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Olympic Athletes Trade Doping Accusations

After Friday’s smoothly executed opening ceremony and the first batch of inspiring gold medals, the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are once again mired in controversy. But rather than Brazil’s own local battles with corruption and Zika, it’s the athletes themselves undermining the Games. Sparks flew poolside as Rio’s Olympic swimmers traded insults and […]

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As All Toast Dutch Royals, The Saddest Princess Arrives On Rare Escape From Japan

AMSTERDAM- On Tuesday, Japan’s best-known prisoner — Her Imperial Highness Crown Princess Masako – will after 11 years of relative isolation join her husband Crown Prince Naruhito’s at the coronation of Willem-Alexander in the Netherlands. What would be routine protocol for most members of imperial and royal families will, for Masako, 49, represent a huge […]

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