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		<title>Tibetans Turn to Alternative Protest as Self-Immolations Prove Futile</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/17/tibetans-turn-to-alternative-protest-as-self-immolations-prove-futile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nilanjana Bhowmick / Dharamsala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Norbu Jorden ran away to New Delhi to set himself on fire. Driven by accounts of other self-immolations by Tibetans — there have been 112 deaths since 2009 — the 20-year-old student concluded that this was the only way he could contribute to Tibet’s struggle for freedom from China. Jorden did not succeed: before he could engulf himself in flames, police in the capital intervened and eventually sent him back to Dharamsala in northern India, the sanctuary for Tibetans fleeing Beijing&#8217;s hard-line rule of their homeland. Now Jorden is expressing his dissent differently. On a Wednesday in late March, he was one of hundreds of young Tibetans kitted out in traditional robes and singing boisterously at a school in Dharamsala. The event was part of a weekly peaceful protest called Lhakar — “White Wednesday” in Tibetan — which takes place in the city where the Dalai Lama set up his exiled administration in 1959. “I wanted to do something to be a part of our freedom struggle, and [self-immolation] was the only way I knew,” says Jorden. “When I came back to school and was introduced to Lhakar, I realized this was a better way.” (MORE: As Tibetans Burn Themselves to Protest Chinese Rule, Communists in Beijing Stress Happiness in Tibet) In recent years, young Tibetans-in-exile have found in Lhakar an alternative to the gruesome and desperate act of self-immolation. Lhakar is a movement inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of nonviolence and noncooperation to rid India of British colonialism. In the 1980s, when Lhasa erupted in violence against Chinese rule and the authorities subsequently clamped down on the region, many in China&#8217;s Tibetan areas continued to secretly visit temples on Wednesdays, the day the Dalai Lama is believed to have been born, to pray for him. But in 2008, when the Chinese authorities started cracking down on religious activities associated with the Dalai Lama, Tibetans devised the subtler Lhakar. For the past five years, Tibetans, both in China&#8217;s Tibetan regions and in exile, have reasserted their cultural identity through thinking, talking, eating and buying Tibetan once a week. On<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=82221&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Self-Immolating Tibetans Does It Take to Make a Difference?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/13/how-many-self-immolating-tibetans-does-it-take-to-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday morning in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, a Tibetan monk drenched in gasoline appeared in front of a Buddhist stupa popular among Tibetans and set himself aflame. At the time of writing, the young man, thought to be in his early 20s, is in critical condition. According to some reports, his fiery protest marks a grim milestone: it’s the 100th such self-immolation by a Tibetan to happen since 2009 (others suggest it’s the 99th or the 101st). Whatever the ghastly metric, the act has become the signature tactic in recent years of Tibetans voicing their frustrations with Chinese rule. It carries a haunting moral cry no suicide bomber can match. When one downtrodden Tunisian set himself alight in December 2010, the spark of his despair and anger kindled uprisings that swept across the Arab world. Yet, 100 Tibetan self-immolations — and many deaths — later, little has changed. (PHOTOS: The Dalai Lama: Six Decades of Spiritual Leadership) Part of the problem is where these protests occur. The overwhelming majority takes place within the borders of China, either in Tibet proper or in Tibetan areas of neighboring Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Media access is heavily controlled and much of what we know comes from advocacy groups based outside. A white paper titled “Why Tibet Is Burning,” released last month by an institute affiliated with the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, identifies by name 98 Tibetans who carried out self-immolations in China since February 2009. Many of those choosing to set themselves on fire are young teenagers and 20-somethings. They are farmers and aspiring clerics, nomads and students. In a foreword to the study, Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Tibet’s exiles, urges Tibetans to “not to resort to drastic actions, including self-immolations, because life is precious.” But the study goes on to point the finger at Beijing: The reason [for all the self-immolations] lies in China&#8217;s massive policy failure in Tibet over the course of more than 60 years of its rule. The revolution that is brewing in Tibet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68973&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Tibetans Burn Themselves to Protest Chinese Rule, Communists in Beijing Stress Happiness in Tibet</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/10/as-tibetans-burn-themselves-to-protest-chinese-rule-communists-in-beijing-stress-happiness-in-tibet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Beech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 9, thousands of Tibetan students gathered in the historic monastery town of Rebkong to protest Chinese rule over the restive Tibetan plateau, where nearly 70 Tibetans have lighted themselves on fire since March 2011 in gruesome displays of desperation. Two days before, five Tibetans had self-immolated in three different parts of the high plateau, among them three teenage monks and one young mother from Rebkong (known as Tongren in Chinese). Two other Tibetans burned themselves in Rebkong this week, according to overseas Tibetan groups. Separately, in Xining, the provincial capital of China’s western Qinghai province, where many Tibetans live, hundreds of Tibetan students joined together on the evening of Nov. 9 for a candlelight vigil to honor the protesters who, as flames engulfed their bodies, invariably shouted for an end to Chinese repression and the return of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader who fled into exile in India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule more than five decades ago. (PHOTOS: Tibetans Protest Hu Jintao in India) The same day, on the edge of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Communist Party delegates gathered to discuss the situation in Tibet. The afternoon meeting was part of the 18th Party Congress, a once-in-five-years communist leadership confab that began on Nov. 8, a day after the record five self-immolations took place. (A sixth fiery protest occurred on the Thursday the Party Congress first convened.) The site of the Tibetan-delegation meeting was a room in the Great Hall of the People, adorned with brightly hued murals of Tibetans happily harvesting barley, frolicking in green fields under a rainbow and even sitting astride a horse while wearing a People’s Liberation Army uniform. The room was signposted in misspelled English as the “Tiebet Room.” In filed a line of men in dark suits, some of Tibetan ethnicity but many others from China’s Han ethnic majority. (A Tibetan has never filled the top Communist Party leadership post in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.) A handful of women in traditional Tibetan dress, resplendent with coral and turquoise jewelry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=53877&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As China Readies for Transition, 7 Tibetan Self-Immolations in 7 Days</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/29/as-china-readies-for-transition-7-tibetan-self-immolations-in-7-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Beech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, seven Tibetans set themselves on fire in as many days, bringing the total of self-immolations on the troubled high plateau to more than 60 people since March 2011, according to Tibetan exile groups. Most of the protesters have been young Buddhist monks or former clerics, who called for the return of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as flames besieged their bodies. But an increasing number are regular villagers — farmers, herdsmen and students, among others — motivated by their despair over China’s repressive rule over Tibetan regions. The seven who burned themselves from Oct. 20 to 25, for instance, all appear to be laypeople, including a pair of 20-something cousins, a young father and a 58-year-old farmer who set himself on fire in front of the Public Security Bureau in the Tibetan holy town of Labrang (or Xiahe in Mandarin) in the Chinese province of Gansu. Six of the seven protestors are believed to have died. All areas where this month’s fiery protests have occurred are reported to be under security lockdown, with Internet and phone lines often severed. The seven self-immolations in a week rank as the deadliest spate of such protests since the extreme actions began piling up two years ago. (There was one self-immolation recorded in Feb. 2009, but all others have occurred since March 2011.) The Chinese government blames the Dalai Lama, who escaped Tibet after a foiled uprising in 1959, for orchestrating the self-immolations. “In order to achieve their separatist goal, the Dalai clique has showed no hesitation in inciting self-immolations,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei last Wednesday. “This is despicable and deserves people’s condemnation.” In Gansu’s Gannan prefecture (or Kanlho in Tibetan), where the famous Labrang monastery is located, local authorities offered more than $30,000 in reward money for information on those who planned self-immolations there. (MORE: The Orphans of the Sino-Indian War: 50 Years Later, What Next for the Tibetans?) But the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile, which is based in the Indian hill town<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=52271&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/15/must-reads-from-around-the-world-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coup Claims &#8211; Citing security officials quoted in Egyptian media, Israel&#8217;s Haaretz reports the dismissal of army top brass there thwarted a coup attempt. &#8220;President Mohammad Morsi was alerted to the plot&#8217;s existence by military officials, who informed the newly elected leader that plans were being drafted within the army to takeover power in Egypt and even assassinate Morsi himself during the funeral of Egyptian officers killed in the recent Sinai attack,&#8221; it wrote. Turkey&#8217;s Turn -- Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel examines how the Euro debt crisis is impacting E.U. enlargement, with admission to the club a long-held&#8211;but fading&#8211;aim for neighboring countries. &#8220;Amid the euro crisis drama, Turkey has seen economic growth as its European neighbors have suffered,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;&#8230;the country has a new-found confidence that makes E.U. membership seem less important. But the waning aspiration could stall important democratic reforms.&#8221; Tibet Tumult &#8211; The day after reporting more self-immolations by Tibetan monks, Radio Free Asia said a popular Tibetan singer has been detained &#8220;because of politically sensitive lyrics in his songs.&#8221; The U.S.-based outlet wrote: &#8220;Choksal, a resident of Driru county in [Tibet], was taken into custody on July 29 in the Qinghai provincial capital Xining by Chinese police, who told him he was wanted by authorities in Driru and in Lhasa,&#8221; according to the singer’s cousin. Harmful History &#8211; On the 67th anniversary marking the end of Japan&#8217;s colonial rule in South Korea, the BBC reports that South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has said that Japan&#8217;s historical stance threatens to damage relations between the two nations. Relations have been particularly tense in the past few days following President Lee&#8217;s visit to remote islands that are also claimed by Japan, resulting in Tokyo recalling its envoy in Seoul. Japanese police have meanwhile arrested five Hong Kong activists who landed on islands disputed between Japan and China. Accused Nazi &#8211; Reuters writes that 90-year-old Charles Zentai, an alleged Nazi war criminal now living in Australia, has won his &#8220;long battle against the government&#8217;s attempts to extradite him to Hungary to stand trial for the murder of a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40339&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As China Squeezes Nepal, Tibetan Escape Route Narrows</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/17/as-china-squeezes-nepal-tibetan-escape-route-narrows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niharika Mandhana / Dharamsala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the bus crept into this quiet town in the foothills of the Himalayas, Tsultrin Lhamo finally felt free. For the 20-year-old Tibetan fleeing a homeland under Chinese rule, her arrival in the Dalai Lama’s adopted hometown in India marked the end of a treacherous overland journey and, she hoped, the start of a new life. China’s growing crackdown on religious freedoms, from the imprisonment of Tibetans possessing portraits of their spiritual leader to the ironfisted control of monasteries by Chinese armed forces, had made life too difficult to stay behind, she says. Like those before her, she paid a Nepalese guide to lead her through the mountainous terrain that connects western China to its neighbor, Nepal. With help from UNHCR, the U.N.&#8217;s refugee agency, she secured safe passage from Kathmandu to India. It was a grueling journey that spanned four months and three countries. She traveled on foot, took shelter in trees and dodged Chinese and Nepalese patrols. Still, she considers herself lucky. “So many people are desperate to leave Tibet,” she says. “But it has become almost impossible now.” Since the Dalai Lama fled in 1959, Nepal has played a critical role for the Tibetan exile community, providing safe haven and a passageway to India. But in recent years, Nepal&#8217;s hospitality has waned — and the reason, many say, is China&#8217;s growing influence on the country&#8217;s political elite. Since 2008, when an uprising convulsed Lhasa shortly before the Beijing Olympics and was violently suppressed by Chinese authorities, the number of Tibetans making the journey to India has plummeted. From the early 1990s until 2007, some 2,500 Tibetans were arriving in India each year. In 2008, that number dropped to under 600, and has since hovered at about 800 refugees per year. A key reason, observers say, is that China has significantly tightened security, not only inside Tibet but also along the border with Nepal, choking off crucial escape routes. (MORE: With an Eye to India, China Courts Nepal) But China’s strategy for containing Tibet’s fight for greater independence<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=35967&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, July 9, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burning Issue &#8211; India&#8217;s The Hindu exclusively interviews the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan spiritual leader gives his most detailed comments yet on the self-immolation protests &#8211; “a very, very delicate political issue&#8221; &#8212; occurring across ethnic Tibetan areas. &#8220;Now, the reality is that if I say something positive, then the Chinese immediately blame me,” he said. “If I say something negative, then the family members of those people feel very sad.&#8221; Settlements &#8211; The Jerusalem Post leaks details from a new government-initiated report on West Bank settlements which concluded that Israel has a right to build the outposts. Meanwhile Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel reports on a conference, in part organized by right-wing European politicians, held last Thursday in Hebron between Palestinian clan leaders and Jewish settlers. &#8220;They are billing it as an alternative path to peace in the region,&#8221; it wrote. Malian Mystery &#8211; The Washington Post probes a fatal car crash April 20 which killed three U.S. commandos and three alleged Moroccan prostitutes in Mali. &#8220;What the men were doing in the impoverished country of Mali, and why they were still there a month after the United States suspended military relations with its government, is at the crux of a mystery that officials have not fully explained even 10 weeks later,&#8221; it said. Honeymoon Over &#8211; As South Sudan celebrates its first anniversary, the Guardian examines the cost of independence. It writes that, “South Sudan faces economic disaster that could reverse recent development gains after it shut down production in a dispute over pipeline fees with Sudan.” 80% of its economy and 98% of its revenues derive from oil production, prompting fears that the government will soon run out of money, as evidenced by the shutting down of vital services. Day of Mourning &#8211; In the aftermath of flash floods in Southern Russia this past weekend, in which 171 people have been confirmed dead, the New York Times reports on the questions emerging “about whether official negligence or misconduct had played a role in the disaster.” Officials have dismissed suggestions that floods in Krmsk, the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=34645&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads From Around the World, May 29, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Polarized Polity - In a significant development that squarely pits the Muslim Brotherhood against Egypt’s old guard, results of the first round of polling in the country’s presidential race reveal that next month’s runoff will be a fight between Freedom and Justice party candidate Mohammed Morsy and ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak’s former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, writes the Guardian. This outcome is not what anyone expected, says TIME’s Abigail Hauslohner &#8212; and it has left the country’s liberals and leftists crestfallen. Self-Immolations Continue - One Tibetan died and another was seriously injured when they set themselves on fire outside a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua. At least 36 people have self-immolated since March 2011, reports the New York Times, but this is the first time that such protests against Chinese rule have occurred in the Tibetan capital. Nuclear&#8217;s Past and Future - Recalling last year’s deadly Fukushima accident that pushed the country to the brink of “national collapse,” Japan’s former prime minister Naoto Kan told a parliamentary inquiry on Monday that the country should do away with nuclear power, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, after months of dithering, Japan&#8217;s Parliament began a debate on Tuesday about plans for a new nuclear watchdog, Reuters reports, raising hopes of a consensus on the fraught issue of tightening industry oversight over nuclear facilities. A Shark to a Squid – As tensions build between Iran and the West over Tehran&#8217;s disputed nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal warns against the Americans’ apparent conviction “that there&#8217;s a grand bargain to be struck with the mullahs, and that it lies just inches out of reach.” The piece says Iran is treating the West “the way a shark would a squid.” Moscow’s Moment – Following the horrific massacre of Syrian civilians in Houla, the Canadian Globe and Mail says it is Russia’s job to save the peace process and it should avoid “the temptation to fall back on its old pattern of providing excuses and cover for the murderous Assad regime.” The piece says, however, that there<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=28525&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Immolation Protests Spread to Tibetan Capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 07:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Ramzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two men lit themselves on fire Sunday in Lhasa, Chinese state media and overseas Tibetan groups reported, marking the first time that the self-immolation protests have reached the Tibetan capital. One of the men, Tobgye Tseten from the largely Tibetan county of Xiahe in Gansu province, died from his injuries, according to a report from the state-run Xinhua news service. The second man, Dargye, from Aba in western Sichuan, was hospitalized, according to Xinhua. The two set themselves aflame on Barkhor Street outside Lhasa&#8217;s Jokhang Temple, a key holy site for Tibetan Buddhists. The temple, which has been under tight security since anti-Chinese riots hit the city in 2008, was busy with celebrations of Saga Dawa &#8212; which marks the anniversary of the Buddha&#8217;s birth, enlightenment and death &#8212; when the two men walked out of a nearby hotel, gave what the Free Tibet activist group described as a victory cry and set themselves on fire around 2:15 p.m. (PHOTOS: Tibetan Exile Sets Himself on Fire) Since 2001 more than 30 Tibetans, mostly monks, but including at least one nun and some laypeople, have set themselves on fire to protest China&#8217;s heavy-handed control of Tibet. (The Guardian has a graphic detailing 33 Tibetan self-immolation cases.) The protests have been centered in Aba, a largely Tibetan county in western Sichuan province. In March a Tibetan man died after setting himself alight in New Delhi to protest a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao. The spread to Lhasa marks a new stage in the movement, one likely to worry Chinese authorities who have responded to the immolations by tightening security in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and Tibetan regions in western China. The first case of self-immolation by a Tibetan was recorded in 1998, followed more than a decade later by a case in 2009. The numbers accelerated in 2011. Since then, the Chinese government has blocked foreign journalists, diplomats and scholars from visiting, making outside investigations difficult, while domestic media have avoided detailed reporting of the protests. The coverage that has run in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=28488&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: April 5, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Response &#8211; Under the headline &#8220;Nobel Laureates Clueless About Real Tibet,&#8221; semi-official mouthpiece Global Times rebuts a recent open letter from 12 Nobel laureates to Chinese leaders raising concerns about the self-immolation of monks and criticizing the country&#8217;s Tibet policy. &#8220;Ironically few of these 12 Nobel laureates have been to Tibet personally,&#8221; it stated, (ironically) neglecting to mention that Beijing restricts access to the restive region. Iranian Oil &#8211; Reuters exclusively reports Thursday that key ship insurer China P&#38;I Club will halt indemnity coverage for tankers carrying Iranian oil from July amid the tightening Western sanctions against OPEC&#8217;s second-largest producer. &#8220;This is the first sign that refiners in China, Iran&#8217;s top crude buyer, may struggle to obtain the shipping and insurance to keep importing from the Middle Eastern country,&#8221; says the news agency. Fits the Bill &#8211; Famed Senegalese musician Youssou N&#8217;dour has been appointed the country&#8217;s new tourism and culture minister in President Macky Sall&#8217;s cabinet, writes Agence France Press. &#8220;The Grammy-award winning singer, a fierce critic of former leader Abdoulaye Wade, hung up his microphone to campaign for Sall and now forms part of a slimmed-down government of 25 people appointed by Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye,&#8221; it says. Russia Steps Up - The New York Times explores Russia&#8217;s increased diplomatic influence in Syria as opposition leaders and the country&#8217;s foreign minister are invited to talks in Moscow this month. Russia, a long-time supporter of the Syrian government, is calling for President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s compliance with Kofi Annan&#8217;s cease-fire plan by next week&#8217;s deadline. CNN reports that despite the high-level diplomacy, violence continues across Syria. At least 60 people were killed Wednesday, according to opposition groups. Debt Suicide &#8211; An elderly man took his own life a few hundred yards from Greek Parliament on Wednesday, the Daily Telegraph reports. Faced with slashed pension payments due to austerity measures, the man reportedly wrote in his suicide note, &#8220;I see no other solution than a decent ending before I start looking in the garbage to feed myself.&#8221; An impromptu memorial for the man turned<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=23388&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Funeral of an Exiled Tibetan Activist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Clusiau</dc:creator>
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		<title>Tibetans Protest Hu Jintao in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Hegel McClelland</dc:creator>
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		<title>Tibetan Exile Sets Himself on Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Hegel McClelland</dc:creator>
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