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Terrorism hotbed? Top nations withdraw from IAAF U-18 meet

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It seems like security is such a big deal that the world’s economic super powers are will to drop their participation in the last IAAF World Youth Championship set for Nairobi in July.

The five-day contest, which will be held in Africa for the second time — after Morocco, Marrakech in 2005 - comes just weeks before the August 8 General Election — which is also expected to witness high political voltage.

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