A man dies after setting himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan while holding a Tibetan flag, New York Police Department officials say.Emergency responders take the man to Bellevue Hospital, where he is pronounced dead; the New York Police Department opens a criminal investigation but has not released his name and says family notification is pending.The act renews scrutiny of Tibet’s status: the
Chinese government asserts sovereignty, Tibetan exiles and representatives of the Dalai Lama,
Tenzin Gyatso, contest those claims, and China has not engaged with representatives of
Tenzin Gyatso since 2010.