Main highlights of Day 3 at #Tokyo2020
🥇 Titmus wins 400m freestyle duel with Ledecky
🥇 Peaty and Dressel also triumph in the pool
🥇 Men's triathlon marred by false start
🥇 Momiji Nishiya, 13, becomes first women's skateboard champion
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Tom Daley's first Olympic diving title adds a golden chapter to a life lived in the public eye, during which he has become one of Britain's most recognisable athletes and prominent voices on gay rights u.afp.com/UauR
#Tokyo2020 - Novak Djokovic strolled into the third round of the Tokyo Olympics tennis tournament on Monday as Japanese star Naomi Osaka's path to gold opened up further after a host of leading women's seeds exited u.afp.com/UauD #AFPSports
#BREAKING Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz wins first ever Olympic gold for Philippines #Tokyo2020
#BREAKING Russian men win rare Olympic artistic gymnastics team gold #Tokyo2020
#UPDATE Weightlifter #HidilynDiaz made history on Monday when she became the first athlete from the Philippines to win an Olympic gold medal, claiming top spot in the women's 55kg class u.afp.com/UabY#AFPSports#Tokyo2020
#UPDATE Nikita Nagornyy led the Russian team to the coveted men's artistic gymnastics gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday to add to their world title, with Japan taking silver and China bronze u.afp.com/UaEo#AFPSports#Tokyo2020
#UPDATE Japanese mixed doubles pair Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito claimed their country's first ever Olympic #tabletennis gold medal on Monday, ending years of Chinese dominance with a comeback victory on home soil u.afp.com/UaEb#AFPSports#Tokyo2020
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#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub