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Peru ponders corruption probe’s cost after shocking suicide

The suicide of former President Alan Garcia has shocked Peruvians and sparked a debate swirling Thursday on television channels and in newspaper columns: What will be the price of the country's painful reckoning with corruption?

All but one of the nation's living elected former presidents are suspected of taking part in Latin America's largest graft probe, in which Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht has admitted to doling out nearly $800 million to politicians throughout the region in exchange for lucrative public works contracts.

The case has especially rocked Peru, which has gone further than any other country outside Brazil in holding politicians suspected of participating in bribery accountable.

Corruption has long been endemic in the South American nation, where one judge was even caught on a wiretap negotiating the sentence of a man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl. Many are pleased to see powerful leaders long suspected of wrongdoing with handcuffs around their wrists.

Still, Garcia's death has prompting a closer scrutiny of how the cases are being conducted, in particular the issue of pretrial detention.

When officers showed up at Garcia's home early Wednesday, they came armed with an arrest warrant demanding his detention in connection with the Odebrecht case, in which he was a suspect but not yet charged. He asked for a minute to call his lawyer and then shot himself from inside a bedroom.

Now some ask: In a country where corruption has long gone unpunished, have prosecutors become overzealous in putting the nation's most prominent politicians behind bars even before charges are levied against them?

"The fight against corruption is good," Peruvian television host Paola Pejoves opined as images of Garcia's hearse flashed across the screen. "But at what cost?"

Prosecutors and anti-corruption advocates say preliminary detention is needed in the case of powerful leaders with access to great resources that could help them flee the country or obstruct justice. Critics say prosecutors aren't always justified in putting them behind bars before filing charges.

Throughout Latin America, it's common for prisoners, even those accused of petty crimes, to be held for months or years before being charged. It's a system human rights lawyers have clamored against for years, and is now getting more attention as former presidents find themselves in a similar position.

Garcia would have been just another in a string of high-profile leaders ordered held on preliminary detention in the Odebrecht scandal.

Eighty-year-old former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is being held in connection with the probe, as is former first daughter Keiko Fujimori. Ex-President Ollanta Humala and his wife were also held for months without any formal charges until Peru's constitutional court ruled they should be freed.

Under Peruvian law, those suspected of crimes that carry a sentence of greater than four years can be held if there is evidence to suggest a suspect might try to flee the country or obstruct the course of an investigation.

Of all the former Peruvian presidents caught in the Odebrecht probe, the case for detaining Garcia may have been the clearest cut. He tried to seek asylum in Uruguay's embassy four months ago, but his bid was rejected.

That may have been grounds to suggest he might try to flee, some attorneys said, though cases like Kuczynski's remain more ambiguous.

"He's 80," lawyer Carlos Caro told TV Peru. "Where is he going to go?"

Garcia twice led the nation and was reviled by many Peruvians while adored by others, who at his peak called him the John F. Kennedy of Latin America.

Prosecutors suspect him of taking bribes from Odebrecht during the construction of Lima's metro.

The larger-than-life former president repeatedly professed his innocence, going on camera just a day before his death saying that history would favor him.

"Years will pass and people will understand," he said. "I trust in history."

Those critical of the use of pretrial detention in corruption cases say prosecutors are using it to garner public approval: The footage of officers escorting a former president into jail is powerful in a country where people are accustomed to seeing corrupt leaders go unpunished.

But it's also potentially damaging to those who are never charged.

"I think they have a lot of evidence in hand," said Jose Ugaz, an attorney who oversaw the prosecution of former strongman Alberto Fujimori's intelligence chief on corruption charges and is now representing Kuczynski's secretary, who is also detained. "But as tends to happen in complex investigations . some errors have happened."

Others, like law professor Ernesto de la Jara, contend politicians and business leaders, who often have access to resources like offshore accounts, merit stricter measures than the common criminal.

"It's another matter entirely to evaluate the need for preliminary detention when facing cases of organized crime where there are ex-presidents, Congress leaders," he said.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expressed concern in a 2017 report about Peru's policy of allowing pretrial detention for as much as 36 months in the case of public officials suspected of corruption and organized crime. Previously, authorities could only hold those suspects for up to 18 months.

The study found that in Latin American countries, on average 36 percent of the prison population consists of people being held in pretrial detention. In the case of Peru, de la Jara said about half of all prisoners are behind bars as a preliminary measure.

"Curiously enough, now that powerful politicians or wealthy businessmen are subject to that same kind of treatment, now all of a sudden this issue is being debated," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of the Americas program for Human Rights Watch.

Peru's El Comerico newspaper, which has been critical of the use of pretrial detention, called Garcia's death "the most tragic episode" yet in the Odebrecht probe, but insisted on the need for the broader case to proceed.

"We shouldn't lose sight of the importance of continuing cases under way," it wrote Thursday. "It's vital for truth to be told and justice executed to break with a past of impunity so that in the future no citizen is held above the law."

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Armario reported from Bogota, Colombia.

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DNA leads to arrest in murder of 94-year-old Northern California woman

Northern California detectives have announced an arrest after testing DNA in the cold case of a 94-year-old woman they say was “brutally murdered.”

Armando Cuadras, 29, who was arrested Wednesday, is the second person Yuba City police have charged in the murder of Leola Shreves -- a woman who had 22 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

Shreves’ 20-year-old next-door-neighbor, Michael Alexander, was arrested a short time after the murder when police said he told detectives he had “two sides” and that “Angry Mike” committed the crime, the Sacramento Bee reported Thursday, citing a local newspaper.

Prosecutors dropped the case against him, however, after saying in court papers that an analysis of DNA evidence found at the scene excluded him as a suspect.

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Alexander spent three years in jail awaiting trial. He settled a lawsuit for wrongful arrest last year for $50,000, the Marysville Appeal-Democrat reported.

In a news release announcing Cuadras's arrest, Yuba City police said blood found at the crime scene matched his DNA.

CBS 13 Sacramento reported a new process for analyzing DNA enabled detectives to produce a familial match that led to the arrest.

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Assistant Police Chief Jeremy Garcia said Cuadras is the first person to be identified as a suspect and arrested under this new DNA analysis technique.

Cuadras was jailed without bail.

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“He really has no idea we were coming,” Sgt. Steve Thornton told CBS 13. “For him, it was total shock.”

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The Latest: Columbine moves ahead with memorial events

The Latest on the investigation of a woman believed to have posed a threat to schools in Colorado (all times local):

9:40 p.m.

Columbine High School is moving ahead with ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of an attack that killed 13 people, and the community is awaiting more details on what led a teenager allegedly obsessed with the 1999 shooting to buy a shotgun and kill herself in the snowy foothills nearby.

A religious service Thursday night kicked off three days of commemorative events leading to a day of community service projects and a ceremony Saturday at a park near the school.

An already tense time at the school was exacerbated after 18-year-old Sol Pais traveled to Denver from Miami on Monday and immediately bought a pump-action shotgun.

Her body was found Wednesday, about 24 hours after Columbine and other schools locked their doors in response to fears that she intended to carry out her own attack.

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Colorado schools that were shuttered just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting have reopened, a day after authorities found the body of a young Florida woman who was obsessed with the shooting. Many schools imposed increased security measures when they reopened on Thursday.

The FBI said the body of Sol Pais was discovered Wednesday in mountains outside Denver with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Columbine and dozens of other schools were closed Wednesday because of fears that Pais posed a threat. About 500,000 students in the area that includes metropolitan Denver and Colorado Springs were affected.

Authorities say Pais never threatened a specific school but made troubling remarks to others about her "infatuation" with the 1999 shootings. The FBI also says Pais purchased a shotgun immediately after arriving in Colorado on Monday.

The school closures affected about 500,000 students.

Events planned to mark the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine attack will go on as scheduled throughout the week, including a ceremony near the school on Saturday.

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Authorities want to ensure that a Florida teenager who was obsessed with the Columbine school shooting was acting alone as dozens of Denver-area schools plan to reopen following a region-wide hunt for the young woman.

The FBI said the body of Sol Pais was discovered in the mountains outside Denver with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday, about 24 hours after Columbine and other schools locked their doors in response to fears that she intended to carry out her own attack.

Authorities say Pais never threatened a specific school but made troubling remarks to others about her "infatuation" with the 1999 shootings. The FBI also says Pais purchased a shotgun immediately after arriving in Colorado on Monday.

The anniversary of the Columbine attack is Saturday.

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Saudi Arabia temporarily frees three women activists: SPA

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators from Amnesty International protest outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy on International Women's day in Paris
FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators from Amnesty International stage the protest on International Women's day to urge Saudi authorities to release jailed women's rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Paris, France, March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

March 28, 2019

RIYADH (Reuters) – Three of the Saudi women activists held in detention since May last year were granted temporary release on Thursday, state news agency SPA said, and sources familiar with the matter said the rest are set to be freed on Sunday.

Some of the women, facing charges related to human rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats, told a Riyadh court on Wednesday they had been subjected to torture during more than nine months of detention, sources familiar with the matter said.

The women’s detention and reports about their treatment has sharpened Western criticism of the kingdom.

“The court indicated that the temporary release was decided after it studied their requests submitted during the trial sessions,” the SPA report said.

It said the court would continue to look into their cases and that the release was conditional on their attendance at their trials until a final decision is reached.

Informed sources said the three women released were blogger Eman al-Nafjan, Ruqayya al-Mohareb, and academic Aziza al-Yousef, who is in her 60s.

The trial of the prominent women activists has heightened international scrutiny of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record after last year’s murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

More than eleven activists were arrested last May and those on trial include rights campaigner Loujain al-Hathloul and university professor Hatoon al-Fassi.

Western diplomats and media, including Reuters, were denied entry to Wednesday’s court session and escorted from the building, despite petitioning to let them attend.

Nine prominent U.S. senators wrote a public letter last week asking King Salman to immediately release prisoners held on “dubious charges related to their activism”, citing many of the women currently on trial.

Three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, Canada and Australia, have called on Riyadh to free the activists. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his U.S. counterpart both raised the issue during recent visits to the kingdom.

It remains to be seen if Riyadh will bend to international pressure and give the women acquittals or pardons – or pursue harsh sentences. Critics have said the case has revealed the limits of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s promises to modernize Saudi Arabia.

(Reporting by Stephen Kalin in Riyadh; Writing by Aziz El Yaakoubi and Sarah Dadouch; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Congress Must Act to End Crisis on Our Border

Congress Must Act to End Crisis on Our Border

Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP

This week, Mayor Douglas Nicholls of Yuma, Arizona, declared a state of emergency as thousands of illegal immigrants poured into the city and pushed it to its breaking point. As the mayor warned, the sudden influx of people is above our capacity as a community to sustain.

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Armed robbery suspect killed in shootout near New Orleans' French Quarter, 3 others critically hurt

A suspected armed robber was killed Sunday night in New Orleans' central business district following a shootout with police that left three others critically injured, authorities said.

New Orleans Police Department spokesman Andy Cunningham told reporters the suspect had opened fire on officers at approximately 6:45 p.m. Cunningham added that no officers were hit in the exchange of gunfire, but one officer was injured in a car crash while responding to the scene.

"It was like 'Wild, Wild West' going on," one witness told local media.

New Orleans EMS spokesman Lt. Jonathan Fourcade told Fox 8 Live that the shooting unfolded near the intersection of Canal Street and Elk Place. The intersection is just outside the boundary of the French Quarter and located near New Orleans City Hall, the Superdome and Tulane University Medical School.

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It was not immediately clear whether the three injured victims were bystanders. NOLA.com reported that one of the victims was 17 years old. Fourcade said all three were at University Medical Center in critical condition and added that another person was treated at the hospital for abrasions.

The witness told NOLA.com that he saw a man running down Tulane Avenue before hearing approximately 50 gunshots, which the witness said were fired by the man and at least two police officers. The witness added that he later saw authorities trying to revive the man after he fell in front of Tulane Medical Center.

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Gory details emerge about missing woman's suspected demise

After months of mostly silence from authorities investigating the disappearance of a Colorado mother on Thanksgiving Day, grim details about her suspected demise emerged this week, including accusations that the woman's fiance beat her to death with a baseball bat while their baby was in the next room.

Testimony from investigators at a court hearing Tuesday also revealed that Patrick Frazee had repeatedly asked an Idaho woman with whom he was having an affair to kill Kelsey Berreth, the mother of Frazee's 1-year-old daughter.

When she refused, he did it himself, authorities said.

Berreth's body has yet to be found, but Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Gregg Slater said information he gleaned from Frazee's girlfriend, Krystal Jean Lee Kenney, indicates she watched as Frazee burned the woman's remains. Kenney is now cooperating with investigators after pleading guilty to evidence tampering.

Berreth, a 29-year-old flight instructor, was last seen on Nov. 22 near her home in a mountain town near Colorado Springs, south of Denver.

Investigators testified that Frazee began planning Berreth's death in September and enlisted Kenney. Court records released Wednesday show that Kenney's ex-husband told investigators his ex-wife and Frazee dated during college and had a sexual relationship in 2016 and possibly 2017. A detective said Kenney revealed they rekindled an affair in March 2018.

Kenney, a 32-year-old former nurse, told police that Frazee claimed Berreth was abusing the couple's daughter. Police said there is no evidence that the girl was abused by her mother or anyone else.

Frazee asked Kenney to kill Berreth three times, Slater testified Tuesday. He said Kenney reported that Frazee suggested poisoning Berreth's coffee in September. Kenney told police that Frazee later told her to hit Berreth in the head using a metal pipe and a baseball bat.

Kenney said he was angry each time she failed to act. She loved Frazee and wanted to make him happy but could not hurt Berreth, Slater said.

Kenney told at least two friends in October that Frazee had asked her to kill Berreth, according to the newly released court records. Both women were later interviewed by police investigating Berreth's disappearance but the records give no indication that they contacted law enforcement after Kenney's admission.

One woman, who works as a paralegal, told investigators she urged Kenney to contact police but "did not believe Krystal ever went," the records said.

Kenney received a call from Frazee on Nov. 22 demanding that she drive to Colorado, Slater said.

"You got a mess to clean up," Frazee said according to Kenney's account to police.

She said she arrived two days later and found a "horrific" scene with blood spattered on the walls and floors of Berreth's townhome, Slater said.

Kenney told police that Frazee had wrapped a sweater around Berreth's head so she could guess the smell of scented candles and then beat her with a bat and stashed her body on a ranch. According to court records, the couple's young daughter was present in the home but in another room at the time.

After she cleaned the house, Kenney said she went with Frazee to retrieve Berreth's body and watched as Frazee burned it on his property along with the wooden bat, Slater said.

She said Frazee later told her he planned to throw the remains in a dump or river.

Frazee was arrested last December, about a month after Berreth was last seen alive. Prosecutors announced additional charges this week, including tampering with a deceased body. He has not entered a plea to any of the allegations.

His attorneys focused most of their questions Tuesday on Kenney's account.

Police acknowledged that Kenney did not see Berreth's body or a baseball bat. They also said Kenney denied knowing Berreth or having a personal relationship with Frazee when investigators first contacted her in mid-December.

David Beller, a Denver attorney who focuses on criminal defense, said examining the motivations and credibility of a witness who is cooperating with prosecutors is an essential strategy for defense attorneys.

"The defense attorney is going to examine whether the witness is somehow minimizing her involvement or her motivations to make him look more culpable than he is," said Beller, who is not connected to Frazee's defense. "Juries are skeptical of a cooperating witness' testimony and a defense strategy is always to highlight that skepticism."

Frazee's attorneys also highlighted a lack of blood or other physical evidence detected in his truck and questioned the Berreth family's access to Kelsey's townhome following initial police searches. Blood in the bathroom identified as Berreth's was discovered Dec. 6, days after police turned the property over to her family.

According to court records, police found blood on a bottle of bleach and a mop during a mid-December search of Frazee's property. Tests are not complete yet.

The hearing did not reveal why prosecutors believe Frazee killed Berreth. Her parents argue in a wrongful death lawsuit that they believe Frazee wanted full custody of the couple's daughter. The child has remained with them while the criminal case proceeds.

Source: Fox News National

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Multiple people died Thursday when a semitrailer plowed into stationary traffic that resulted in explosions and flames on a Colorado freeway, authorities said.

The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. in the Denver suburb of Lakewood when a truck driver lost control while traveling east on Interstate 70, according to a preliminary investigation. The collision started a chain reaction and a diesel fuel spill, Lakewood police spokesman Ty Countryman told the Denver Post.

“This is looking to be one of the worst accidents we’ve had here in Lakewood,” he said.

The driver of the runaway truck survived. At least one truck was carrying lumber, another was hauling gravel and the third may have been carrying mattresses, KDVR-TV reported.

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Lakewood police tweeted there were multiple fatalities but did not give a specific number. Six people were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not released, according to the paper.

Lanes in both directions were closed and expected to remain so into Friday morning.

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President Trump will address members and leaders of the National Rifle Association on Friday at the group’s annual convention in Indiana.

Around 80,000 gun enthusiasts and more than 800 exhibitors are expected to pack the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis for the three-day event, the Indianapolis Star reported. It will mark the third straight year that Trump will deliver the keynote address, where he is expected to champion the rights of gun owners.

“Donald Trump is the most enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment to occupy the Oval Office in our lifetimes,” Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), said in a statement. “President Trump’s Supreme Court appointments ensure that the Second Amendment will be respected for generations to come. Our members are excited to hear him speak and thank him for his support for our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”

“Donald Trump is the most enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment to occupy the Oval Office in our lifetimes.”

— Chris Cox, executive director, NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action

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President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas last year. (Associated Press)

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas last year. (Associated Press)

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke at last year’s convention in Dallas. During his speech, Trump assured gun owners that he would protect their Second Amendment rights, according to the paper.

“Your Second Amendment rights are under siege,” Trump told the cheering audience in Dallas. “But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I am your president.”

Trump has supported some gun control measures in the past. Last year, his administration imposed a ban on bump stocks, attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in rapid bursts. Although, he most recently threatened to veto two Democratic gun control bills.

This year’s convention comes as the NRA faces outside pressure and internal problems. The group has seen its legislative agenda stall amid a series of mass shootings — including a massacre at a Parkland, Fla., high school in February 2018 that left 17 dead and launched a youth movement against gun violence.

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It’s also grappling with infighting in its ranks, money problems and investigations into whether Russian agents courted officials and funneled money through the group.

“I’ve never seen the NRA this vulnerable,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control measure.

The convention will run through the weekend and conclude Sunday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk past the Debenhams department store on Oxford Street in London
FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk past the Debenhams department store on Oxford Street in London, Britain December 15, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – Ailing British retailer Debenhams said two proposed company voluntary arrangements (CVA) could see all its stores remaining open during 2019, with 22 closures planned for next year, putting about 1,200 jobs at risk.

Debenhams’ lenders took control of the retailer earlier this month in a process designed to keep its shops open at the expense of shareholders.

(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; editing by Gopakumar Warrier)

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FILE PHOTO: Xiaomi branding is seen on a carrier bag at a UK launch event in London
FILE PHOTO: Xiaomi branding is seen on a carrier bag at a UK launch event in London, Britain, November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville

April 26, 2019

BENGALURU (Reuters) – Chinese brands controlled a record 66 percent of Indian smartphone market in the first quarter, led by Xiaomi Corp, a report showed, with volumes rising 20 percent on the back of popularity for brands like Vivo, RealMe and Oppo.

Xiaomi’s India shipments fell by 2 percent over last year, but the Beijing-based company was still the biggest smartphone brand in the country, followed by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, according to Hong-Kong based Counterpoint Research.

Shipment volumes for Vivo jumped 119 percent, while those of Oppo rose 28 percent.

“Vivo’s expanding portfolio in the mid-tier range ($100 to $180) drove its growth along with aggressive Indian Premier League cricket campaign,” Counterpoint analysts said.

India is the world’s fastest growing market for smartphones, where affordable pricing coupled with features like “selfie” cameras and big screens have popularized Chinese brands.

Video streaming services like Netflix Inc and Hotstar, as well as heavy usage of messaging apps like Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp have further spurred demand.

“Data consumption is on the rise and users are upgrading their phones faster as compared to other regions,” Counterpoint’s Tarun Pathak said.

“As a result of this, the premium specs are now diffusing faster into the mid-tier price brands. We estimate this trend to continue leading to a competitive mid-tier segment in coming quarters.”

(Reporting By Arnab Paul in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

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The Dalai Lama has returned to his headquarters in the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala after a brief stay in a hospital in the capital for treatment of a chest infection.

Hundreds of exiled Tibetans lined the streets of Dharmsala carrying ceremonial scarves and incense sticks to welcome the Dalai Lama on Friday.

The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader told reporters that he had fully recovered, but that the illness had been “a little bit serious.” He did not give any details.

The Dalai Lama usually spends several months a year traveling the world to teach Buddhism and highlight Tibetans’ struggle for greater freedom in China. But he has cut down on his travels in the past year to take care of his health.

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