Israel kills top Hezbollah figure in Beirut strike, Reuters sources say
Top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, two security sources told Reuters.
Russia and its ally Belarus have had their suspension from membership of the International Paralympic Committee overturned on appeal but their athletes remain barred from competing in IPC-run events.
The IPC said Friday that its independent appeals tribunal had ruled that the IPC membership should have considered more evidence before voting to suspend the two countries' national Paralympic organizations in November, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The IPC said the tribunal decision on Wednesday was taken on a "technicality" and that some of the evidence the tribunal heard wasn't available when the vote was taken last year. IPC President Andrew Parsons called the ruling "a decision we certainly respect, but disagree with."
The issue is now set to be considered again by IPC members in September. That meeting was already expected to consider the IPC's approach to Russian and Belarusian athletes in preparations for the Paralympics in Paris next year.
The tribunal decision doesn't overturn the IPC's policy of not allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to enter competitions in six sports it governs directly. Those include track and field, ice hockey and swimming. Other sports on the Paralympic program are governed separately outside of the Paralympic Games by various federations with their own policies.
Athletes from Russia and Belarus arrived at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing in March 2022, which was to start just over a week after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. They were excluded a day before the opening ceremony. The IPC sought to include them as neutral athletes but reversed course after other countries said they would boycott. At the time, Parsons cited an "untenable" security situation in the athletes village.
The International Olympic Committee favors letting Russians and Belarusians compete as neutral athletes without national symbols, so long as they aren't in the military and haven't publicly supported the war. The IOC says it hasn't made a decision on the Olympics in Paris next year.
Top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, two security sources told Reuters.
Since she was a young girl growing up in Vancouver, Ginny Lam says her mom Yat Hei Law made it very clear she favoured her son William, because he was her male heir.
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Edmontonians can count themselves lucky to ever see one tiger salamander, let alone the thousands one local woman says recently descended on her childhood home.