Beijing keeping tight lid on monks and dissents before Olympic Games
Troops surround Tibet monasteries Chinese security forces were reportedly surrounding three monasteries outside Lhasa, after hundreds of monks took to the streets this week in the largest Tibetan protests against Chinese rule in two decades.
Zardari clean in all counts A court on Friday acquitted Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari in the last of seven corruption cases filed against him.
Iran poll: No entry for After a mass disqualification of reformist candidates in Iran by a radical vetting body, voting began on Friday, in which Irans conservatives are expected to reclaim lost ground in the parliament.
US House holds secret session Democratic leaders on Friday agreed to a request by Republicans to hold a rare secret session on a wiretapping anti-terror bill the first for a quarter century.
No amnesty to illegals: UK The British government said it will deal with about 4 lakh illegal immigrants on a case-by-case basis and will not grant them amnesty until the process is over.
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