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The Dalai Lama has apologised after footage emerged displaying him kissing a younger boy on the lips and asking him to "suck my tongue".The Buddhist religious chief's workplace mentioned he needed to apologise to the boy and his household "for the hurt his words may have caused". It mentioned the 87-year-old "often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way" however he "regrets the incident".The footage was taken from an occasion on 28 February when the Dalai Lama addressed a bunch of scholars on the Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharamshala, northern India.In it, a younger boy could be seen approaching a microphone and asking the Dalai Lama: "Can I hug you?" The Nobel Peace Prize winner invitations the boy on stage, saying "first here" and pointing to his cheek, which th...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean chief Kim Jong Un vowed to reinforce his nuclear arsenal in additional “practical and offensive” methods as he met with senior navy officers to debate the nation’s warfare preparations within the face of his rivals’ “frantic” navy workouts, state media mentioned Tuesday. T...

A assassin who faked his personal dying to flee jail has been arrested in Tanzania - virtually a 12 months after a fireplace that was presupposed to have killed him. South African Thabo Bester, 35, was dubbed the "Facebook rapist" as he used the positioning to lure at the least two girls he was convicted of raping. He was additionally discovered responsible of killing one. He was sentenced to life in 2012. Last May it was reported that he died in a fireplace in his jail cell.But then studies surfaced of him being seen in Johannesburg and DNA samples confirmed the physique burned past recognition within the cell was not his.Last week police raided a luxurious house Bester was believed to have been renting in an upmarket Johannesburg suburb earlier than he fled throughout the b...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration formally decided Monday {that a} Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia on espionage prices has been “wrongfully detained.” The designation elevates the case of Evan Gershkovich within the U.S. authorities hierarchy and signifies that a devoted State Departmen...

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has mentioned his defence minister will stay in submit, regardless of being sacked two weeks in the past.Mr Netanyahu mentioned Yoav Gallant was being faraway from his submit after he gave a televised assertion urging a halt to controversial judicial reforms. The information sparked fast and dramatic protests, together with the short-term closure of Ben Gurion airport and an enormous walkout by Israeli unions.In response, Mr Netanyahu was pressured to pause the reforms and is at the moment in compromise negotiations. Image: Yoav Gallant. Library picture Mr Gallant's sacking was by no means formally signed off, and he remained in submit, though there have been rumours he mus...

DHARAMSALA, India — Tibetan non secular chief the Dalai Lama apologized Monday after a video exhibiting him kissing a toddler on the lips triggered criticism. A press release posted on his official web site mentioned the 87-year-old chief regretted the incident and wished to “apologize to the boy and his f...

The Italian coastguard is working to rescue 1,200 individuals aboard two boats at sea which have gotten into bother.One of the boats carrying 400 individuals was beforehand reported to be taking up water with these on board in "imminent danger of death". The fishing boat had been positioned by a airplane operated by German NGO Sea-Watch International.It had set off from Tobruk in Libya however has been adrift at sea. Image: Pic: Sea-Watch International Image: People wait to be rescued by Italian Coast Guard off the coast of Italy The different rescue operation by the Italian coastguard on Monday was to assist a fishing boat carrying 800 those that was positioned o...

SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. has been transfixed in current weeks by the spectacle of the indictment of ex-President Donald Trump — the primary time within the nation’s practically 250 years as a sovereign nation {that a} former U.S. chief has charged with legal exercise, not to mention 34 felonies. But w...

French search and rescue groups have discovered a sixth physique following an avalanche on Sunday. The incident occurred on the Armancette glacier, southwest of Mount Blanc. The rescue mission has now been referred to as off by native authorities, as they don't seem to be conscious of some other lacking people. Local media reported that two of the victims have been mountain guides and the opposite 4, a younger man and girl of their 20s and a pair of their 40s, have been their shoppers.The avalanche struck when the group of six have been snowboarding off-piste close to the village and ski resort of Les Contamines-Montjoie, southeast France, authorities spokesperson Emmanuel Coquand stated.One individual was despatched to hospital with minor accidents and eight others have been...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb focusing on a police automobile in risky southwestern Pakistan on Monday killed at the very least 4 individuals and wounded 15 others, largely civilian pedestrians, a authorities spokesperson mentioned. The assault occurred in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan provi...