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TEHRAN (AFP) — Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday warned that Iran was prepared “to pay a price” and “resist” to realise the aims of its contested nuclear programme amid an intensifying standoff with the West.

Egypt and Iran are considering restoring diplomatic relations and are expected to engage in negotiations in the next few days.

HELSINKI, Finland — The European Commission (EC) will resume Stabilisation and Association Agreement negotiations with Serbia, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn told Serbian President Boris Tadic in Helsinki on Saturday (June 2nd).

WASHINGTON — US President George W.  Bush on Friday strongly condemned Iran’s detention of American citizens and called for them to be freed “immediately and unconditionally.” Tehran has accused dual US-Iranian citizens Haleh Esfandiari, an academic, Kian Tajbakhsh, a social scientist, and Parnaz Azima, a journalist, of spying. The State …

(CNN) — The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran’s security chief charged Saturday.

AFP – A NATO soldier was killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan Friday while two Afghan women and a policeman died in attacks elsewhere linked to a deepening Taliban insurgency, officials said.

 The warm smile, anecdotal stories and freshly-squeezed lemonade almost make me miss the fact that I have just been told I am more dangerous than Iran’s nuclear program.

Guvernul de la Londra intenţionează ca, de anul viitor, să accepte la culesul fructelor doar muncitori sezonieri din UE, mai ales din România şi Bulgaria. Potrivit publicaţiei Farmers Guardian, ministerul britanic de interne pregăteşte o reglementare în acest sens. Ideea a stârnit însă vii proteste în rândul fermierilor englezi.

MADRID (Reuters) —  The United States told Iran on Thursday it must change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant despite the spectre of harsher sanctions as it held talks on its atomic work with the European Union.

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has arrested a third US-Iranian accused of being a “CIA agent” linked to US efforts to topple the country’s clerical authorities, a hardline newspaper said on Wednesday.