Main highlights of Day 4 at #Tokyo2020
🏅 Osaka crashes out of tennis competition
🏅 Ferreira and Moore win inaugural surfing golds
🏅 Triathlete Duffy scoops famous gold for Bermuda
🏅 McKeown upstages Smith in women's 100m backstroke
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#BREAKING Simone Biles out of US team during Olympic final
#UPDATE Biles, the four-time gold medallist at the 2016 Rio Games, produced a lacklustre opening vault and then briefly left the competition floor, before she was replaced in the three concluding routines on the uneven bars, beam, and floor
#BREAKING Biles out of gymnastics team final with 'medical issue', will be assessed daily: USAG #Tokyo2020
#UPDATE Simone Biles' participation in the rest of the Tokyo Olympics was plunged into uncertainty on Tuesday after she was dramatically withdrawn from the team final with a "medical issue" u.afp.com/UaCB#AFPSports#Tokyo2020
#BREAKING Russian women win Olympics gymnastics team final after Biles exit #Tokyo2020
#BREAKING US gymnast Biles says 'mental health' concerns led to Olympic team final withdrawal #Tokyo2020
#UPDATE US gymnastics superstar Simone #Biles said "mental health" concerns had led to her withdrawal from the women's team final at the Tokyo #Olympics on Tuesday: "I just don't trust myself as much as I used to" u.afp.com/Uatk#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