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TBILISI Ecco Yucatan Sandals Ireland , June 4 (Xinhua) -- Teams from South Africa, Uruguay and Ireland will join their peer from hosts Georgia in an International Rugby Board (IRB)-affiliated tournament.
The four-team tourney, to be known as the Tbilisi Cup Ecco Soft 8 Shoes Ireland , will be the first ever for the South Caucasus country to host as an IRB event for senior players.
Tbilisi played host to an IRB junior World Cup event in 2011.
The Tbilisi Cup is designed by the IRB as a campaign to increase competition for second-tier rugby nations.
Participating teams in the Tbilisi Cup tournament will be the SA President's XV, Emerging Ireland, Uruguay and Georgia Ecco Intrinsic Shoes Ireland , which will play a single round-robin tourney.
Uruguay and Georgia are both playing hopefuls for their countries' future national XVs.
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GIMCHEON， South Korea， March 8 (Xinhua) -- The last spell of winter cold penetrated the Gimcheon station in southeast South Korea， but thousands of residents gathered once again on Wednesday night to light candles for protest rally against Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).
The 200th candlelit vigil was held at Peace Square in the Gimcheon station， North Gyeongsang province， bringing residents in the city as well as those from nearby regions to the peaceful rally that has been staged every night.
The candlelight rally has lasted since the THAAD deployment site was changed in September last year into a golf course in Seongju county， which borders and faces the Gimcheon city. The deployment decision was announced in July last year.
Shouting for "Stop THAAD" got much fiercer as South Korea's defense ministry announced the arrival in somewhere in South Korea on Tuesday of two mobile launchers and part of equipment necessary for THAAD installation.
THAAD is composed of six mobile launchers， 48 interceptors， one X-band radar and the fire and control unit.
No advance procedure has been completed， but South Korea hurriedly brought the U.S. missile defense system to politicize security issues ahead of an early presidential election. THAAD opponents said the conservative politicians are highly likely to want a "THAAD" presidential race in which all of public attention is centered on security issues.
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