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West to offer Iran benefits or sanctions
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - European officials on Tuesday worked on a package of carrots and sticks for Iran after major powers failed to agree on a U.N. resolution aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions, diplomats said.
Some spoilers win seats on new UN rights council
Russia, China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, identified by New York-based Human Rights Watch as unworthy of membership on the new U.N. body, were among those winning seats.
Iraq PM says unity government close
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister-designate said on Tuesday he was close to forming a government that would end five months of stalemate marked by a lurch to civil war.
Quartet agrees to channel aid to Palestinians
The group of international mediators -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- issued a statement indicating they had agreed on a three-month trial period for the mechanism after day-long meetings in New York.
Wildfires trigger state of emergency in Florida
MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency and put the National Guard on alert to fight wildfires that have scorched thousands of acres and caused deadly traffic accidents, officials said on Tuesday.
Bird flu pandemic will hit young people: biologist
"Most cases in humans have been young, reminiscent of 1918," Donald Low, microbiologist-in-chief at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, said in a speech in Toronto.
Clark assails Iraqi trial of Saddam Hussein
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a member of Saddam Hussein's defense team, on Tuesday said the former Iraqi president's trial was a sham designed to justify the U.S.-led invasion.
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