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The Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the world's leading advocates of nonviolence, said in an interview that it might be necessary to fight terrorists with violence, and that it was "too early to say" whether the Iraq war is a mistake.

During the Dalai Lama's recent visit here, an encounter took place that could open the way to a mutual resolution of the tragedy Tibetans have suffered under Chinese rule. In an icebreaking dialogue at Harvard University Monday morning

The European Commission has said that ensuring genuine autonomy to Tibet by encouraging China and the Dalai Lama to strengthen their ongoing contact through mutually acceptable solution would be one of their political priorities.

Envoys of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, have requested a third trip to Beijing and are awaiting a reply from the Chinese government, special envoy Lodi Gyari has told Radio Free Asia.

On his 15th trip to the United States, the Dalai Lama has been met by sold-out crowds from coast to coast, and tickets to his events were bid up on eBay. He filled Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and on Sept. 11 packed Washington National Cathedral

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The Dalai Lama, center, is joined by actor Richard Gere, left, and composer Philip Glass at a news coference at New York's Guggenheim Museum, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2003. The exiled Tibetan leader will teach for four days in New York, including a free lecture in Central Park. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The Dalai Lama said Tuesday he felt ``extremely sad'' when his plane landed in New York and he saw where the towers of the World Trade Center once stood, but he urged people to turn the tragedy into something positive.

A renovation project to repair a collapsed wall at the famed Potala Palace in Tibet finally started yesterday. Part of the front wall at the Potala Palace in Lhasa collapsed in August 2001 after rain water caused severe erosion at the site.

Karen McLinton, from Jersey, is visiting Montreal during her cycling tour around the world. She undertook the trip to fight chronic fatigue syndrome, and also is drawing attention to plight of Tibetans. (MARCOS TOWNSEND, GAZETTE)