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JERUSALEM - Palestinian militants said Tuesday they had launched a large number of floating explosives into the Mediterranean Sea to avenge the death of a top Hamas commander, a day after two bomb-laden barrels washed up on Israel's coastline.
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TEHRAN - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed a swap of Iranians in U.S. prisons for three American hikers being held in Tehran.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said on Tuesday it was ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the U.N.
· AP – Tue Feb 2, 3:48 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says it is ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by UN
AP – Tue Feb 2, 2:13 pm ET
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was married off to an 80-year-old man had unexpectedly dropped a court case to get her daughter divorced, Saudi media reported Tuesday.
AP – Tue Feb 2, 1:59 pm ET
TEHRAN — Iran on Tuesday warned its Arab neighbors in the Persian Gulf that the U.S. is trying to drive a wedge between them by ramping up its missile defense systems in the region.
AP – Tue Feb 2, 1:17 pm ET
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia said during a visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday that it will not get involved in peacemaking in Afghanistan unless the Taliban stops providing shelter and severs all ties with Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida movement.
AP – Tue Feb 2, 11:21 am ET
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's opposition leader appealed to his supporters and other anti-government activists Tuesday not to overstep the law in pressing for political and social changes.
AP – Tue Feb 2, 10:11 am ET
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran denied on Tuesday claims by Thailand that a planeload of North Korean weapons seized there in December was headed to Iran.
AP – Tue Feb 2, 7:44 am ET
BEIRUT - A Lebanese forensics team has returned from Ethiopia with DNA samples from relatives to help identify victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash last week south of Beirut, officials said Tuesday.
AFP – Tue Feb 2, 2:52 pm ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi Tuesday issued his harshest criticism yet of Iran's regime, saying the 1979 Islamic revolution had failed as the "roots of tyranny and dictatorship" still exist.
AFP – Tue Feb 2, 4:41 pm ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that he sees "no problem" in delivering Iran's low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Western powers to be converted into nuclear fuel for Tehran research reactor.
