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雨中女子百米跑出11秒40 珊蒂止步共运会半决赛

2026年7月29日 / 新明日报

我国女将珊蒂（中）在雨中进行半决赛，在第三组最终排名第五位，无缘晋级决赛。 （新加坡高水平体育管理机构提供）

新加坡“女飞人”珊蒂在本地时间星期三（7月29日）凌晨举行的格拉斯哥共和联邦运动会女子100米半决赛中，以11秒40完成比赛，在第三组排名第五，无缘晋级决赛。

根据赛制，三组半决赛各组前两名直接晋级决赛，其余两个决赛席位则由六名直接晋级选手以外成绩最好的两名选手获得。

比赛在雨中进行，珊蒂在第三组出场，她以11秒40冲线，成绩略逊于预赛跑出的11秒24，也未能接近自己保持的11秒20全国纪录。

共有24名选手在半决赛展开对决，珊蒂最终总排名第14位。排名前三的选手分别是澳大利亚选手托里·刘易斯（Torrie Lewis，11秒00）、加拿大选手奥黛丽·勒迪克（Audrey Leduc，11秒01）和英格兰选手艾米·亨特（Amy Hunt，11秒02）。

珊蒂赛后说，这是她首次在如此恶劣的天气下比赛。（新加坡高水平体育管理机构提供）

赛后，珊蒂说，这是她首次在如此恶劣的天气下比赛。

她说：“我从来没有经历过这样的情况。我只能尽力执行比赛计划。雨突然下得很大，我只能专注于能够控制的事情。看到成绩是11秒40时，我觉得没关系，我知道自己还能跑得更快。”

虽然无缘决赛，但她仍为闯入半决赛感到自豪。

她说：“能够晋级半决赛已经让我很骄傲，这也让我对接下来的200米比赛更有信心。”

决赛在新加坡时间早上结束，新西兰的佐伊·霍布斯（Zoe Hobbs）发威，以10秒93夺冠，而艾米和托里则分别以10秒98和10秒99排名第二和第三位。

Trump reflects on infamous phone-number stunt that sparked friendship with Graham

July 28, 2026 4:07pm EDT / Fox News

Trump recited Graham’s phone number from memory during his eulogy at Washington National Cathedral, drawing laughter

By Alex Miller , Adam Pack Fox News

In an emotional farewell Tuesday, President Donald Trump paid tribute to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., recounting how their relationship evolved from fierce political foes into close allies and friends.

Trump said the turning point came after he publicly revealed Graham’s cellphone number during a campaign rally in Bluffton, S.C., in 2015 — a decision he acknowledged Tuesday was a mistake.

“As you remember, Lindsey and I did not exactly get off to the best of starts,” Trump said during his eulogy address at the Washington National Cathedral, adding that Graham had said something “nasty” when they were both running for the 2016 presidential nomination.

“So naturally, I did something that I shouldn’t have done,” the president continued. “I shared his personal cellphone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day as I made a speech, a very important speech.”

President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary Scott Bessent during the funeral service of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 2026.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

FROM ‘DISGRACE’ TO ‘FAMILY’: TRUMP’S REMARKABLE JOURNEY WITH LINDSEY GRAHAM

“And I remember the number (202) 228-0292 if anybody wants to give it a shot,” Trump went on, sparking laughter in the room.

“His phone exploded. He said, ‘I had that number for 20 years.’ His phone totally — I don’t know what he did with it. But it exploded,” Trump said. “That was the beginning of a friendship, in a way.”

“But it was Lindsey who had the last laugh, because while I blew up his phone all for one day, we became great friends and Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next 10 years,” Trump continued.

The unlikely friendship grew to include frequent rounds of golf and late-night phone calls as Graham became a leading advocate for Trump’s legislative agenda.

Since Graham’s death earlier this month, Trump has repeatedly spoken about the senator’s constant presence in his life.

Sen. Lindsey Graham attends a press conference on border security at the U.S. Capitol in December 2023.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

LINDSEY GRAHAM’S FINAL MISSION NEARS FINISH LINE AS WORLD LEADERS GATHER TO HONOR HIM

And before the service began, before the cameras began rolling, before the speeches, and before Graham’s casket arrived, the Washington National Cathedral became a gathering place for those who the late lawmaker knew, worked alongside, advocated for, and, at times, fought.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, two of Graham’s closest allies on the world stage, both attended — holding court separately among the sea of lawmakers and Cabinet members filing into the cathedral.

Much of the Senate attended, too, including Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who wore a suit. A rare sight not seen even at Trump’s second inauguration.

Meanwhile, Trump’s affection for Graham was visible throughout his remarks.

He called him a “beloved friend, a devoted brother, a respected statesman, a giant of the United Senate, and a true American original who left us much too soon.”

A military team carries the casket of Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Washington National Cathedral on July 28, 2026.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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“For more than 30 years, nothing of consequence happened in this Capitol without Lindsey Graham knowing about it,” Trump reflected. “Nothing of significance happened anywhere in the world without Lindsey Graham having a view on it. And no bill became law… without Lindsey Graham having a say in it. He was a man who gave America the full measure of his good and mighty heart.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Senate confirms Jay Clayton as Trump’s next intelligence chief

July 28, 2026 / 7:26 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jay Clayton to lead the nation’s intelligence agencies in a party-line vote that could be the key to unlock a path forward on a key surveillance authority that lapsed more than six weeks ago.

The Senate voted 51 to 47 to install Clayton as director of national intelligence. He replaces Bill Pulte, a controversial housing official with no intelligence experience whom President Trump appointed to the role temporarily. The appointment led Democrats to walk away from a bipartisan deal to reauthorize a warrantless spy tool known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“I hope this will encourage my colleagues to stop blocking reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said Monday on the Senate floor.

Democrats initially praised the selection of Clayton, who was until recently the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, to oversee the intelligence community. Mr. Trump announced the pick just hours before Section 702 was set to expire in mid-June, and Republicans moved quickly to confirm him as they tried to break the stalemate on the spy authority. But Mr. Trump upended those plans shortly before he was set to appear for his confirmation hearing last month, surprising Republicans.

Clayton appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee — about a month later than originally planned — on July 15, where he declined to say outright that former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, angering Democrats. Clayton repeatedly said Biden was “certified” as the president.

In a statement Tuesday, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Clayton “now has an opportunity — and the responsibility — to demonstrate that intelligence will never be shaped to fit a political narrative.”

“Having known and worked with Jay for years, I was encouraged when he was first nominated for the position of DNI. Unfortunately, I came away from his confirmation process with serious reservations about whether he would be willing to stand up to political pressure when it matters most,” Warner said. “Now that he has been confirmed, I sincerely hope he proves those concerns unfounded, because the Intelligence Community deserves steadier leadership than it has received in recent months.”

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Even with Clayton confirmed, an extension of the spy statute is likely to remain lapsed for a while longer. The Senate is scheduled to be in town through next week and isn’t expected to return before Sept. 14. The House is already on a five-week recess and is scheduled to be back in Washington on Aug. 31.

Jay Clayton confirmed as director of national intelligence

2026-07-28T23:15:28.713Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/politics/jay-clayton-director-national-intelligence

Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US intelligence community who was confirmed in a 51-47 vote on Tuesday night, steps into his new job inheriting a diminished office whose authority and relevance are at a historic low point.

The new director of national intelligence succeeds Bill Pulte, a combative and controversial housing executive with no national security experience whom Trump installed as acting director for a 40-day tenure.

The worst fears of Pulte’s critics — that he would use his access to classified intelligence to persecute the president’s political enemies, fears that several senators described as encouraging a swift confirmation of Clayton — did not come to pass. Pulte did accelerate sharp staffing cuts that Trump had ordered and critics argued would hamstring the intelligence community, but there is broad bipartisan agreement that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had become too large, too bloated. Some Republican Senate Intelligence staffers, who had been concerned initially over Pulte’s appointment and lack of experience, later said they were pleased with the work Pulte had done to cut some of that bloat.

Clayton, whose legal career centered on corporate law before serving as a US attorney under Trump, must now chart a course for an organization that struggled with its mandate even before Donald Trump and his allies made it their top “Deep State” target.

What seems most likely, current and former officials say, is that Clayton is going to oversee its obsolescence.

“They haven’t really rethought the things it does, they’ve just fired people,” said Mike Casey, the former director of the counterintelligence office at the ODNI and a former Democratic staff director on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The ODNI, he said, is “sinking slowly beneath the waves.”

The ODNI did not immediately respond to a request for comment about changes to the office during the second Trump administration. The CIA declined to comment.

Clayton has limited formal experience in intelligence, although he has dealt with some related issues beginning early during Trump’s second term as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York , which prosecutes a large number of terrorism cases. And the role of the president’s top intelligence advisor is already effectively filled by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Ratcliffe — who recommended Clayton for the job and helped shape Pulte’s time in office by pushing back on some potentially more extreme actions, according to some sources — appears likely to retain his position as the administration’s leading voice on intelligence matters.

In a debate over the release of classified documents related to foreign interference in the 2020 election last week, Pulte and Ratcliffe got into a heated dispute over the scope of redactions in the documents the White House planned to release, according to four sources familiar with the exchange. Pulte argued to make more of the text public, according to those sources. Both parties raised their voices, the sources said.

But ultimately, Pulte backed down and demonstrably began to defer to Ratcliffe, the sources said.

It was an episode that highlighted the authority of the CIA director — and the relative lack of power of the DNI.

“I’m not 100 percent clear why [Clayton] took the job, candidly,” Casey said. “You’re US Attorney for SDNY. ODNI probably smaller than SDNY now, with less actual work and is less relied on right now.”

Asked about the episode, White House Spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement, “Bill Pulte is a patriot who a great job carrying out the President’s agenda as acting Director of National Intelligence. Efforts by the legacy media to sow internal division are a distraction that will not work. As the permanent Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton will deliver timely, independent, and reliable intelligence that our Nation depends on to keep Americans safe.”

The intelligence community has been a longstanding source of grievance for the president, who believes that he was undermined during his first term by a “deep state” of officials who were behind the “Russia hoax” — the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia — and he entered office vowing to bring it to heel.

A White House source said that Trump was very happy with the job Pulte did cutting positions, but whether the president considers the job finished remains to be seen. Top Republicans, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton of Arkansas, have made no secret of the fact that they want to see the ODNI even further reduced.

Clayton demurred during his confirmation hearing on the question of cuts, offering no detailed vision for the future of the agency.

“It will have a very challenging rebuild (post Trump),” said one US official familiar with the changes. “Or it will be eliminated in its current form.”

It does some very “unsexy, important things,” Casey said. It sets security standards for classified rooms, for example, so personnel from different agencies can work in the same facilities. It has unique authorities to fuse domestic and foreign intelligence to identify threats.

But in practice, its relevance and authority — in particular relative to the CIA, whose director used to act as the leader of the whole community — has ebbed and flowed depending on the administration.

Clayton is a Trump administration survivor; the DNI post will be his third job across two administrations.

And he does have some bipartisan clout on Capitol Hill. A number of Democrats initially welcomed Trump’s selection of Clayton in June, citing his experience as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. But many soured on his nomination after his confirmation hearing two weeks ago, when he sidestepped questioning from Democrats on whether Joe Biden “won” the 2020 presidential election. He would only testify that Biden was “certified” as the president, deepening fears among Democrats that he would politicize intelligence to satisfy the beliefs of the president.

Still, some Democrats expressed relief this week that Clayton would soon replace Pulte. “We’ve got to get a new DNI in,” Warner told reporters Monday. Warner said he would not support Clayton’s confirmation but called him a “vast improvement.”

Clayton steps into an office that still could play a significant role in shaping US intelligence. “Clayton is inheriting an organization that still has some capacity to do things, if he chooses to actually utilize the people that work for him,” the US official said.

But current and former officials alike say it has been deeply degraded — and Clayton was vague about his plans during his confirmation hearing.

The National Intelligence Council, the top office that is responsible for presenting the consensus judgment of the intelligence community for policymakers, is “severely understaffed,” the US official said. The ODNI is traditionally staffed by intelligence officers on loan from other agencies and the turmoil has meant that it has become more difficult to recruit even for posts that the current administration might wish to keep. It has gone from being a desired posting to a place to be avoided.

Moral is “horrible,” the US official said. “People are shell shocked and living in fear of the next round of cuts.”

Exactly how deep the cuts run is difficult to gauge. Pulte announced on Tuesday a fifth and “near final” round of firings, claiming in a post on X that the dismissals had cumulatively axed “approximately 30%” of staff at the top spy agency; his predecessor Tulsi Gabbard had previously announced that she planned to cut the workforce, then around 2,000 people, by 40%.

CNN was not able to independently confirm those figures and Rachel Cohen, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, said Pulte has “so far declined to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee with the information necessary to assess the accuracy of those statements or the basis for those decisions.”

Even those who support the agency broadly caution against too much hysteria about the depth of the cuts. Some parts of the agency had undeniably grown too big, Casey noted. And many of the people Pulte touted as “firing” were simply returned to their home agencies and remained employed by the federal government, current and former officials said. For some critics, the far deeper concern with Pulte beyond his inexperience was whether he would weaponize the sensitive intelligence he now had access to against the president’s critics. As Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, he helped facilitate mortgage fraud investigations against the president’s top political opponents.

The president also tasked Pulte with declassifying information and had appointed the housing official with the hope that Pulte would work to declassify certain materials of interest to him, like those related to the 2020 election and his false claims of widespread election fraud.

But in reality, US officials familiar with Pulte’s tenure said, he only had the time — and ability — to execute the firings. The declassification project largely fell to the conservative commentator John Solomon, who had become a special government employee earlier this summer.

“The Intelligence Community must protect the American people, NOT the political whims of the bloated and corrupt elite class,” Pulte said in a post on X on Tuesday.

Gabbard and Pulte both “seemed to view the overall agency they oversaw in an adversarial way,” the US official said. “Never trusting the larger organization and staff. Only relying on a very small group of people they trusted.”

Many of the people trusted by his predecessors are gone, leaving Clayton to decide what he wants the purpose of ODNI to be.

中国官方要求国有文物管理机构提供主动公开授权使用等服务

2026年7月29日 07:42 / 联合早报

中国官方要求国有文物管理机构提供主动公开、授权使用等服务。图为7月25日，儿童在甘肃省敦煌市博物馆观看展品。 （新华社）

中国国家文物局出台《国有文物资源数据管理办法》，要求国有文物管理机构提供主动公开、授权使用等服务。

据中新社报道，在星期二（7月28日）的新闻发布会上，中国国家文物局科技教育司司长罗静指出，《办法》强调国有文物管理机构应面向社会提供主动公开、授权使用等服务，推动文物保护与数字化发展成果更多更公平惠及广大民众。

《办法》明晰了国有文物资源数据权益主体，明确了国有文物资源数据责任主体，构建了数据采集、加工、存储、传输、登记、服务全生命周期管理制度，对实现文物数据权益清晰、开放有序、利用有效、安全可控的科学管理目标，指导文物行业开展文物数字化实践具有重要意义。

罗静表示，实体文物受各种条件限制不可能全部长期展出，而数字资源可以把有限的线下展陈延伸为全天候公共文化服务。《办法》要求国有文物管理机构通过官方网站等平台，有计划、有步骤地主动公开文物高清影像以及数字展览等内容，满足社会公众浏览、欣赏、学习等使用需求。

在非营利性授权使用方面，文博从业人员、科研人员、教育从业者等文物考古研究与价值阐释主体，需要来源可靠、信息完整、体系化的文物数据，支撑开展学术研究、论文刊发、公益展览、公益宣传等非营利活动。《办法》要求国有文物管理机构按照非营利性原则明确使用范围并向社会公布，通过授权方式提供相应的文物数据。

在经营性活动授权使用方面，《办法》要求国有文物管理机构根据使用方申请，协商确定授权使用范围和服务费用，提供相应的数据。

Polls close in Georgia as voters decide successor in special election

2026-07-28T19:00:41-04:00 / Fox News

David Scott’s death opened a blue-district vacancy while Gov Larry Rhoden faces outsider Toby Doeden for the GOP nod

By Charles Creitz Fox News

Published July 28, 2026 7:00pm EDT | Updated July 28, 2026 7:01pm EDT

Polls close in key Georgia gubernatorial primary

Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer reports on Georgia’s 2026 gubernatorial primary and Trump-backed candidate Ed Gallrein’s defeat of Thomas Massie in Kentucky on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’

The polls have closed in Georgia as two races in politically disparate parts of the country set the stage for one of the most unusual split-screen election days of the year on Tuesday.

Rep. David Scott’s death in April at age 80 created a vacancy in a heavily blue district encompassing the southern and eastern Atlanta suburbs of Stockbridge, Conyers and Snellville.

With the general election ballot already decided, Tuesday’s contest will determine who will finish out Scott’s term. Scott was notably related by marriage to Braves slugger Hank Aaron.

Across the country in South Dakota, Republicans vying for the Mount Rushmore State’s safely red governor’s seat have created the state’s first gubernatorial runoff between incumbent Gov. Larry Rhoden and self-made millionaire bitcoin investor Toby Doeden.

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South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden, left; the late Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., right.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Bill Clark/Getty Images)

Rhoden originally took the reins in Pierre after President Donald Trump chose former Gov. Kristi Noem to be Homeland Security secretary in his second term. He was unable to garner enough support in the June primary to secure the nomination outright in his first statewide election as governor.

South Dakota’s runoff is expected to be a classic establishment-versus-outsider race, with Rhoden heavily favored in the polls but Doeden hoping for a Sioux Falls-fueled upset.

Minnehaha County, home to Sioux Falls, is a key county to watch Tuesday after helping propel Doeden to a first-place finish in the June primary.

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South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks with the press during Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s “Returning Education to the States” tour on April 8, 2026, at McCrossan Boys Ranch in Sioux Falls, S.D.(Samantha Laurey / Argus Leader / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Pennington County, on the state’s western side, will also be closely watched after contributing to Doeden’s top finish in June.

In contrast to what is expected in Scott’s district in November, Republicans are heavily favored because South Dakota has not elected a Democratic governor since the 1970s.

Then-Gov. Richard Kneip served nearly two terms before President Jimmy Carter nominated him as ambassador to Singapore. Gov. Harvey Wollman completed the final six months of Kneip’s term, and is the state’s last Democrat to hold the office.

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Shifting back to the Deep South, Georgia Democrats are expected to hold Scott’s seat in the fall by a wide margin.

Efforts to replace Scott grew in recent months, particularly among the party’s progressive wing, as the 12-term, often-combative lawmaker drew increasing frustration from Democrats.

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A sign welcomes travelers to the Peach State at the I-20 East Welcome Center near Tallapoosa, Georgia, on October 3, 2022.(Charlie Creitz)

Last year, Scott made waves in Washington media when he shouted expletives at a Politico photographer as he was wheeled through the Capitol by staff.

“Who gave you the right to take my picture, a–hole,” Scott shouted at photographer Francis Chung in late 2025.

That demeanor was similar to what led Everton Blair to launch his primary bid against Scott, in what his campaign page calls a “voice for a new generation.”

Blair previously told Fox News Digital it was a run-in with Scott at a Gwinnett County town hall, where the lawmaker gave insufficient answers to questions and then reportedly became confrontational, that led him to explore a bid.

Blair had said he would “love to just hear a little bit more of the congressional and legislative strategy, congressman, that you have for this administration, particularly as it pertains to safeguarding federal funds,” according to Semafor, when Scott replied “hold on,” before becoming agitated:

“I don’t know who sent y’all, but we got these folks here who are providing answers. And I’m doing this. That’s what I’m doing,” Scott said, according to the outlet.

Blair responded by launching a primary bid, while remarking to Fox News Digital at the time that two other elderly Democratic members had recently died in office “at a time when every vote counts.”

The wave of millennial candidates seeking to replace aging Democrats was at the time dubbed the “Biden effect” — Democratic lawmakers retiring or facing potential primary challenges following the octogenarian Delawarean’s disastrous debate performance, which led to his decision to step aside for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

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“Change can’t wait, and Democrats need a new bench of leaders who are committed to solving real problems for working people,” Blair said in a previous press release.

Meanwhile, Scott’s daughter is hoping to replace her late father in Congress, remarking that she wants to continue his legacy.

“That is my thing, is to finish out his year strongly, make sure that this money gets down to the district, and just make sure the 13th district is taken care of, constituency-wise, and making sure the projects go into finalization,” she told the Georgia Recorder, while adding she would retain her father’s staff locally and at the Capitol for added stability.

“[W]hen he first got into politics, I wasn’t even born, so I ran for some type of office or campaign every two years of my life, so this is just my norm, I’m just picking up where we left off with him,” she told the outlet.

A third candidate, former Mississippi judge Carlos Moore, also criticized Rep. Scott’s tenure, telling the Mississippi Free Press he wants to be a “leader who actually shows up.”

Moore had been suspended from the bench for one year in 2024 after a bar tribunal found he mishandled a wrongful death settlement, according to the outlet.

When asked by the press about the infraction, he pointed to Trump’s 34-count indictment in New York. He also pledged, if elected, to be a leader who understands “how to defend our democracy and Constitution” from the president.

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The winner of Tuesday’s special elections will serve only until January.

Georgia state Rep. Jasmine Clark, D-Tucker, won the Democratic nomination for the full term earlier this year and is heavily favored against Republican Air Force veteran Jonathan Chavez in November. Trump lost the district by about 43 points in 2024.

Bipartisan bill targets use of campaign funds in sexual misconduct cases

7:02 PM EDT, Tue July 28, 2026 / CNN Politics

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日本熊本7.1级强震 至少两死三人心肺骤停

2026年7月29日 07:13 / 联合早报

日本搜救人员彻夜在“永旺梦乐城熊本”彻夜进行搜救。 （法新社）

日本九州熊本县7.1级强震已确认有至少两人死亡、三人心肺骤停，搜救人员彻夜在局部结构坍塌的商场“永旺梦乐城熊本”搜救，已救出五人。

日本放送协会（NHK）星期三（7月29日）凌晨引述地方官员说，“永旺梦乐城熊本”发现两名女性遇难，另有一人心肺骤停，五人获救。官员说，五名获救者都受伤，但无生命危险。

熊本县政府说，两名遇难者为二十多岁女性。

熊本县商场“永旺梦乐城熊本”在地震中受到严重破坏，局部结构坍塌。（法新社）

日本制纸集团位于八代市的工厂有两人心肺骤停，这家工厂的一座烟囱在地震中倒塌。《朝日新闻》报道，还有九人被困在工厂内，目前下落不明。

路透社报道，日本紧急消防救援队、警察和自卫队人员连夜在现场展开联合搜救，重点搜救此前接获求救的建筑区域。

日本首相高市早苗星期二（28日）晚说，当局仍在评估熊本县的灾情。约30万人接获前往避难中心的指示，九州地区余震持续发生。

日本气象厅报告，星期二下午4时27分（新加坡时间28日下午3时27分），熊本县发生7.1级地震，震源深度约10公里。日本气象厅观测到最大震度7，为日本地震烈度等级最高级别。

十年前，熊本县也曾遭受强震重创。2016年4月16日，熊本县发生7.3级地震，造成275人死亡、2739人受伤，包括著名古迹熊本城在内的数千栋建筑受损或倒塌。星期二的强震也导致熊本城部分石墙坍塌。

What Lindsey Graham’s funeral revealed about the world under Trump

2026-07-28T21:40:57.592Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/politics/graham-trump-israel-ukraine-analysis

It was Lindsey Graham’s last political act: bringing leaders of two of his great causes, Israel and Ukraine, back before President Donald Trump.

Like many Washington funerals, the senator’s on Tuesday was as much about the living — and their immortal game of politics — as the dead.

It underscored the late son of South Carolina’s role as a great convener. But a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the sidelines of the ceremony also reflected a fundamental truth: Trump is the center of gravity.

Graham wielded influence by appearing at the sides of those who held far greater power. His metamorphic style meant he could simultaneously advocate neoconservative interventionism while serving as an “America First” whisperer. Trump hinted at the contradiction in his eulogy from the pulpit at Washington National Cathedral: “He never saw a war he didn’t like.”

But Graham’s insistence on always being in the arena and willingness to talk to anyone meant — like his late mentor Sen. John McCain — he could create bridges where others couldn’t.

His irrepressible character and willingness to defend Trump when many wouldn’t bought Graham’s entry into the president’s inner circle. They also meant he could press the president on issues where they deeply disagreed, such as on support for Ukraine.

Graham positioned himself as a conduit between Republican senators and Trump, and between Republicans and Democrats. Since he had the president’s ear, every foreign door was open to him.

“For more than 30 years, nothing of consequence happened in this capital without Lindsey Graham knowing about it,” Trump said. “Nothing of significance happened anywhere in the world without Lindsey Graham having a view on it.”

As Graham’s casket lay in the nave of Washington’s National Cathedral on Tuesday, his bipartisan friends in the Senate gave his legacy an important boost by announcing a bill giving Trump power to impose more sanctions on Russia.

Graham’s service was the last Washington dance of a political fixer who, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, was not meant to be Prince Hamlet but “an attendant lord” who could “swell a progress, start a scene or two.”

Making that scene on Tuesday were Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on one of those days when the world and Washington converge.

Netanyahu and Zelensky share an ability to surf the tempestuous seas of the capital’s politics. They can be sent home with a flea in their ear. But sooner or later, they will be back. (Graham was often the glue — he was important in rehabilitating the Ukrainian leader with Trump following his disastrous Oval Office photo-op last year.)

The pair came to Washington Tuesday on contradictory missions: Zelensky is desperate for Trump’s help in ending a war. Netanyahu wants the president to restart one.

And the two men also played out an odd case of role reversal.

Zelensky rode a tide of positive press — partly precipitated by an extraordinary conversion to Ukraine’s cause by MAGA influencer and Trump confidant Laura Loomer, who declared after visiting Kyiv that she’d been “bamboozled” by Russian propaganda.

Reports suggested that Trump — who loves a winner — has noticed Zelensky’s success in taking the fight to Russia with homemade weapons that revolutionized warfare. Trump had good reason to listen, since he’s effectively in the same position as his friend Russian President Vladimir Putin: locked in a messy war with a smaller foe armed with drones that have neutralized the conventional advantages of a far greater military power.

If Zelensky was feted, Netanyahu was, unusually for a period of GOP power in Washington, something of an unwelcome guest. The president limbered up for their encounter in the Oval Office by delivering a harsh rebuke on Fox News that will further convince some MAGA personalities that the Israeli prime minister coaxed him into an unwise war. Trump was asked about reports that Netanyahu would bring new intelligence about Iranian nuclear activity. “Bibi’s telling me that because he wants me to stay involved,” Trump replied. “I heard Bibi announce that. I said, ‘Why don’t you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?’”

Graham’s two friends didn’t really get all of what they wanted — at least publicly.

Neither merited the political gold dust of a televised appearance alongside Trump. Perhaps White House officials worried about the impact of any signs of discord in either meeting. Maybe time was a factor ahead of Graham’s service.

But Zelensky would have relished a conciliatory moment after a rough political stretch that saw him fire his defense minister and that would also have offered a morale boost to Ukrainian civilians under Russian fire.

Netanyahu declared in a video released by his office that his conversation with Trump was “one of the best” they’ve ever had. But there was no campaign-ad-ready footage of talks that would have bolstered his case to be the indispensable link with Trump ahead of an Israeli general election later this year.

The twin meetings reflected a truth about American foreign policy that Graham understood but couldn’t overcome: The main driver of US action is now Trump’s volatile personality — not a conventional view of national interests. Anything can happen at any moment. For instance, even as Trump criticized Netanyahu for trying to drag him back into the war, Trump told Fox he would “take out” Iran’s bridges in less than an hour if it didn’t do a deal.

Zelensky said on X that he’d discussed with Trump how Ukraine could get licenses to manufacture US Patriot anti-missile interceptors and “some other ideas that could help.” Trump’s apparent openness to permit such licensing caused an optimistic stir during a recent trip to Europe — but it may have been a mirage.

“The problem with licensing is that it’s not going to address the time urgency of this problem for Ukraine,” former CIA Russia analyst George Beebe said in a Quincy Institute Briefing. “That will take probably years before it really churns out interceptor missiles in the numbers that the Ukrainians need to cope with the Russian threat.”

There’s little urgency in the White House to do more. Trump on Monday complained that the Biden administration sent too much hardware to Ukraine as he dodged reports the Iran war had depleted US munitions. And while Graham was a key influence on Trump when it came to Ukraine, there’s been a greater one: Putin, in his regular phone calls with the president.

No one knows what Trump will do next. But history suggests he’s most likely eventually to try to cut his losses in Iran and to decline to meaningfully arm Ukraine.

That leaves Graham’s legacy in the fickle grasp of the president, friend and golfing partner who eulogized him as “a giant of the United States Senate” but still may not take his advice.

熊本强震后 九州新干线29日起全线停运

2026年7月29日 07:33 / 联合早报

日本熊本县商场“永旺梦乐城熊本”在强震中局部坍塌。7月29日，多辆救援车辆停在商场外。 （法新社）

日本九州新干线星期三（7月29日）自首班车起全线停运。

共同社报道，日本九州熊本县星期二下午发生7.1级强震。日本九州铁路公司（JR九州）星期三说，九州新干线全线停运，以对轨道和设备进行检查。

JR九州早前已暂停部分新干线列车服务，熊本机场跑道也因安全检查一度关闭。日本航空公司说，星期三下午1时后（新加坡时间中午12时）往返熊本机场的航班预计将恢复正常运营，全日空航空公司也计划星期三恢复正常航班。