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LOUGH ERNE, United Kingdom, 17 June 2013
World leaders head to the G8 summit in Northern Ireland looking to put pressure on Russia to back away from its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad amid growing Western efforts to arm the rebels.
NEW YORK, US, 17 June 2013
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng accused the New York University on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure" from China.
ON THE WEB, 14 June 2013
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, is in the country today for speaking engagements in Sydney, Adelaide and Darwin but Prime Minister Julia Gillard had refused to meet with him.
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HONG KONG, China, 13 June 2013
Edward Snowden, hiding in Hong Kong since 20 May, accused the US government of hypocrisy claiming the National Security Agency extensively hacked Chinese computers for years.
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SYDNEY, Australia, 13 June 2013
Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are having little effect on Beijing's policies, the Dalai Lama said, while urging China to look harder at the reasons behind the incidents.
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GENEVA, Switzerland, 13 June 2013
More than 93,000 people, including over 6,500 children, have been killed in Syria's civil war, which has grown increasingly deadly over the past year, a United Nations study said on Thursday.
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ON THE WEB, 13 June 2013
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BEIJING, China, 12 June 2013
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ON THE WEB, 12 June 2013
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ON THE WEB, 11 June 2013
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NEW DELHI, India, 10 June 2013
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HIV/AIDS in the Tibetan diaspora
By Lobsang Yeshi
The approach of the Tibetan community towards HIV/AIDS oscillates between callous indifference and frantic intensity, despite the gradual swell in HIV/AIDS infections and decade-long awareness campaigns.
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The mother who burned herself to death for Tibet
On the chilly afternoon of 24 March, Kalkyi stood outside the monastery gates with about 200 to 300 other worshippers. She doused herself with gasoline and lit a match. Flames instantly engulfed her.
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