China is Australia’s largest trading partner, with 25 percent of Australia’s manufactured imports coming from China, according to the Australian Parliament website. However, Australia’s recent call for an inquiry into both the World Health Organization and China’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak has caused some pushback from Chinese officials. “The Chinese public is frustrated, dismayed and disappointed with what Australia is doing now.” Chinese Ambassador to Australia Cheng Jingye Sunday interview with Australian Financial Review....

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that pandemic travel restrictions would be lifted once 80 percent of the population aged 16 and older were fully vaccinated, the Associated Press reported. “We’ve saved lives. We’ve saved livelihoods, but we must work together to ensure that Australians can reclaim the lives that they once had in this country,” Morrison said. There is no word yet when Australia will welcome international tourists back....

He gave a version of that oration to 850 people at the University of Virginia last fall, and it’s also now available on YouTube. “At this point I’m an authority on what to do with limited time,” Pausch, 46, told the audience while displaying CT scans of his pancreatic cancer. (Last August doctors projected three to six months of “good health”; since then he’s suffered heart and kidney failure, but last week his strength was returning....

Cale Makar’s goal late in the first period was all the buzz during and after the Colorado win. The Oilers had scored a goal with 23 seconds left in the opening frame to knot the score at 2-2, but just nine seconds later, the star defenseman for the Avs went in and ripped a shot past Mike Smith to give the Avs the lead back. MORE: NHL playoff bracket 2022: Full schedule, TV channels, scores...

McLeod was fined $3,091.40 for entering the game with 8.1 seconds remaining in regulation for the purpose of starting an altercation. He body-checked Wild center Mikael Granlund before engaging in a fight with forward Charlie Coyle. McLeod was assessed a minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, a major penalty for fighting and a misconduct penalty. MORE: Deadline winners and losers | Deadline live blog Landeskog, the team’s captain, was fined $5,000 for throwing a punch at Wild forward Mikko Koivu while both players were on their respective benches....

Putin had a poker face when told how reservists had been illegally mobilized and some had not been paid as he sat opposite Russia’s Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov at the Kremlin on Tuesday. “More than 9,000 citizens who were illegally mobilized were returned home, including those who, due to their health, should not have been mobilized in any way,” Krasnov said. “Vladimir Vladimirovich, mobilization has not been carried out for a long time,” continued Krasnov who said the process had revealed “a lot of significant problems, which have acted as a lesson for many....

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda since the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, was struck down by a U.S. airstrike on Saturday. As an early mentor to bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri helped plan the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. and was the chief architect of the USS Cole bombing in 2000. The State Department warned that the death of al-Zawahiri could inspire terrorist groups to target Americans and “U....

President Biden’s willingness to stand up to bullies both here and abroad has the potential to be a key hallmark of his presidency. But his administration’s handling of Azerbaijan’s illegal war and unprovoked attacks on Armenia promises to derail any of those accomplishments. Put simply, Azerbaijan is committing war crimes and atrocities. Despite overwhelming evidence, the Biden administration has done next to nothing in holding Azerbaijan accountable and keeping them in check....

The footage, which will air on the August 30 episode of MBFFL, opens with patriarch of the family, Glenn, discussing Babs’ recuperation from her major health scare. Babs, who is the mother of the TLC series’ main star Whitney Way Thore, suffered a second stroke earlier this year after recovering from her first back in 2017, leaving the family—and viewers on the show—concerned for the beloved star. When the show returned to screens for Season 10 in early August, it was confirmed that Babs was on the mend and was even set to be released from hospital and moved to an in-patient rehab facility....

The singer, whose real name is Kenneth Brian Edmonds, tweeted the news while additionally announcing a performance via Instagram live to celebrate his birthday. He wrote that his family also tested positive for the coronavirus. “I feel so blessed to be able to celebrate another birthday. I tested positive for the Covid 19 virus, as did my family,” he wrote. “It’s an incredibly scary thing to go through my my friends....

Whether or not an attack on Iraq is in the offing, the White House’s 2002 campaign theme was clear in Cheney’s first election-year swing through California last week: we are at war, and will be for the foreseeable future. And only he and his boss (backed by Republicans in Congress) have the Right Stuff–and a knowledge of the specs–to combat terrorism and protect the homeland. Vice presidents are always the remote-controlled attack devices in political campaigns, and Cheney will be no exception....

The Real Madrid superstar endured a terrible start to the season and spent the first half of the campaign struggling to find the net as his team stumbled time and again, leading to arch rivals Barcelona holding a commanding 19-point lead heading into the weekend. The Ballon d’Or winner winner netted just four league goals in the first half of the season, leading some to question if he was on the decline....

Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts began the scoring with an RBI single, and David Ortiz and Hanley Ramirez soon followed with fireworks. MORE: A look back at Pedro Martinez’s career | The worst alternate uniforms in baseball Ortiz cracked a three-run, opposite-field homer to put Boston up 4-0. Ramirez, the next batter, blasted a solo home run to left field. Your browser does not support iframes. Red Sox outfielder Alejandro De Aza greeted reliever Liam Hendriks with a two-run triple, becoming the eighth consecutive Boston hitter to reach base....

Onboard, Bush is demanding constant updates from his national-security adviser Steve Hadley, who is holed up in a staff cabin, speed-dialing officials around the world to get a better read on the situation. “Let’s find out more of what’s going on about the Israeli plan,” Bush tells Hadley. The president reminds his staff that this time last year, when he was in Scotland for another G8 summit of world leaders, suicide bomb-ers struck the London subway....

Barkley won the award, and now Mayfield has paid up. The Browns quarterback presented his friend with a huge diamond-encrusted pendant on a equally large gold chain. The pendant reads “QUADS,” a reference to the Giants’ running back’s impressive quads. Barkley acknowledged the gift on Twitter with some crying emojis. “S/O to @bakermayfield for coming through with the bet [😂] [😂] [😂] #QUADS,” he tweeted. Estimated cost for the necklace?...

The 4-minute, 40-second video posted on Facebook by Bakhmut Mayor Oleksiy Reva shows a time lapse of what the city looked like prior to the Russian invasion, and the damage incurred throughout the past six months. The city in the Donetsk region formerly had a population of 70,000 and was known for its salt mine and as a transportation hub. Images of the mostly vacant town show dilapidated buildings, bombed-out houses, structures ablaze, downed power lines, deserted gas stations with covered pumps, craters with used missiles inside them, broken windows, and even a Ferris wheel in a field....

Real Madrid favourites to retain La Liga Bale was seen departing Madrid’s session at Soldier Field on Tuesday with obvious discomfort in his right ankle. The 28-year-old missed long spells of last season with calf and ankle problems and the latest worry prompted concern among supporters on social media, with the UEFA Super Cup clash with Manchester United just a week away. However, Zidane is confident that Bale has been showing encouraging signs both in terms of fitness and form during pre-season....

The Blancos have named a 19-man party for the midweek clash at Wembley Stadium. Real 7/2 to beat Spurs to nil Bale had been hoping to make the cut, allowing him to face his former club, but he has only been able to return to light training ahead of the contest. Zinedine Zidane has been forced to overlook him as a result, but Isco does make the grade after shaking off a knock which kept him out of training on Monday....

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander ruled late Tuesday that St. Michael’s Media Inc., also known as Church Militant, is likely to succeed on its claims that Baltimore discriminated against it based on political views and violated its right to free speech. St. Michael’s Media plans to hold a prayer rally at a pavilion during a U.S. bishops’ meeting next month, across from where the meeting will be held. Cal Harris, a spokesperson for Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, said the city was disappointed in the decision as it considers the rally to be a threat to public safety....