UN inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran |
- UN inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran
- Rooftop gunman kills 1, wounds 8 in Finland
- Afghan parliament approves U.S.-Afghan security pact
- Hollande makes surefooted start before assembly vote
- UAE women battle against skimpy dress
- VIDEO: Key Egypt candidate seeks allies
- VIDEO: 'Pope's butler' quizzed on leaks
- Clinton to visit Scandinavia, Caucasus, Turkey
- Qaeda-linked suicide bomber kills 12 in Yemen
- U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran
- Iran, big powers agree to hold more nuclear talks in June
- Lebanese Syria hostage release delayed, massacre claimed
- Muslim Brotherhood seeks unity ahead of Egypt runoff
- Ex-Mexico cop pleads guilty in U.S. to organizing cartel hit squad
- Hollande makes surefooted start before assembly vote
- Turkmen leader sacks oil and gas minister
- Sudan says captures rebel stronghold in border state
- Pope's butler arrested in leaks investigation
- Texas in talks with SpaceX on possible spaceport deal
- Greece's Byzantine politics out in the open in vote run-up
| UN inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran Posted: 25 May 2012 09:19 PM PDT VIENNA, May 26 — United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 per cent more enrichment centrifuges, a UN watchdog report said yesterday. It said Tehran had told the UN agency that the presence of traces of highly refined uranium — ... 
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| Rooftop gunman kills 1, wounds 8 in Finland Posted: 25 May 2012 11:38 PM PDT HELSINKI (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finnish town centre in the early hours of Saturday, killing an 18-year-old woman and wounding eight other people, police said. 
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| Afghan parliament approves U.S.-Afghan security pact Posted: 25 May 2012 11:28 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament approved on Saturday a strategic pact between Kabul and Washington, clearing the way for a U.S. presence in the country for at least a decade after most foreign combat troops leave in 2014. 
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| Hollande makes surefooted start before assembly vote Posted: 25 May 2012 09:55 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist President Francois Hollande has defied critics who considered him an inexperienced lightweight by starting with a burst of globetrotting activity and standing up to Berlin and Washington on euro and foreign policy. 
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| UAE women battle against skimpy dress Posted: 25 May 2012 10:38 PM PDT The UAE may be the Gulf's most liberal Arab state but two local women have caused a stir with an online campaign against the "repulsive" habit of Western women to reveal too much flesh in public.
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| VIDEO: Key Egypt candidate seeks allies Posted: 25 May 2012 08:53 PM PDT Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called for talks to "save" the 2011 uprising ahead of a presidential election run-off.
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| VIDEO: 'Pope's butler' quizzed on leaks Posted: 25 May 2012 08:57 PM PDT The Vatican says it has detained a person suspected of leaking a series of confidential documents and letters to the media.
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| Clinton to visit Scandinavia, Caucasus, Turkey Posted: 25 May 2012 08:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves next week on an eight-day trip to Scandinavia, the Caucasus and Turkey that will cover security issues such as Iran and Syria as well as the environment and health. 
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| Qaeda-linked suicide bomber kills 12 in Yemen Posted: 25 May 2012 07:48 PM PDT SANAA (Reuters) - Two al Qaeda-linked suicide bombers targeting Shi'ite Muslims blew themselves up at a school and a protest march in northern Yemen on Friday killing at least 12 people, the defence ministry said. 
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| U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran Posted: 25 May 2012 06:30 PM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on Friday. 
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| Iran, big powers agree to hold more nuclear talks in June Posted: 25 May 2012 06:23 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran and world powers agreed to meet again next month to try to ease the long standoff over its nuclear work despite achieving scant progress at talks in Baghdad towards resolving the main sticking points of their dispute. 
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| Lebanese Syria hostage release delayed, massacre claimed Posted: 25 May 2012 06:21 PM PDT BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heightening tensions over the conflict in neighbouring Syria. 
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| Muslim Brotherhood seeks unity ahead of Egypt runoff Posted: 25 May 2012 06:14 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood is reaching out to rivals including politicians knocked out of the presidential race in an attempt to rally support around its own candidate who faces a runoff against Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq. 
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| Ex-Mexico cop pleads guilty in U.S. to organizing cartel hit squad Posted: 25 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT (Reuters) - A former Mexican police officer accused of organizing a hit squad for the once-powerful Tijuana drug cartel pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court on Friday to racketeering and drug trafficking, prosecutors said. 
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| Hollande makes surefooted start before assembly vote Posted: 25 May 2012 03:40 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist President Francois Hollande has defied critics who considered him an inexperienced lightweight by starting with a burst of globetrotting activity and standing up to Berlin and Washington on euro and foreign policy. 
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| Turkmen leader sacks oil and gas minister Posted: 25 May 2012 12:25 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov sacked his oil and gas minister, citing his poor performance on state television on Friday, just two days after the Central Asian nation agreed landmark deals to supply natural gas to Pakistan and India. 
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| Sudan says captures rebel stronghold in border state Posted: 25 May 2012 10:12 AM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said its forces had captured two areas from rebels in its Blue Nile state on the border with South Sudan on Friday following days of heavy fighting. 
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| Pope's butler arrested in leaks investigation Posted: 25 May 2012 09:38 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's butler was arrested on Friday in connection with an investigation into leaks of confidential documents, some alleging cronyism and corruption in Vatican contracts, a senior Vatican source said. 
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| Texas in talks with SpaceX on possible spaceport deal Posted: 25 May 2012 08:27 PM PDT Texas is engaged in talks with private spaceflight company SpaceX on a possible deal for the latter to build a spaceport in the state, local media reported Friday.
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| Greece's Byzantine politics out in the open in vote run-up Posted: 25 May 2012 08:22 PM PDT A fruitless vote in Greece on May 6 followed by abortive coalition talks may have infuriated Greeks and baffled outsiders -- but it has also given a rare glimpse into the country's Byzantine politics.
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