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Report: Iran's Ahmadinejad cancels Libya visit

Jul. 1, 2009
Iran's Fars news agency says that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not attend the African Union summit in Libya as was expected. In a brief statement, the semiofficial news agency reported that the president's visit to Libya _ which was supposed to start...
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DARGAHAN, Iran, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale Sunday shook Iran's Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, seismologists at the University of Tehran said.

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Iran to keep seized British boats, weapons

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Car bomb kills 11 Iranian soldiers

TEHRAN, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A car bomb targeting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps exploded beside a military bus in southeast Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people.

Iran giving tours of nuclear facility

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Iran says it will allow nuclear inspection

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler