KATHMANDU: More than 50 Tibetan exiles, including monks and nuns,
were detained Wednesday during a protest outside the Chinese embassy
in Nepal’s capital, police said.
The protesters had briefly
gathered outside the gate of the embassy compound, shouting, “Stop
the killing in Tibet” and “Free Tibet now,” an Agence France-Presse
reporter witnessed.
UNITED NATIONS: UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Tuesday called for a “strong and
sustained push” toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a
set of eight anti-poverty goals that UN member states...
LONDON: British scientists have
created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in
the country, according to a report by BBC on Tuesday.
BANGKOK: Leaked copies of
Myanmar’s new constitution, in hefty green paperbacks secretly
circulating in Yangon revealed that the military will receive
sweeping powers that ensure its dominance even after elections.
WASHINGTON: A cloud of Cold
War-style rhetoric is rising over the 2008 White House race with
Russia and President Vladimir Putin reprising the Soviet Union’s
former role as an easy election-year target.
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