Merkel holds talks with Dalai Lama
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel held an historic meeting with the Dalai Lama on Sunday, her office said, despite strong pressure from China not to receive the Buddhist leader.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has made climate change a key focus of her presidency of the G8 group of world leaders, flew Wednesday into Japan for talks a decade after the Kyoto Protocol.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel is familiar with Cold War diplomacy, but on Wednesday she had her first encounter with Cool Biz diplomacy.
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The State Department welcomed on Tuesday the arrival in China of a delegation representing the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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[World News]: Moscow, Nov.29 : Buddhist faithful in southern Russia on Monday gave a floral welcome to Tibetan s spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the leaders of the European Union's 27 nations to resolve deep divisions over the future of the expanding bloc as they gathered Thursday for a summit to discuss an EU constitution.
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China has cancelled talks scheduled for  this week between its foreign minister and his German  counterpart after Chancellor Angela Merkel met the Dalai Lama,  denounced by Beijing as a separatist.
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China News, BEIJING - Beijing cannot understand why Russia allowed the Dalai Lama to visit, a Chinese government spokeswoman said on Tuesday, and accused Tibet&#39;s spiritual leader to attempting to split China.
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Berlin- The leader of Germany's Jewish community was on Wednesday holding a hastily-arranged meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel after accusing a cabinet minister of anti-Semitism. Charlotte Knobloch, ...
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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived in Elista, the capital of south Russian Buddhist region of Kalmykia, on his first trip to Russia, which Moscow terms as a &#39;pastoral visit&#39;.
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TRIPOLI, Libya - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder flew to Libya offering the prospect of a broad improvement in ties, but aides said he would also raise human rights concerns in talks Friday with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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The Dalai Lama arrives in southern Russia for a controversial trip to the region's Buddhist community.
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The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, went ahead with an informal meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama yesterday, despite China cancelling a meeting between a German minister and Chinese officials in an apparent expression of disapproval.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to push for tougher global action against climate change and ending human rights abuses in Darfur in meetings with top Chinese officials on Monday.
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Germany firmly believes that Chancellor Angela Merkel&#39;s meeting with the Dalai Lama here on Sunday will not harm its ties with China, a government spokesman said on Friday.
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After denying the Dalai Lama&#39;s visa requests for years, Russia has finally relented and allowed the Buddhist spiritual leader to visit the country.
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Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev held talks Tuesday with visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the prospect of bilateral cooperation and regional security, the Uzbek government said in a press ...