BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday efforts to politicise the Beijing Games would not work, while Olympic organisers tried to relieve pressure by apparently lifting some Internet curbs.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao said his country would stand by pledges made when it was awarded the Olympics as Games officials deflected fire over Internet censorship on Friday […]

BAGHDAD - An army spokesman says a roadside bomb attack has killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded two others in northern city of Kirkuk.
Col. Salam al-Zobaei, the spokesman of the Iraqi […]

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's embattled Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was set to reshuffle his cabinet Friday in a last-ditch bid to revive waning public support as elections loom against a rising […]

WASHINGTON - John McCain accused Barack Obama of playing politics with race on Thursday, raising the explosive issue after the first black candidate with a serious chance of winning the White […]

BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese organizers BOCOG have agreed to lift all Internet restrictions for the Beijing Games, IOC vice-president Gunilla Lindberg told Reuters on Friday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese organisers have agreed to lift all Internet restrictions for the Beijing Games, IOC vice-president Gunilla Lindberg told Reuters on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold then for unspecified periods the Washington Post […]

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A man sleeping on a Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies was killed and decapitated by his seatmate as horrified passengers fled to safety […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan's spying service helped plan the suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul this month, The New York Times […]