TEHRAN – U.N. nuclear experts inspected yesterday a uranium enrichment site whose existence was announced by Iran last month, the semi-official Mers news agency said.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Pakistani aircraft attacked Taliban in the South Waziristan region yesterday a day after the army said it had captured a strategic town on an approach to the militants’ main base area.
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HUA HIN, Thailand – Asia-Pacific leaders called yesterday for regional-wide free trade and other measures to reduce dependence on the United States and big Western markets as Asia leads the way out of the global economic downturn.
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KABUL – Afghan police fired into the air yesterday to break up a protest by thousands of people who had gathered in the capital, Kabul, to protest against what they said was the desecration of a copy of the Koran by foreign troops.
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ABUJA – Nigeria’s main militant group reinstated a ceasefire yesterday in the oil-producing Niger Delta to allow for peace talks with the government.
