Poland raises fears about ‘dangerous’ situation with Wagner troops near border – as it happened

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• Lithuania and Poland may close Belarus borders' due to Wagner fighters

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued a special invitation to a Ukrainian fencer to take part in the Paris Olympics next year, after she was disqualified from a tournament for refusing to shake hands with her defeated Russian opponent.

The IOC president, Thomas Bach, a former Olympic champion fencer himself, wrote in person to Olha Kharlan to make a unique exception" to Olympic qualifying procedures, in an unusually emotional letter.