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The Dalai Lama and youth leaders involved in the conflict zone Jazeera broadcast - Boxun
达赖喇嘛于11月7日同两位女青年领袖一起参加阿拉伯半岛电视台直播节目(达赖喇嘛网站) 西藏精神领袖达赖喇嘛星期二继续与来自世界冲突区的青年领袖展开对话,并同其中两人参与阿拉伯半岛电视台网路直播节目,共同探讨化解暴力冲突、营造慈悲社会的方法。由美国和平研究所(United States institute of Peace)第二次在印度达兰萨拉主办的达赖喇嘛与世界青年领袖对话从星期一到星期二(11月6日和7日)在达赖喇嘛居宫举行。
བོད་སྐད་སྡེ་ཚན། | གསར་འགྱུར། བོད་ལ་མིང་དོན་མཚུངས་པའི་རང་སྲིད་རང་སྐྱོང་དགོས། - Radio Free Asia
ཨ་རིར་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་ཞི་བདེ་བསྟི་གནས་ཁང་ USIP ཞེས་པ་དེས་གོ་སྒྲིག་བྱས་པའི་ཞི་བདེའི་བགྲོ་གླེང་ཐོག་ཞི་བདེ་ལས་འགུལ་བ་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་འགོ་ཁྲིད་མི་གྲངས་ ༢༥ ལ་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་ཟླ་ ༡༡ ཚེས་ ༦ དང་ ༧ བཅས་ཉིན་གྲངས་གཉིས་རིང་བཞུགས་སྒར་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་ཕོ་བྲང་དུ་བཀའ་སློབ་དང་དྲི་བ་ཁག་ལ་བཀའ་ལན་སྩལ་གནང་འདུག ཉིན་གཉིས་པའི་ཐོག་
Iraqi VP in Washington, Demands Arming, Training of Sunnis - Asharq Al Awsat
Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi demanded that the American administration begin arming his country’s Sunnis. On a visit to Washington, he hoped that the administration of US President Donald Trump would fulfill its pledges in combating increasing Iranian influence in the Middle East.
Confronting Race and Racial Conflict in America: Silence is not an option - Huffington Post
“What about the Native Americans? They don’t have a problem with it,” contended the Pilot (a white male). “That’s because you people have virtually silenced them …,” I insisted. “You People!?” exclaimed the Veteran (a white male).
Bad blood - Dawn
FOR the first time since 1999, there are serious question marks over the PML-N’s future. A key reason is the family equation: can the Sharif brothers maintain their united front going into the 2018 polls? Or will this family bond break?
Iraq Sunni VP Nujaifi proposes local control of Iraq's disputed areas - Rudaw
Iraq needs "a new national partnership on the basis of the constitution” that could include confederal control of the disputed areas, Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi said at a think-tank event in the United States on Tuesday.
“We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria,” by Wendy Pearlman - New Yorker
The Ulysses S. Grant who emerges from Ron Chernow’s new biography, “Grant,” is a man with quite a story to tell. I could easily imagine the pitch for a modern-day memoir: Grant’s struggles with alcoholism, his difficult relationship with his father, his improbable journey to...
A Minnesota couple's love story leads to a philanthropic legacy - Minnesota Star Tribune
One of Gerald Rauenhorst’s earliest childhood memories was of walking behind the family wagon, loaded down with possessions. The Catholic family of 10 had lost their southwestern Minnesota farm to foreclosure in the 1930s and were now destined to scratch by as tenant farmers.
Iraqi vice president warns of growing power of Iran-backed militias - Washington Times
Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi, the top government official representing the country’s Sunni minority, on Tuesday denied claims that Baghdad is pressing the Trump administration to directly arm and train the country’s Sunni militias to counter the growing influence of Iranian-backed Shia paramilitaries.
Iraqi VP calls Iran-backed militias his nation's top threat - AP
Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni leader said Tuesday the growing influence of Iranian-backed Shiite militias looms as the nation's most pressing future security threat and called for bolstering U.S. military aid to...