TEHRAN – Iran wants major amendments within the framework of a U.N. nuclear fuel deal which it broadly accepts, state media said, a move that could unravel the plan and expose Tehran to the threat of harsher sanctions.
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BRNO – The top Czech court said yesterday it would deliver a ruling next week on a complaint over the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, extending uncertainty over the bloc’s reform plan.
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ANKARA – The Turkish military said yesterday it was investigating reports detailing a suspected army plan to discredit the ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party, which have stirred political tensions and unnerved markets.
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MOSCOW – President Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday he did not rule out changes to electoral laws after this month’s regional polls that were decried by opposition as a “stab in the back of democracy”, Russian news agencies reported.
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KIEV – A Ukrainian deputy prime minister expressed confidence yesterday that there would be no new end-of-year dispute with Russia over gas supplies, but conceded that meeting monthly bills was not easy.
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WASHINGTON – Two Chicago men have been arrested and charged with plotting to attack a Danish newspaper whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed — including one with him wearing a bomb in a turban — led to deadly protests by Muslims, the U.S. Justice Department said yesterday.
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LA PAZ – Leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales is the clear favourite to win re-election in December, according to an opinion poll published yesterday.
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NEW YORK – U.S. consumer confidence deteriorated sharply in October as the worst job market in a quarter century heightened concerns about the future, more than outweighing modest improvements in the housing sector.
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THE HAGUE – Radovan Karadzic led a genocidal campaign to make Bosnian Muslims “disappear from the face of the earth” and carve out a mono-ethnic state for Bosnian Serbs, war crimes prosecutors told a U.N. tribunal yesterday.
