#UPDATES Flora Duffy makes #Olympics history, winning women's triathlon in 1hr 55min 36sec over a minute ahead of Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown
Duffy's success makes Bermuda the smallest nation in terms of population to ever win a medal at a Summer Games
Edgar Cheung Ka-long says Hong Kong went "insane" after he won the Chinese territory's first Olympic gold in 25 years and only its second ever
Cheung stunned Italy's reigning Olympic champion Daniele Garozzo 15-11 in the men's foil #Olympics#Tokyo2020
Britain's Tom Dean scorches to the men's #Olympics 200m freestyle gold medal, overpowering team-mate Duncan Scott
Dean came from behind in the final 50m to touch in a new national record of 1min 44.22sec #Tokyo2020
Australia's Kaylee McKeown sets new #Olympics record to win women's 100m backstroke upsetting arch-rival Regan Smith
McKeown touched in 57.47sec, fractionally outside her own world record, with Canada's Kylie Masse second and American Smith third #Tokyo2020
Evgeny Rylov leads a Russian one-two to win the men's 100m #Olympics backstroke
The 24-year-old hit the wall in 51.98sec to edge team-mate Kliment Kolesnikov, who touched in 52.00, ahead of American defending champion Ryan Murphy in 52.19 #Tokyo2020
US teenager Lydia Jacoby stuns team-mate and defending champion Lilly King to claim the 100m #Olympics breaststroke gold
The 17-year-old swims a scintillating final 50m to edge South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker, with King taking bronze #Tokyo2020
History-chasing gymnastics superstar Simone Biles goes for her first gold at #Tokyo2020 after Flora Duffy delivers #Olympics glory for tiny Bermuda
Home favourite Naomi Osaka is also in action as she pursues tennis gold u.afp.com/UaK5
Tom Daley's first #Olympics 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/UaKg
#BREAKING Japan's Naomi Osaka knocked out in Olympics tennis third round
#UPDATES Japan's Naomi Osaka suffers a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Marketa Vondrousova in an error-strewn display in the third round #Olympics crushing her dreams of winning gold on home soil #Tokyo2020
"Swearing on TV! I will have to have a word to her later"
Kaylee McKeown may have some explaining to do to her mum after the Australian sensation drops an F-bomb on live TV after scorching to victory in the women's #Olympics 100m backstroke
Japanese star Naomi Osaka crashes out of #Olympics tennis competition after Flora Duffy delivers gold for Bermuda for the first time in the tiny island's history u.afp.com/UaK5
A tropical storm churns towards Japan and the #Olympics whipping up welcome waves for surfing medal hopefuls but disrupting other events with rain and strong winds u.afp.com/UaK2
Brazil's Italo Ferreira claims #Olympics surfing’s first ever gold beating Japan's Kanoa Igarashi in men's final
Ferreira, who learned to surf on a foam box his father sold fish from, scores 15.14 to Igarashi's 6.60 with Australia’s Owen Wright third
#BREAKING US surfer Carissa Moore wins women's Olympic gold
#UPDATE America's Carissa Moore wins the first-ever Olympic women's surfing gold medal, beating South Africa's Bianca Buitendag in the final
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#BREAKING Romania's constitutional court orders recount of first round of presidential vote: statement
#UPDATE Romania's constitutional court on Thursday ordered a recount of votes cast in the first round of the presidential election, after a rival far-right contender filed a legal challenge ➡️ u.afp.com/597X
#BREAKING TikTok gave 'preferential treatment' to far-right candidate who won Romania election first round: presidency
#UPDATE A referendum on Moldova joining the EU passed with a razor-thin majority on Monday as pro-Brussels President Maia Sandu blamed the outcome on foreign meddling in a veiled reference to Russia, which denied the accusations ➡️ u.afp.com/5zL7
BREAKING France's high-speed train system disrupted by vandalism: operator
#UPDATE Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told @AFP, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted"
BREAKING The arson attacks on France's high-speed rail network were coordinated acts of "sabotage", a source close to the investigation tells @AFP
#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#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