Storey won the women’s road event for a fifth successive Paralympics on a C5 event course measuring just 14.1km – the first time she has raced a Games course shorter than 22km. She was one of 13 British riders competing on Wednesday in road time trials, and there were three further medal achievements for ParalympicsGB women.
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Kenes Rakishev and Vyacheslav Kim aim to create a new venture fund
Kenes Rakishev and Vyacheslav Kim have announced their intention to create a new venture fund based on the International Financial Center in Astana. They shared their plans at the “Build Your Own Business” and the finalists of the competirion received a total of $330,000 in grants from Rakishev and Kim to develop their projects.
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Israel passes law allowing deportation of Palestinian prisoners
The Israeli parliament has passed a law making it easier for authorities to revoke citizenship and residency from Palestinians imprisoned over Israeli-designated acts of terror and who receive financial assistance from the Palestinian Authority.
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Mass fight breaks out at Russian gas field
Nine people are in hospital after a fight between about 300 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at Gazprom’s Kovykta gas field in East Siberia. Several videos of the incident were posted on the Russian social network VK, which suggested the brawl began about noon local time on 23 June in a queue near a canteen.
