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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sri Lankan monk set himself on fire on Friday to protest the slaughter of cattle, in the country’s first attempt at self-immolation by a monk, police said. The monk doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself ablaze near a temple in the central town of Kandy during an important Buddhist festival, police said. “Policemen near the temple doused the flames and rushed the monk to hospital,” police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena said. “Just before setting himself alight, he shouted that his action was to protest the slaughter of cattle.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police evacuated Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral yesterday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself through his mouth in front of its main altar, a police source said. Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but did not say anything before he shot himself dead in the mid-afternoon, the source said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Orly Halpern, on May 20th, 2013 Orly Halpern rounds up the news from Israel.
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The inquest into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko could be replaced by a form of public inquiry to allow evidence about Russia’s alleged role in the killing to be heard in secret.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 The UN’s refugee agency says that more than 1.5m people have fled the conflict in Syria, and warns the total is likely to be far higher.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A brutal murder case is gripping Beijing. On Thursday, a man’s headless, limbless body has been found in the Chinese capital, just one block south of the Tiananmen Square. The torso was found in the early morning hours of Thursday on the sidewalk at the intersection between Zhushi West Street and Meishi Street. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Shaul Magid, on May 14th, 2013 Shaul Magid reflects on how hatred of the ‘other’ is inseparable from hatred of self.
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The leader of Tibet’s exiled government said on Wednesday he would accept the Chinese Communist Party’s rule in the territory, assuring Beijing it faced no threat to its sovereignty if it eases its grip. Lobsang Sangay, who was elected in 2011 to a new position of prime minister in exile after the Dalai Lama gave up political duties, appealed to China for new talks on the grievances that have triggered a wave of self-immolations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Dalai Lama has implored Buddhist monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to put an end to a series of recent attacks on Muslims in their countries. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader spoke on Tuesday night about religious violence when asked questions following a speech he delivered to 15,000 people at the University of Maryland in the United States. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heavy security presence, exiled Buddhist monks and reports said on Thursday. More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2011 to protest Chinese policies in the region and call for the return of their beloved spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, from exile. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Kevin Yeoman, on April 15th, 2013 
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By , on March 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An envoy of the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that Tibetans would likely end a wave of self-immolation protests if China re-opened dialogue with the exiled spiritual leader to address grievances. More than 110 Tibetans have set themselves alight, with most of them dying, in demonstrations since 2009 against what they see as China’s oppressive rule. China has since ramped up its security presence in Tibetan areas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Tibetan woman burned herself to death, leading authorities in China to detain her husband, rights groups and media reports said on Tuesday, in the latest such protest against Beijing’s rule. Around 110 Tibetans have now set themselves on fire since 2009. Kunchok Wangmo, in her early 30s, set herself on fire in southwestern Sichuan province’s Aba prefecture, said the US-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and UK-based Free Tibet, which spelled her name Kunchoek. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Greenlanders oust ruling party in poll <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nepalese police arrested 18 people in Kathmandu on suspicion of “anti-China activities” yesterday, the 54th anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. All but three were released from custody within hours, police said. Nepal, home to around 20,000 Tibetans, is under intense pressure from Beijing over the exiles, and has repeatedly said it would not tolerate what it calls “anti-China activities”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nepalese police arrested 11 people in Kathmandu on suspicion of “anti-China activities” on Sunday morning, the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against Beijing’s rule in Tibet. “Some of the people we arrested were Tibetan but we have not interrogated all of them yet,” police spokesman Uttam Subedi said. Nepal, home to about 20,000 Tibetans, is under intense pressure from Beijing over the exiles, and has repeatedly said it will not tolerate what it calls “anti-China activities”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When Major Liu Yang, China’s first woman in space, returned to earth safely after a mission to the Tiangong-1 space station in late June, it reminded all Chinese people of an old saying proclaimed by Mao Zedong six decades ago: “Women hold up half the sky”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Wu Bangguo, the outgoing chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, said in his last report to the legislative body that it would do everything it could to resist erroneous theories and reject Western political models. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NPC deputy Yu Ruiyu, the president of an accounting firm, said it was good for the two bodies to allocate a percentage of seats for women, but 50 per cent would be impractical because men were tougher, physically and mentally. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese official accused exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday of providing money to encourage people to set themselves on fire, and said they had evidence to prove the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was instigating the self-immolations. More than 100 Tibetans have set themselves alight in protest against Chinese rule since 2009, mostly in heavily Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces rather than in what China terms the Tibet Autonomous Region. Most have died. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Sri Lanka monk attempts to self-immolate
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sri Lankan monk set himself on fire on Friday to protest the slaughter of cattle, in the country’s first attempt at self-immolation by a monk, police said. The monk doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself ablaze near a temple in the central town of Kandy during an important Buddhist festival, police said. “Policemen near the temple doused the flames and rushed the monk to hospital,” police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena said. “Just before setting himself alight, he shouted that his action was to protest the slaughter of cattle.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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