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Iran president suggests referendum on subsidy cuts
Reuters US Online Report World News
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested holding a referendum to approve subsidy cuts that the Islamic Republic's parliament has repeatedly blocked, a news agency said Saturday. Parliament this month passed a state budget for the next Iranian year starting March 21 that did not contain radical ...
Afghanistan says Taliban arrests had 'negative impact'
AFP South Asian Edition
Arrests of Taliban leaders have had a "negative impact" on efforts by the Afghan government to broker a peace deal with the insurgents, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said Saturday. The arrests in Pakistan of the Taliban's second-in-command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and others in the Islamists' hierarchy ...
US Middle East envoy to meet Netanyahu, Abbas
AFP American Edition
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday and Palestinian authority chairman Mahmud Abbas the day after, he told reporters. "I will leave here immediately for the Middle East and meet Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem tomorrow and Chairman Abbas on Monday," Mitchell ...
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