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News Source: Fox News
| about 1 year ago
Nike said Thursday it is extending its sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams through the London 2012 Olympic Games as the official outfitter for the teams. As part of the sponsorship, Nike will provide U.S. athletes with the Medal...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
April 10 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan will extend its full support to make the Olympic torch relay in Islamabad smooth, secure and safe, said Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillanion Thursday. The Olympic torch relay in Islamabad will be an important...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
April 10 (Xinhua) -- Beijing tourism authorities said Thursday the capital would launch recruitment for homestay accommodations for Olympic visitors on Friday. Xiong Yumei, Beijing Tourism Bureau's deputy director, said in a news briefing that...
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News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
PDT San Francisco -- For the second time in less than a week, a motorist on a Bay Area freeway was shot and killed. On Wednesday night, a man driving a burgundy Honda with two children in the back seat was fired upon by a person riding in another...
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News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
Under threat of federal legal action, San Francisco has paid back half the $5.4 million it received in disputed grant money to prosecute border crimes and pledged to make good on whatever else it owes by midyear, officials said Wednesday. District...
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News Source: Phayul
| about 1 year ago
Bloomberg [Thursday, April 10, 2008 20:47] April 10 -- The Olympic torch is being flown to Buenos Aires from San Francisco as pressure grows on world leaders to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing games because of Chinese human rights...
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News Source: Haaretz Daily Newspaper
| about 1 year ago
Torch relays in London, Paris, and San Francisco attracted tens of thousands of demonstrators. Many want to focus world attention on China's human rights record, its actions in Tibet and its close relationship with Sudan. In a telephone interview...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
April 10 (Xinhua)-- The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the global torch relay of the Olympic Games would continue "in all weathers" to spread the Olympic spirit and ideals of peace, friendship and progress in the world. Foreign...
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News Source: Taiwan News
| about 1 year ago
Olympic Committee's share of global Olympic revenues is getting ugly. The issue flared into the open Thursday at a joint meeting of the International Olympic Committee executive board and the body that represents the world's 205 national Olympic...
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News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
Opinion Editorial: What a letdown (4/10) Open Forum: Public relations apocalypse (4/09) Fiore: Torch is burned out (flash) (4/09) The Olympic Games are no stranger to political protest, but the international demonstrations against the Olympic torch...