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    Iran’s President fires foreign minister

    Iran’s president abruptly fired his foreign minister, and named the nuclear chief as acting top diplomat, the latest sign of a rift at the top levels of the Islamic theocracy as the country faces intense pressure from the West over its nuclear prog. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave no explanation for the change in a brief […]

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    UN Appoints Former Japanese Diplomat as Special Advisor on Human Security

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday appointed former Japanese diplomat Yukio Takasu as his special advisor on human security. “Mr. Takasu has played a pivotal role in advancing a greater understanding on the notion of human security both within the United Nations and outside for more than 10 years,” read a UN statement here announcing the […]

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    Saudi Hails Brazil, Argentina Recognition of Palestinian State

    Saudi Arabia hailed on Monday a move by Argentina and Brazil to recognize an independent Palestinian state on 1967 borders, state-run SPA news agency reported. Following a weekly cabinet meeting, Saudi government spokesman Abdulaziz Khoja said the cabinet praised the step as “an important development in the international support for the national legitimate rights of […]

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    Italian PM in Search of Last-minute Supporters

    Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday tried to seek the necessary support to secure a solid majority for Tuesday’s parliamentary confidence vote set to decide the future of his government. After a parallel speech delivered at both the Senate and the House, in which he appealed to all moderates to come over to his […]

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    Russia Calls for Resumption of Six-Party Talks

    Russia is deeply concerned with the information that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) enriches uranium, and calls for the creation of the environment for resuming the six-party talks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Monday statement. The statement was released on the ministry’s website after talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov […]

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    Russian Riot Police Beef Up for Riot Threats

    Russian riot policemen cleaned Moscow’s Manezh Square near the Kremlin amid threats of more riots in the aftermath of the Dec. 11 riot, local media reported on Monday. Riot police were posted around the square following a tip-off that football fans were planning to face off with migrants from Russia’s mainly North Caucasus region later […]

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    Stockholm Bomber Identified as Swedish National

    Swedish Chief Prosecutor Thomas Lindstrand said Monday that the man whokilled himself in a suicide bomb attack in central Stockholm on Saturday was up to 98 percent identified. “The man is up to 98 percent identified, but we have no official identification yet. No DNA, no family identification,” said Lindstrand, who is in charge of […]

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    Cote D’Ivoire Extends Curfew for Another Week

    Cote d’Ivoire on Monday extended the curfew for another week. The move was contained a presidential decree by President Laurent Gbagbo which was read out in state television. Cote d’Ivoire imposed the curfew across the country on Nov. 27, one day ahead of the presidential run-off, which was aimed at preventing violence before and during […]

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    U.S. Envoy Arrives in The Region to Promote Mideast Talks

    U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell arrived in the Middle East on Monday in a bid to help pushing forward the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. Mitchell will immediately start talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli government officials, and will hold talks on Tuesday in the West […]

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    Key Part of Obamacare Ruled Unconstitutional

    A U.S. federal court in Virginia on Monday ruled individual health coverage requirement of Obama’s healthcare reform law unconstitutional. This is the first federal court to strike down the law. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson, a Republican appointed by former President George W. Bush, ruled that the Obamacare’s requirement that citizens buy health insurance […]

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