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Mario Barrios defeated Manny Pacquiao to defeat him at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, which was a failure to make history’s oldest welterweight champion.

He also did not lose, either.

Instead, the 30-year-old Barrios and the 46-year-old Pacquiao fought to a majority draw on Saturday, with one judge awarding Barrios a 115-113 victory and the other two judges drawing a 114-114 draw.

Barrios (29-2-2, 18 knockouts) kept his WBC welterweight belt thanks to the outcome.

Pacquiao later said, “I thought I won the fight.

It was a close fight, to be sure. My adversary was very tough. A wonderful fight ensued. It turned out well.

The record for the oldest welterweight champion was won by split-decision over Keith Thurman in 2019. Pacquiao already holds the record for the record with 62-8-3, 39 KOs.

The Filipino legend was inducted last month into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Pacquiao showed vigor against his younger foe in the opening fight of Saturday.

In the end, Barrios received more punches (121) and jabs (152) than Pacquiao’s (75), but in the end, his stats from CompuBox came in at 81.

After 10 rounds, Pacquiao held the lead on all three scorecards, but Barrios avoided the incident by avoiding the upset by going all three rounds. After the fight, Pacquiao was undoubtedly thinking about age and endurance.

Pacquiao, who lost his bid for the Philippines’ senatorial seat in May, said, “I need to keep training for longer before I fight for the title.” I started late because of the election, but that’s okay. Of course, I want a repeat. I want to inspire the Filipino people with a legacy.

Don’t let Barrios know that.

The champion called his stamina “wrong.” He still has good timing and is strong as hell. He continues to struggle with awkwardness.

Barrios is prepared for a rematch.

“I’ll do the rematch,” I promise. Absolutely not. For boxing, this was huge. I’d really like to do it again.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has issued a tsunami warning after three earthquakes, including the strongest of the magnitude 7.4, were recorded off Russia’s Pacific coast.

About 140 kilometers (87 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the capital of Russia’s Kamchatka region, which has a population of more than 160, 000, were the epicenters of a string of earthquakes, the last of which measured 6.7% and 5.7%, on Sunday.

Within 32 minutes, the earthquakes hit the same area off Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to the USGS.

At a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles), the earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred. No casualties were immediately reported.

Parts of Russia are now in danger of falling into the US National Tsunami Warning Center. Hawaii’s state-wide tsunami watch was later lifted.

A 6. 8 magnitude earthquake was also reported off the east of Kamchatka region on Sunday, according to Germany’s GFZ monitor. Later, GFZ upgraded it to a new magnitude of 7.4.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is a part of the Bering Sea, facing the Pacific, northeast of Japan, and west of Alaska, across the Bering Sea.

The Kamchatka Peninsula is a seismic hot zone because it connects the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. The area has experienced seven significant earthquakes of magnitude 8.3 or higher since 1900.

A magnitude 9 earthquake in Kamchatka on November 4, 1952, shattered Hawaii and caused no deaths despite causing 9.1-meter (30-foot) waves.

In an upper house election, voters in Japan will be able to determine Shigeru Ishiba’s and his ruling coalition’s support.

Polling stations nationwide opened at 7am on Sunday (22:00 GMT, Saturday) and will remain open until 8pm (11:00 GMT) in the majority of locations, according to Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK.

Many voters are concerned about the rising cost of living, especially for rice, with population decline and foreign policy also on the agenda, according to NHK.

In an election in which the majority of the seats are up for grabs, Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner Komeito may struggle to retake control of the 248-seat upper house of parliament.

Because the upper house lacks the authority to appoint a leader, a poor performance on Sunday would not immediately cause a change of government, but it would undoubtedly raise questions about Ishiba’s future and Japan’s political stability. Within the LDP, candidates for reelection or the creation of a new coalition partner would be contacted by Ishiba.

Additionally, polls indicate that smaller opposition parties may benefit from increased public spending and tax cuts. These parties include Sanseito, a right-wing organization that opposes foreign investment and promotes gender equality.

“I’m in graduate school, but I’m not around any Japanese people. They are all foreigners, according to Yu Nagai, a 25-year-old student who claimed to have voted for Sanseito.

Nagai told the Reuters news agency, “I think Japanese people are a little disrespected when I consider how compensation and money are spent on foreigners.”

In addition, other voters expressed concern about the rise in xenophobia.

The 43-year-old consultant Yuko Tsuji and her husband, who were standing outside a polling station in a Tokyo gymnasium, voted “for candidates who won’t fuel division” and said they supported the LDP for stability and unity.

The conservative base will “drift toward extremes” if the ruling party doesn’t act effectively. So I cast my vote hoping that the ruling party would take control of the situation, she told The Associated Press.

Daiichi Nasu, 57, a self-employed self-employed man, said he hopes to see a more diverse and inclusive society with more open immigration laws and gender laws, such as allowing married couples to maintain separate surnames. He cited the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan as the reason he voted for the CDPJ. On those fronts, I want to see progress.

According to NHK, more than 20 percent of registered voters, or roughly 21 million people, cast ballots earlier, a significant increase from the previous three years.

Ishiba, 68, a self-declared “geek” in the field of defense and a train enthusiast, attempted to become prime minister on his fifth occasion in September before calling late October elections.

The new prime minister’s ruling coalition, which had only 209 seats in the lower house of parliament from the 279 it had previously held, suffered a significant defeat in those polls.

Ishiba announced emergency economic measures in April to lessen any harm to Japanese export-related industries and households.

Before a new August 1 deadline touted by Washington, the nation is still desperately trying to get a reprieve from US President Donald Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs.

Japan’s center-right LDP, which has undergone frequent leadership transitions, has been in almost constant operation since 1955.

Since Shinzo Abe’s resignation in September 2020, he is the third prime minister to lead the nation.

Authorities in Hong Kong have suspended classes and grounded hundreds of flights as a result of Typhoon Wipha’s strongest tropical cyclone warning, which is currently being issued in the city.

According to the most recent satellite reports from the US weather monitor NOAA and Japan’s Himawari, Wipha was located about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Hong Kong on Sunday. It was moving westward toward southern China’s coastal regions.

The T10 hurricane alert was issued by the Hong Kong observatory, which stated that “winds with mean speeds of 123 kph (73 mph) are anticipated” and that they pose “considerable threat to Hong Kong.”

The observatory issued a warning to the public, “beware of destructive winds,” warning that “the southern portion of the territory is being affected by hurricane force winds under the influence of its eyewall.”

The Reuters news agency reported that large waves were spotted off Hong Kong Island’s eastern coast.

About 500 flights have been cancelled, according to a representative from the Hong Kong Airport Authority, and 400 others are scheduled to land or take off later that day.

According to the state news agency Xinhua, the provinces of Hainan and Guangdong in China were also on high alert. All daytime flights to Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Macao were delayed or cancelled on Sunday.

More than 200 people have contacted Hong Kong’s government-run temporary shelters for shelter. On Sunday morning, more than a dozen reports of fallen trees were received by authorities in a public hospital emergency room.

Additionally, trains offered a limited selection of services on Sunday, with the authorities suspending Sunday’s classes at all daycare centers and day schools.

Super Typhoon Saola received the T10 warning signal in Hong Kong’s final year in 2023.

Wipha, which means “splendour,” also swept over the Philippines during a tropical storm and soaked parts of Taiwan.

According to the Philippines’ National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, two people have been reported missing and the typhoon also increased the country’s seasonal monsoon rains.

More than 370, 000 people in the Philippines were affected by days of squall, with 43, 000 of them fleeing government-run emergency shelters or family homes as a result of flooding, landslides, and fierce winds.

On Sunday, July 20, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• According to the governor of the central region, Serhiy Lysak, Russian forces launched a missile attack on the region of Dnipropetrovsk, killing two people and causing damage to “an outpatient clinic, a school, and a cultural institution.”
• At least one person was killed overnight in a further Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa, according to officials, along with six other people, including six children.
• During the overnight attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russian forces had launched “more than 300 strike drones and over 30 missiles” against Ukrainian cities.
• The Sumy region’s critical infrastructure was also damaged by the attacks, according to the Ukrainian president, “leaving several thousand families without electricity.”
• Russian Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported early on Sunday that Russian air defenses had shot at least 15 Ukrainian drones heading for the capital.
• Early on Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its air defense units had shot down 40 Ukrainian drones, of which 21 were over the Bryansk region near the Ukrainian border.
• The ministry announced this on Saturday, shortly after its air defense units shot down 349 drones and six missiles over Russian territory.
• One railroad worker was seriously injured in a previous incident in which Russia had to suspend trains in the southern Rostov region for about four hours overnight after a Ukrainian drone attack.
• Ukrainian drones, according to the acting governor of the Rostov region on Ukraine’s eastern border, also started fires and down power lines.

diplomacy and politics

After negotiations stalled last month, Zelenskyy claimed that after sending a proposal to Russia, a new round of peace talks should take place next week.
• Andrii Sybiha, the foreign minister of Ukraine, claimed that Russia had deported Ukrainians to Georgia and left them stranded there, hundreds of miles away from their homes, without proper documentation. He claimed that despite the fact that 43 people have been returned to Ukraine so far, more are still living in “difficult conditions” at the border.
• At least 56 Ukrainians are being held in “inhumane” conditions in a basement close to the Russian-Georgian border, according to an aid organization called Volunteers Tbilisi.
• After Brussels punished Russia with sanctions that included a Rosneft oil refinery in Gujarat, India said it did not support “unilateral sanctions” by the European Union.