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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Italy's Alex Schwazer reacts after winning the men's 50-kilomter walk during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.
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Eddy Riva of France rests after competing in the in the men's 50km walk of the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 2008.
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NEW YORK - AUGUST 21: Tennis Player Andy Roddick celebrates Lacoste's 75 Anniversary at Macy's Herald Square on August 21, 2008 in New York City.
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Workers labour in the fields of an organic farm at Dezevci, eastern Croatia, May 27, 2008. Farm owners hope their organic products will fare well on the markets of the European Union, which Croatia hopes to join around 2011.
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LYNCHBURG, VA - AUGUST 20: Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a Town Hall event at EC Glass High School August 20, 2008 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Reports indicate that Obama will announce his Vice Presidential candidate on Friday and they will campaign together on Saturday.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama listens to his introduction at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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In this photo released by www.stopgenocidenow. org, a team of Sudanese refugee children pose for a photo after competing in a sport activity at a refugee camp in eastern Chad Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actress activist Mia Farrow is Web-casting her own "Darfur Olympics" from a refugee camp on the barren Sudan-Chad border, aiming to shame China into using its influence with Khartoum to end the Darfur conflict.
In this July 6, 2008 file photo, Bernard Lagat, right, wins the men's 1500 meter final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore. Just to the left of Lagat is Leo Manzano, and to his left is Lopez Lomong. All three are foreign born; Lagat in Kenya, Manzano in Mexico and Lomong in Sudan - and all three will compete at the Beijing Olympics as members of the United States team.
In this July 6, 2008 file photo, Bernard Lagat, right, crosses the finish line ahead of Lopez Lomong to win the men's 1500 meter final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore. Both men are foreign born; Lagat in Kenya, Lomong in Sudan - and both will compete at the Beijing Olympics as members of the United States team.
U.S. movie director Steven Spielberg speaks during a news conference announcing the creation team for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in this April 16, 2006 file photo. Oscar-winning film director Spielberg withdrew on February 12, 2008 as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing over China's policy on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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are excerpts from comments Cheek e-mailed Wednesday to The Associated Press, regarding how the Chinese authorities and the International Olympic Committee have addressed issues related to dissent and political free
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The Beijing Olympics have left the world's human rights groups frustrated and angry -- convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses and adamant that future hosts like Russia must be held to a higher standard.
Western
BEIJING - Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration.
The women were still at home three days
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Olympic Green cools things down for the 20-kilometer walk and Kaniskina responds with an Olympic record. BC-AS-OLY-ATH--ROUNDUP. Has moved. By Raf Casert.
ROGGE: IOC president criticizes Bolt for lack of respect to
21/08/2008 18:34
Beijing - The Chinese may believe in the luck of numbers, but South African athletes convincingly proved that day 13 is not the number of choice at the Bird's Nest on Thursday.
Athens silver medallist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi was the
Men's 800 meter semi finals-Brutal Semis, Borzakovsky is out! Symmonds is out!
Wilfred Bungei of Kenay took the pack through 54.23 and 1:21.00 for 600 meters to win, start to finish in 1:46.23. Yeimer Lopez of Cuba, the young man who ran 1:43.07
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The Beijing Olympics have left the world's human rights groups frustrated and angry -- convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses and adamant that future hosts like Russia must be held to a higher standard.
Western
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the games, few have made even low-key efforts to speak out about political repression or China's economic ties to Sudan, where violence has raged in Darfur.
«Even if there was an athlete that wanted to speak out on
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In the end, they pretty much defined the terms in which the media was going to operate ... Those terms are not the same as in the Western world.
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