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30 April 2012
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning a boycott of the Euro 2012 football tournament taking place in Ukraine in June unless the imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is released, and is urging her ministers to do...[more]
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11 April 2012
Mounting trouble in the Gulf state might mean a cancellation of the Formula One Grand Prix next weekend. Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone said yesterday that the racing teams will have the final say over whether the Bahrain...[more]
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30 March 2012
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is to consider moving the 2014 hockey world championship in Belarus to a different country “until the regime shows commitment to human rights and the rule of law” stated a European...[more]
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06 October 2011
The 2011 Play the Game conference concluded with a call to the International Olympic Committee to organise a world conference before the end of 2012 in order to draft a code and international standards for good governance in...[more]
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21 October 2010
Just a month after India concluded the Commonwealth Games, China is hosting the Asian Games. The Games are taking place in Guangdong Province between 12 - 27 November, mainly in the city of Guangzhou. During the Asian Games the...[more]
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04 October 2010
The Commonwealth Games 2010 finally took off in New Delhi, yesterday, on October 3 after rebounding from the brink of disaster a couple of weeks ago when several (Western) teams threatened to pull out – and several individual...[more]
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30 August 2010
Human rights activists in India are demanding that the 2010 Commonwealth Games are called off. Human rights violations have grown in leaps and bounds around the event, one NGO said a few days ago. Another NGO estimates in a new...[more]
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24 August 2010
The Vancouver Winter Games 2010 are being critically reviewed by Laura Robinson, who looks into the IOC and VANOC's spin on the women ski jumpers' right to inclusion, the degree of freedom of expression, the sustainabiblity of...[more]
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28 July 2010
The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has left its clear mark on David Cameron's visit to Washington. The biggest oil disaster of our time overshadows the war in Afghanistan and the financial crisis that the two...[more]
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29 June 2010
The Alqaeda-Linked Alshabab militants in Somalia arrested the Chairman of Dahabshil Football Club, Abdulkadir Ali Barre, Somali football federation and family members confirmed Monday.[more]
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