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NEWS ABOUT: Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu stories: 11 news summaries

(Newser) - This year's Medal of Freedom recipients share a capacity to change the world, President Obama said today in naming the eclectic group. Among the 16 honorees are Sen. Ted Kennedy, slain gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, actor Sidney Poitier, tennis great Billie Jean King, and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day... More »

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Sidney Poitier • Senate • Stephen Hawking • Desmond Tutu • tennis • Ted Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • civil rights • Presidential Medal of Freedom • US Supreme Court • US Senate • Billie Jean King • Jack Kemp • President Obama • Harvey Milk • Nancy Goodman Brinker • Pedro Jose Greer • Joseph Lowery • Joseph Medicine Crow • Chita Rivera • Mary Robinson • Janet Davison Rowley • Muhammad Yunus

 Burma Will 
 Allow Diplomats 
 to Visit Suu Kyi 

Dictatorship also opens trial to media after global outcry

May 20, 09 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Burma's ruling junta will take the unusual step of allowing diplomats to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader currently on trial, reports CNN. Officials from Russia, Singapore, and Thailand are expected to meet Suu Kyi later today. On the third day of the trial, the government allowed... More »

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Desmond Tutu • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • Rangoon • Yangon • Nobel laureates • John Yettaw

Peace Meeting Called Off Over Dalai Lama Ban

South Africa stands
firm as Nobel winner Tutu, others protest

Mar 24, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Africa’s decision to bar the Dalai Lama from entering the country has scuttled this week’s scheduled conference for Nobel laureates, the BBC reports. Laureates were to discuss how next year’s soccer World Cup could fight racism and xenophobia, but homegrown winners Desmond Tutu and FW de... More »

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China • Desmond Tutu • South Africa • Tibet • Dalai Lama • peace conference • 2010 World Cup • FW de Klerk

South Africa Bars Dalai Lama From Peace Conference

Move outrages fellow Nobel laureates

Mar 23, 09 9:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - One notable Nobel laureate won’t be at this week’s peace conference in South Africa: The Dalai Lama. South Africa has denied the Tibetan spiritual leader entry, bowing to pressure from trading partner China, the Times of London reports. The Nobel laureates organizing the event are outraged, with Archbishop... More »

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China • Desmond Tutu • South Africa • Tibet • Dalai Lama • peace conference • 2010 World Cup

Tutu Urges Obama to Apologize for Iraq

Don't disappoint world after winning election, says ex-archbishop

Feb 19, 09 10:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Desmond Tutu says Barack Obama's election made him want "to jump and dance and shout," and he's encouraging the new president to apologize for the invasion of Iraq. Obama “could easily squander the goodwill that his election generated if he disappoints,” the Nobel Peace Prize winner... More »

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Desmond Tutu • South Africa • archbishop • apology • Iraq war • President Obama

 Tutu Pleads for End
 to Immigrant Attacks 

Archbishop issues impassioned call for South Africans to end rampage

May 20, 08 5:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu pleaded yesterday with his South African countrymen to end a vicious surge of anti-immigrant violence that has killed at least 22 people, AP reports. Extra police were sent to squatter camps as roaming mobs continued to stab, beat and burn immigrant workers in some of the worst... More »

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immigration • Africa • Desmond Tutu • South Africa • riots • Johannesburg

Tutu 'Hopeful'
About Kenya Mediation

Opposition calls
for new election as condemnation grows

Jan 4, 08 8:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has said he is open to the possibility of a coalition government—if the opposition consents to his terms, Reuters reports. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said after a meeting with Kibaki that "there is a great deal of hope" in ongoing talks and that... More »

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Kenya • Desmond Tutu • Bernard Kouchner • Mwai Kibaki • Raila Odinga

Kenyan Police Block Protest With Tear Gas

Tutu meets with
Odinga; rally called off  to avert bloodshed

Jan 3, 08 6:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Kenyan riot police unleashed tear gas and water cannons on protesters attempting to gather in a Nairobi park for a rally for Raila Odinga, the Kenyan presidential candidate who disputes his narrow defeat in last week's election. The Times of London reports that Odinga called off his "people's rally"... More »

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Kenya • Desmond Tutu • Mwai Kibaki • Raila Odinga • tear gas

Darfur Rebels Kill at Least 10 Peacekeepers in Raid

Rebels attack African Union base

Sep 30, 07 12:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - An overnight rebel attack on the African Union's base in Darfur has left at least 10 soldiers dead and 50 others missing in the bloodiest incident the peacekeeping force has seen since its 2003 inception. Some 30 rebel vehicles stormed and pillaged the base, but rebel sources told the BBC... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • Desmond Tutu • Crisis in Darfur • African Union

Britain Boycotts African Summit

Brown takes stand against torture, intimidation in Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Sep 20, 07 4:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain will boycott a summit bringing together leaders of the European Union and  African states because of the expected presence of  Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the Independent  he wants to send a powerful message of concern to the leader responsible for widespread torture and... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • European Union • Gordon Brown • Desmond Tutu • Lisbon • African Union • Britain • boycott • summit

Desmond Tutu to Anglicans: Get Over It

Church should attend to AIDS, corruption, Darfur—not gay priests

May 28, 07 9:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on Africa's Anglican church to let go of what he called its "extraordinary obsession" with gay priests and same-sex marriage.  The church should, instead, be paying attention to the crises caused by AIDS, Darfur and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe's corruption.  More »

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Africa • Robert Mugabe • gay marriage • AIDS • Anglican Church • religion • Desmond Tutu • homosexuality

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