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DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama has encouraged Tibetans in exile to embrace the democratic system of electing a leader, saying it was essential to keep step with the larger world and to ensure the continuity of their government.
In a video clip shown to hundreds of monks, nuns and lay people in the northern [...]
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called for an end to street protests, saying there was a “definitive victory” in the disputed presidential election that has triggered the worst unrest in Iran in three decades.
In his first public remarks after days of demonstrations, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the outcome must be decided at the [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defended his “completely free” re-election as Iran’s president, amid violent clashes on the streets over claims of election fraud.
Mr Ahmadinejad condemned the outside world for “psychological warfare” against Iranians during the election.
Thousands have protested against the result, burning barricades on the streets of Tehran and clashing with police, who responded with tear [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama is in France for ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
The president arrived in Paris late Friday and he is expected to travel to Normandy on Saturday.
Mr. Obama will have a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and will travel with [...]
CAIRO - Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, President Barack Obama called for a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims” Thursday and said together, they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance the timeless search for peace in the Middle East.
“This cycle of suspicion and discord must end,” Obama said in [...]
Every year, about 7 million visitors explore Beijing’s huge public square, Tiananmen. China has tried to erase the memory of the violent events there in 1989, but eyewitness stories, photos and videos still tell the tale. On the event’s 20th anniversary, we take look at what happened that day, June 4, 1989, and since.
Background: Tiananmen [...]
FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – Military planes located new debris from Air France Flight 447 Wednesday while investigators focused on a nightmarish ordeal in which the jetliner broke up over the Atlantic as it flew through a violent storm.
Heavy weather delayed until next week the arrival of deep-water submersibles considered key to finding the black [...]
CAIRO – Speaking in this ancient seat of Islamic learning and culture, President Barack Obama is hoping to usher in a new era in America’s often fraught relations with the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims.
His strategy: a dose of “truth-telling” to a vast, electronically linked-in global audience.
After spending the night at Saudi King Abdullah’s horse farm [...]
Boxer Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter is on life support after she was found with her neck caught in a cord of a treadmill machine Monday, police said.
Exodus Tyson’s 7-year-old brother found her on a treadmill with her neck in the cord that dangles from the console of the exercise machine at their Phoenix home, police [...]
South Korea – North Korea claimed it carried out a powerful underground nuclear test Monday — much larger than one conducted in 2006 — a major provocation in the escalating international standoff over its rogue nuclear and missile programs.
The regime “successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of measures to [...]
