Karmapa Lama urges Tibetan monks to stop self-immolation
Senior religious figure seen as successor to Dalai Lama urges Tibetans in China find other ways to challenge Beijing's policies
The Karmapa Lama, one of the most senior religious figures from Tibet, has urged Tibetans in China to end a spate of self-immolations and find other ways to challenge Beijing's policies.
Eleven monks, former monks and nuns have set fire to themselves in Sichuan, south-west China this year.
Many see the 25-year-old Karmapa Lama as a possible successor to theDalai Lama as the spiritual leader of exiled Tibetans. Both men have expressed deep sorrow at the deaths and blamed Chinese policies for the self-immolations.
Contagion: Now eurozone debt virus starts to overwhelm Italy
EU team heads for Rome as Europe's markets fall sharply
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned yesterday that the world is facing a "lost decade" of economic growth thanks to a eurozone sovereign-debt crisis that is spiralling out of control.
Ms Lagarde was speaking in Beijing on a day when the perilously fragile state of the Italian economy – the eurozone's third largest – came into sharp focus when the borrowing rates of the Italian government shot above levels which have forced other eurozone states to seek international bailouts.
Top Colombian rebel eschewed norms of war, died by the gun
ALFONSO Cano, who had led the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since 2008, has been hunted down and shot dead by elite troops of the Colombian army.
He had been on the run since last year when a military taskforce forced him to abandon his mountain redoubt in Tolima.
Cano, whose real name was Guillermo Leon Saenz Vargas, had led the FARC since the death in 2008 of Manuel ''Sureshot'' Marulanda, who founded the guerilla movement in 1964.
Eight Gbagbo allies released by Côte d'Ivoire court
ABIDJAN, CôTE D'IVOIRE - Nov 10 2011 08:44
The eight, including four former Cabinet ministers, had been charged with threatening state security or "economic crimes", defence lawyer Herve Gouamene said.
He added that a ninth person's request for release was turned down by the appeals court in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's economic capital.
Many members of the former Ivorian government, including Gbagbo himself, were detained in April and May as the crisis reached its end.
Gouamene said he had filed 65 requests for provisional release, but the court has only heard nine cases so far.
He added that a ninth person's request for release was turned down by the appeals court in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's economic capital.
Many members of the former Ivorian government, including Gbagbo himself, were detained in April and May as the crisis reached its end.
Gouamene said he had filed 65 requests for provisional release, but the court has only heard nine cases so far.
'Soviet nuclear scientist' a rough diamond
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON - The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think-tank on Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over the world that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon.
But it turns out that the foreign expert, who is not named in the IAEA report but was identified in news reports as Vyacheslav Danilenko, is not a nuclear weapons scientist but one of the top specialists in the world in the production of nanodiamonds by explosives.
But it turns out that the foreign expert, who is not named in the IAEA report but was identified in news reports as Vyacheslav Danilenko, is not a nuclear weapons scientist but one of the top specialists in the world in the production of nanodiamonds by explosives.
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