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Ex-defence chief wins Colombia vote
Juan Manuel Santos, the former defence minister, has easily won Colombia's run-off presidential election against rival Antanas Mockus. Santos won 69 per cent of the vote against 28 per cent for Mockus, a former two-time Bogota mayor, with 98 per cent of polling stations reporting on Sunday. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from Bogota, said...
Palestinian leader meets U.S. envoy on peace effort
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met a senior aide to U.S. envoy George Mitchell on Thursday, part of Washington's effort to relaunch peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
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UN nuclear watchdog accuses Iran over nuclear weapons
he United Nations' nuclear watchdog has radically increased pressure on Iran by publicly describing concerns over atomic weapons for the first time.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it feared that Tehran could be working on a "nuclear payload for a missile" in its bluntest report yet on Iran's uranium enrichment programme The White House responded to the report by threatening "consequences " if Iran failed to co-operate with nuclear inspectors.
In the IAEA's first report on Iran under its new director-general, Yukiya Amano, tougher language appeared to signal a sea-change in its attitude towards Tehran.
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