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[dalailama.com] Anaheim, CA, USA, 5 July 2015 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama began the day early giving an interview to Ann Curry for KIP News. He told her at the start that today he got up at 1am to begin his prayers.

Jyoti Malhotra, India Today | July 2, 2015

The Dalai Lama is making overtures to Beijing even as China seems to be hardening its stand

Sometime in the mid-1950s, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, met the young Dalai Lama of Tibet in Peking, and the two became friends.

Dallas, Texas, USA, 1 July 2015 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Dallas yesterday at the end of a long flight from Britain. Today, despite weather forecasts giving flood warnings, the sun shone brightly in a deep blue sky and the air was warm as he drove to the George W Bush Presidential Center. He was received by Amanda Shnetzer, Director of Human Freedom, George Bush Institute.

[dalailama.com] Glastonbury, Somerset, UK, 28 June 2015: It was raining when the helicopter carrying His Holiness the Dalai Lama from London landed on a high field near the village of Pilton, site of the Glastonbury Festival.

[TNN] CHENNAI, Jun 23: If you are in possession of currency notes printed before 2005 — identifiable as they do not mention year of printing on the reverse — you only have a little over a week to go to your nearest bank branch to exchange such currency notes for their full value.