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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
AP Photo/Carlos Avila Gonzalez, Pool) Torch runners Andrea Vincent, left, and Ed Lee hold the torch Wednesday, April 9, 2008 during the Torch Relay in San Francisco. The Olympic torch played hide and seek with thousands of demonstrators and...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 year ago
Bush and Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong have urged China to reach out to the Dalai Lama over the Tibet crisis. Mr Bush and Mr Goh met during a working visit by the Singapore Senior Minister, who is in Washington for the meeting of the...
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News Source: Leader Post Online
| about 1 year ago
All walks of life and the public should maintain a high degree of vigilance," police spokesman Wu Heping told a news conference. China has heightened security in advance of the Games, which start on August 8, following a rash of anti-Beijing unrest...
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News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
British Columbia, April 10 (UPI) -- There will be no international Olympic torch run for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, officials told CTV News. The network said recent protests and violence in the run for the 2008 Beijing games was...
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News Source: Leader Post Online
| about 1 year ago
The Dalai Lama told reporters he had sent a message to Tibetans in San Francisco, where the torch relay was held on Wednesday. "I sent a message to the Tibetans in San Francisco area, please don't make any violent actions," he said...The torch was a..
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News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
Agencies Published: April 10, 2008, 15:18 Beijing: The Olympic torch relay will continue despite protests, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday. Jacques Rogge, however, said that organisers will reconsider...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:07 AM ET Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says he supports China's hosting of the Olympics in Beijing, but that those who don't are entitled to engage in non-violent protest of this summer's Games. He made...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
Related Topic Get stories by e-mail on this topic. "I'm disappointed, annoyed, tired, frustrated," Sydney Sullivan, 18, said after unsuccessfully trying to chase the flame through the city. "I mean, it's not every day you get to see the Olympic...
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News Source: Sky News
| about 1 year ago
Olympic Champion Slams China Games Nigel Perfect Sky News Online Updated:10:41, Thursday April 10, 2008 Double gold medallist James Cracknell has told Sky News that China's human rights record should have prevented it from ever being given the...
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News Source: Taiwan News
| about 1 year ago
Chinese paramilitary police will not be allowed to run alongside the Olympic torch in Australia, the country's prime minister said Thursday, after their heavy-handed tactics drew criticism in earlier legs of the relay. The men in bright blue...