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UN Chief Begins Asian Tour

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has arrived in South Korea on the first leg of a five-nation Asian tour that will also take him to Japan, China, Thailand and Vietnam. Annan was hoping to ease regional tensions in Asia where divisions over its bitter past have …

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Israeli troops kill 6 Palestinians

Abbas in Moscow to meet with Putin, tries to build up diplomatic pressure against any unilateral moves by Tel Aviv   JENIN (AFP) — Two leaders of the movement Islamic Jihad were among six Palestinians killed by Israeli troops Sunday during an eruption of violence in the northern West Bank.

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41 die in Iraq attacks

BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of deadly attacks ripped through the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 70, police said. Six small Shiite shrines also were damaged in a series of blasts around the Baqouba, a mixed Sunni Arab-Shiite region where sectarian tensions are …

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