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Obama turns up the heat on Iran

Two Iranians work at the zirconium production plant, part of the nuclear facilities (UCF) in Isfahan in 2005. US President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday that he would isolate the Islamic republic with a
AFP - Wednesday, February 10

WASHINGTON (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama warned Iran on Tuesday that he would isolate the Islamic republic with a "significant regime of sanctions" if it continued to set its stall on developing nuclear weapons. More »

  • Obama says world moving quickly on Iran sanctions

    Reuters - Wednesday, February 10

    By Ross Colvin and Reza Derakhshi

  • US Marines gear up for major Afghan assault

    AFP - Wednesday, February 10

    TOOR GHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - - US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war.

  • Pilot error behind Ethiopian jet crash - source

    Reuters - Wednesday, February 10

    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Pilot error caused the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane off the coast of Lebanon last month which killed all 90 people on board, a source familiar with the investigation into the accident said Tuesday.

  • Afghan avalanches kill 24, up to 40 missing: govt

    Afghan avalanches kill 24, up to 40 missing: govt

    AFP - Wednesday, February 10

    KABUL (AFP) - - Avalanches triggered by heavy snow killed at least 24 people on a treacherous mountain pass in northern Afghanistan, injured dozens and left up to another 40 people missing, officials said.

  • VIDEO: Former British prime minister Tony Blair gives evidence to the Chilcott enquiry. Duration: 00:37

    British PM to face Iraq inquiry in early March

    AFP - Wednesday, February 10

    LONDON (AFP) - - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the public inquiry into the Iraq war in early March, a spokesman for the probe said on Tuesday.

  • Life imitates art in Oscar-nominated Israeli film

    AP - Wednesday, February 10

    JAFFA, Israel - There's a reason for the gritty feel of reality in "Ajami," an Oscar-nominated Israeli film about the lives of Arabs and Jews in the impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods of this Mediterranean city.

  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad adjusts his goggles as he tours an exhibition on laser technology in Tehran. The UN nuclear watchdog said that a team of its inspectors was in place in Iran to monitor Tehran's plans to start enriching uranium to higher levels.

    Defiant Iran starts enriching uranium to 20%%

    AFP - Wednesday, February 10

    TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iran announced on Tuesday it has begun work to enrich uranium to 20 percent, dismissing warnings of new sanctions from world powers who suspect the sensitive nuclear project is aimed at making a bomb.

  • Israel urges "crippling" sanctions now against Iran

    Reuters - Wednesday, February 10

    By Douglas Hamilton

  • Afghan avalanche kills 28: govt

    Afghan avalanche kills 28: govt

    AFP - Wednesday, February 10

    KABUL (AFP) - - An avalanche following heavy snowfalls in northern Afghanistan killed at least 28 people and left another 70 injured, defence ministry officials said.

  • Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program

    AP - Wednesday, February 10

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.

  • Netanyahu's government tries to save settler house

    AP - Wednesday, February 10

    JERUSALEM - The Israeli government has stepped in to save a house built illegally by Jewish settlers in a volatile Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem, complicating already troubled U.S. efforts to renew Mideast peacemaking.

  • Britain's Afghan deaths pass Falklands

    Britain's Afghan deaths pass Falklands

    AFP - Tuesday, February 9

    LONDON (AFP) - - Britain vowed to stand firm in Afghanistan after the death toll passed the number killed in the 1982 Falklands war -- amid warnings of a new surge in casualties as a new offensive is launched.

  • Tel Aviv "savior" accused of enslaving women

    AP - Tuesday, February 9

    JERUSALEM - The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name _ Savior.

  • Palestinians set terms for talks as violence flares

    Reuters - Tuesday, February 9

    By Allyn Fisher-Ilan

  • Palestinians want peace talks to focus on borders

    Reuters - Tuesday, February 9

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian officials demanded on Monday that any U.S.-backed peace talks with Israel focus on border issues and be given a deadline of up to four months.

  • Frightened Afghans flee offensive in opium valley

    Frightened Afghans flee offensive in opium valley

    AFP - Tuesday, February 9

    LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (AFP) - - Afghan men, women and children fearing imminent fighting between the Taliban and US troops, loaded up trucks on Monday and streamed out of one of the world's main sources of heroin.

  • Israeli court releases pro-Palestinian activists

    AP - Tuesday, February 9

    JERUSALEM - A pro-Palestinian organization says Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the release of two of its activists who were arrested in a West Bank raid.

  • Iran's leader vows to thwart protests this week

    AP - Tuesday, February 9

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader vowed Monday to deliver a "punch in the mouth" to the country's enemies if the opposition goes ahead with major new protests planned for this week, as a senior pro-reform figure was sentenced to six years in prison over postelection unrest.

  • Iraqi PM: Appeals panel can review election law

    AP - Tuesday, February 9

    BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister says he accepts an appeals panel's jurisdiction over a ban on candidates from March 7 parliamentary elections for their suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's regime.

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