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May 2, 2008
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Japanese whisky beats Scotch?
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>>China - Envoys from the Dalai Lama will travel to China on Saturday for informal talks. China has blamed the exiled Buddhist leader for fomenting the March 10 unrest in Tibet, which it claims was aimed at distracting attention from the Beijing Olympic Games in August. This is the seventh round of dialog between China and the Dalai Lama's envoys since 2002. While the envoys are there, they can visit Beijing airport's newly opened terminal 3 (the largest building in the world), a factory that will soon produce one in four bibles, and the world's longest sea bridge. If I were them, I'd avoid Mia Farrow though.>>Iraq - Turkish bombers launched three hours of fierce raids on northern Iraq last night. No casualties were reported. The raids were targeting senior PKK members in Iraq's remote Qandil mountains.
>>Germany - A rally by 6,000 left-wing demonstrators to protest a rally by Germany's extreme right-wing National Democratic Party broke bad yesterday in Hamburg, as protesters set cars on fire and pelted police with bottles. Water cannons were used to quell the violence. May Day typically brings violent street protests to German cities, but these may have been the worst in years.
Yesterday in UN Dispatch
- Don't Throw the Biofuels out with the Bathwater
- The Meaning of "Realism"
- Louise Arbour Tells It Like It Is
- Mobile Phones for Social Change
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Africa
- Sudan - Farrow Enters Hong Kong to Protest China-Sudan Ties
- South Africa - Nine killed at S Africa gold mine
- Zimbabwe - Zanu-PF split on next move after defeat
- Zimbabwe - Tsvangirai says he will return to Zimbabwe
- D.R. Congo - Elephants are slaughtered for chopsticks
- Nigeria - Oil falls as Nigeria strike ends
- Somalia - Somali rebels defiant after al Qaeda chief killed
- Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe opposition says disputes electoral figure
- Cuba - Cuba urges economic gain, work at May Day rally
- Barbados - Africans stranded in Caribbean
- Dominican Republic - Dominican Republic sees surge in drug smuggling
- Japan - Ochone! Japanese whisky is voted the best in world
- China - China moves to head off Carrefour protests
- China - Anti-French Boycott Falters in China
- China - Chinese factory to supply one in four Bibles
- Japan - In Hungry World, Japan's Farmers Are Stuck With High-Priced Rice
- N. Korea - N. Korea Agrees to Blow Up Tower at Its Nuclear Facility
- Japan - China's Hu heads to Japan seeking trust and respect
- S. Korea - South Korea investigates mass sex abuse at school
- China - China virus 'hits 3,000 children'
- Belarus - US expels Belarus diplomats
- Sweden - Swedes start to question refugee policy
- Germany - Protesters battle German police in May Day violence
- Iran - Iran Protests to U.N. About Clinton Comments
- Iraq - Turkish jets bomb PKK camps in Northern Iraq: Anatolian
- Israel - Israel urged to end blockade of Gaza as talks begin in London
- Turkey - Turkey launches intensive air strikes in north Iraq
- Israel - Israeli police question PM Olmert
- Israel - African immigration to Israel
- Yemen - Blast at Yemen mosque kills 6, wounds 35