#BREAKING USA snowboarder Shaun White misses medal in last Olympics
#UPDATE Retiring American snowboard legend Shaun White misses out on a halfpipe medal in his last competition at the Beijing Olympics, finishing fourth, as Japan's Ayumu Hirano claims gold.
Australia's Scotty James took silver and Switzerland's Jan Scherrer bronze
#UPDATE Russian skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for banned substance ahead of the Beijing Olympics before being cleared by her country, but IOC will appeal against that decision, testing agency says.
Case will be decided by Court of Arbitration for Sport before February 15
#UPDATE Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami adds Olympic super-G gold to her world title at the Beijing Games as USA's Mikaela Shiffrin finished ninth after flunking her first two events.
Gut-Behrami, who has already won giant slalom bronze in Beijing, timed 1min 13.51sec for victory
#BREAKING Russian Olympic Committee says skater Kamila Valieva has right to compete in Beijing and that her gold medal stands
#UPDATE Russian Olympic Committee says Kamila Valieva has right to compete in Beijing and her gold medal should stand, after she failed doping test.
Valieva has "the right to train and take part in competitions... until the Court of Arbitration for Sport decides otherwise": ROC
#BREAKING Russian Olympic chief says has 'serious questions' over Valieva doping tests
#UPDATE Russian Olympic chief Stanislav Pozdnyakov tells RIA Novosti he has "serious questions" over Kamila Valieva's doping tests.
"The timings of sample processing raise serious questions...It seems like someone held the sample until the end of the team skating tournament"
#BREAKING Kremlin 'fully supports' skater Valieva in Olympic doping row
#UPDATE The Kremlin says it is fully behind Russian figure skater #KamilaValieva whose Olympic gold medal at #Beijing2022 hangs in the balance after she failed a doping test #AFPSports
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#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
#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