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News Source: Times of India
| about 1 year ago
Athletes ran and rowed the Olympic torch through the streets and docks of Buenos Aires on Friday as police kept small groups of anti-China protesters apart along the eight-mile (13-km) route. Chinese guards running in formation around the torch...
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News Source: Jang.com.pk
| about 1 year ago
International Olympic Committee chiefs on Friday wrapped up a week of meetings in Beijing that have been overshadowed by controversy surrounding China and disruptions to the Olympic torch relay. With the flame now in Buenos Aires, the IOC executive...
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News Source: Japan Today
| about 1 year ago
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said here Friday that the world is against any form of boycott of the Beijing Games. Rogge told reporters the public recognizes that the Olympics is about sport, and any form of boycott...
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News Source: Japan Today
| about 1 year ago
China strongly criticized the European Parliament on Friday for adopting a resolution calling for European Union leaders to consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games due to Beijing’s crackdown in Tibet. The resolution,...
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News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| about 1 year ago
The uninterrupted relay along Buenos Aires' streets and docks contrasted with the chaos over the last week in San Francisco, London and Paris where protesters tried to snuff out the flame and organizers extinguished or hid the torch to keep it safe. (...
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News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge insisted Friday that the Beijing Games were on track as he sought to draw a line under a week overshadowed by worldwide protests linked to Tibet. With the Olympic flame now in Buenos Aires, the...
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News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
The Olympic torch was run through Buenos Aires Friday under tight security in a relay free of the scuffles that marred its early legs. More than 2,500 police and other security personnel lined the 13-kilometer (eight-mile) course through the...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
People showered the parade route with confetti as banks, government offices and businesses took an impromptu half-day holiday for the only Latin American stop on the flame's five-continent journey from Ancient Olympia to the Aug. 8-24 Beijing Games.
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News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
President Bush to skip the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing in August. A number of his counterparts – in Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Poland, Estonia and the Czech Republic -- say they are planning to skip the ceremonies...
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News Source: The Financial Express
| about 1 year ago
CPM thinks India�s democracy is negotiable in face of China�s Olympian intolerance The Indian Express : China�s chairman is our chairman,� was the preponderant Naxalite graffiti in Kolkata in the �60s-�70s...