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The Frenchman Benoît Vêtu is the head coach of the Japanese national cycling team. After winning the gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio with the Chinese women's sprint team, he will try to reproduce the performance with the Japanese team - this time at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which begins on July 23. at considerable cost of the Japanese to shine in Tokyo. We profile them as well as the sport Keirin, a bike path event that is very popular in Japan and which generates large sums of money thanks to betting. .

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer with Reuters news agency was killed on Friday covering clashes between Afghan security forces and the Taliban near a border crossing with Pakistan, media reported and quoted an army commander. Afghan forces fought to retake Spin Boldak when Danish Siddiqui and a senior officer were killed in…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to secure Afghanistan’s vital Kabul international airport in a bid to improve US-Turkey relations as American and NATO troops complete their pullout from the war-battered country. But a Taliban warning underscores the military and diplomatic challenges of the Turkish offer. The drive to Kabul’s main airport has turned into a crawl during the 20-year US security presence in Afghanistan, with ever-increasing security checkpoints slowing travellers as they inch towards the…

China launched its long-awaited emissions trading system on Friday, a key tool in its quest to drive down climate change that causes greenhouse gases and become carbon neutral by 2060. The system was launched with China, the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter, trying to take a global leadership role in the climate crisis…

Poland is locked in a legal battle with the European Union over the legitimacy of legal and constitutional reforms exercised by its Conservative ruling party that could trigger Poland's withdrawal from the EU bloc. Under the leadership of the Populist Party for Law and Justice (PiS), the Polish government has pursued extensive reforms that it says are necessary to fight corruption, but critics say they are expanding the government's powers and defying the democratic values ​​that EU law upholds. Poland's abortion rights…

The Taliban has offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of 7,000 insurgent prisoners, an Afghan government negotiator said on Thursday, when Pakistan confirmed that the militant group had control of an important border crossing. "There is a huge demand," said Nader Nadery, a key member of the government group involved in peace talks with the Taliban, adding that the rebels also demanded that their leaders' names be removed from a UN blacklist. It was not immediately clear how the government would…

Thousands of interpreters who helped US and NATO forces in Afghanistan will be evacuated beginning in late July, Washington said on Wednesday as Taliban insurgents captured a strategic crossing at Pakistan's border with government forces. In what the White House called Operation Allies Refuge, interpreters and their families…

The Taliban captured the strategic border crossing between Spin Boldak at the border and Pakistan on Wednesday, and continued to make big gains since foreign forces intensified their withdrawal from Afghanistan. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry denied that the rebels had taken the area even when social media was flooded with…

France on Tuesday urged all its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country due to security concerns, the French embassy in Kabul said, as the Taliban continued a blowing offensive while foreign forces completed their withdrawal. "The government will set up a special flight on the morning of July 17, departing from Kabul, to…