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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.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s national assembly today approved a 50-year concession to a Hong Kong-based Chinese company to design, build and manage at an estimated cost of $40 billion a shipping canal across the central American nation that would compete with the Panama Canal.

(Reuters) – At least one person died and more than 30 were injured today in an explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana, state police said.

PRAGUE, (Reuters) – Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said today he had no intention of resigning from his post after a series of police raids on government offices threatened to expose a web of corruption.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The head of the National Security Agency said yesterday that extensive U.S.

MUSHAF AIR BASE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – With an olive green head scarf poking out from her helmet, Ayesha Farooq flashes a cheeky grin when asked if it is lonely being the only war-ready female fighter pilot in the Islamic republic of Pakistan.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Greek workers staged a nationwide strike yesterday, forcing hospitals to work on emergency staff and disrupting transport, in protest against the “sudden death” of state broadcaster ERT, switched off in the middle of the night by the government.