Iran to talk with world powers again - Ashton

Netanyahu: All the sanctions so far have not set back the Iranian nuclear programme:

BELGIUM: Iran's main nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili agreed in phone talks on Thursday to speak again with world powers before the month is out on Tehran's contested programme, the EU's top diplomat said.

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UN assembly to vote on Syria resolution

UNITED NATIONS: Arab nations have dropped an explicit demand for President Bashar al-Assad to quit, from a resolution on the Syria conflict which was to be voted at the UN General Assembly yesterday.

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‘Mission Impossible’

UN-Arab League envoy Annan quits, urges more support for Syria peace:

SYRIA: Kofi Annan has resigned as UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, complaining that his April peace plan had not received the support it deserved from major powers. As the Syrian army deployed fighter jets against rebels armed with tanks around the commercial capital Aleppo,

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