Dissidentâs Arrest Hints at Olympic Crackdown
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Human rights advocates say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is an example of a broadening crackdown.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 29, 2004 - The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.
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The trick was meant to lure David Cunningham, so he could be issued a peace bond that ordered him away from members of an Olympic Games organizing committee.
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The International Olympic Committee will investigate charges that gold medalists Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery used steroids and other banned drugs, possibly the first step toward stripping their records from the Games.
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Officials from the US Olympic Committee and their South Korean counterparts might seek to solve the dispute over US gymnast Paul Hamm&#39;s gold medal in
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THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) said today it was still trying to find Hungarian Olympic hammer champion Adrian Annus, who is suspected of having tampered with his Athens Games doping sample.
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A CANADIAN husband&#39;s love for his wife has led to a tightening of security at all Olympic venues in Athens.
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A 57-year-old former Irish priest remains in police custody in Greece today after disrupting the menâs marathon at the Olympic Games in Athens yesterday.
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DUBLIN, Ireland The investigation into whether Ireland&#39;s only medal winner from the Athens Olympics had a banned substance in his system has taken a twist.
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JAKARTA : Indonesian police have made an important arrest that could lead them to the masterminds behind last Thursday&#39;s Australian Embassy blast.
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China's top cop said terrorism is the biggest threat at its Olympic Games, and a leading terror expert warned Tuesday that Beijing faces a long-term threat from an Islamic separatist group in its far west.
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In the first major public demonstration since the start of the Olympics, thousands of protesters clashed with police who stopped them from marching
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The Hungarian gold medalist in the men&#39;s discus and a high jumper from Belarus are under investigation by the IOC for doping violations, International Olympic Committee officials said Tuesday.
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Terrorism is the biggest threat to next year's Beijing Olympics, a state newspaper cited top Chinese security officials as saying on Tuesday, a concern echoed by the head of Interpol.
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BEIJING - The arrest of a Hong Kong pro-democracy candidate in mainland China on charges of soliciting a prostitute touched off a media furor in the former British colony yesterday and fueled suspicion that Beijing was trying to influence ...
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A former Irish priest pushed Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei de Lima off the road when he was leading the Olympic marathon on Sunday. The man was arrested and taken to a police station.
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Three people suspected of being members of a dissident group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process were arrested in Ireland and were being questioned under anti-terrorist laws, police here said.