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UN 'concerned' over Nepal's repatriation of TibetansKathmandu (AFP) July 28, 2010 Nepal has forcibly repatriated three Tibetan refugees, the United Nations said on Wednesday, adding it was "extremely concerned" by the move. The UN refugee agency said it had written to the Nepalese government about the incident in early June, details of which were published in a report by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT). Two of the refugees - a Buddhist monk and a young woman - are now in jail in Tibet after they were detained in western Nepal and taken by helicopter to the border ... read more |
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New Delhi (AFP) July 21, 2010A daily, goose-stepping display of choreographed aggression by soldiers on the India-Pakistan border has been toned down because of knee injuries to the participants, a report said Wednesday. For years, the military flag-lowering ceremony that takes place every evening at the Wagah border post has drawn crowds of partisan tourists who cheer every hostile strut and stare traded by the border ... more  
Riyadh (AFP) July 20, 2010Saudi Arabia fully plans to meet the growing demand for oil driven by China and India, a senior prince and former national intelligence chief said on Tuesday. "As the demand for oil continues to rise, especially from China and India, the kingdom has every intention of meeting that demand," Prince Turki al-Faisal said in a speech to the Oxford Energy Seminar in Britain. Saudi Arabia, whic ... more
New Delhi (AFP) July 17, 2010Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan said Saturday they would press ahead with a dialogue to build ties shattered by the Mumbai carnage after talks in Islamabad ended in an acrimonious stalemate. The statements came after a visit by Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna to Islamabad ended Friday on a sour note over what his counterpart, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, said was India's "selective focus on t ... more |
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27 missing after bus plunges off road in southwest ChinaBeijing (AFP) July 18, 2010 At least 27 people were missing feared dead Sunday when a passenger bus fell off a mountainous road and into a river in southwest China, a local official and state media said. The accident occurred in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture, a region largely populated by ethnic Tibetans and other minorities, a Danba county government official who declined to be named told AFP. The cause of the Sunday morning accident, in which 11 people were also injured, is under investigation, she said. Xinhua ... read more |
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