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Iran pushes ahead with nuclear plant that worries West

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VIENNA - Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that Western experts say could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb if it decides to make one, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.

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Iran, Hezbollah increasing support for Assad: Britain

AMMAN - British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday Iran and its militant Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hezbollah were "propping up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and giving him increasing support.

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Iran's rulers risk alienating voters by candidate bans

DUBAI - Iran's clerical rulers may have sought to remove any challenge to their grip by barring two vivid contenders from next month's presidential election, but they risk alienating voters already disillusioned by the violent aftermath of the 2009 poll.

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Iran's rulers risk alienating voters by candidate bans

DUBAI - Iran's clerical rulers may have sought to remove any challenge to their grip by barring two vivid contenders from next month's presidential election, but they risk alienating voters already disillusioned by the violent aftermath of the 2009 poll.

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UPDATE 1-Iran's rulers risk alienating voters by candidate bans

* Supreme leader seen wanting compliant president (Recasts, adds reaction from voters, Khomeini's daughter, analysts)

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Iran, Hezbollah increasing support for Assad - Britain

AMMAN - British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday Iran and its militant Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hezbollah were "propping up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and giving him increasing support.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad to challenge ally's ban from election

DUBAI, May 22 - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would ask Iran's supreme leader to reverse a ban preventing his aide from running in next month's presidential poll, a test of stability after the violent trauma of the 2009 vote.

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India's April Iran oil imports drop 34.2 pct vs March -trade

* Iran 7th biggest oil supplier to India in Jan-Apr vs 3rd yr ago

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Iran bars candidates for presidential election

DUBAI - Iranian authorities barred two potentially powerful and disruptive candidates from running in next month's presidential election on Tuesday, ensuring a contest largely among hardliners loyal to the clerical supreme leader.

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UPDATE 1-S.Korea's Iran crude imports for April down 44.4 pct y/y

* Total April crude imports at 69.12 mln bbls, down 5.6 pct y/y

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Oklahoma tornado victims astounded at how they survived

MOORE, Oklahoma - Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction. | Video

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Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the cards?

Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this day.

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