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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
DHARMSALA, India - The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control.
Demonstrations in Tibet turned increasingly violent last week, and the Dalai Lama, speaking to reporters, urged his countrymen to show restraint.
He said that ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
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By Scott Helman
Globe Staff
For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Gov. Eliot Spitzer
L.A times - Two days after federal agents publicly identified Eliot Spitzer as a client of a high-priced prostitution ring, the first-term governor announced his resignation at a somber news conference Wednesday, relinquishing his duties to Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson.
Paterson, 53, who will be sworn in as ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
BEIJING (AP) — Buddhist monks staged two protests in the capital of Tibet this week in a bold, public challenge to China's rule, though a senior official said Tuesday that no one was arrested.
Champa Phuntsok, an ethnic Tibetan who heads the Tibetan regional government, said authorities briefly detained monks from ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
MADRID, March 9 -- The Socialist party of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero won a reelection battle Sunday, turning back a tough challenge by the more conservative Popular Party, which accused the Socialists of mismanaging the economy, opening Spain to a flood ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
BBC - The killing of eight people at a Jewish religious college by a Palestinian gunman will not derail peace talks, the Israeli government has said. The gunman was shot dead after opening fire with an assault rifle inside a crowded library at the Mercaz Harav seminary in West Jerusalem.
Israeli ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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Venezuela's military has moved thousands of troops to its border with Colombia, in response to a Colombian raid on a rebel base inside Ecuador. VOA's Brian Wagner has this report from Miami.
Venezuela's defense minister said troops were in place along the porous border ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Her victory speech was loud and strident, her written press statements challenging and boastful. But during the quiet moments at Hillary Clinton's rally in Columbus last night, and aboard her campaign plane bound for Washington early this morning, the mood was one of quiet relief. Winning Ohio and Texas means ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
MOSCOW (AFP) — The West cast doubt on Russia's presidential election Monday after Dmitry Medvedev won a landslide victory and vowed to follow the course set by outgoing leader Vladimir Putin.
Near complete results gave Medvedev 70.2 percent of Sunday's vote, crushing his nearest rival, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, who ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
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