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Protests targeted Chinese embassies and consulates in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Amsterdam/the Hague, Zurich, Warsaw, Gdansk, Berlin, Lagos, New York, Washington, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, and Ottawa.

Dharamsala, A US State Department official Monday met the Dalai Lama in this Himachal Pradesh town, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, sources said.

Sonam always feared her devotion to Buddhism would land her behind bars in her native China. As it turns out, she is serving a long term in jail -- not in East Asia but in central Virginia.

Two men locked themselves to the doors of the Chinese consulate today, calling on China’s government to overturn the death sentence of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher who could be killed in April 2004.

President Jacques Chirac welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao at Orly Airport on Monday, but some French lawmakers vowed to snub Hu by boycotting his keynote speech to protest Beijing's human rights record.

Singer Paul Simon has interviewed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for a documentary about Nobel peace laureates. Simon is the latest in a long line of celebrities to visit the Dalai Lama here

Meeting the Dalai Lama in India will hopefully mean one thing for a local man -- a visit to Calgary by the spiritual leader of Tibetans. That's precisely what Ashid Bahl, president of the For Love of Children Society of Alberta

France's Opposition Green party will boycott an address by Chinese President Hu Jintao to the lower house of Parliament this week in protest at Beijing's "flouting" of human rights, a lawmaker said.

US singer Paul Simon will on Monday join a long line of celebrities who have made their way to the Indian northern hill station of Dharamsala for a meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, an offical said.

A group of Tibetans from Portland, Oregon will be driving to Vancouver B.C. today to protest against the pending execution of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.