EU: No Olympics boycott

Ministers and officials from the European Union (EU) said that any violence in Tibet should not be linked to the Olympics in Beijing, and that they would not boycott the summer games, the Financial Times reported. After a scheduled meeting of representatives of the 27 states of the EU, the head of the European Olympic Committees said its members were "100% unanimous" in their decision not to boycott the games. China denied that it used heavy-handed measures or lethal force to clamp down on protests in Tibet, even as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on China to begin talks with the Dalai Lama.