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Olympic torch's troubled journey
Olympic torch's troubled journey
Last Modified: 31 Mar 2008
By:
Lindsey Hilsum
The Olympic torch arrives in China on the first leg of a journey ahead of August's Beijing Olympic Games.
Amid tight security, the flame will spend the next 130 days travelling 85,000 miles across five continents.
And it is likely to encounter demonstrations against Chinese policies in Darfur and Tibet on the way.
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