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Axel Foster, 4, was rushed to hospital after a pit bull tore his arm off from just below the shoulder at his grandparents’ Tecumseh home on Friday night, according to NBC-affiliated station KFOR. When police arrived at the home, they found Axel was missing his right arm and moved to apply a tourniquet from his vest. Firefighters also arrived and helped the officers. Tecumseh Police Department Chief JR Kidney told the network: “I’ve seen dog bites in the past and experienced pretty brutal dog bites with children but never a complete amputation....

However, experts stressed the results are preliminary, and parents needn’t worry unnecessarily that they have damaged their child’s brain by letting them use such gadgets. For a study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers recruited a total of 47 healthy children aged between 3 and 5 years old, who underwent MRI scans to map their brains, and sat language and literacy tests. Of the total, 78 percent of the participants had mothers who were college-educated, meaning they were relatively privileged....

“The U.S. government deserves global criticism for doing so little to end police brutality and the racism that pervades the criminal justice system,” Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, told Newsweek. “But it’s hard not to see a hint of diversionary convenience when those who join the call include the Chinese government despite its detention of one million Uighur and other Turkic Muslims to force them to renounce Islam, or the Iranian and Russian governments despite their persecution of such minorities as the Baha’is and the Crimean Tatars....

China and Russia—two of the other Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signatories—are pushing the Biden administration for a full return to the 2015 accord under its original terms, as Iranian leaders continue to do the same. Biden said during his election campaign that he wanted to reverse Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to withdraw from the JCPOA. Trump embarked on a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, trying and failing to force Tehran to negotiate a new, more restrictive nuclear deal....

Beijing - The Chinese women’s water polo team claimed a hard-fought 8-7 victory over Russia in the final of the FINA world league super final to win their first major title Thursday. The Chinese team, founded in 2004, are yet to win a medal of any colour at the Olympic Games, ranking fifth twice in Beijing and London. Their previous best performance was silver at the 2011 FINA world championships....

The People’s Liberation Army published footage Tuesday of its Tibet Military Region’s Shannan regiment setting off “rapid-fire” artillery at an altitude of nearly 15,000 feet in the strategic Himalaya region that separates China from several countries, including India. Beijing and New Delhi have locked horns over territory here and at least one June skirmish in a stretch of territory between India-administered Ladakh and China-administered Aksai Chin left 20 Indian troops dead and an unknown number of Chinese casualties....

Cynthia and Victor Liu returned to the U.S. on Saturday after the consular staff in Shanghai expedited their return, according to the State Department. In 2018, the siblings traveled to China with their mother, Han Tong, to visit a relative but were prevented by Chinese officials from leaving as a way to pressure their father, Liu Changming, to return to China, where he is wanted on money laundering charges, the AP said....

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing that “big and small thorns” remaining in the U.S.-China relationship needed to be removed. Asked whether the resolution of the Meng case—and the simultaneous release of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—meant Chinese leader Xi Jinping was prepared to meet with President Joe Biden at next month’s G20 summit in Italy, Hua said there was no arrangement to announce at this time....

When Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with U.S. counterpart Joe Biden on Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry quoted its leader as offering a dual approach to not only bringing an end to the war but addressing core concerns that both China and Russia see as having helped stoke the conflict launched one month ago by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “All sides need to jointly support Russia and Ukraine in having dialogue and negotiation that will produce results and lead to peace,” Xi was cited as saying during the highly anticipated conversation....

The Vostok (East) exercises will take place from August 30 to September 5 in the eastern portion of Russia, though ignoring the ongoing “special military operation” in Ukraine may prove difficult considering Russian munitions and soldiers are sent home to the war games. The exercises will reportedly go forward without interruption and include all necessary personnel, weapons and equipment, Reuters reported. The Chinese military first attended Vostok in 2018, where an estimated 300,000 troops participated in the district that includes a portion of Siberia and has headquarters in Khabarovsk close to the Chinese border....

The hardest-hit region of Hubei province requires 100,000 medical protective suits a day—more than three times the daily output produced across the whole country, according to the Shanghai Daily online publication Shine. Vice minister of industry and information technology, Wang Jiangping, told a press conference that his government has had to resort to purchasing more than 220,000 medical protective suits from overseas. Tapping into a 1 billion yuan (US$140 million) fund set up by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, purchasing agents are seeking suppliers in 14 countries, including Indonesia and Malaysia....

Meanwhile, biathletes Zhang Yan, Tang Jialin, Song Chaoqing and Song Na finished 49th, 55th, 63rd and 83rd (out of 84) respectively. Song Na missed a team-high four targets in total, and, at 18, clearly hasn’t realized that if you’re going to have rock star hairstyle, you’d better be ready to play in the big leagues. An honorable mention goes to Taiwan’s Lien Te-an – a graduate of the Youth Olympic Games – who finished dead last (39) in the men’s luge, but clearly had the courage to race down the track four times at lethal speeds....

China’s Yang Haoran earned the first Rio 2016 shooting place by winning the men’s 10m air rifle event, eclipsing Russia’s Nazar Louginets by 1.9 points. “I’m honoured that I claimed the first Olympic quota for my country,” Haoran told the official Rio 2016 Olympic website. “The world championships is a huge competition. The best shooters of the world are here. I felt the pressure at the beginning of the final, but then I zeroed in and was able to climb up on top,” he said....

Antony Blinken is a seasoned Obama-era foreign policy adviser and, once confirmed by the Senate, will succeed a staunch China critic in Mike Pompeo. He tweeted in support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement on Wednesday after local police confirmed they had arrested 53 activists for violating the city’s national security law. The operation involved around 1,000 law enforcement officers who launched dawn raids at 72 locations, Hong Kong police told reporters....

The State Department first issued a brief readout late Tuesday revealing a call between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, with State Department spokesperson Ned Price saying the pair discussed “developments in the DPRK” and “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.” “The Secretary underscored the need to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Price said. Identical language was used by Blinken himself in a tweet issued shortly afterward, as President Joe Biden’s administration prepared to unveil further measures designed to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for recognizing two separatist, self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and sending in peacekeepers in response to worsening violence that U....

The Taiwanese have survived and prospered despite nearly 50 years of such bullying from the mainland. But the nagging risk is that China’s threats and bombast may lead to a major confrontation – not just with Taiwan but with the United States. Since Washington switched its formal recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1978, it has continued, in effect, to be Taiwan’s protector. Moreover, the United States, with security ties to Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, helps shape the regional balance of power....

In the article published by The Global Times on Saturday, Hu argued that China needed to build up its stockpile of nuclear weapons as a “deterrent,” as U.S. officials have been increasingly critical of the Chinese government amid the coronavirus pandemic. The editor argued that this would “safeguard national security.” “In the past, China’s storage of nuclear weapons was deemed sufficient to generate adequate nuclear deterrent, however, it doesn’t mean the same storage will be big enough in the future to curb US government’s strategic ambitions and bullying impulse against China,” Xijin wrote....

Chirag Tanna who is the General Manager of Reliance Indian Limited, Sports and Integration and the former Head of Operations at I-League club Pune FC laid out the salient challenges of having the football calendar year divided between two top tier leagues and why they need to be merged as soon as possible. Merger to increase marketability; no. of clubs to increase “The split domestic calendar reduces the marketability of the leagues, and the national team coach complains that he can’t get enough time with his players....

Based on the Marvel Comics race of the same name, Marvel Studios’ Eternals will feature an ensemble cast that includes Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, and Kit Harington. As in the comics, the titular immortal aliens, who have remained hidden on Earth for thousands of years, will reunite to protect the planet from their adversaries, the Deviants. Set photos also indicate the conflict between the Eternals and Deviants will be complicated by a romance between Gemma Chan’s Sersi and Harrington’s Dane Whitman, a human best known to comic readers as Black Knight....