Efforts by activists to step up their Olympic-based protests met with a Chinese crackdown today.

Sudan’s president made a defiant visit to Darfur, just a week after being charged with genocide in the war-ravaged region.

McDONALD’s, Coca-Cola and other sponsors have paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics.

Cambodian police blocked American actress Mia Farrow from holding a rally at a former Khmer Rouge prison today, pushing her group away from a barricade as they tried to lay flowers to commemorate victims of genocide.