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The government has written to the Olympic Games’ biggest sponsors urging them to put pressure on the IOC over its proposals to allow Russian and Belarusians to compete again in international sport and the Paris 2024 Games. In a highly unusual move, the culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, has also asked the UK chief executives of the IOC’s worldwide partners – including Coca-Cola, Intel, Samsung and Visa – to press the IOC over a number of significant concerns it has over the potential easing of the ban. “We know sport and politics in Russia and Belarus are heavily intertwined, and we are determined that the regimes in Russia and Belarus must not be allowed to use sport for their propaganda purposes,” the letter states. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/11/uk-government-takes-fight-over-russian-athletes-ban-to-olympic-sponsors

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Irrelevant, he was forced into that situation, not by choice.

It was not his choice was it? It was insistence by the BBC along with other top earners.

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A day earlier, the New York Times reported that the Pentagon is blocking the U.S. from sharing evidence on Russia’s war crimes with the ICC, citing fears of setting a precedent that could be used to prosecute American soldiers in the future. "What we don’t discuss is the specific forms of support that we may or may not be providing to the ICC,” Price said. “We don’t want to do anything that could jeopardize the sanctity of an investigation, that could set back the pursuit of justice.” https://news.yahoo.com/u-backs-hague-court-investigation-104200004.html

Russia has been capturing some of the US and NATO-provided weapons and equipment left on the battlefield in Ukraine and sending them to Iran, where the US believes Tehran will try to reverse-engineer the systems, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Over the last year, US, NATO and other Western officials have seen several instances of Russian forces seizing smaller, shoulder-fired weapons equipment including Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft systems that Ukrainian forces have at times been forced to leave behind on the battlefield, the sources told CNN. In many of those cases, Russia has then flown the equipment to Iran to dismantle and analyze, likely so the Iranian military can attempt to make their own version of the weapons, sources said. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/10/politics/russia-iran-ukraine-weapons/index.html

Meta has revealed it is working on a new social network solely designed for sharing text updates. The app would appear to be a direct competitor to Twitter, with a company spokesperson confirming it will be a "decentralised" platform similar to other alternatives that grew in popularity after Elon Musk's takeover. "We're exploring a standalone decentralised social network for sharing text updates," a Meta statement said. https://news.sky.com/story/meta-could-rival-twitter-as-it-reveals-work-is-under-way-on-new-social-network-12830211

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The debate over masks’ effectiveness in fighting the spread of the coronavirus intensified recently when a respected scientific nonprofit said its review of studies assessing measures to impede the spread of viral illnesses found it was “uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses.” Now the organization, Cochrane, says that the way it summarized the review was unclear and imprecise, and that the way some people interpreted it was wrong. “Many commentators have claimed that a recently updated Cochrane review shows that ‘masks don’t work,’ which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation,” Karla Soares-Weiser, the editor in chief of the Cochrane Library, said in a statement. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochrane-study.html

Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape can be used in civil rape trial, judge rules The tape of Donald Trump boasting about sexual aggression towards women that detonated late in the 2016 election campaign but did not prevent him from winning the presidency will be permitted at a forthcoming civil trial in New York. A federal judge ruled on Friday that the columnist E Jean Carroll can use the 2005 remarks by Trump, caught on tape in conversation with an Access Hollywood TV show personality, in support of her lawsuit accusing Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Carroll sued Trump for defamation after he denied the rape ever happened or that he even knew the former longtime Elle magazine columnist, after she first described in a 2019 book her encounter with Trump in late 1995 or early 1996. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/trump-access-hollywood-tape-evidence-jean-carroll-trial

New York prosecutors have invited ex-US president Donald Trump to testify to a grand jury over the Stormy Daniels case, his lawyer has confirmed. The Manhattan district attorney has investigated Mr Trump for five years over alleged hush money payments made on his behalf to the ex-porn star. Inviting him to a grand jury indicates he could face charges, experts say. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64913814

Alan Shearer joins Ian Wright in pulling out of Match of the Day - reaction as Gary Lineker steps back Alan Shearer has joined Ian Wright in saying he will not appear on Match of the Day tomorrow, after Gary Lineker was forced off the programme. Alan Shearer simply said on Twitter: "I have informed the BBC that I won't be appearing on MOTD tomorrow night." Wright had tweeted earlier: "Everybody knows what Match of the Day means to me, but I've told the BBC I won't be doing it tomorrow. Solidarity." https://news.sky.com/story/ian-wright-wont-appear-on-match-of-the-day-reaction-as-gary-lineker-steps-back-12830518

Billionaire Elon Musk is planning to build his own utopia town called Snailbrook in Texas, for his workers to live in. Musk will build the town in Bastrop County just outside the capital of Austin, along the Colorado River, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The town was dubbed a “utopia” and would be named Snailbrook, after Musk’s tunnel construction service Boring Co’s snail mascot. https://www.skynews.com.au/business/billionaire-elon-musk-plans-to-build-his-own-utopia-town-in-texas-called-snailbrook/news-story/701e2790fa542f2c8aacd9fe5dcda6bb

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