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  • IOC: Russians OK to compete as neutrals at Winter Games

    IOC: Russians OK to compete as neutrals at Winter Games

    MILAN — Russians will be allowed to compete at next year’s Milan-Cortina Winter Games but the International Olympic Committee said on Friday it had never discussed banning Israel.

    The IOC confirmed after an executive board meeting in Milan that…

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  • Kenyan athlete Evans Kibet says he was duped into joining the Russian army and going to Ukraine

    Kenyan athlete Evans Kibet says he was duped into joining the Russian army and going to Ukraine

    Akisa WanderaBBC Africa, Nairobi and

    Vitalii ChervonenkoBBC Ukrainian, Kyiv

    Edith Chesoi A head shot of Evans Kibet wearing a pink shirt and looking at the camera.Edith Chesoi

    With tears in his eyes, a young Kenyan athlete now captive in Ukraine pleads not to be sent back to Russia.

    “I will die there,” Evans Kibet says, waving his…

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  • Intervision 2025 – Russia’s answer to Eurovision has less kitsch, more Kremlin

    Intervision 2025 – Russia’s answer to Eurovision has less kitsch, more Kremlin

    Steve RosenbergRussia editor in Moscow

    BBC Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev singing on stage with a drumBBC

    Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev is representing Uzbekistan at Intervision

    At a Moscow concert hall, Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev is crooning about love and his motherland, Uzbekistan.

    “Put your legs together like a man,”…

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  • Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces inflict heavy losses on Russia in counteroffensive – Reuters

    1. Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces inflict heavy losses on Russia in counteroffensive  Reuters
    2. Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy claims ‘important success’ as troops push back on Russian advances  The Guardian
    3. Ukrainian military in counteroffensive…

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  • The EU won’t tariff China and India to please Trump. But it is working on a counteroffer.

    The EU won’t tariff China and India to please Trump. But it is working on a counteroffer.

    Several measures in the European Union’s (EU’s) nineteenth sanctions package against Russia, which European Commission…

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