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News Source: Time of India
| about 1 year ago
There will be no ban on protest rallies by Tibetans in India, the government clarified to China on Friday after Chinese officials asked if the central government would take a cue from the communist leaders ruling West Bengal. The clarification comes...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 year ago
IST(12/4/2008) "Politics should not be mixed with Olympics”, the Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, told Chinese ambassador to India, Zhang Yan, during a meeting in the capital on Friday. The Olympics is an event “beyond politics”, a...
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News Source: Egypt News
| about 1 year ago
We’re not going to get into a debate over what China is doing in Tibet, or in Darfur, or Myanmar, or its record on human rights...But the political debate over China's hosting the Summer Olympics is rapidly overtaking the sports-themed torch...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Argentina (AP) -- Argentina barricaded streets and deployed thousands of police for the Olympic torch's only Latin American stop Friday, a relay that protesters threatened to disrupt with "entertaining surprises." Human rights protesters prepare to...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 year ago
Associated Press Writer In his first public appearance since arriving for a five-day event on compassion, the Dalai Lama made no mention of the situation in Tibet, instead welcoming what he said was a new scientific interest in human emotion...Event...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 year ago
Natacha Pisarenko / AP Photo Demonstrators place a banner demanding freedom for Tibet in front of a McDonalds fast food restaurant, in Buenos Aires,Thursday, April 10, 2008. On Friday the Olympic torch will be carried by runners across Argentina's...
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News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
Tex., April 11--President Bush today reiterated his plans to attend the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing and suggested he would be unlikely to bow to demands to skip the opening ceremonies in protest of China's crackdown in Tibet and other abuses.
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News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
April 11 (UPI) -- Presidential candidates may say they'd boycott the Beijing Summer Olympics, but U.S. President Bush hasn't changed his plans, the White House said Friday. "The president's position on the Olympics has not changed," White House...
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News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| about 1 year ago
Activists opposing China's human rights record are demonstrating along the torch's route, but they say their protests will be peaceful. Hundreds of China supporters are also lining up to see celebrity athletes relay the torch. Buenos Aires Mayor...
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News Source: Times of India
| about 1 year ago
Runners began carrying the Olympic torch through Buenos Aires on Friday as police kept small pro-and anti-China protest groups apart at points along the eight-mile (13 km) route. The relay kicked off at 2:36 p.m.(1736 GMT) and Argentine Olympic...