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DUBAI (Reuters) – Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani won Iran’s presidential election yesterday with a resounding defeat of conservative hardliners, calling it a victory of moderation over extremism and pledging a new tone of respect in international affairs.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants in a volatile region of western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women students yesterday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors were taken, in the first major security test for the new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish riot police stormed an Istanbul park at the heart of two weeks of protest against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan yesterday, firing tear gas and water cannon and sending hundreds scurrying into surrounding streets.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said he had cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus yesterday and backed a no-fly zone over Syria, pitching the most populous Arab state more firmly against President Bashar al-Assad.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain turned up the pressure on other rich economies to clamp down on secretive money flows at a summit next week by pressing its overseas tax havens into a transparency deal and announcing new disclosure rules for British firms.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said he had cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus today and backed a no-fly zone over Syria, pitching the most populous Arab state more firmly against President Bashar al-Assad.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani won Iran’s presidential election today, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need for a second round run-off.

ANKARA/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The United States is considering a no-fly zone in Syria as it weighs options for intervention into the 2-year-old civil war, Western diplomats said yesterday, after the White House said Syria had crossed a “red line” by using nerve gas.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A Mexican judge yesterday ordered the detention of a former Mexican governor suspected of embezzling millions in public funds, deepening a scandal that will test President Enrique Pena Nieto’s anti-corruption agenda.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Millions of Iranians voted to choose a new president yesterday, urged by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to turn out in force to discredit suggestions by arch foe the United States that the election would be a sham.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is directing federal agencies to look for ways to eventually share more of their radio airwaves with the private sector as the growing use of smartphones and tablets ratchets up the demand for spectrum, according to a memo released yesterday.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Syria’s president and his Shi’ite allies were denounced by leading Sunni Arab voices yesterday, including Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood, which had reached out across Islam’s sectarian divide but has now called for jihad.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood actor Suraj Pancholi who was arrested after the suicide of his actress girlfriend Jiah Khan will spend at least another week in jail after a Mumbai court on Friday adjourned his bail hearing until June 21.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron will press its overseas tax havens to sign up to an international transparency treaty in London today, hoping to bolster British credibility ahead of next week’s G8 summit.

PRAGUE,  (Reuters) – The Czech Republic’s leading opposition party said today it would call a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Petr Necas unless he quit over a corruption investigation in which some of his closest associates have been charged.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan lawmakers granted a 50-year concession to a Chinese company yesterday for it to design, build and manage a shipping channel across the Central American nation that would compete with the Panama Canal.

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has authorized sending U.S. weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, a U.S.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Former Argentine President Carlos Menem received a seven-year prison sentence for arms smuggling to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s, but he will not be jailed unless his fellow senators strip him of immunity, a court said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch yesterday filed for divorce from his wife of 14 years, Wendi, seeking to end a marriage that had been irretrievably broken for more than six months, according to his spokesman.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Forget abandoning carbohydrates or detoxing. The new dieting craze sweeping Britain and taking off in the United States lets people eat whatever they like – but only five days a week.