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Bulgarian ex-weightlifting champ jailed for trafficking
AFP, Published on 04/05/2012
» Former Bulgarian Olympic weightlifting champion Galabin Boevski has been sentenced to nine years and four months in jail in Brazil for cocaine smuggling, state radio BNR said Thursday.
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Pele 'would have been sad' at state of Brazil team, says son
AFP, Published on 26/12/2023
» SAO PAULO - Pele "would have been sad" at the state of the current Brazilian national team, his son Edinho has said in an interview days before the first anniversary of his death on Friday.
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Pandemic sparks surge in Hong Kong 'devil's breath' cash druggings
AFP, Published on 17/06/2021
» HONG KONG - A spiked drink, a puff of dust, missing memories, and an empty bank account.
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Russian jailed in Chile serves time on pitch
AFP, Published on 12/08/2012
» A young Russian man jailed for drug trafficking in Chile credits football with saving his life after a Santiago league team hired him from behind bars.
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Brazil striker Adriano in drugs-linked charge
AFP, Published on 05/11/2014
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Former Brazilian international Adriano was charged by Rio de Janeiro prosecutors Tuesday over alleged links to drug trafficking, officials and reports said.
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Israel charges 19 far-right football fans with attempted murder
AFP, Published on 07/08/2016
» JERUSALEM - Israel on Sunday charged nineteen members of La Familia, a group of far-right football fans of Beitar Jerusalem, with attempted murder, the police said.
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Samba gets things swinging in Rio favela badminton school
AFP, Published on 12/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - A Rio favela teacher uses the rhythms of samba to teach 200 children badminton. If that sounds like an unlikely mix, get this: his son is representing Brazil in the Olympics.
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Rio redemption sought after London's race of shame
AFP, Published on 16/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The women's 1500m race at the 2012 London Games has gone down as being the one of the most tainted in Olympic history.
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Old Dogg, new tricks: Snoop reinvented as football coach
AFP, Published on 18/05/2016
» LOS ANGELES - With a criminal career that takes in cocaine trafficking, rolling with Los Angeles gangs, weapons charges and a murder trial, he may be an unlikely role model.
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Police dogs train to sniff out terror threat at Rio Olympics
AFP, Published on 26/05/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Police dogs in Brazil are more used to sniffing out drugs than explosives, but with the Olympics coming up, they have been training hard to help thwart potential terrorist attacks.
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