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Hamas will not accept a ceasefire with Israel unless all aggression against the Gaza Strip is halted, a Hamas spokesman said Tuesday.
The Lebanon-based Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the Hamas delegation in Cairo focused on achieving a halt of all aggression, then a ceasefire might be...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh Monday for talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosny Mubarak, as part of a two-day tour to the region in the face of continuing violence in the Gaza Strip.
Talks between the two presidents were to include ways to restore peace in the Strip and mediate...
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German ambassador in Cairo Bernd Erbel has praised Egypt's 'intense efforts' to secure the release of the Germans among the 19 people kidnapped on Sept 19, media reports said on Wednesday.
"We are happy the German hostages plus a Romanian national have returned home in good health," Erbel told the English-language daily The...
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German officials are negotiating with the kidnappers of 11 tourists and eight Egyptians who went missing on Friday in Egypt's southern desert during a safari trip, sources in the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism said on Tuesday.
Negotiations for the release of the eleven Europeans, including five Germans, five Italians, a Romanian, and...
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 Kenya's opposition rejected Friday the offer of talks from the
country's controversial new President Mwai Kibaki, press reports said.
There would be no dialogue based on Kibaki's conditions, a
spokesman for the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) told Britain's BBC.
The ODM is relying on international mediators to resolve the power...
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 United States First Lady Laura Bush arrived Wednesday in Mozambique after visiting Senegal and Mali as part of her tour in Africa and announced that the US will offer an aid of 507 million dollars to the impoverished nation.This aid is offered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a development agency created by the Bush...
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 Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues his
farewell tour around the world and during his trip to South
Africa he urged the international community
to offer additional help to African nations.
Blair along with President Thabo Mbeki addressed the
journalists present in South African capital Pretoria
and spoke about...
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 British Prime Minister Tony Blair continues his farewell tour
around the world with a trip to Libya
where he met with President Muammar al-Gaddafi and took note of British
Petroleum’s return to the north African country after three decades.
Blair declared his “good personal relationship” with Gaddafi
took him to Libya,
where he...
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Former cycling champion Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting their first child together, People magazine reported Wednesday.
"Anna and I are thrilled to confirm that we are expecting in June and our families are ecstatic and grateful," he told the celebrity magazine. "We are very much looking...
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Christopher Ciccone has little in common with his sister, ultra fit and apparently ageless pop star Madonna.
The 47-year-old Ciccone is so reserved he comes across almost as shy. He's wrapped in an oversized hooded sweatshirt, and the wrinkles show around his eyes, making him look personable.
Despite the cool autumn weather, he...
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Election day finally arrived Tuesday for the record throngs of US voters planning to cast their presidential ballots for either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
Obama held a significant lead in opinion polls as state officials braced for an unprecedented turnout and massive lines at polling places in an election...
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At least 12 people were reported killed Friday in the crash of a tour bus off a bridge in the US state of Texas, US media reported.
The accident occurred around 12:45 am (0545 GMT) when the bus carrying 55 people from Houston, Texas into the state of Missouri crashed around 100 kilometres north of Dallas, US broadcaster CNN...
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 A charter bus that was running off a highway near north of Dallas crashed onto one side on a roadway below. 12 people were killed on Friday at about 12:45 a.m. CT (1:45 a.m. EDT) as the bus rolled over and endangered the life of nearly fifty-five people who were inside it.The bus crashed about 60 miles north of Dallas, nearly half a mile...
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Matthew O’Sullivan, 37, of Los Angeles, California, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual act on Wednesday. O’Sullivan is an employee at the company that produces the video series of “Girls Gone Wild.” His accusations came after he had groped a woman aboard a bus outside a New York bar called Nubar. On Tuesday night, the “Girls...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Wednesday calling on China to 'immediately' end human rights abuses ahead of the Summer Olympics set to begin in Beijing on August 8.
The measure, passed by a 419-1 vote, cites a rise in crackdowns on
dissidents leading up to the Games and the failure of the...
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US President George W Bush will leave Monday
on his ninth trip to Asia in nearly eight years in office, a White
House official said.
The opening of the Beijing Olympics will be the highlight of the seven-day tour that also includes stops in South Korea and Thailand.
The president and First Lady Laura Bush will arrive on Wednesday...
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US President George W Bush Thursday toured
areas of California devastated by wildfires over the past three weeks
and was briefed by fellow Republican California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger and other officials. Bush did not speak to
reporters before the briefing or the aerial tour which took him above
the Trinity National...
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 Nearly three dozen cable car passengers were stuck for
almost five hours during a sightseeing tour above Bronx Zoo. An emergency
mechanism caused the Skyfari, which offers its passengers a whole view of the
zoo, to shut down at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.
The Skyfari was opened in 1970 and it is certified
by the state...
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 Six people, including a former state lawmaker, died when a single-engine
plane piloted by a former state lawmaker crashed in northern Ohio Sunday. The plane crashed into a
residential area west of Fremont,
Ohio, just minutes after taking
off. No buildings were hit.
Sgt. Matt Crow of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, which is...
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 A trip which promised to be real fun for some 1,600 students
from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties ended Sunday with two teenagers
wounded. During a fight in the parking lot of the Wet’n Wild water park in
central Florida
a gunfire was heard and an 18-year-old teenager, Michael Roosevelt, was shot in
the leg. Furthermore,...
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 Vice-President Dick Cheney made an unannounced visit to Baghdad this morning. This is his first trip to Iraq since the deployment of additional U.S. forces last summer.
The surprise visit is just the first stop on a tour of the Middle East and beyond, as Cheney has scheduled landings in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and...
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 Senator John McCain claimed an important victory in the race
for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, defeating his main
adversary Mitt Romney in the Florida primary ahead of the crucial February 5 “Super
Tuesday.”
With three-fourths of the vote counted, McCain, a senator
from Arizona, led Romney, a former...
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 US President George W Bush, accompanied by his wife, Laura, will visit five African countries next month, the White House informed Friday.The Bushes will travel to Africa Feb. 15-21, visiting Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, White House press secretary Dana Perino said Friday.The trip will give the president a chance to review...
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 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice readies for next week's visit in Russia on May 15. Her visit is reportedly seeking to address the latest cooling off of the U.S. - Russia relations, due to the difference of opinions regarding US' military expansion towards the borders of Russia."There are a lot of issues to talk about in the...
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The Auckland ATP tournament has won a power struggle with the elite AAMI Classic at Kooyong club over the appearance of Latvian Ernests Gulbis next month.
The 20-year-old's handlers may have somehow double-booked their man into two events during the same January week in two different countries.
With the stalemate threatening,...
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Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will make an official visit to Japan and Brunei at the end of October, the royal palace in London said Tuesday.
However, the Duchess, 61, would miss the final leg of the tour to Indonesia due to the extreme heat in the country at that time, a Clarence House...
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 Having war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic finally detained,
Serbia
is being urged to catch its fugitive wartime military chief Ratko Mladic, also
sought for genocide.
According to AFP, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said in Singapore during an Asian tour that the Serbs were progressing and
“making a step forward in...
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Sprinters were expected to
take the spotlight again on Monday as the third stage of the 2008 Tour
de France got under way in the port of Saint-Malo. The
208-kilometre course from Saint-Malo, which is situated on the northern
shore of Brittany, to the city of Nantes, in the south of the region,
is relatively flat and will likely...
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 The rock band Bon Jovi has decided to give a free concert on July 12, in the honor of Major League Baseball’s 79th All-Star Game. The big show will begin at 8 p.m. and more than 60,000 fans are expected to come and see it.
Even if the show is announced to have a free entry, the fans will need a ticket for admission. This ticket...
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Bollywood film celebrity Tania Zaetta denied the allegations
that she had sex with Australian Special Forces troops during a tour of
war-ravaged Afghanistan.
However, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, mentioned that the claims were being
investigated by defense officials.
Zaetta, who appeared on “Baywatch” and...
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 After in London police battled to keep pro-Tibet
demonstrators away from the Olympic flame and more that 20 men had been
arrested, and in Paris the final leg of the 27-kilometre tour from the capital
had to be cancelled because of the protests, Chinese authorities are also
expecting to see protests during the Tibetan stage of the...
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 In order to preserve Tibetan culture, the only thing that China has to do
is to apply existing laws on cultural autonomy. Formally, China’s
constitution guarantees minorities the freedom of thought, expression, assembly
and religion. All 55 of China’s
minoriy groups should have the same rights. Even though more than 150...
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 The symbolical flame of pro-Tibet protests that condemned China’s human-rights record, was blocked by the French police, as it boycotted the Olympic flame.
Police officers claimed the demonstrators turned the Paris
leg of the Olympic torch relay into a public disaster, as the organizers were
forced to snuff out the flame...
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 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting with top Israeli officials on Wednesday as a last stop in her Middle East tour. The main issue to be debated at the scheduled meeting will be the Israel-Gaza peace efforts. However, the meeting has been somewhat overshadowed by the latest Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip in...
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 According to local media reports, twenty-four Britons and four people from Ireland were among 100 passengers forced to take to lifeboats after their cruise liner hit ice and began taking on water in the Antarctic Ocean.
Passengers abandoned the 2,400-tonne Liberian-flagged M/S Explorer after a small hole was punched in the hull in the...
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 The queue outside the Colosseum is long and winding. But with aching feet and the sun burning, waiting for an hour or so to get into the ancient amphitheatre does not seem an option.
A few metres away, two young Italians dressed as gladiators or Roman legionaries are having their picture taken by an enthusiastic tourist. Surely,...
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Russia on Tuesday cut by two-thirds its gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine, with European countries immediately feeling the effect of drastically falling volumes as the standoff worsened.
Russia's Tuesday gas supply reduction, the second since the beginning of 2009, would cause "problems in getting sufficient gas to Europe to...
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Finnish women skiers Aino Kaisa Saarinen and Virpi Kuitunen are favourites in this season's Tour de Ski in the absence of Swedish title holder Charlotte Kalla, while the men's race appears wide open.
Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic has not been as dominant as last year which raises doubts whether he can defend his title at the third...
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Marat Safin's former coach Peter Lundgren says he believes that his ex-pupil has one more season of ATP play remaining before the charismatic, streaky Russian finally calls it quits.
"He is very much a player who relies on his motivation and if he doesn't feel like it, he will stop playing. If you ask me I think next season will...
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The 2009 Vuelta will start outside of Spain for the first time in 12 years and for only the second time in its history, race organizers confirmed Wednesday in Madrid.
Next year's Tour of Spain will begin on August 29 with an individual time trial on the Dutch motorcycle racing circuit of Assen, followed by three further stages in the...
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A Danish executive extradited from the United States on Tuesday admitted to allegations of fraud during a remand custody hearing at a Danish district court.
Stein Bagger, 41, was chief executive of the software company IT Factory and is alleged to have defrauded the group of some 182 million dollars and also falsified...
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A famous country pile, an elegant town house, a smart pub in Mayfair and the value of luxury homes in London and New York are among the spoils of matrimony with which Britain's Guy Ritchie is walking away from his eight-year marriage to Madonna.
Ritchie, a publicity-shy film director of considerable means, insisted for weeks that he...
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This year's Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre confirmed Thursday that he will compete in the 2009 Giro d'Italia before defending his Tour crown.
"The Giro is my first objective of the season and when I ride, it won't be just as a training exercise," said the Spaniard, who will be riding with the new Cervelo Test...
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Wilson Bueno Largo, a former member of Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels, arrived in Paris on Wednesday in a deal giving him political asylum, French media reported.
Largo, also known as Isaza, gained hero status and a 400,000-dollar reward for freeing a kidnapped Colombian lawmaker, Oscar Tulio Lizcano, 62, whom he dragged to freedom in...
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A young Dutch politician and founder of a group of former Muslims is due to present a 15-minute film criticizing Islam at a secret location on Tuesday.
Ehsan Jami, city council member for his one-man-party in Leidschendam-Voorburg near The Hague, is depicted in the English- language film as interviewing the prophet Mohammed who is...
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Dutch anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders confirmed on Monday he would tour Britain, France and Israel in the coming months to present his controversial Islam-critical film Fitna.
On March 27, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party PVV released a 16-minute political film on the Internet warning of the spread of radical Islam and...
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US pop queen Madonna was probably still asleep in Philadelphia early Friday after entertaining fans with her raunchy Sticky & Sweet tour the night before when a district judge in London granted the decree confirming that her eight-year marriage with Guy Ritchie was over.
The sober proceedings, listed as Ciccione M L v Ritchie G S...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie ended their eight-year marriage in a low-key "quickie" divorce in London Friday following a private settlement.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the High Court's family division. It lasted just a few minutes and was heard...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a "quickie" divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes.
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The British Labour government and opposition parties Wednesday hailed as "inspirational" the victory of Barack Obama in the American presidential election which they hope will open a new era in the much-vaunted "special relationship" between Britain and the US.
"This is a moment that will live in history as...
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Lance Armstrong returns to competitive cycling this weekend when he takes part in two time trial events in Gruene, Texas, the cycling news internet site reported Wednesday.
The 37-year-old American has registered for Saturday's 26- kilometre-long individual time trial before joining John Korioth for Sunday's team event over...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, Abu Dhabi, on the last stop of his tour of Pakistan and the Gulf.
Steinmeier is due to meet the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, as well as attend the opening function for a German school in...
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Texan space tourist Richard Gariott said Monday the Russian space agency and NASA should give business entrepreneurs wider access to the International Space Station (ISS).
Silicon Valley millionaire Garriott, who made his fortune designing fantasy computer games, said he fit the profile as he spoke with journalists three days after...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was flying to Pakistan Monday at the start of a four-day diplomatic tour that will also take in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The onslaught of terrorist attacks and the growing financial crisis in Pakistan are expected to dominate his talks with Pakistan's new president,...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was flying to Pakistan Monday at the start of a four-day diplomatic tour that will also take in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The onslaught of terrorist attacks and the growing financial crisis in Pakistan are expected to dominate his talks with Pakistan's new president,...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to fly to Pakistan on Monday at the start of a four-day diplomatic tour also taking in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, aides said Friday in Berlin.
The onslaught of terrorist attacks and the growing financial crisis in Pakistan will be topics when he meets with Pakistan's...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was to arrive in Slovakia Thursday for her first visit to the ex-communist country that went independent 15 years ago and became an economic success story.
The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, were coming off a trip to Slovenia, a smaller country to the south that once was part of Yugoslavia.
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German national broadcasters ARD and ZDF announced Thursday that they will no longer broadcast the Tour de France live.
"The sporting value of the Tour de France has been significantly reduced as a result of the numerous doping cases and the perceptions that have materialised," ARD chairman Fritz Raff said.
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The Belgian Silence-Lotto cycling team intends cancelling its contract with Austrian rider Bernhard Kohl following his admission that he was guilty of doping during this year's Tour de France, the Austrian APA news agency reported Thursday.
Kohl, who until now rode for the Gerolsteiner team, was meant to join Silence-Lotto for the...
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The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) does not expect more positive results from this year's Tour de France.
The French paper L'Equipe reported Tuesday that AFLD said that they expected the case involving Austrian Bernhard Kohl, who like several others tested positive for the blood doping agent CERA, to be the last.
Kohl and three...
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Samples taken from cyclists at the Giro d'Italia will not be retested for the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, CERA, Italian news reports said on Friday.
The Giro director Angelo Zomegnan was quoted in Friday's La Gazzetta dello Sport as saying that there was no necessity to retest the samples.
"The anti-doping...
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NATO is to deploy up to seven warships off the Somali coast to defend UN ships delivering food aid from attacks by pirates, alliance officials said Thursday.
The decision, taken by NATO defence ministers meeting in Budapest, follows a specific request from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and a similar initiative agreed by...
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Tour de France doping samples will be retested for illegal blood transfusions which could reveal further drug cheats at the famed race.
The head of the French anti-doping agency AFLD, Pierre Bordry, told German state network ZDF on Wednesday that a new method to detect blood transfusions is currently being developed.
He said that...
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German rider Stefan Schumacher tested positive twice for third-generation EPO at the Tour de France in July, the French anti-doping agency AFLD confirmed on Wednesday.
The AFLD said in a statement that Schumacher tested positive for the newest version of the blood-booster, CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator), on July 3...
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The German cycling federation BDR was on Tuesday set to investigate two-time Tour de France stage winner Stephan Schumacher after a positive doping test for third-generation EPO.
"The (BDR) board will come to an agreement today to launch proceedings," BDR boss Rudolf Scharping told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
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Former cycling professional Jan Ullrich said Friday that he believes seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong could win another title.
The 37-year-old American announced a short while ago that he was coming out of retirement to join the Astana team and compete in next year's Tour de France.
Ullrich, who won the Tour in 1997...
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is welcome to join next year's edition of the famous race, Tour organizers said Thursday.
"If nothing happens in the next few months, there is nothing that speaks against Astana's participation," Tour director Christian Prudhomme said.
Armstrong, 37, announced in New York...
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is welcome to join next year's race, Tour organizers said Thursday.
Armstrong, 37, announced in New York on Wednesday that he would return to cycling with the Astana team in 2009. He previously rode for the US Postal team, which then became the Discovery Channel team.
"If...
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is welcome to join next year's race, Tour organizers said Thursday.
Armstrong, 37, announced in New York on Wednesday that he would return to cycling with the Astana team in 2009. He previously rode for the US Postal team, which then became the Discovery Channel team.
"If...
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International talks on the summer's Georgian-Russian war are set to start in Geneva on October 15 on "expert level," the European Commission's top diplomat said Wednesday in a further twist to the ongoing debate over the talks.
After a meeting between European Union foreign ministers and their Russian counterpart in New...
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Anti-immigrant rightists from around Europe gathered Friday to protest against a planned mosque in the German city of Cologne and chased a man of Turkish appearance.
Police have called in reinforcements, fearing the rightists may clash with Cologne's ethnic minorities and German leftists.
Reporters said they saw the rightists...
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When General David Petraeus took over as commander of US forces in Iraq 19 months ago, the country was on the brink of civil war.
More than 3,000 US soldiers had died since the invasion of March 2003 and al-Qaeda terrorists had made the western province of Anbar their regional centre of operations.
With a new strategy that included...
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The Astana team said Tuesday US cycling legend Lance Armstrong would be welcome if he wanted to come out of retirement for another attempt to win the Tour de France.
According to US magazine VeloNews on its website Monday, Armstrong plans to come out of retirement and enter five tour races in 2009, including the Tour de France.
The...
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Argentinean-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim has lashed out at Israel for failing to try to understand Palestinian life.
Speaking ahead of a performance in Berlin Saturday of the Israeli-Arab youth orchestra he co-founded in 1999, Barenboim told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that Israel was "ignorant" of Palestinian life and...
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A garden gnome stolen from a woman in England has finally made its way home after a seven-month world tour, British media reported Tuesday.
Grandmother Eve Stuart-Kelso recently found the gnome, called Murphy, back in her garden in the western English county of Gloucestershire with a photo album showing him in 10 countries.
The...
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On June 12, Swiss gourmet Pascal Henry was
chatting to a fellow guest after finishing his meal at El Bulli, the
north- eastern Spanish restaurant regarded as one of the best in the
world. Apparently discovering he had left his visiting cards
in his car, the unaccompanied man dressed in black told a waiter he
needed to pop out to...
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Galician giants Deportivo Coruna are very
close to selling defender Fabricio Coloccini, according to Spanish
media reports on Monday. Deportivo have turned down several
offers to sell the Argentine international over the past three years,
but now seem resigned to selling him because of their heavy debts.
According to sports...
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US presidential candidate Barack Obama Sunday
made his first appearance back on US soil meeting a convention of
minority journalists in Chicago where he emphasized multinational
cooperation for future US foreign policy. After Obama's
return from Europe and the Middle East he faced sharp criticism from
the opposing camp for not...
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 Prince William made a confidential visit in order to meet
British troops in Afghanistan,
BBC News reports. William, 25, flew a military transport plane for part of the
journey from the UK to Kandahar, as he received his
RAF pilot's wings earlier this month.
It appears the prince spent nearly three hours with UK service...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was Monday due to meet the
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