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A look at prolific Twitter accounts
Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account. In amassing an army of ...
Chinese police accuse monk of inciting immolations
Police detained a monk and his nephew in China's Sichuan province and accused them of instigating the self-immolations of eight ethnic Tibetans on the ...
Mongolia finds China can be too close for comfort
After years of testy debate, Mongolia broke ground this spring for a railroad that will haul coal across the pebbled Gobi desert to China, but with ...
Some wish Islam would inform climate debate
At Friday prayers in Qatar's most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an ...
Court: S. Africa official delayed Dalai Lama visa
A South African court ruled Thursday that officials "unreasonably delayed" a decision about whether to grant the Dalai Lama a visa for a planned 2011 ...
Tibetan protests against Chinese rule in new phase
Two dozen Tibetans have set themselves on fire in western China this month in a dramatic acceleration of the protests against authoritarian Chinese ...
Tibetan students in west China clash with police
Four more ethnic Tibetans have self-immolated to protest Chinese rule and at least 20 were hospitalized after clashing with police in a protest over ...
Tibetan man sets self on fire in protest in China
A Tibetan herdsman has died after setting himself on fire in northwest China's Qinghai province, state media reported Saturday, in the latest in a ...
'Sesame Street' director Emily Squires dies in NYC
A longtime "Sesame Street" director who also worked on soap operas including "The Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" has died. Emily Squires was ...
Dalai Lama wants thorough probe into Tibet deaths
Lashing back at criticism from Beijing, the Dalai Lama on Tuesday said China needs to thoroughly investigate the causes of self-immolations by ...
China slams Dalai Lama; Tibetans self-immolate
China accused the Dalai Lama of allying with Japanese right-wingers in an island dispute as a way of attacking China and blamed him for glorifying a ...
China says 18-year-old Tibetan self-immolates
An 18-year-old Tibetan villager died after setting himself on fire in northwest China in the latest of a half-dozen such self-immolations reported ...
Rights groups: 5 Tibetans self-immolate in 2 days
Tibetan protests against Chinese rule intensified around the opening of a pivotal Communist Party congress as three teenage monks and two other ...
World reaction to Barack Obama's victory
President Barack Obama's re-election in the United States elicited strong feelings — from optimism to skepticism — around the world. A sampling of ...
2 Tibetan cousins set themselves on fire in China
Two Tibetan cousins set fire to themselves in their village to protest Chinese rule, bringing the total number of self-immolations this week to seven, ...
China: 5th Tibetan in week sets self on fire, dies
A 23-year-old man has become the fifth Tibetan in a week to set himself on fire and die in a county in far western China to protest against Chinese ...
Another Tibetan in west China self-immolates, dies
A Tibetan farmer has died after setting himself on fire in remote northwest China, in the second self-immolation death near the Labrang Monastery in ...
Profanity mistakenly attributed to Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama didn't curse at a Brown University event, the college swears — even if the closed captioning said differently. A closing comment ...
Tibetan man sets himself on fire to protest China
The grandfather of a revered Tibetan Buddhist figure died Saturday after setting himself on fire in protest of Chinese rule, the London-based rights ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets Congress' highest honor
Lawmakers united by their respect of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday presented her with Congress' highest civilian honor in a ...
Tibetans clash with police in west China; 1 dead
Police in far west China beat a Tibetan man to death during a clash that broke out after two Tibetans set themselves on fire, a U.S. broadcaster said ...
Indian power failure puts 370M in dark for hours
A power grid failure blacked out northern India for hours Monday, halting trains, forcing hospitals and airports onto backup power and providing a ...
Tibetan monks tackle science in the Indian hills
The shouts of more than a dozen Tibetan monks echo through the small classroom. Fingers are pointed. Voices collide. When an important point is made, ...
Suu Kyi's Europe trip revives lifetime of memories
Paris brought back memories of onion soup. Oxford, of carefree student days and sharing a passion for literature with her two young sons. In London, ...
Two Tibetans set themselves on fire in west China
Two young Tibetans, a herder and a migrant carpenter, set themselves on fire and hold up Tibetan flags as the flames engulf them before they stumble ...