• Second boxer who failed gender eligibility test secures Olympic medal
• Travesty: Olympic boxer who failed gender test wins quarterfinal bout, guaranteed medal
• Italian female boxer says 'I quit to save my life' after stopping Olympics bout with 'biologically male' opponent just 46 seconds into first round

London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the UK, but on American citizens as well.

"We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you're in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.

...

One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the U.S. to be jailed in the U.K. for violating their rules about political speech online.

A Sky News reporter asked Commissioner Rowley to further explain his warning, arguing that high profile figures have been "whipping up the hatred," and that "the likes of Elon Musk" have been getting involved.

She then asked what the police force's plan will be "when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?"

Rowley answered by telling the reporter, "Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law."

It does when that keyboard is in another country you insufferably, cowardly knob.

"You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material," he said.

"All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities."

Elon Musk has made headlines for criticizing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's response to the riots over the past week, suggesting the UK is headed toward "civil war."

He also responded to a video of someone allegedly arrested for offensive online comments with a question, "Is this Britain or the Soviet Union?"

Starmer's spokesperson said there was "no justification" for Musk's comments, adding that social media companies "can and should be doing" more to combat misinformation, the BBC reported.

He added that such companies "have a responsibility" to stop the spread of criminal activity and limit misinformation.

"The massacre at al-Tabaeen school in the al-Daraj neighborhood in the center of Gaza City is a horrific crime that marks a dangerous escalation in the unprecedented series of crimes and massacres in the history of wars, perpetrated in the Gaza Strip by the new Nazis," Hamas said.

Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement said, "The enemy has committed a brutal massacre, with the full US support, against displaced people while they were performing the dawn prayer inside a school in the center of Gaza City."

"We strongly condemn the Zionist fascism, and denounce the United States' full support to Israel to press ahead with its genocidal crimes in Gaza," Ansarullah spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam said in a statement.

He said Arab and Muslim nations must assume their responsibility for the Palestinians in Gaza, stressing that shame and disgrace anyone who fails in his religious and humanitarian duties.
[...]

The administration of President Joe Biden has announced plans to send an additional $3.5bn to Israel to spend on US-made weapons and military equipment amid the occupying regime's months-long onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The US State Department said it had notified Congress of the Biden administration's intention to release billions of dollars worth of foreign military financing to Israel.

CNN reported earlier on the release of the amount which comes from a $14 billion supplemental funding bill for Israel passed by the Congress in April.

The State Department said part of the new financial aid would go to Israel's Netzah Yehuda battalion, an Israeli military unit which is based in the occupied West Bank and has for long been committing human rights abuses against Palestinians there.

The State Department also said it had decided against sanctioning the unit, stressing that it was satisfied with what was claimed to be "Israeli efforts to address" violations by the battalion.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined in a finding made public in April that the battalion carried out grave human rights abuses against Palestinians, triggering an investigation under US legislation related to US military aid to foreign forces.

Despite protests from Republican lawmakers over the findings of abuse related to the battalion, Blinken said he would allow aid to continue to the unit in order to give Israel time to address the wrongdoing.

Iran has condemned an Israeli bombing of a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip that left more than a hundred people dead and a lot more injured.

"The continuation of the insane attacks by the Zionist regime against Palestinian civilians and the brutal massacre of women, children and the elderly, especially today's heinous attack by this regime on the Palestinian refugees living in the al-Taba'in school, once again proved that the apartheid regime of Israel does not respect any of the rules and regulations of international law as well as moral and human principles," Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani said Saturday.

Early on Saturday, Israel bombed the al-Tabi'in school in the al-Daraj neighborhood east of Gaza City as the citizens were performing the dawn prayer.

Stressing that the barbaric attack was a clear example of simultaneously committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, Kan'ani said, "The only way to deal with this cruel regime is the firm and decisive action of Muslim and freedom-loving countries across the world...against occupation and aggression."

Kan'ani described the Israeli attack on the al-Tabi'in school as a clear example of threats to international peace and security, calling for immediate and effective action by the United Nations Security Council based on the seventh chapter of the United Nations Charter to curb and stop Israel's crimes.
[...]

Previously, icy conditions have contributed to crashes of other turboprop planes. In 1994, an ATR 72 operated by American Eagle crashed in Indiana, killing all 68 people on board. A federal investigation blamed the manufacturer for not disclosing enough about the model's vulnerability to ice, leading ATR to add more ice protection equipment to the aircraft.

Flightradar24 said that there was an active warning for severe icing in the area where the plane lost control on Friday, in addition to meteorological reports of turbulence and thunderstorms.

A report from television network Globo's meteorological center said it "confirmed the possibility of the formation of ice in the region of Vinhedo," and local media cited analysts pointing to icing as a potential cause for the crash.

But aviation expert Lito Sousa cautioned that meteorological conditions alone might not be enough to explain why the plane fell as it did.

"Analyzing an air crash just with images can lead to wrong conclusions about the causes," Sousa told the AP by phone. "But we can see a plane with loss of support, no horizontal speed. In this flat spin condition, there's no way to reclaim control of the plane."

And Marcelo Moura, director of operations for Voepass, told reporters Friday night that, while there were forecasts for ice, they were within acceptable levels for the aircraft.

8 Aug, 2024 11:48
Zelensky aide reveals goal of cross-border raid
Kiev wants to instill fear into Russians as they don't react to anything else, Mikhail Podoliak has claimed

Kiev launched its cross-border incursion into Kursk Region in an attempt to instill fear among the Russian population, a senior aide to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said.

Ukrainian forces began an offensive in the Russian region earlier this week, allocating troops for the operation despite being pushed back elsewhere on the front line. Kiev's objectives include placing Russians under psychological pressure in a bid to erode support for their government, Mikhail Podoliak stated in a television interview on Thursday.

"Today they have a war that is expanding deeper inside the Russian Federation. Will they fear that? Yes," he claimed. "Do they respond to anything but fear? No, and everyone should realize that at last."

Russian officials have described the Ukrainian attack as terrorist in nature, citing apparent deliberate attacks on civilian targets. A Ukrainian kamikaze drone hit an ambulance in Kursk Region on Tuesday, killing its driver and a paramedic and injuring a doctor, Governor Andrey Smirnov said.

Podoliak claimed that Kiev's ultimate goal of terrorizing Russians was aimed at securing a stronger position during eventual peace talks with Moscow. Zelensky himself made similar remarks in a video statement on Thursday.

"The more pressure is applied to Russia... the closer peace will be - a just peace through just force," he said, thanking Ukrainian troops for their actions.

Zelensky claims that a "just" end to the conflict can only be reached through his own peace formula, which includes Kiev asserting control over all the land it claims under its sovereignty, as well as war reparations and a tribunal for senior Russian officials. Moscow has rejected the idea as detached from reality and unworthy of consideration.

The Ukrainian leader has claimed on several recent occasions that Russia could be invited to a summit later this year, where it would supposedly be pressured by the international community into accepting Kiev's terms. A Swiss-hosted "peace summit" in June - to which Moscow wasn't invited - was widely perceived as a failure for Ukrainian diplomacy, considering the underwhelming content of its final communique.

[...]

"We are quite tolerant towards people with non-traditional sexual orientations. We just don't flaunt it, and we don't believe it's right to flaunt it. Let everyone live - the adults - as they want. Nobody limits them in anything [..]

As for children, I have already said many times: 'Don't touch the children.' That's it. This is the first one. And the second one is, we are, first and foremost, a state that is guided by traditional values."

• France: Senators call for ban on gender transition for minors, 'one of the greatest ethical scandals in history of medicine'
• Transgenderism now officially classified as a 'mental illness' in Peru
• Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony: Transvestites, blasphemy, and apocalyptic symbolism

At least four civilians have been killed in the attack and 28 have been injured in Ukrainian artillery and drone strikes on Sudzha, Smirnov said.The local authorities had to use armored cash-in-transit vehicles donated by banks to take people to safety, Smirnov also said.

Up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have taken part in the operation, backed by armor that included several US-made Stryker armored fighting vehicles, as well as artillery and drones, according to the Russian authorities. Kiev has not commented on the attack so far.

In addition to massive loss of forces, Kiev lost eight tanks, 12 armored personnel carriers and six infantry fighting vehicles, since the start of their attempted incursion into Kursk Region, according to the latest estimates provided by the Russian Defense Ministry. Moscow's troops, together with border guards, have been preventing the Ukrainian military from getting deeper into the region, the ministry said.

• Global anti-doping agency accused of 'blackmailing' Olympic host - AFP
• Russia's sporting ban is being dictated by geopolitics, not justice
• Russian foreign minister warns that US could try to kidnap athletes it deems a 'threat' under new anti-doping act opposed by WADARussia and the Olympics: The politics behind the WADA ban
• NATO using WADA and doping claims to contain Russia - Lavrov
• Western countries top WADA's latest list of sports doping countries, NOT Russia
• The West's cultural war against Russia continues: WADA bans Russia for 4 years from international competition - UPDATES

Salbutamol, also known as albuterol and sold under the brand name Ventolin among others,^[1] is a medication that opens up the medium and large airways in the lungs.^[8] It is a short-acting β₂ adrenergic receptor agonist that causes relaxation of airway smooth muscle.^[8] It is used to treat asthma, including asthma attacks and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction...
[...]
As of 2011 there was no evidence that an increase in physical performance occurs after inhaling salbutamol, but there are various reports for benefit when delivered orally or intravenously.[40][41] In spite of this, salbutamol required "a declaration of Use in accordance with the International Standard for Therapeutic Use Exemptions" under the 2010 WADA prohibited list. This requirement was relaxed when the 2011 list was published to permit the use of "salbutamol (maximum 1600 micrograms over 24 hours) and salmeterol when taken by inhalation in accordance with the manufacturers' recommended therapeutic regimen."[42][43]

Abuse of the drug may be confirmed by detection of its presence in plasma or urine, typically exceeding 1,000 ng/mL. The window of detection for urine testing is on the order of just 24 hours, given the relatively short elimination half-life of the drug,[44][45][46] estimated at between 5 and 6 hours following oral administration of 4 mg.[24]