#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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#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