The Athletics Integrity Unit charged the 33-year-old with "evading sample collection, and tampering or attempted tampering with the doping control process". In February, Okagbare was given her original ban for "multiple breaches of anti-doping rule...

2022-06-28 09:18 in the press

The new guideline cuts the length of mandatory quarantine for overseas travellers to seven days plus three more of home monitoring -- a drastic drop from about 21 days of quarantine and home monitoring combined. China closed off its international b...

The region split between India and Pakistan has been the cause of several wars, and three years ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed direct rule over the Indian-administered part where an insurgency has raged for decades. His government is hopi...

The strike, carried out on Monday just before midnight (2100 GMT) on the eastern edge of the city of Idlib, took out a man described as a leader of the Hurras al-Deen group. "Abu Hamzah al Yemeni was travelling alone on a motorcycle at the time of...

More than 250 people were injured in the accident Monday, of whom 123 remained in hospital on Tuesday, according to the latest toll update. Most were being treated for the effects of breathing chlorine gas, a common cleaning agent that also has a r...

On the heels of overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court sided with a football coach from Washington state who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games. The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines for the coach. The justices said the c...

In a statement, the company said it had "ample supply" of Plan B and Aftera, two products intended to be taken by women to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex or if a birth control method fails. The drugs -- commonly known as morning-after pill...

"Africa Fashion", at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum from Saturday, is also the country's first exhibition dedicated to the medium. Project curator Elisabeth Murray said the show will provide a "glimpse into the glamour and politics of the fas...

NATO said it would boost its high-readiness force from 40,000 to 300,000 troops and send more heavy weaponry to its eastern flank, in what chief Jens Stoltenberg called "the biggest overhaul of our collective defence and deterrence since the Cold Wa...

But the territory was once a quiet backwater of rural hamlets and fishing communities, where mountainous terrain dominated sparse human settlement. Twenty-five years since the city was handed back to China by colonial power Britain, here are key p...

Hong Kong will mark the 25th anniversary of the handover on Friday and the halfway point of One Country, Two Systems -- the governance model agreed by Britain and China under which the city would keep some autonomy and freedoms. That model was set ...

World leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden are due on Tuesday to leave the Group of Seven meeting in Germany and head to Spain for a NATO summit. The G7 leaders issued a statement condemning Russia’s...

Days after an earthquake killed more than 1,000 people in southeastern Afghanistan, survivors are trying to secure shelter and piece their lives back together.

The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years -- and came five years after a similar deadly incident in the same central Texas city, a few hours from the Mexican border. "At this time we h...