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By Alan Baldwin ZANDVOORT, Netherlands, Aug 22 (Reuters) – George Russell took a morale-boosting Dutch Grand Prix sprint race win from pole position on Saturday while Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli extended his Formula One championship lead over Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton to ​53 points.

STOCKHOLM, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Swedish police are investigating whether an 18-year-old man who attacked students at a Swedish high school with a sword on ​Friday, killing one, was involved in online ‌communities promoting school violence, a police source said. The attacker struck at a school in the central Swedish town of Fagersta, also severely injuring two teenage boys before being arrested by police.

By Maria Cheng MONTREAL, Aug 22 (Reuters) – When U.S. President Donald Trump levied 50% tariffs on Canadian steel in June last year, a steel factory in Canada’s mostly French-speaking province of Quebec lost about a third of its orders for bolts and fasteners in less than a week. The factory owner – The Heico Companies – froze hiring, closed a plant in the region and laid off several dozen people, said David Jeannotte, an operations director, whose own brother lost his job.

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Chinese smartphone maker ​Honor’s self-developed ‌humanoid robot “Lightning” ran 100 meters in 9.32 ‌seconds, ​beating ⁠the human ⁠world record, China’s state broadcaster reported on ​Saturday。 The humanoid reached ⁠a peak ⁠speed of ​14.5 meters ​per second during a ‌preparatory test event for the ⁠second World Humanoid Robot Games beginning ⁠on ‌Saturday. This performance ⁠surpassed the ​9.58-second ‌men’s 100-metre world ​record set ⁠by Usain Bolt.

Aug 22 (Reuters) – An Iranian military official called on Qatar on Saturday to transfer detained Iranian pilots to a hospital on land, saying ​they were being held on water and ‌were in “poor physical condition”, Tasnim news agency reported.

WARSAW, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Romania’s National Committee for Emergency Situations approved new measures to boost ​the water level of ‌the River Danube and ensure cooling of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the government press office said on ‌Saturday. The ​plant remains shut due ⁠to historically low ⁠Danube levels and the country has declared a state of emergency throughout August stemming from ​a decline in electricity production.

Aug 22 (Reuters) – Iran has granted permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait ​of Hormuz following repeated requests from ‌Baghdad through various channels, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. IRNA said obtaining special permission for Iraqi tankers was one of Baghdad’s main requests ‌during ​Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad ⁠Baqer Qalibaf’s visit to ⁠Iraq.

LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Several people have died ​after a ‌collision near Middlesbrough in northeast England between a police ‌car ​and ⁠a passenger car, ⁠the local police force said on Saturday. Cleveland Police ​said the incident took ⁠place at ⁠around 3.39 ​a.m. (0239 GMT) on ​a main road near ‌the South Bank area to the east ⁠of Middlesbrough. “Sadly, the collision has resulted in ⁠multiple ‌fatalities,” a ⁠police spokesperson ​said.

By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Aug 22 (Reuters) – The party of Pakistan’s jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan filed a contempt petition against the government on Saturday after authorities took the cricketer-turned-politician to a ​state-run hospital instead of the private facility ordered by the ‌top court, party officials said.

Jacob Misiorowski pitched six shutout innings and outdueled Chris Sale in a matchup of National League Cy Young Award candidates as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the visiting Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Friday. Misiorowski (13-5) allowed four hits with two walks and six strikeouts. Trevor Megill worked around a two-out single in the ninth for his 24th save. William Contreras had four hits and drove in a run for Milwaukee, which won for the fifth time in its last six games.