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BBC News
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Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame have reached the summit of Everest, the world's highest mountain.
Chinese television showed the team of climbers, carrying special high-altitude torches, reaching the summit at 0920 local time (0120 GMT).
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MSNBC
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A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world Thursday, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China’s ambitions for the Beijing games.
The climbers could be heard struggling for breath in a live television broadca..
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BBC News
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Beijing has said "no force" can stop the Olympic flame relay, as it faces protests on the US leg of its journey.
Seven demonstrators have already been arrested in San Francisco after tying "Free Tibet" banners to the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge...
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SF Gate
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Demonstrators grabbed at the Olympic torch, blocked its path and tried to snuff out its flame Sunday in raucous protests of China's human rights record that forced a string of last-second changes to a chaotic relay through London.
The biggest protests..
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