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China Intensifies Anti-Dalai Lama Rhetoric

tkyd — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:48:02 -0500

Source Link:

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1399665.php/China_intensifies_anti-Dalai_Lama_rhetoric

Source Name: Monsters and Critics

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Chinese state media on Sunday continued to intensify rhetoric against the Dalai Lama, with fresh comment accusing the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader of encouraging violence and trying to 'tarnish the Beijing Olympic Games.' 'The Dalai Lama had never really given up his hope of 'Tibet independence' and had always been involved in anti-China political activities aimed at splitting the country and undermining national unity under the camouflage of religion,' said one government statement issued by the official Xinhua news agency. 'The Dalai clique falsely sought dialogue with the Chinese central government, truly confronting the government, falsely bragging for peace, but truly instigating violence,' said the commentary, which was issued in response to a resolution on Tibet adopted by the US House of Representatives last week.

Historic China-Taiwan Talks Held

tkyd — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:45:54 -0500

Source Link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7343945.stm

Source Name: BBC

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China's President Hu Jintao has held a historic meeting with Taiwan's Vice-President-elect, Vincent Siew. It was the highest-level contact between the two governments since their post-civil war split in 1949. The meeting, on the sidelines of a business conference on China's Hainan island, was short. But correspondents say it represented an important signal that both sides now want to improve relations, after several years of worsening ties. Mr Siew is the running-mate of Ma Ying-jeou, who won a convincing victory in Taiwan's elections in March, and has vowed to improve the island's standing with its much bigger neighbour once he takes office on 20 May.

Italy Faces Post-Election Stalemate

tkyd — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:52:49 -0500

Source Link:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/11/europe/italy.php

Source Name: International Herald Tribune

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The super-white teeth and the endless clowning remain, as when he clutched his chest as if dying after eating buffalo mozzarella, now the focus of a dioxin scare. But gone are many other trademarks of Silvio Berlusconi. In the heat of the campaign for parliamentary elections Sunday, the comic-book energy has succumbed to self-acknowledged fatigue. Loose-tongued in the best of times, Berlusconi, 71, now says "anything that comes into his head," one commentator wrote, citing his proposal for mental health screening for prosecutors who apparently were unhinged enough to charge him with corruption.

Protesters Turned Off by Torch Guard ‘Thugs’

tkyd — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:40:43 -0500

Source Link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24060377/

Source Name: MSNBC

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As protesters besiege the Olympic torch on its global tour, a phalanx of tall, tough-looking young Chinese men in blue-and-white running gear have vigorously protected the flame — too vigorously in the eyes of those who consider protest a constitutional right. With their steely demeanor and strong-arm tactics, they have become a symbol of what is going wrong for Chinese authorities who had hoped to make the 2008 Beijing Games a worldwide celebration of China's friendly new face. Sebastian Coe, chairman of the Olympic organizing committee for 2012 in London, called the men "thugs" and said they had pushed him around when the flame passed through the city Sunday.

Bush Calls Iran One of Two Greatest Threats to America

tkyd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:35:49 -0500

Source Link:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3723541.ece

Source Name: Times

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President Bush warned Iran today that if it did not stop arming and training Shia militia in Iraq then "America will act to protect our interests and our troops". Mr Bush, during a speech in which he ordered an indefinite halt in US troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer, called Iran one of the two "greatest threats to America in this century" - together with al-Qaeda. Mr Bush's warnings came after two days of testimony from General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, who said Iran posed one of the greatest threats to stability in the region. General Petraeus called the Iranian-backed Shia groups and the "malevolent" influence of Tehran the greatest long-term threat to a viable Iraq.

Top Al Qaeda Leader Abu Ubaida al-Masri Confirmed Dead in Pakistan

tkyd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:08:30 -0500

Source Link:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348668,00.html

Source Name: FOX News

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Abu Ubaida al-Masri, one of Al Qaeda's top operatives and the mastermind behind a plot to use liquid explosives to blow British passenger jets out of the sky, is dead, a U.S. official confirmed to FOX News Wednesday. The unidentified official said it is believed that al-Masri died of natural causes, possibly hepatitis, in Pakistan, and are staying away from a report that he was killed in a January CIA predator strike. At the time of his death, the Egyptian-born al-Masri was responsible for the terror organization’s external operations, focusing on plotting attacks outside the tribal areas of Pakistan.

Palestinian Gunmen Kill Two Israelis in Cross-Border Attack

tkyd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:42:24 -0500

Source Link:

http://voanews.com/english/2008-04-09-voa48.cfm

Source Name: Voice of America

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Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have carried out a deadly cross-border raid. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the attack is likely to provoke Israeli retaliation. Four Palestinian gunmen stormed through the border fence in Gaza and attacked an Israeli cargo crossing in a daring daylight raid. They shot and killed two Israeli civilians who work for the company that supplies fuel to Gaza. Israeli general Yoav Galant who rushed to the scene said it could have been worse. He said the militants were apparently planning to attack a kibbutz collective farm or to kidnap a soldier.

Monks Disrupt Media Tour in China

tkyd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:15:44 -0500

Source Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/world/asia/10tibet.html?hp

Source Name: New York Times

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China suffered another unexpected public relations setback on Wednesday when Buddhist monks interrupted a government-managed news media tour in western China by waving a Tibetan flag and protesting that the authorities were depriving them of their human rights. The disruption, in Xiahe, a city in Gansu Province, was the second in which monks had upstaged government efforts to control foreign media tours of Tibetan areas. Last month, several monks in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, risked official punishment when they made an emotional appeal to foreign journalists inside the Jokhang Monastery, one of the city’s holiest shrines.

Mohamed Al Fayed Accepts Diana Ruling

tkyd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:13:41 -0500

Source Link:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4609138

Source Name: ABC News

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Mohamed Al Fayed said Tuesday that he was abandoning a quest to prove his belief that Princess Diana and his son were killed by British secret agents. Al Fayed said he reluctantly accepted a coroner's jury ruling that Diana and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed due to reckless speed and drinking by their driver, and by the reckless pursuit of the paparazzi chasing them. "Enough is enough," Fayed said in an interview with ITV News broadcast Tuesday night. "For the sake of the two princes, who I know loved their mother." Diana's sons, Princes William and Harry, endorsed the verdict delivered by a jury on Monday.

Iran Starts Installing New Nuclear Centrifuges

tkyd — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:14:04 -0500

Source Link:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080408124437.k89rrp7e&show_article=1

Source Name: Breitbart

Excerpt:

Iran on Tuesday said it had started work to install thousands of new centrifuges to enrich uranium at its main nuclear plant, angering world powers who fear Tehran wants to develop an atomic weapon. "Today, the phase for installing 6,000 new centrifuges at the facility in Natanz has started," the state broadcasting website quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying at the atomic plant. His announcement came as Iran marked its "national day of nuclear technology" on the second anniversary of its first production of uranium sufficiently enriched to make atomic fuel. Iran has already installed around 3,000 P1 centrifuges at an underground enrichment facility at Natanz, in central Iran, according to the latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog, and tripling this number would mark a major expansion of its nuclear capacities.