WADA Cleared In Chinese Swimmers Case: Investigation

WADA Cleared In Chinese Swimmers Case: Investigation

The World Anti-Doping Agency did not show “favouritism” towards China in the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who were cleared to compete after testing positive for a banned drug, an independent report said on Tuesday. In April, the New York Times and German broadcaster ARD reported that the swimmers had tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ)…

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Australian Rules Cleared Of Anti-doping Breaches

Australian Rules Cleared Of Anti-doping Breaches

An inquiry Monday cleared Australian Rules players and support staff of feigning injuries to cover up illicit drug use, but recommended the sport overhaul its approach amid fears of “criminal infiltration”. Independent MP Andrew Wilkie used parliamentary privilege in March to claim he had received information that the Australian Football League (AFL) was “secretly” manipulating…

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Chinese chipmaker cleared in US criminal trade secrets case

Chinese chipmaker cleared in US criminal trade secrets case

A CHINESE chipmaker was cleared of economic espionage and other criminal charges in a setback for a United States Justice Department crackdown on intellectual property theft by China. More than five years after the Commerce Department blacklisted Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit as a threat to national security, US district judge Maxine M Chesney in San…

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Chinese chipmaker cleared in US criminal trade secrets case

Chinese chipmaker cleared in US criminal trade secrets case

A CHINESE chipmaker was cleared of economic espionage and other criminal charges in a setback for a United States Justice Department crackdown on intellectual property theft by China. More than five years after the Commerce Department blacklisted Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit as a threat to national security, US district judge Maxine M Chesney in San…

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Plane Wreckage Being Cleared From Tokyo Airport After Collision

Plane Wreckage Being Cleared From Tokyo Airport After Collision

Japanese workers began clearing the burnt wreckage of a passenger jet on Friday, three days after a near-catastrophic collision with a coast guard plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Five of the six crew on the smaller aircraft died in the incident on Tuesday but all 379 people on the Japan Airlines Airbus were evacuated just…

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Japan Airlines Says Jet Cleared To Land Before Collision

Japan Airlines Says Jet Cleared To Land Before Collision

Japanese investigators on Wednesday probed a near-catastrophic collision at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport between a coast guard plane and a passenger jet that airline executives have said was given permission to land. Five people on the coast guard aircraft died, but all 379 passengers and crew escaped to safety down emergency slides minutes before the Japan…

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Harvard Cleared Claudine Gay of Plagiarism Without Even Investigating Her as Its Lawyers Claimed Allegations were ‘Demonstrably False’

Harvard Cleared Claudine Gay of Plagiarism Without Even Investigating Her as Its Lawyers Claimed Allegations were ‘Demonstrably False’

Lawyers for Harvard claimed the baselessness of plagiarism allegations against the university’s president, Claudine Gay, even before they investigated whether her work was plagiarized even while some Harvard academics expressed strong disapproval, deeming Gay’s actions objectionable, according to a report. In a strongly-worded legal letter sent to The New York Post in late October, the…

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Controversial African Mask Sale Cleared By French Court

Controversial African Mask Sale Cleared By French Court

A French elderly couple on Tuesday saw its request to cancel the 4.2-million-eurosale of a rare African mask that they had let go for 150 euros thrown out, with the court calling their claim frivolous. The couple, in their eighties, sold the wooden mask in September 2021 as part of a number of antiquities including…

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Migrant Rescue Ship Ocean Viking Cleared To Leave Italian Port

Migrant Rescue Ship Ocean Viking Cleared To Leave Italian Port

Ocean Viking had spent ten days stuck in port after Italian authorities ordered the ship held ‘for an indefinite period’ AFP Migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking has been cleared to leave the Italian port where it has been stuck for ten days in a bureaucratic wrangle, its French-based operator said Friday. Marseille-based SOS Mediterranee said…

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