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Sochi President Putin visits Olympic village ahead of games
The Olympic torch and the medals have now arrived in Sochi, Russia ahead of the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
The Olympic torch has arrived at the Krasnaya Polyana railway station in Sochi, as it nearing the end of its 123-day journey across Russia.
The torch will make its way through Sochi before the journey concludes at the Opening Ceremony on Friday.
The official Olympic medals have also arrived in Sochi.
The Chinese delegation1 has its sights set on two or three gold medals, even though the squad2 is without star skater and four-time Olympic champion Wang Meng, who has been forced to miss the Games because of injury.
Chinese figure skater Tong Jian, who won silver in the pair's competition in Vancouver, has been selected as the flag bearer for the Chinese delegation at the Olympic opening ceremony.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to attend the opening ceremonies on Friday.
China Snow Travel Rush
As the official Spring Festival holiday comes to a conclusion today, this country's transportation network is coming under new pressure because of bad weather.
Meteorlogical authorities have issued a yellow alert, as blizards have been rolling through this country's central and eastern regions.
Despite this, transport officials are reporting early 8 million trips were made by train through yesterday as millions in China return to work.
Railway authorities say some 7-hundred extra trains had to be put into operation to cope with the travel peak.
The number of road travelers also surged on Wednesday.
More than 89 million vehicles are estimated to have been on the roads across China.
That's an increase of 5.4 percent compared to last year.
New York State Governor declares state of emergency for snowstorm
New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency, as a winter storm continues to engulf3 parts of central and northeastern United States.
The weather system has brought heavy snow, ice and freezing rains to parts of both upstate and downstate New York.
Hundreds of flights have also been cancelled at the three major airports serving New York City.
China reports 11 new H7N9 human cases
11 more people have bebn confirmed infected with the H7N9 bird flu through Wednesday here in China.
Eight of them are said to be in critical condition.
4 new cases are reported in Guangdong.
In Zhejiang, the hardest hit province by the virus, 4 new cases have also been reported on Wednesday.
This brings the total number of cases in that province alone to 69 sicne the start of this year.
The other cases reported on Wednesday have been found in Guangxi and Fujian.
Over 130 new cases of the H7N9 virus have been reported here in China so far this year, with over 25 dying.
One murderer of USC Chinese students sentenced to life in prison
One of the two men accused of murdering a pair of Chinese college students at the University of Southern California in the spring of 2012 has been sentenced to life in prison.
21-year old Bryan Barnes has no possibility of parole.
Barnes pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree murder, which could have seen him been given the death penalty, as the parents of the victims had been asking for.
The other suspect in the case, 21-year old Javier Bolden, is awaiting a pre-trial hearing in the coming months.
Chinese students Wu Ying and Qu Ming were gunned down in Wu's apartment near the USC campus in August of 2012 in a case which raised concerns about the safety of Chinese students studying abroad, particularly in the United States.
Chinese Foreign Ministry7 has released a new statement, slamming recent comments made by an official with Japan's public broadcaster NHK, who has denied the Nanjing massacre ever took place.
Naoki Hyakuta, a member of the NHK board of governors, is on record saying that the Nanjing massacre never happened.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry says comments like this are "a barefaced8 challenge to international justice and human conscience."
The Chinese side is once-again calling on Japan to face up to history to try to regain9 trust from its Asian neighbors.
As many as 300-thousand Chinese people were killed by Japanese troops when they occupied the city of Nanjing during the height of the Japanese invasion of China in 1937.
Retail sales in the eurozone have fallen sharply in December.
The latest figures are suggesting December has witnessed the biggest monthly fall in eurozone sales in two-and-a-half years.
December's sales have dropped by 1-percent compared to the same period a year ago, and by 1.6-percent compared to November.
The drop in consumer demand follows a surprise fall in eurozone inflation to 0.7-percent in January.
Eurostat is reporting the largest annual decrease in sales came in Germany.
Sales there fell by 2.4-percent in December compared to the same month in 2012.
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