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Olympics-Italy's president takes the tram in video tribute to Milan transport
MILAN, Feb 6 (Reuters) - At the London 2012 Olympics, Queen Elizabeth appeared to parachute into the stadium for the opening ceremony.
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World
Coe backs dispersed model at Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics
MILAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Sebastian Coe, head of World Athletics and an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, believes the geographically spread-out model used for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games is "a good approach."
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U.S. Congress delegation to visit Greenland
NUUK, Greenland, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of U.S. lawmakers is set to visit Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, this weekend, the U.S. Consulate in Nuuk said in a press release on Friday.
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U.S. takes early lead in figure skating team event at Milan-Cortina 2026
MILAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United States sat on top while China provisionally ranked ninth in team event after the first-day competition of figure skating at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games here on Friday.
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Olympics-Ski Jumping-Norway team react with scepticism to bizarre penis-enhancement claims
PREDAZZO, Italy, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Norwegian ski jumpers greeted with scepticism suggestions that anti-doping officials must now police their anatomy as well as their equipment, after regulators said they would stay alert to rumours of athletes artificially enlarging their genitals to exploit suit rules at the Milano Cortina Olympics.
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Ethiopia's Addis Ababa sees nearly 700,000 int'l arrivals in 6 months
ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 700,000 foreign tourists visited the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, during the first six months of the current Ethiopian fiscal year that began on July 8, 2025, according to local authorities.
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Feature: Festive red lights up Berlin city hall for Chinese New Year
BERLIN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The biting winter cold outside Berlin's historic Red Town Hall did little to quiet the buzz inside on Thursday evening, as a gala for the upcoming Chinese New Year unfolded amidst a festive display of rolled-out red carpets and glowing red lanterns.
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Feature: On the edge of the Arctic, Greenlanders say their homeland not for sale
by Xinhua writer Yao Yulin
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Olympic-Alpine skiing-Men's downhill sold out as Bormio prepares to award first gold
BORMIO, Italy, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A sell‑out crowd is expected to pack the stands for Saturday's men's downhill in the Italian village of Bormio, underscoring the enduring pull of Alpine skiing's marquee event, the first to assign gold at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.
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U.S. consumer sentiment rises slightly in February
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Consumer Sentiment Index rose to 57.3 in February 2026, according to a preliminary reading released Friday by the University of Michigan (UM) Surveys of Consumers, up from the final reading of 56.4 in January 2026.
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South Africa releases first locally produced FMD vaccine in 20 years
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- South Africa has released its first locally produced vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in nearly two decades, the country's Department of Agriculture said Friday.
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Olympics-Ice hockey-Switzerland overcome Czechs in thrilling shootout, Japan score late to beat France
MILAN, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Swiss forward Ivana Wey scored in the eighth round of a thrilling shootout to seal a 4-3 win over the Czech Republic in Olympic women's ice hockey at Santagiulia Arena on Friday, while Japan netted twice late to hand France its second successive loss of the Games 3-2.
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Athletics
Athletics-Norway's Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen undergoes Achilles surgery
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Jakob Ingebrigtsen has undergone surgery on a persistent Achilles injury that has plagued him for years and forced him to miss significant training and competition time, the Norwegian middle-distance runner said on Friday.
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Azerbaijan issues strong protest to Russia over lawmaker's comments on Karabakh trial
BAKU, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan issued a strong protest to Russia on Friday after a Russian lawmaker condemned the sentencing of 13 ethnic Armenians who had held senior positions in the former breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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UK police search properties in probe into Mandelson over Epstein ties
LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - British police searched two addresses linked to Peter Mandelson in their probe into misconduct in public office, they said on Friday, following reports about the close ties between the former ambassador and late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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China bags three gold medals out of six
TIANJIN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China registered three out of six gold medals in the opening day of the 12th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships on Friday, dominating the podium in the men's triple jump and women's shot put.
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Olympics-Livigno's sky-high Big Air jump wows riders despite scaffolding surprise
LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Olympic Big Air jump has become an unlikely protagonist in Livigno's narrow valley, an imposing scaffolded structure rising above the town's rooftops and drawing both praise and surprise from snowboarders and freeskiers.
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China pledges to bolster Asia-Pacific food security via cooperation
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China is ready to work with other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies to build a resilient, open, efficient and sustainable food system for the region, according to the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration.
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Extreme winter weather causes accidents, disruptions
BERLIN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Extreme winter weather caused numerous traffic accidents across northeastern Germany on Friday, while flight operations at Berlin Brandenburg Airport were suspended for hours before gradually resuming later in the day.
