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The World Health Organization’s Zika response programme is only 13 percent funded, “severely” compromising efforts to combat the virus that is increasingly becoming a...
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Pulling in at one of Rio’s swishest buildings, the driver of the blue luxury car turns on the blinkers, pauses for the security gate...
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A train has made the journey for the first time along Rio de Janeiro’s new underground metro line, considered a crucial link for public...
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Three members of Spain’s Olympic sailing team were robbed at gunpoint in a popular tourist area of Rio de Janeiro, where the Summer Games...
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Japan’s Olympic committee on Wednesday announced its own probe of $2 million allegedly paid to secure the 2020 Games — some of which was...
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The Rio Olympics in August will give Brazil’s battered economy only a limited shot in the arm, Moody’s ratings agency said Monday, as bad...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday vowed cooperation with French investigators probing payments allegedly made to help Tokyo secure the 2020 Olympics. “I...
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Brazilian football legend Pele has said he is very saddened by the political turmoil in his country and expressed the hope there will be...
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Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko apologised on Sunday for the doping scandal that threatens the athletic superpower’s participation in the Rio Olympics. Mutko, writing...
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Russia on Friday denied what it called unsubstantiated claims of a vast state-run doping programme during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi seen by...