurmiman Kurbanov Organizations: U.S

☆ As Misery Multiplies, Pakistanis Rise Up Against the Ruling Elite
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Christina Goldbaum | Salman Masood | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In almost every corner of Pakistan, anger at the ruling elite is nearing a boiling point. In a major port city in the southwest, dozens have clashed with security officers over what they described as forced disappearances of activists. In the northwest, protesters have admonished the country’s generals for a recent surge in terrorist attacks. The demonstrations over the past few weeks reflect frustration with Pakistan’s shaky, five-month-old government and with its military, the country’s ultimate authority. And Pakistani politics are more polarized than ever, with the country’s most popular political figure sitting in jail after a bitter rift with the military.

Locations: Pakistan, Islamabad, Afghanistan

☆ Imane Khelif: Algeria boxer who had gender test issue wins first Olympic fight in Paris when opponent quits
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Villepinte, France AP —Imane Khelif of Algeria won her opening Olympic boxing bout Thursday when opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit after just 46 seconds. Carini and Khelif exchanged only a few punches before Carini walked away and abandoned the bout — an extremely unusual occurrence in Olympic boxing. They were allowed to compete in Paris by the IOC task force, which has run the past two Olympic boxing tournaments. Olympic boxing reached gender parity for the first time this year, with 124 men and 124 women competing in Paris. Several sports have updated their gender rules over the past three years, including World Aquatics, World Athletics and the International Cycling Union.

Persons: Angela Carini, Khelif, Carini, “, ” Carini, it’s, ” Khelif, Lin Yu, Lin, Uzbekistan’s, Imane, Giorgia Meloni, we’re, Meloni, ” Meloni, Mark Adams, ”, ” Lin, Umar Kremlev, Caitlin Parker, It’s, Nicole Winfield Organizations: France AP, Paris Olympics, North Paris, IBA, Algerian Olympic, Tokyo Games, IOC, Athletics, International Cycling Union, Gazprom, Los Angeles Games, Sport, Swiss, Tribunal, Associated Locations: Villepinte, France, Algeria, Italy, Taiwan, Paris, Janeiro, Russia, Australia, Rome

☆ How to Become a Player in the Global Mineral Trade
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Daisuke Wakabayashi | Chang W. Lee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Every year in Kazakhstan, workers pull hundreds of thousands of tons of copper from below the nation’s soil. Exporting oil and metals has been the life force of this former Soviet republic’s economy for decades. Now, as the world moves toward cleaner energy and electric vehicles, nickel and other minerals have become even more valuable, kicking off a boom. China, the country’s neighbor to the east, is well positioned to capitalize. It has invested billions upgrading Kazakhstan’s rail lines ...… and new ports and other infrastructure — visible symbols that this Central Asian country is open for business.

Locations: Kazakhstan, Soviet, China

☆ When the Taliban Took Kabul, She Fled, and Made a New Life in New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Karen Zraick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The night Kabul fell to the Taliban, a young lawyer named Nargis Baran was holed up in her apartment there, scrolling through news reports in disbelief. It was Aug. 15, 2021, and the U.S.-backed president of Afghanistan had fled the country as militants closed in on Kabul, the capital. Their swift advance shocked Western officials and the world, bringing the Taliban back to power after nearly 20 years of war with the United States and allied forces. Thousands of people surged toward the airport, desperate to board the last flights out as the city descended into chaos. Ms. Baran, then 26, was an unmarried woman living with her widowed mother, and now they were afraid to walk outside.

Persons: Nargis Baran, Baran, —, ‘, ’ ” Locations: Kabul, U.S, Afghanistan, United States

☆ Opinion | The Olympics Should Stand With Afghanistan’s Women Athletes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Friba Rezayee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, one of its first actions was to bar women and girls from participating in sports publicly. Female athletes in Afghanistan today face similar threats from the Taliban, including physical abuse and raids on their homes. The most recent example is the International Olympic Committee’s decision to allow a team representing Afghanistan in the Paris Games. It should let the athletes — most of whom live in exile — compete on the Refugee Olympic Team, which would send a message of hope to refugees around the world. But none of the three women representing Afghanistan — in athletics and cycling — live and train in the country, nor could they visit without risking their lives.

Persons: — Organizations: Taliban, Paris, Refugee Olympic, Afghan Locations: Afghanistan

☆ Pakistan Says It Will Ban Party of Jailed Former Leader Imran Khan
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Christina Goldbaum | Salman Masood | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Pakistan’s government plans to ban the party of the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, officials said on Monday, a decision expected to exacerbate the political turmoil that has consumed the country for the past two years. The country’s information minister, Attaullah Tarar, said the government was moving to outlaw Mr. Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or P.T.I., after actions that had posed “a direct threat to the fabric of our nation.”But analysts said the decision — which few expect to be upheld in court — reflected growing desperation by the Pakistani government. It has struggled to assert its authority after an election this year in which the country’s powerful military was accused of rigging dozens of races against the broadly popular P.T.I. “If pushed through, it will achieve nothing more than deeper polarization and the strong likelihood of political chaos and violence,” Asad Iqbal Butt, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said in a statement.

Persons: Imran Khan, Attaullah Tarar, —, ” Asad Iqbal Butt Organizations: Human Rights Locations: Pakistan

☆ Pakistan extends visas for 1.45 million Afghans but denies deportations on hold
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Lex Harvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Pakistan is extending the stay of nearly 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees – but its mass deportation of “illegal immigrants” will continue, authorities said. The fate of 1.45 million refugees whose PORs expired at the end of June had previously been in doubt, with many fearing they’d be deported. But Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs disputed the UN’s claims that Islamabad had put on hold its plan announced last October to deport undocumented Afghan refugees. Trucks transporting Afghan refugees and their belongings are seen along a road heading toward the Pakistan-Afghanistan Torkham border on November 3, 2023. More than 3 million Afghan refugees, including registered refugees and more than 800,000 undocumented people were living in Pakistan as of March 2024, according to UNHCR data.

Persons: ”, Shehbaz, they’d, ” Filippo Grandi, Mumtaz Baloch, Abdul Majeed, They’re, Moniza, ” Kakar, Asif Hassan, Ruwanpathirana Organizations: CNN, United Nations, Pakistan’s, of Foreign Affairs, Trucks, Getty, Pakistan, Afghan, UNHCR, Taliban, UN, ” Police, South Asia, Amnesty International Locations: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Islamabad, AFP, Karachi, South

☆ ‘Even Jordan doesn’t have his face on a sneaker’: How Stan Smith became both a tennis and fashion icon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Depending on your age, the name Stan Smith probably means one of two things. Even Jordan doesn’t have his face on a sneaker.”Stan Smith during his victorious 1972 Wimbledon run. The rise in popularity of the Stan Smith sneaker coincided with a slump towards the end of his tennis career and it began permeating a wide array of cultures in the UK and US. “It was one of my goals to win that tournament,” Smith says. Stan Smith, Ilie Năstase and Tom Okker at a meeting of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in London, 20th June 1973.

Persons: Stan Smith, ” Smith, “, it’s, ”, Cari, Jordan doesn’t, ” Stan Smith, Danny Lee, Smith, that’s, Stan Smith sneaker, David Bowie, ’, Pharrell Williams, Robert Haillet sneaker, Nicolas Armer, Horst Dassler, Donald Dell, Adidas Robert Haillet, Gary Aspden, ” Arthur Ashe, Arthur Ashe, Henry Burroughs, Ashe, ” Dell, Lyndon Johnson, Ashe couldn’t, Bob Lutz, LeBron James ’, Dell, Martin Luther King Jr, Tony Duffy, Allsport, Ashe’s, Arthur, ” Lee, Smith’s, Mark Mathabane, Marjory, Mathabane, Roger Jackson, wasn’t, Niki Pilić, Pilić, Smith –, Ilie Năstase, Tom Okker, Michael Webb, Stan Organizations: CNN, Adidas, Wimbledon, Hulton, Beastie Boys, Davis, Pasadena Tennis, US Davis, USA, Los Angeles Tennis Club, Americas, Civil, wouldn’t, Star ”, South, University of South, Central Press, International Tennis Federation, ‘, Yugoslav Tennis Association, Tennis, Association of Tennis Professionals, Keystone Locations: Young, Paris, USA, French, Wimbledon, Pasadena , California, Pasadena, American, Mexico, America, Vietnam, Houston , Texas, United States, South Africa, Beverly Hills, Soweto, Alexandria, South African, Johannesburg, University of South Carolina, ‘, London, ’

☆ As Violence Surges, Can Pakistan Protect Its Chinese Projects?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Zia Ur-Rehman | Christina Goldbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a busy port city along Pakistan’s southwestern coast, a newly built security barrier and hundreds of new checkpoints safeguard Chinese workers. Across Pakistan, authorities are hurrying to bolster security for Chinese workers after a surge in militant violence targeting Chinese-funded megaprojects. That investment in Pakistan, which began in 2015 as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, involves around $60 billion of planned projects. Tens of thousands of Chinese workers are thought to be in Pakistan, though estimates vary widely. Chinese investment has proved critical since support from the United States tapered off after the war in neighboring Afghanistan ended in 2021.

Organizations: Initiative Locations: Pakistan’s, Karachi, Islamabad, Pakistan, United States, Afghanistan

☆ Iga Świątek crashes out of Wimbledon in shock third round loss to Yulia Putintseva
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

1 Iga Świątek crashed out of Wimbledon on Saturday as she suffered a shock third round loss to Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, ending her 21-match winning streak. I’m not going to make this mistake again.”Yulia Putintseva celebrates winning and reaching the fourth round. Clive Brunskill/Getty ImagesAnd though Świątek proved too powerful in the first set, Putintseva continued to break down the Pole’s game and stormed through the second to level the match. “At some point I was playing fearless,” Putintseva told reporters afterwards. Elsewhere, Novak Djokovic overcame a slow start to defeat Australia’s Alexei Popyrin 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-3) and set up a clash against Holger Rune in the fourth round.

Persons: Świątek, Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, Putintseva, “, Roland Garros, I’m, ” Yulia Putintseva, Susan Mullane, Reuters Świątek, Clive Brunskill, ” Putintseva, Jelena Ostapenko, Novak Djokovic, Australia’s Alexei Popyrin, Holger Rune Organizations: CNN, Wimbledon, Reuters, USA, Sports, “ Locations: Birmingham

☆ Pakistan Withers Under Deadly Heat and Fears the Coming Rains
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Zia Ur-Rehman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In nearly every corner of Karachi, there are signs of the heat wave scorching the sun-baked city. Hundreds of patients suffering from heat-related illnesses pour into the hospitals every day, pushing them far past their capacity. Even the usually bustling markets and streets have emptied as people avoid leaving their homes unless they must. In a particularly dire eight-day stretch late last month, temperatures reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius), with high humidity adding to the misery. That was the hottest since 2015, a year when officials reported that more than 1,200 people died from heat-related causes in Karachi.

Organizations: Asia roasts Locations: Karachi, Pakistan’s, Asia

☆ Iga Swiatek out of Wimbledon after Yulia Putintseva defeat
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Charlie Eccleshare | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Iga Swiatek, the world No 1 who has never won Wimbledon, has been eliminated from this year’s tournament. Up against Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, the 5ft 4in world No. 35, Swiatek was defeated 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 in a third-round match on Court 1. Back in 2019, Putintseva beat the then world No 2 Naomi Osaka at Wimbledon. Putintseva certainly looked the sharper of the two, racing around the court and rushing Swiatek, taking away her rhythm.

Persons: Iga Swiatek, Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, Swiatek, Alize Cornet, Jannik, Putintseva, Naomi Osaka, Roland Garros, craves, Jelena Ostapenko, Coco Gauff, Clive Brunskill Organizations: Wimbledon, Birmingham, All England, undercooked, Paris Olympics Locations: Paris

Rights groups are furious the Taliban meeting is going ahead without Afghan women, and say it legitimizes Afghanistan’s leaders and fails to hold them to account for grave injustices. Whatever we had, we spent it,” Arzo’s brother Ahamad, a 27-year-old journalist under threat from the Taliban due to his occupation, told CNN in November. Arzo told CNN what drove her suicide attempt. Pakistan’s policy on “illegal foreigners” is no different to that of other nations, Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told CNN. CNNArzo doesn’t want a life like that for herself, her sister, or the women and girls still in Afghanistan.

Persons: ”, Arzo, Javed Iqbal, ” Richard Bennett, Zabihullah Mujahid, “, Richard Bennett, weren’t, – they’ll, They’re, Mahsa, Ahamad, Doctors, Arzo’s, CNN Arzo hadn’t, ” Mahsa, they’ve, can’t, Moniza Kakar, Rain, Kakar, Abbas, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Baloch, hadn’t, ” Amanullah, He’s, Amanullah, he’s, CNN Arzo, Heather Barr, ” Barr, “ It’s, Bennett, she’ll, “ I’m Organizations: CNN, Lifeline, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Befrienders Worldwide, Pakistan CNN —, United Nations, Human Rights, UN, Security, “ ACC ”, Afghan, ACC, Pakistani Ministry of Foreign, “, Taliban, Human Rights Watch, International Court of Justice, Criminal Court, ICC Locations: Karachi, Pakistan, Pakistani, Afghanistan, CNN Pakistan, Doha, Qatar, Afghan, Kabul, Islamabad, –, Soviet, ”, Canada, Israel, Gaza

☆ Why Women Must Be Invited to Shape Afghanistan’s Future - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Richard Bennett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I met with a group of 11th-grade math students who told me about their hopes for the future. “I don’t want to end up trapped at home and condemned to a domestic life,” one female student told me. Now, among the many other challenges facing girls and women under the Taliban’s rule, a mental health crisis has gripped the country. Now, more than 1,000 days later, school remains off limits for girls older than 12, and restrictions on education have expanded to universities. The Taliban now say education is “an internal matter,” and it remains unclear when — or if — schools will reopen to girls.

Persons: “, ”, — Organizations: United Nations, Taliban Locations: Afghanistan, United, Doha, Qatar

☆ Afghanistan enjoys historic run to T20 World Cup semifinals: ‘Cricket is the only source of happiness back home’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Ben Morse | Masoud Popalzai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Afghanistan fans celebrate the team's win against Bangladesh at the T20 World Cup. Gurbaz is the leading run scorer at the T20 World Cup. “That Afghanistan team got into the semis for the first time,” the 25-year-old told the International Cricket Council (ICC) website. It’s an unbelievable feeling.”Khan (middle) celebrates the dismissal of India's Rishabh Pant at the T20 World Cup. And in a statement posted online, the Afghanistan Cricket Board expressed its “disappointment” towards Australia’s decision and “reiterates its stance on neutral and politics-free cricket across the globe.”

Persons: – couldn’t, Ashraf Ghani, Mullah Amir Muttaqi, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah, Rashid Khan, ” Khan, cramp, Jonathan Trott, Ricardo Mazalan, Raees Ahmadzai, Khan –, Mohammad Nabi, Hashmatullah, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Ramon Espinosa, Trott, Khan, Nabi, Noor Ahmad –, bamboozled, Gurbaz, “, ”, India's Rishabh Pant, Randy Brooks, Barney Ronay, Suhail Shaheen, ” Shaheen Organizations: CNN, Pakistan, Afghanistan Cricket Board, Bangladesh, AFP, Getty, Australia, Afghan national cricket team, International Cricket Council, ICC, Afghanistan, United, Guardian, ACB, FIFA, International Olympic Committee Locations: Australia, Afghanistan, Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Bangladesh, “, AFP, Taliban, United States, Doha

☆ Russia has seen two terror attacks in just three months. Here’s what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | Jerome Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In Dagestan, Russian security forces fought an Islamist insurgency in the mountainous region in the 2000s that spilled over from neighboring Chechnya, though attacks have become rarer in recent years. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his election campaign confidants at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 20, 2024. ISIS-K attack on music venueThe coordinated attacks in Dagestan come just weeks after Russia suffered its worst terror attack in decades. For a leader who has long promised security and stability to Russians, the major attack on Russian soil was another powerful blow. In the aftermath of the March attack, Putin called for Russia to remain united.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov, Jill Dougherty, Vladimir Putin, confidants, Evgenia Novozhenina, Bashar al, Assad, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Benjamin Netanyahu, ” Organizations: CNN, ISIS, Ukraine grinds, Russian Jewish Congress, Attackers, TASS, Russian Federation, Soviet, Hamas, Makhachkala Uytash Airport, Kremlin, Reuters, Saudi, Israeli, Central, Migrants, Kazakhstan — Locations: Russia, Russia’s, Dagestan, Moscow, Derbent, Makhachkala –, Makhachkala, Russian, Republic of Dagestan, Russia’s Caucasus, Caucasus, Soviet Union, Chechnya, –, Grozny, Ukraine, ”, Gaza, Israel, CNN Moscow, Reuters Russia, Iran, Soviet, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan

☆ Attacks in Russia’s Dagestan Region: What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two bloody attacks in Dagestan, in southern Russia, on Sunday ignited fears of extremist violence on the home front, as the Kremlin pours resources and bodies into its sprawling war in Ukraine. Though little else is known about the attacks, they touched a nerve in a region long strained by separatist and ethnic tensions. Groups of gunmen launched seemingly coordinated attacks on synagogues and Orthodox churches in two cities — Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital, and Derbent — that are more than 70 miles apart. Though Russian officials called the violence acts of terrorism, they did not blame the attacks on any specific people or groups. No organization has claimed responsibility, and the motive remains unknown.

Locations: Dagestan, Russia, Ukraine, Makhachkala, Dagestan’s

☆ Putin pledged decades ago to conquer the horrors of Islamic extremism. Deadly Dagestan attack again proves he failed
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Only a fraction of the violence that raged across Dagestan on Sunday is visible at the moment, and it is already horrific. But it is particularly bad in Dagestan, where protests broke out in the earlier months of the war, as their sons had been disproportionately mobilized. Putin came to power in 1999 graphically pledging to wipe out “in the toilet” the extremists apparently behind apartment bombings in Moscow. But it is still the same problem Putin faced when he sneaked into Beslan in 2004. A raging sore for the Kremlin, and a reminder of both how Putin came to power and his limits on it.

Persons: Putin, Shamil Basayev, Vladimir Putin, –, Lenin, jihadists, ISIS’s Organizations: CNN, Hall, Kremlin, National Antiterrorism, Antiterrorism, Police, ISIS Locations: Dagestan, Moscow, North Caucasus, Moscow’s Crocus, Ukraine, Russia, Chechnya, Chechen, Chechnya’s, Beslan, Ingushetia, Boston, Makhachkala, South, Central Asia

☆ Gunmen Kill at Least 6 at Synagogue and Churches in Russian Republic
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Ivan Nechepurenko | More About Ivan Nechepurenko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At least six police officers and a priest were killed in attacks in two cities in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan after gunmen opened fire on Sunday at a synagogue, at least two churches and a police post, the local interior ministry said. At least a dozen police officers were wounded in two seemingly coordinated attacks, Russian state news agencies reported, citing local law enforcement officials. Vladimir Legoida, a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, said in a Telegram post that Nikolai Kotelnikov, a local priest who had served in the church for 40 years, was killed in the attack. Russian state news agencies posted videos of the Derbent synagogue engulfed in flames. In a statement, the local police said that the synagogue and the church had been “burned down.”

Persons: Vladimir Legoida, Nikolai Kotelnikov, ” Organizations: Russian Orthodox Church Locations: Russia’s, Dagestan, Dagestan’s, Makhachkala, Azerbaijan

CNN —Six law enforcement officers and a priest have reportedly been killed in what appear to be coordinated attacks by gunmen in Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province. Regional authorities say 12 law enforcement officers have also been wounded, though it is unclear in which city. Two “militants” have also been killed following the attacks, the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti reported on Sunday, citing Dagestan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. A priest was killed in the attack on the church in Derbent, according to the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission Chairman, Shamil Khadulaev. “According to the information I received, Father Nikolay was killed in the church in Derbent, they slit his throat.

Persons: ”, Shamil Khadulaev, Nikolay, ” Khadulaev, Khadulaev, Sergey Melikov Organizations: CNN, RIA Novosti, Dagestan’s Ministry, Internal Affairs, Dagestan Public, Russian Federation Locations: Russia’s, Dagestan, Derbent, Makhachkala, Russian, Dagestan Republic, Russia, …, Republic of Dagestan

☆ Cost of living survey: The most expensive cities for expats in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But which international city is the most expensive in the world for expats to move to? Hong Kong has once again taken the title of most costly city for overseas workers in the 2024 Mercer Cost of Living Survey, which was released Monday. Rising housing costsNew York was ranked as the eighth most expensive city for international employees to move to on the 2024 Mercer Cost of Living Survey. At 92, Toronto was ranked as the most expensive city in Canada for international employees, followed by Vancouver at 101. Financial impactsMexico City jumped 46 places to number 33 on the list of most expensive cities for international employees to move to.

Persons: isn’t, ”, Vince Cordova, ” Yvonne Traber Organizations: CNN, Survey, Bern, New York, London, Bahamas, Los, Toronto, Mexico City, Mercer US, Nigeria’s Locations: Hong Kong, Singapore, Swiss, Zurich, Geneva, Basel, New, New York, Nassau, Los Angeles, Canada, Vancouver, Mexico, Mexico City, Monterrey, ”, Islamabad, Nigeria’s Lagos, Abuja, Switzerland, Bern, London, United Kingdom, The Bahamas

☆ Muggings, Murders and Mob Justice: Violent Crime Roars Back in Karachi
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Zia Ur-Rehman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The terrifying stories are sprawled across local newspapers and recounted in hushed tones at tea stalls and bus stands: another day, another brutal death during an armed robbery in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. Last Wednesday, a car mechanic was shot dead by muggers trying to steal his phone. A few days earlier, robbers killed a 27-year-old mechanical engineer, stealing his phone, cash and motorcycle. Across Karachi, Pakistan’s economic powerhouse, the rate of violent crime has soared. The country’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has called for a “large-scale operation” against the street criminals.

Persons: muggers, Asif Ali Zardari, mugging, ”, Shamim Ali Locations: Karachi, Pakistan’s

☆ T20 Cricket World Cup: Pakistan succumbs to heartbreaking defeat against archrival India
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Pakistan’s heartbreaking Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup continued as it succumbed to a dramatic six-run defeat against archrival India on Sunday following its shock loss to the USA earlier in the week. Often described as one of the greatest sporting grudge matches in the world, an India-Pakistan cricket match is always bound up in the geopolitical faultlines that separate the two nations. India narrowly defeated Pakistan. But the game turned on its head with six overs left when Jasprit Bumrah bowled Rizwan and took the momentum away from Pakistan. It set up a grandstand finish with Pakistan needing 18 runs off six balls in the last over and it ultimately fell just short.

Persons: CNN —, Stefan Jeremiah, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rohit heaved, Kohli, Rohit, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi, India’s, Robert Cianflone, Rishabh Pant, Mohammad Rizwan, Jasprit Bumrah, Rizwan Organizations: CNN, archrival India, Pakistan, Nassau County International, Nassau Locations: India, Pakistan, New York

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