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Jill Biden Wears Official Ralph Lauren Outfit While Cheering on Team USA During the 2021 Olympics
Jill Biden has been showing her support for Team USA. The first lady visited Tokyo for the 2021 Olympics during a three-day trip, and after attending the opening ceremony on Friday, cheered on Team USA during events on day one of the Games. Dr. Biden attended women s 3x3 basketball with French President Emmanuel Macron (Team USA won against France 17-10), swimming prelims, and the USWNT game against New Zealand, where the US won 6-0. While she was at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, USA swimmers chanted Dr. Biden, to which the first lady responded thank you with a wave.
USA Basketball defeated by France for first Olympic loss since 2004
France s Evan Fournier goes for the basket past United States Draymond Jamal Green during a basketball game on Sunday, July 25. (Eric Gay/AFP/Getty Images)
The United States men’s basketball team was defeated by France 83-76 in the team’s opening game of group play.
The loss snaps a 25-game win streak dating back to the 2004 Summer Games in Athens when Team USA lost to Argentina.
France ended the game on a 16-2 run to seal the win, behind Evan Fournier’s team-leading 28-point effort.
Team USA will next play Iran on Wednesday.
French President Macron speaks to Israeli PM Bennett on allegations of snooping
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French President Macron speaks to Israeli PM Bennett on allegations of snooping
PTI / Jul 25, 2021, 08:58 IST
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French President Emmanuel Macron has reportedly spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on reports that Morocco s security forces may have used the Pegasus spyware to snoop on his cellphones. (File photo)
JERUSALEM: French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on reports that Morocco s security forces may have used the Pegasus spyware to snoop on his cellphones, according to a media report.
A global media consortium last week reported that 50,000 cellphone numbers were being spied on using the Pegasus malware, which has been developed by Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group. The mobile phones of French President Macron and 15 members of his government may have been among potential targets, accor
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An escalating row over democratic values is threatening to reopen parts of the old Iron Curtain fault line between western and eastern Europe, as Poland and Hungary defy European Union pressure to toe the blocâs political line.
A long-simmering showdown, pitting the populist-right governments in Budapest and Hungary against a clutch of western European leaders and the Brussels bureaucracy and parliament, has come to a head in recent weeks, and become impossible to ignore.
The stoush strikes at the heart of the EUâs identity as a promoter and exporter of democratic values and the rule of law, forged almost three decades ago when it brought the former Soviet-bloc countries rapidly into its fold.
Top-seeded Ashleigh Barty knocked out of Olympics in first round
From CNN s Kevin Dotson
Ashleigh Barty of Team Australia plays a forehand during her Women s Singles First Round match on July 25. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
Australian tennis star Ashleigh Barty was knocked out of the Olympic women’s singles tournament in Tokyo in the first round by Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo.
Barty was the tournament’s top seed and the number one ranked woman in the world coming off a championship at Wimbledon.
Sorribes Tormo defeated Barty in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.
Meanwhile, British tennis player Andy Murray has withdrawn from the men’s singles tennis tournament due to a quad strain, Team GB announced. He will continue to compete in the men’s doubles tournament.