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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFdHnjr6wPk TOKYO---Hidilyn Diaz has seen it all, heard it all. She's watched her name surface in a government matrix that detailed supposed conspiratorial destabilizers. She's seen her performance dip below standards she is accustomed to. A pandemic stranded her in Malaysia, locking her away from her family for 18 months. "People said I was over the hill," Diaz said. "I really went through a lot. Well, everyone is singing praises to her now, a day after she ended the country's quest for an Olympic gold medal by ruling the women's weightlifting 55-kg division at Tokyo International Forum late Monday night. Bashers who fed her reputation and ...

Keep on reading: ‘Worth it’: Hidilyn Diaz sacrificed a lot for Olympic gold

MANILA, Philippines --- Chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo on Tuesday insisted he did not say Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz is part of an alleged plot to oust President Rodrigo Duterte. This even if it was him who made public in 2019 six matrices of what he described as a network of personalities, which included Diaz, that purportedly wants to overthrow the Duterte administration. In a statement, Panelo again blamed the media for "hastily" concluding that the government tagged Diaz as part of the destabilizers. He offered this same excuse in 2019 when he was pressed by the media to explain the inclusion of Diaz and star volleyball player and TV host Gretch...

Keep on reading: Panelo insists he did not link Hidilyn Diaz to plot to overthrow Duterte

Taiwan's star weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun won gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, but when she ascended the podium to receive her medal there was no national flag and no national anthem to greet her. Taiwan cannot even call itself "Taiwan" at the Games. Instead, it must use the title "Chinese Taipei," a source of considerable frustration to many Taiwanese. Here's why: What's in a name? Taiwan has been given a host of names at the Olympics over the years because of its peculiar international status. Despite being a self-ruled democracy of 23 million people with its own borders, currency and government, Taiwan's status remains disputed. After the 1949 Chinese civil war...

Keep on reading: Why is Taiwan not called Taiwan at the Olympics?

Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz, who is working unofficially with the Biden administration, tells CNN's Anderson Cooper the one thing the President must do to combat vaccine hesitancy is to invite Donald Trump to the White House.

Russia's women gymnastics team capitalized on the dramatic departure of Simone Biles from the US team to win the Olympic title on Tuesday. The US team withdrew Biles from the final after a disappointing opening vault and Russia went on to beat the champions from the last two Games by more than three points. Britain took a surprise bronze medal. Led by Angelina Melnikova, the Russians emulated their men's team who won gold 24 hours earlier. Competing under a neutral banner due to its country's doping suspension, Russia was ending a sequence of domination by the US women in world and Olympic finals stretching back to 2011. But the main focus of attention at the Ariak...

Keep on reading: Russian women win Olympics gymnastics team final after Biles exit

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) won a dramatic women's team gymnastic final to take the gold medal after Team USA was hit by the withdrawal of Simone Biles.

MANILA, Philippines---Even when he was at the center of controversies, the late President Benigno Aquino III did not attempt to influence people just to take the heat off him. As senators honored Aquino and his legacies on Tuesday, two of them looked back at the time when the late president was caught in the middle of the 2015 Mamasapano massacre and the controversial Reproductive Health measure. She recalled having "clashed" with the Aquino administration on some issues like the botched Mamasapano operation that left 44 elite policemen dead and the "inefficiencies" of the MRT. As then chairperson of the Senate committee on public order, Poe investigated the Mamasapano massa...

Keep on reading: No ‘meddling’ from Noynoy Aquino: Senators remember a ‘good man’

TOKYO---The United States dealt China a second consecutive straight sets defeat in women's volleyball to leave the defending champions in danger of missing out on the knockout stages. The Americans, bronze medallists at Rio in 2016, have won five Olympic medals in the event but never gold. Their 29-27 25-22 25-21 victory moved them to the top of Pool B without dropping a set, having beaten Argentina in their opener. Jordan Thompson, the Americans' 24-year-old opposite hitter who is competing in her first Games, impressed again, top-scoring with 34 points to set a Tokyo 2020 record. "We wanted to serve tough and stick with a solid block setup. We tried to have a short memory ...

Keep on reading: US down China, world champ Serbia beat Japan in Olympics volleyball

Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his bid for re-election, snubbing George P. Bush despite his firm support after Trump has belittled some members of the Bush family.

George P. Bush wanted Donald Trump's endorsement badly. Or, at a minimum, he wanted the former president to stay out of his primary challenge to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

https://www.facebook.com/iskomorenodomagoso/videos/259943202221767 MANILA, Philippines --- Manila Mayor Isko Moreno has asked his constituents to accompany him on a trip to combat various crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, in a seeming reference to the 2022 elections. During his live broadcast on Tuesday, Moreno implied that there would not be too big an opponent if people were united regardless of their political affiliation. "Samahan ninyo ako, maglayag tayo, tingin ko 'pag tayo nagsama-sama --- anyway at the end of the day iisang bangka tayo --- tingin ko, 'pag layag natin sa mga alon, bagyo, unos and so on and so forth basta't sama-sama tayo at nagkakaisa tayo? Kahit a...

Keep on reading: Isko for 2022? Manila mayor takes a swipe at Duterte on live broadcast

SAN ANTONIO, Zambales --- Fisherman Bobby Roldan from Masinloc town said he was no longer surprised about President Rodrigo Duterte's "worn-out narrative" on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) during his last State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 26. Duterte said he could not do anything with the arbitral ruling despite being pushed to do something about it, saying it was "more than what I can handle." "What will I do with a document that is not binding? China was not a part of that arbitration. There was really no arbitration at all because it was only the Philippine side," Duterte said in his speech. Duterte added: "Ano ang gusto nila? Makipag-giyera?...Do you want war...

Keep on reading: Zambales fishermen: Nobody wants to go to war with China

In what many are calling the Vatican's "trial of the century," a Vatican court on Tuesday opened proceedings against Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the Pope's former chief of staff, and nine other defendants charged with fraud and embezzlement, principally for their roles in a controversial $400 million real estate deal in London.