Simon Denyer

• Asia

Pyongyang’s latest warning, delivered by Kim Jong Un's powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, comes amid signs that relations between the two Koreas could be improving.

• Olympics

The International Olympic Committee will walk away with its broadcast revenue intact. The Japanese taxpayers will be left footing a multibillion-dollar bill without having been invited to the party.

• Olympics

Svetlana Romashina won her seventh Olympic gold medal as part of the eight-woman Russian Olympic Committee artistic swimming team.

• Olympics

After winning bronze to go with earlier gold, the British athlete speaks out on global attitudes.

• Olympics

Roughly eight centuries ago, a new martial art called karate came into being on a subtropical island now known as Okinawa. On Friday, an Okinawan won the first ever Olympic gold medal in one of the modern sport’s premier events, the men’s kata.

• Olympics

Tokyo logged a record number of coronavirus cases this week, burdening the hospital system amid a slow vaccine rollout.

• Olympics

The officials have been accused of trying to force sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to return home against her will.

• Asia & Pacific

The unrelenting fervor of Internet trolls, who have told competitors to “go to hell” and “disappear,” seems to have hit fever pitch.

• Olympics

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya refused to fly home in fear for her safety after criticizing Belarus's Olympic team.