Chinese slams the US boycott of the Winter Olympics; calling it "grave distortion of the spirit of the Olympic Charter", while adding that it won’t make any difference.

The freezing of assets and aid worth billions of dollars by the US and its European allies has plunged Afghanistan into unimaginable humanitarian crisis.

Jurors on Tuesday began deliberating on five felony charges against the teenager stemming from the unrest August last year in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man.