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Tehran - Iran announced earlier today an upcoming conference meant to review the victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential elections and its expected impact on Tehran-Washington relations.
One of the featured speakers will be Iran's former ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad-Javad Zarif, who is considered a US expert, the report said.
It said Obama's pledge to hold unconditional talks with Iran has brought hope of change in Iran-US ties after almost three decades of diplomatic estrangement.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi on Monday said he hoped Obama...
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Hamelin, Germany - The rats are back in Hamelin, where a legendary Pied Piper once rid the Germany city of both rodents and children.
The city confirmed Tuesday it was battling a rat population explosion in an area of overgrown former garden allotments close to the city centre.
"It's like a rubbish dump in there and has developed into a rat refuge," said municipal spokesman Thomas Wahmes. After a rapid rise in rat numbers this year, the vermin were spreading into a new housing estate nearby.
The city's hands are tied because it does not own the wilderness, where...
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Islamabad - Earlier today, Pakistan's Swat valley was the scene of another incident, this one involving a suicide attacker who managed to kill at least three troops and also injure another three at an army check post.
"A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the post at around 11:45 am in Gashkor village of the district," Colonel Nadeem Ahmad told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The post was completely destroyed in the attack, he said.
According to the spokesman, helicopter gunships were targeting militant positions in the Kabal area of Swat, where...
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Jakarta - A powerful undersea eathquake in Indonesia's North Sulawesi led to the death of at least four people. 60 others were wounded and more than 1,500 buildings were significantly damaged in the process, officials stated.
The 7.7-magnitude quake struck at 1:02 am (1702 GMT Sunday) with its epicenter in the sea about 138 kilometres north-west of Gorontalo on North Sulawesi, about 1,950 kilometres north-east of Jakarta. It occurred about 10 kilometres beneath the seabed.
The US Geological Survey measured the quake at 7.5 on the Richter scale.
Indonesia's National Meteorology...
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Madrid/Paris - Last night, French and Spanish police officers managed to detain the suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA.
Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, known by his alias Txeroki, was held at 3:30 am with a woman near the Cauterets ski resort 30 kilometres from Lourdes in the Pyrenees in a coordinated operation between French and Spanish security forces.
The suspects were asleep when police broke into their flat, Spanish media reported. Both were armed.
Txeroki, 35, has been the reputed head of ETA military operations for the past five years,...
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