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Skateboarding at the Olympics: how it works

Johannesburg (AFP) – Brandon Valjalo, South African national skateboarding champion and future Olympian, explains how his sport will work at the Tokyo Games. Skateboarding will make its Olympic debut alongside three new disciplines: surfing, karate, and climbing.

Foreign reporters to be tracked by GPS at Tokyo Olympics

Overseas journalists covering the Tokyo Olympics will have their movements tracked by GPS, the Games president says, and could have their passes revoked if they break the rules. Organisers of the pandemic-postponed 2020 Games, which open in just over six weeks, are trying to reassure a sceptical public that the mega-event can be held safely under strict virus rules.

Web users must accept less anonymity for more security, says expert

People may have to accept less online anonymity if they want to be better protected from cyberattacks, according to one expert. Miguel De Bruycker the managing director of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium told Euronews that with internet and data security becoming a bigger issue people might have to give up some of their online obscurity to guarantee more safety.

Endangered antelope rebounds in Kazakhstan, but threats loom

Amangeldi (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – In 2015, a nasal bacteria wiped out more than half of the world's Saiga antelope population, spurring disturbing images of carcasses strewn across the vast steppe of Central Asia. But now the species is bouncing back, with Kazakh authorities hailing protective measures for a creature that survived the Ice Age, only to flirt with extinction several times in the modern era.

Trudeau: We must take action after family killed

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the lives of three generations of a London, Ontario family were taken in what he calls a brutal, brazen and cowardly terrorist attack and we must take action to stop more from happening. (June 8)

'Butcher of Bosnia' loses appeal of genocide conviction

Former Bosnian Serb army leader Ratko Mladic, nicknamed "the butcher of Bosnia," will have to serve his life sentence after an appeal against his war crimes convictions was rejected by a United Nations court. Mladic, 79, was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 after being found guilty of genocide for atrocities committed during the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995.

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