By Thuy Ong SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) - Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are having little effect o...

BEIJING -- Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heav...

Will the global cause spearheaded by the quirky monk, with such Hollywood champions as Richard Gere and Harrison Ford outlive him?

BEIJING -- A U.S.-backed broadcaster says a Tibetan mother of four young children has killed herself in the latest self-immolation protest in western ...

BEIJING — A U.S.-backed broadcaster says a Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire inside a western Chinese monastery criticized by authoritie...

Over the last decade, amid China's growing hegemony in Asia, Nepal has turned from a sanctuary to a nightmare for Tibetan refugees. This tragedy is embodied in the way the Nepalese government has so far responded to Drupchen Tsering's self-immolation.

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Security cameras captured the moment when a Bulgarian man disgusted by corruption in his provincial hometown quietly doused himself...

TUNIS, Tunisia — A street vendor has set himself on fire in Tunisia's capital, reviving memories of the self-immolation that helped spark the Ar...

KATMANDU, Nepal -- A Tibetan man who set himself on fire in Nepal's capital in the latest in a string of self-immolations protesting China's rule over...

At a time of crisis in Tibet, instead of seeking to understand this gentle symbolism, the armed military response in Kyegu to placing scarves around a flower demonstrated a deeper truth -- that the Chinese leadership appears to have no other strategy on Tibet beyond oppression.

Since February 2009, more than 60 Tibetans have self-immolated in protest of China's rule over Tibet, according to estimates. On Wednesday, at least f...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An unemployed young Gazan man has died after dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire. Sufian Abu Nada...

BEIJING — An 18-year-old monk set himself on fire and died in southwestern China on Tuesday in the latest of dozens of self-immolations by Tibet...

BEIJING -- A Tibetan man set himself on fire Friday morning in northwest China's Qinghai province, advocacy groups for Tibetan rights reported. It ad...

The Tibetans are standing up to the vast and expanding power of the Chinese state with nonviolent resistance through religious practice, song, literature and even self-immolation.

As an anthropologist conducting research in Afghanistan, I find that whenever the gaze of the international media falls on Afghan women I feel uncomfortable.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Like many in Pakistan, 13-year-old Kamran Khan's family did not have enough money to send him to school. He was such a prom...