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‘Pingpong diplomacy’ figure Zhuang Zedong dies

February 10, 2013 0

In this photo taken on April 9, 1961 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Zhuang Zedong, right, competes in the men's team finals of the 26th World Table Tennis Championship in Beijing. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Hesong)

BEIJING: Three-time world table tennis champion Zhuang Zedong, a key figure in 1971’s groundbreaking “pingpong diplomacy” between China and the United States, died Sunday, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported. He was 72 and had struggled with cancer since 2008. Zhuang won new fame by presenting a gift to American player Glenn Cowan, who had inadvertently boarded a bus carrying the Chinese team at …

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Banned Armstrong says he wants to compete again

January 19, 2013 0

In this July 24, 2005 file photo, Luke Armstrong, rear right, tries to touch the winner's trophy held by his father, Lance Armstrong, after Armstrong won his seventh straight Tour de France cycling race, in Paris. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

LOS ANGELES: Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong wants to return to competitive sport, but says the driving force behind his belated doping confession was the well-being of his five children. “The biggest hope and intention was the well-being of my children,” Armstrong told talk show host Oprah Winfrey in the second segment of their televised interview that aired on Friday. In the first installment aired …

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Nadal exists Abu Dhabi tournament due to illness

December 27, 2012 0

Nadal was advised by doctors not to travel or compete.

DUBAI: Rafael Nadal’s comeback from a long-term knee injury has been put on hold by an illness that has ruled him out of an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. “Rafael Nadal has been forced to make a last minute withdrawal from the 2012 event due to a stomach virus,” organizers said in a statement released Tuesday. “Nadal, who …

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Schumacher wrong to return: Ecclestone

December 7, 2012 0

FILE - Photo taken on August 15, 2004 shows German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher jubilate in the pits of the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary. (AFP PHOTO FERENC ISZA)

PARIS: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone believes Michael Schumacher was wrong to return to the sport, claiming the German had severely damaged his legacy as a seven-time world champion. The 43-year-old Schumacher quit the sport in 2006 before being tempted into an ill-fated return in 2010 at Mercedes where he spent three seasons being largely outshone by teammate Nico Rosberg. He brought the curtain down on …

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Hamas, Israel resume talks on Gaza blockade

November 26, 2012 0

Palestinian school children walk in the rubble left days after an Israeli strike destroyed the Hamas interior ministry in gaza City, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/2012/Nov-26/196165-hamas-israel-resume-talks-on-gaza-blockade.ashx#ixzz2G0tCX6iB (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

CAIRO: An Israeli delegation was to arrive Monday in Cairo for indirect talks with Hamas on easing the Gaza blockade, the Palestinian faction’s number two said, warning his group may act if there is any delay. Mussa Abu Marzuk said Hamas did not commit to stop arming itself in truce talks that ended a week-long conflict in and around Gaza with an agreement for Israel to ease its …

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Sleiman insists on dialogue, disregards boycott

November 26, 2012 0

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman speaks during a ceremony in Beirut, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (The Daily Star/Dalati Nohra, HO)

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s dialogue session scheduled for Nov. 29 is ongoing despite the March 14-led opposition’s decision to abstain from the all-party-talks until the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government, sources close to Baabda told The Daily Star Tuesday. According to Baabda sources, President Michel Sleiman still insists on holding the scheduled session on Thursday, hoping his more than month-long efforts will succeed in bringing back …

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Morsi, judges to hold Egypt crisis talks

November 26, 2012 0

Egyptian protesters clash with security forces, not pictured, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. President Mohammed Morsi edicts, which were announced on Thursday, place him above oversight of any kind, including that of the courts. AP

CAIRO: Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was to meet with senior judges on Monday in a bid to defuse a crisis that erupted after he assumed sweeping new powers, sparking strikes and deadly protests. The crisis talks, on the eve of rival rallies which threaten to deepen the country’s divisions, come a day after a member of his party was killed in …

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Israel Defense Minister Barak quits politics

November 26, 2012 0

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak speaks during a news conference in Tel Aviv November 26, 2012. Barak, a main architect of israel's policy towards Iran's nuclear programme, said in a surprise announcement on Monday that he was quitting politics and would not run in the January 22 national election. REUTERS/Nir Elias

JERUSALEM: Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday he was quitting politics, a surprise decision that deepens uncertainty over how Israel will confront Iran’s nuclear programme. Barak’s political fortunes appeared to be on the rise after Israel’s eight-day offensive in the Gaza Strip ended in a truce, but polls predicted his centrist party, a junior partner in right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, would win …

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