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From our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good afternoon from lviv, on day 1a of the war here in ukraine where a fresh ceasefire is expected to allow more civilians to flee to relative safety via humanitarian corridors out of besieged cities. this map shows the areas — here in solid red — which are under russian military control. the striped areas show russian advances. some 7,000 people were evacuated from the city of sumy in the north—east yesterday. the city has seen fierce russian bombardment for days.

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A warm welcome to tokyo where the olympics has entered day 1a. in the last few minutes, laura kenny has become team gb�*s joint most decorated female olympians as she and team—mate katie archibald win a cycling gold in the women's madison final. team gb has also added another medal with the women's hockey team beating india 4—3 to take the bronze. the 2016 champions took an early 2—0 lead but fell 3—2 down in the third quarter. they came back to draw level before grace balsdon struck the winning goal after a succession

And at the end of day 1a, great britain has moved into fourth position in the medals table, with 18 golds. tomorrow is the penultimate day of the games, with 3a medals up for grabs, including the women's marathon. the number of daily coronavirus cases has gone up slightly again. there were nearly 32,000 new infections in the latest 24—hour period, but that makes an average of 26,500 new cases per day over the last seven days, so the longer term trend is still down. 92 deaths were recorded in the last 2a hours — that's an average of 85 a day in the past week. the number of people in hospita...

Effort by the last man there for italy. lucy hockings has this update from tokyo. a warm welcome to tokyo. let's bring you right up to date on what has been happening in day 1a of these 0lympics. kenya's faith kipyegon has retained the olympic women's 1500—metre title to put an end to dutch athlete sifan hassan�*s bid for an unprecedented track treble. kipyegon broke the 33—year—old 0lympic record set by romanian paula ivan at the seoul games as she clocked three minutes 53.11 seconds. joshua cheptegei has made up for his silver in the 10,000—metres to win the 5000—metre 0lympic ti...