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Violent anti-China demonstrations in Tibet eased Saturday, and a tentative calm - and electricity supplies - returned to the Tibetan capital Lhasa following four days of unrest. China's state-run news agency said protestors had killed ten people, while Tibetan activists based in India said that at least 30, and as many as 100 had died in the protests and subsequent crackdown by security forces. The authorities on Saturday issued an ultimatum demanding that the "lawbreakers" surrender themselves by Monday, but for many Tibetans, the current uprising is a sign that the prospects for a compromise with Beijing are dimming...
...with the next set, giving him a 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory in the decisive match.“If there was a highlight of the day, it was the way Aba finished off his singles match,” Kumar said. “He just stayed calm, stayed really poised. I was very impressed.”Omodele-Lucien’s classmate, No. 6 Alexei Chijoff-Evans also showed his grit with an impressive 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win, grabbing hold of the match after regaining his feel for outdoor play...
...Meanwhile, Israel police moved swiftly over the weekend to calm down the settlers' rage after the seminary killings. Police stopped three right-wing activists from trying to tear down the mourning tent outside the house of gunman Ala Abu Dhaim in the Arab village of Jebel Mukabir...
...ethnic political violence that convulsed Kenya after disputed elections on Dec. 27 shattered the nation's image as an oasis of calm in a turbulent corner of Africa. Perhaps no one was more shocked - or had more to lose - than members of Kenya's middle class, who seemed comfortably ensconced in Westernized modernity after more than 40 years of economic growth without major political trauma. They watched as ethnic clashes left more than 1,000 Kenyans dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, and as those decades of hard-earned economic progress threatened to unravel. The violence had assumed an unsettling...
...vast right-wing conspiracy," she and her inner circle feel well prepared for this sort of fight. Students of the Clintons' long career have noted that they do better in a scrape. Combat brings them to the balls of their feet; by contrast, they tend to spring leaks on calm seas. Clinton's successful attacks broke Obama's 12-win streak that had buoyed him through a month of victories, and her advisers now feel they have put a stick in the spokes of his momentum. "They thought they could kill us," a Clinton campaign official crowed as the Ohio...