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The speaker of the United States House of Representatives is arguably the most high-profile politician to have called on leaders to shun the Games, with the Democrat igniting a diplomatic row by demanding that heads of state should not travel to the showpiece because of an "ongoing genocide" in China. More than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims are thought to have been detained in the Xinjiang region, where they are widely reported to be kept indefinitely in prison-style conditions without being charged. In July, the European parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of a non-binding resolution to urge EU representatives...
