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Lhasa tense as China under pressure to use restraint
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China declares ‘people’s war’ in Tibet
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BEIJING: China declared a “people’s war” in Tibet on Sunday
following the biggest uprising against Chinese rule there in nearly
20 years, as it smothered the region’s once peaceful capital with
security forces.
Residents reported that soldiers were blanketing
the city, two days after violent protests left many people dead and
presented China’s communist rulers with a huge domestic crisis
just five months from the Beijing Olympics.
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Eighty ‘confirmed’ killed in
Tibet unrest: govt-in-exile
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DHARAMSHALA, India: Eighty people have been “confirmed” killed
in unrest in Tibet, the India-based Tibetan government-in-exile said
Sunday. “Regarding bodies, it’s 80. We have 80 unidentified
bodies,” said Thubten Samphel, the spokesman for the Tibetan
administration in Dharamshala.
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Conservatives dominate
parliament polls in Iran
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TEHRAN: Iran’s conservatives were Sunday set to win two-thirds of
the seats in parliament after dominating legislative elections,
despite a respectable showing by reformists who suffered heavy
pre-vote vetoes.
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BEIJING: Wen Jiabao was approved Sunday morning by
legislators to start another five-year term as Chinese premier, and
Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou were approved to be vice-chairmen of the
Central Military Commission (CMC) of the People’s Republic of
China.
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