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Torch draws protest fury in London's Olympic run



the torch completed its eight-hour, 31-mile, or 50-kilometer, journey from the new soccer stadium at Wembley in west London to the principal site for the 2012 summer Olympics at Stratford in east London. But along the way, numerous protesters who broke through police barriers were wrestled to the ground as they sought to grab the torch, and the police said one man was beaten back as he ran toward the flame
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Olympic Torch Put Out 3 Times Amid Paris Protests


In various locations throughout the city, activists angry about China's human rights record and repression Tibet carried Tibetan flags and waved signs reading "the flame of shame."


Riot police squirted tear gas to break up a sit-in protest by about 300 pro-Tibet demonstrators who blocked the torch route.

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PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Torch Protestors Climb Golden Gate


Protestors scale Golden Gate Bridge - photo
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Three activists climbed the cables of the famed Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to hang Pro-Tibet banners