China set a “surrender deadline”, announced deaths and showed the first extensive television footage of rioting in Lhasa on Saturday, launching a crackdown after the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades.
The response came following torrid protests on Friday which flew in the face of official claims the region was immune from unrest as Beijing readies to hold the Olympic Games in August.
Hard-liners allied with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a small lead in Iran's parliamentary elections, according to partial results early today, but reformists showed strength in some cities where the clerical leadership allowed them to compete.Reformist leaders pushed for Iranians to vote yesterday, hoping to prevent a sweep by Ahmadinejad allies after the country's clerics threw many liberal candidates out of the race.
When the euro's value reached an all-time high of $1.52, Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, told the press that he was concerned about its rapid appreciation and wanted to "underline" the United States Treasury's official policy of supporting a strong dollar. Several European finance ministers subsequently echoed a similar theme.
China set a “surrender deadline”, announced deaths and showed the first extensive television footage of rioting in Lhasa on Saturday, launching a crackdown after the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades.
The response came following torrid protests on Friday which flew in the face of official claims the region was immune from unrest as Beijing readies to hold the Olympic Games in August.
Hard-liners allied with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a small lead in Iran's parliamentary elections, according to partial results early today, but reformists showed strength in some cities where the clerical leadership allowed them to compete.Reformist leaders pushed for Iranians to vote yesterday, hoping to prevent a sweep by Ahmadinejad allies after the country's clerics threw many liberal candidates out of the race.
When the euro's value reached an all-time high of $1.52, Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, told the press that he was concerned about its rapid appreciation and wanted to "underline" the United States Treasury's official policy of supporting a strong dollar. Several European finance ministers subsequently echoed a similar theme.