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Iran Atom Chief Declares Start of Higher Uranium Enrichment
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Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Tuesday that Tehran has started to produce 20 percent enriched uranium at its Natanz plant, the official IRNA news agency reported. "From today we have started the 20 percent enrichment in a separate cascade in Natanz," Salehi said. He added the separate cascade was "more on a lab scale". "We have prepared a cascade of 164 centrifuges for this purpose. This can make between three to ...
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President Sleiman: Israeli War on Lebanon Won't Be A Picnic
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Lebanese President Michel Sleiman said Monday that If Israel decided to launch war on Lebanon, the conflict wouldn't be just a stroll or a picnic for it. Speaking ahead of a visiting delegation from the Editors' Syndicate headed by Melhem Karam, President Sleiman hoped appointments in state institutions would be made from within the administrative corps. The president stressed on the necessity of holding municipal elections on time ...
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Yemen Vows to Keep up Strikes on Qaeda 'Around the Clock'
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The Yemeni government on Tuesday dismissed Al-Qaeda threats and said it will strike the militants "around the clock," after the group's local branch called for attacks on US interests worldwide. Yemen "will not be intimidated by Al-Qaeda threats," the interior ministry said in a statement. "Security forces will continue to combat any violation of the law and will strike terrorist hideouts wherever they are found." On Monday, Al-Qaeda in the ...
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Barak Urges World Not to Ignore Iran 'Nuclear Provocations'
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday urged the international community not to turn a blind eye to Iran's declaration that it would soon begin enriching uranium at higher levels. Iran informed the United Nations earlier Monday that it would start producing higher-grade nuclear fuel and add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year. "This is additional proof that Iran is ridiculing the world," Barak told members of his Labor party ...
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Meshaal in Moscow: Israel Has Made Mideast Peace Impossible
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Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal said Monday that he sees no prospects for a Middle East peace settlement, telling reporters during a visit to Moscow that Israel's continued military offensives and occupation made such an agreement impossible. "I do not expect any progress in peace talks on the Palestinian, Syrian or any other direction of the Middle East settlement as the Israeli leadership is the leadership of war, aggression and ...
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Maliki: Iraq Election Row to Be Resolved before Campaign Starts
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday he has received assurances that judges will resolve a simmering row over who can stand in Iraq's general election before official campaigning starts on February 12. Around 100 lawmakers had gathered earlier at parliament for an emergency session to debate a contentious decision to allow hundreds of candidates to stand in the vote. The meeting was triggered by Maliki after he branded as "illegal" a ...
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“Israel Moving in Downward Spiral, Anniversary a ‘Punch’ to West”
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution would be a "punch" to the world's "arrogant" powers that would stun them. "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Sayyed Khamenei told a gathering of air force personnel. The ...
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Two NATO Occupation Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Bombing
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Two soldiers with NATO-led occupation forces fighting Taliban-led militants were killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Monday. "Two ISAF service members died following an IED (improvised explosive device) strike in southern Afghanistan yesterday (Sunday)," NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. The latest deaths took to 61 the number of the foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the start ...
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Qaeda Leader Calls for Attacks on US Interests 'Everywhere'
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula number two Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri called for attacks against US interests "everywhere," in an audio message released on the Internet on Monday. "American interests are everywhere and their agents are moving everywhere," Shahri said. "Attack them and eliminate as many enemies as you can." Shahri praised the December 25 alleged attempt to blow up a US airliner by Nigerian Omar Farouk Abdulmutalleb, saying: "We ...
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Sri Lanka's Presidential Loser Faces Court Martial
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Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka is to be court-martialed, officials said Tuesday, a day after he was hauled from his office by armed troops. Hours before his arrest, Fonseka told reporters he would face any international probe into alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan troops last year in the final stages of the conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels. He had been meeting Sri Lankan Muslim Congress ...
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