Afghan women make brief Olympic debut
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Afghan women made a short-lived debut in the Olympic Games on Wednesday as 18-year-old judo wildcard Friba Razayee was defeated after 45 seconds of her first match in the under-70kg middleweight.
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Over 10.5 Afghans have registered to vote in the first-ever direct presidential election on Saturday, October 9. This will also be the first time in the country&#39;s 5,000-year recorded history that women will not just be allowed to vote, but contest.
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The first of 18 gold medals to be awarded Wednesday, on the 12th day of the summer Olympics in Athens goes to Kate Allen of Austria.
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Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko became the first woman to win a gold medal at the ancient site that birthed the Olympics, recording the three longest throws of the shot put competition.
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The official month-long campaign for Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever direct presidential election since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban, has opened.
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The United States had been confident of coming away from the first Olympic women&#39;s wrestling tournament with the maximum four medals.
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The temporary pool set up for the World Short Course Championships is, well, short. Swimmers dive in and a few breaths later, they reach the wall at the other end.
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ATHENS (PL).â Unexpectedly, but justly so, shot putter Yumisleidi CumbÃ¡ has become the first gold medalist for Cuba at the 28th Olympic Games in Athens after Russian Irina Korzhanenko tested positive for drugs.
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show however they will be briefed that a person related to Kabul will be coming in.
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KARZAI: I met with her this morning. I found her to be a very, very brave woman with a clear vision for her own country, for Afghanistan, and for (inaudible) and we in Afghanistan condemn this cowardice and immense brutality in the strongest possible terms.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Olympic athletes may be allowed to blog for the first time at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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The big names in women's skiing are hitting form just in time for the start of next week's world championships, promising some fascinating battles.
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Counting of ballots began in Afghanistan Thursday, five days after the country&#39;s first direct elections for president, the BBC reported.
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ATHENS -- The United States had been confident of coming away from the first Olympic women's wrestling tournament with the maximum four medals. Now it can get only two, and even those aren't a certainty.
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After delays over fraud charges and boycott threats, the vote count in Afghanistan's presidential election finally began, five days after millions of men and women defied the Taliban to have their first say in their country's destiny.
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AFGHANISTANâS capital Kabul was placed under tight security today for the historic inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the countryâs first popularly elected president.
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Australia has won two medals on the first day of the World Shortcourse Swimming Championships in Indianapolis. The Australian 4x200 metre women&#39;s freestyle relay team took silver, while 17-year-old Lara Carroll