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  • Sep 25

    AIU provisionally suspends Olympic hurdles medallist Cyréna Samba-Mayela

    The Athletics Integrity Unit has provisionally suspended French 100-metre hurdles silver medallist Cyréna Samba-Mayela after three whereabouts failures in 12 months, creating a potential two-year ban.

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Trump pauses Russia sanctions to ease diesel-price pressure

Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing a Russia sanctions package that Congress passed in September and that was due to take effect within days. The waiver came as the White House sought lower diesel prices before the 3 November midterm elections.

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The US under Trump: second term

The waiver was already recorded; this cycle adds the diesel-deal linkage and reactions, which update the anchor without a new discrete event.

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