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Dalai Lama renews calls for China to withdraw troops, stop Tibet suppression (World, 36 articles)
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BEIJING China's ruling Communist Party is ordering officials in Tibetan areas into political study sessions, a report said Friday, the firmest sign yet that China is using loyalty tests in areas where recent anti-government protests erupted. The group said foreign journalists have been threatened for reporting on the disturbances during the torch relay around the world and the unrest in Tibet. China says Dalai Lama telling lies' OTTAWA - China's ambassador to Canada called the Dalai Lama a liar Wednesday and said it is irresponsible for people to criticize China's record on human rights. The official Xinhua News Agency said the monks from the Tongxia monastery fled after a bomb exploded in Gyanbe township on March 23. The United States says Chinese authorities should also meet the Dalai Lama to discuss the situation in Tibet, where China cracked down on protests last month. The Dalai Lama said Sunday that Tibet cannot make any more concessions to China and renewed his calls for the government to cease suppression in his former homeland and withdraw troops. A Tibetan source with strong contacts in its capital, Lhasa, said the city was swirling with rumors of fresh clashes between monks and security forces at a key monastery on Lhasa's outskirts.
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Iraqi forces free Richard Butler, British journalist, after storming kidnap hidout (World, 28 articles)
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A high-ranking police official in Basra said a roundup of alleged militia sympathizers had begun Saturday and that "a large number" of police officers were arrested at work and accused of membership in militias. BAGHDAD The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month's offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday. BAGHDAD A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000.
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Maya Angelou stands by Hillary Clinton :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Elections (U.S., 44 articles)
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Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that the potential for life begins at conception as she and presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama answered questions about faith and religion in both their personal lives and the public discourse. The billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television says Barack Obama would not be a leading presidential candidate if he were white and that the Illinois senator's campaign has " a hair-trigger on anything racial. Even on one of their most frequently debated policies, Obama once said: " Ninety-five percent of our health care plan is similar.
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Delta Northwest deal creates world’s largest carrier (U.S., 20 articles)
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The accord, reached late on Monday after the two companies 'boards met separately, capped several months of negotiations that nearly ended following an impasse between the carriers' pilots. US Airways Group Inc. yesterday launched an $8 billion bid for Delta Air Lines Inc., a move that would create the nation's largest carrier and possibly trigger other airline mergers in an industry recovering from a major downturn. ATLANTA, May 24 The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. objected Wednesday to key terms of Delta Air Lines Inc.'s settlement with its pilots union on contract concessions intended to help revive the carrier, which is operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Zimbabwe opposition activist 'killed by Mugabe supporter' (World, 26 articles)
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A Zimbabwean electoral official said 23 constituencies in the election would be recounted next Saturday, raising new uncertainty over the vote and the possibility that the ruling ZANU-PF could overturn its defeat in the parliamentary poll. April 6, 2008 HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's opposition leader yesterday accused President Robert Mugabe of preparing a "war against the people" and said the party was reluctant to take part in a presidential runoff election. Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai stopped short of threatening a boycott but said there was a mounting climate of fear.
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