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News Source: Dawn
| about 1 year ago
April 10: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that the government would mobilise all resources to ensure safety and security of the Olympic torch relay arriving in Pakistan on April 16. He said the relay in Islamabad would be an...
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News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 year ago
A false report on a police scanner helped persuade city officials to alter spontaneously the Olympic torch route on Wednesday, Police Chief Heather Fong said Thursday. Chief Fong said in a news conference that the police had been told that a Chinese...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
April 10 (Xinhua) -- Olympic rowing champion Eduardo Guerrero will participate in the Beijing Olympic torch relay in Buenos Aires on Friday. Guerrero, who won the gold medal in the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, will stand for Argentine athletes to run...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 year ago
IST(11/4/2008) An international torch relay will not be held ahead of Canada's 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, organisers said, insisting it was not in response to protests of this year's Beijing Games. Vancouver Olympic Committee chief executive...
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News Source: CCTV
| about 1 year ago
Special Report: 3.14 Tibet Riots China's Foreign Ministry says the human rights of the Tibetan people are at their best in history, and Tibet has never been an independent country. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu says the central government...
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News Source: France 24
| about 1 year ago
Argentina braces for Olympic torch relay Friday 11 April 2008 Security is expected to be tight during Friday's Argentine leg of the Olympic torch relay as calls grew for world leaders to boycott the Games' opening ceremony. UN Secretary-General Ban...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
April 11 (Xinhua) -- A Tanzanian Olympic official said that they are ready to welcome the Olympic flame in Tanzania's largest city of Dar es Salaam, the only city to host the 2008 torch relay in Africa. "The torch relay of the Beijing Olympic...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
April 10 (Xinhua) -- The recent violent disruptions of the Beijing Olympics global torch relay were against the spirit of the Games, Mohamed El Saket, former ambassador of the Arab Leagueto China, told Xinhua in a telephone interview Thursday. He...
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News Source: CCTV
| about 1 year ago
Special Report: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games The Olympic torch has finished its relay in San Francisco without major incident. Although the pre-designed route had to be changed due to security concerns, the flame completed its journey safely,...
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| about 1 year ago
Wednesday because of the many people riding to San Francisco to try to see the Olympic torch or protest its appearance. Friday before Caltrans shut down the Bay Bridge in both directions for the Labor Day weekend to replace a bridge deck section as...