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Russian winter athletes, including skeleton racer Olga Potylitsina, European skeleton champion Elena Nikitina, Skeleton racer Alexsandr Tretyakov, and cross-country skier Alexei Petukohv reacted to the news. On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in a press conference in Lausanne it would ban Russia from participating at the next Winter Olympics 2018, allowing clean Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag.
An all-European crew including Turkey's first astronaut arrives at the International Space Station on a voyage chartered by Axiom Space. The team is welcomed with hugs by the seven crew members already aboard the ISS. IMAGES
"Stellantis Spotlight" is a weekly recap of some of the major stories at Stellantis. The top stories for the week ending December 8, 2023, include the introduction of North America’s first battery-electric vehicle, a Tony Stewart Racing swap and a partnership in electric-vehicle battery-charging technology.
European Central Bank President, Christine Lagarde, announces the ECB is lifting its key rates of interest by 75 basis points, leaving them sitting in a range of between 0.75 and 1.5 percent. It came after the bank hiked rates by 50 basis points in July, its first increase in more than a decade, in order to tame record eurozone inflation. These levels "will ensure the timely return of inflation to our 2% medium term target" she says, during a press conference in Frankfurt. SOUNDBITE
Images of thick snow falling in Stockholm as some European countries including France are expected to experience a dramatic drop in temperatures due to a cold wave coming in from Scandinavia. IMAGES
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