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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to his supporters during his visit to Mashhad, 900 km (540 miles) east of Tehran, Iran, on Saturday March 21, 2009. Iran's supreme leader rebuffed President Barack Obama's latest outreach on Saturday, saying Tehran was still waiting to see concrete changes in U.S. policy. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was responding to a video message Obama released Friday in which he reached out to Iran on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian new year, and expressed hopes for an improvement in nearly 30 years of strained relations. (AP Photo/ISNA)
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Iran's response to US sign of theocracy's mind-set

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Iranian leader's rebuff on Saturday to President Barack Obama's offer for dialogue was swift and sweeping: Words from Washington ring hollow without deep policy changes.

Middle East News

  • Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to his supporters during his visit to Mashhad, 900 km (540 miles) east of Tehran, Iran, on Saturday March 21, 2009. Iran's supreme leader rebuffed President Barack Obama's latest outreach on Saturday, saying Tehran was still waiting to see concrete changes in U.S. policy. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was responding to a video message Obama released Friday in which he reached out to Iran on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian new year, and expressed hopes for an improvement in nearly 30 years of strained relations. (AP Photo/ISNA)
    Iran's response to US sign of theocracy's mind-set AP - 5 minutes ago

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Iranian leader's rebuff on Saturday to President Barack Obama's offer for dialogue was swift and sweeping: Words from Washington ring hollow without deep policy changes.

  • A Palestinian boy scout performs during a rally to mark Jerusalem, Capital of Arab Culture for 2009, at the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, March 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
    Israel police ban Arab culture day in Jerusalem AP - 9 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM - Israeli authorities broke up a series of Palestinian cultural events in Jerusalem on Saturday, disrupting a children's march and bursting balloons at a schoolyard celebration.

  • Sudanese refugee children play with strewn documents at the site of the looted compound of the expelled British aid group, Oxfam at Al Salam refugee camp, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan Saturday, March 21, 2009. Al Salam refugee camp leaders in Darfur say a dozen men broke into the warehouse of an expelled British aid group, Oxfam, stealing all its contents. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
    Darfur refugee camp hit by aid groups explusion AP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    ZAMZAM CAMP, Sudan - Every day, a peacekeeper truck pulls into this teeming camp carrying loads of water, and is greeted by long lines of refugees.

Europe News

  • Rangers' Captain Barry Ferguson tries to control the ball during a match in 2008. Rangers lost the chance to go top of the Scottish Premier League as they threw away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Hearts at Ibrox on Saturday.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)
    Rangers throw away chance to go top AFP - 15 minutes ago

    GLASGOW (AFP) - Rangers lost the chance to go top of the Scottish Premier League as they threw away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Hearts at Ibrox on Saturday.

  • Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany is seen during his speech while he said he would resign at the congress of the governing Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, March 21, 2009. Hungary has been hit very hard by the global economic crisis, making Gyurcsany and his minority government unpopular. He says that he will officially notify parliament of his decision on Monday and called for a new meeting of his party in two weeks to choose a candidate to head a new administration. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
    Hungary's PM says quitting as popularity tumbles AP - 19 minutes ago

    BUDAPEST - Hungary's prime minister stunned the country Saturday by announcing his resignation because he had become an "obstacle" to the reforms needed to pull the country out of its worse financial crisis since the end of communism nearly 20 years ago.

  • Hungarian-born U.S. software designer and space tourist Charles Simonyi, second right, watching as U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt, right, and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, left, practice a manual docking procedure on a computer simulation at a Soviet-era training and preparation facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, March 21, 2009. The crew is to blast off for the international space station from the Baikonur cosmodrome on March 26, 2009 in a Russian-made Soyuz capsule. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
    Space travelers practice docking Russian capsule AP - 42 minutes ago

    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka have practiced a manual docking procedure before next week's blastoff to the international space station.

Latin America

  • FARC rebels in alleged Venezuela smuggling AP - Sat Mar 21, 3:46 AM ET

    BOGOTA - The U.S. government says it will seek the extradition of two leftist rebel "cocaine brokers" arrested in Colombia on charges of conspiring to export a ton of the drug through Venezuela.

  • Mexico captures man blamed in US consulate attack AP - Fri Mar 20, 11:56 PM ET

    MEXICO CITY - The Mexican army arrested an alleged drug trafficker suspected of organizing an attack on a U.S. consulate as well as the killing of several soldiers in retaliation for a government crackdown, President Felipe Calderon said Friday.

  • Peru police see 4 pct surge in coca crops in 2008 AP - Fri Mar 20, 11:17 PM ET

    LIMA, Peru - Peruvian coca cultivation likely rose 4 percent for a second straight year in 2008 despite efforts to eradicate the crop, the country's top anti-drug official said Friday.

Africa News

  • A man keeps his money in his back pocket in a Lagos. Nigeria's anti-graft agency said it was hunting down owners of an Indian business group, Vaswani Brothers, for allegedly defrauding the country of three bilion naira in unpaid taxes.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Indian businessmen wanted over fraud in Nigeria AFP - 29 minutes ago

    ABUJA (AFP) - Nigeria's anti-graft agency said it was hunting down owners of an Indian business group, Vaswani Brothers, for allegedly defrauding the country of three bilion naira in unpaid taxes.

  • Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir waves his cane in the air as he is greeted by supporters in the village of Sabdo, near the South Darfur town of el-Dain, March 18, 2009. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor accused Beshir of "exterminating" people in Darfur in an interview released on the BBC's website.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)
    Beshir 'exterminating' people in Darfur: prosecutor AFP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor accused Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir of "exterminating" people in Darfur in an interview released on the BBC's website Saturday.

  • In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Andry Rajoelina, former opposition leader, is sworn in as the president of Madagascar during an official ceremony held at a sports stadium in Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar, Saturday, March 21, 2009. Thousands of supporters turned up at the stadium for the swearing in of Rajoelina although African countries have refused to accept him as president. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhu Xiaoguang)
    Thousands watch as Madagascar's president sworn in AP - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

    ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - The new president of Madagascar was sworn in at a ceremony Saturday that was shunned by the international community after the ousting of the elected leader.

Asia News

  • Back dropped by a portrait of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer Tahir Mahmood Raja, brushes his hair at his Lawyers' office in the Civil Court of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. For two years, Tahir Mahmood regularly clashed with police, spent days arrested and walked off his job to pressure the country's rulers to reinstate the deposed Supreme Court chief justice fired by Musharraf in 2007. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's announcement that Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry would resume his duties as the chief justice on March 22, headed off a political crisis that threatened to destabilize a government facing a teetering economy and rising Islamic violence. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
    CIA chief in Pakistan for talks AP - 3 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD - The new director of the CIA held high-level talks in Pakistan on Saturday after a provincial leader warned against expanding U.S. missile strikes on al-Qaida and Taliban targets inside the country's thinly policed border with Afghanistan.

  • Space travelers practice docking Russian capsule AP - 42 minutes ago

    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka have practiced a manual docking procedure before next week's blastoff to the international space station.

  • In this Oct. 9, 2006 file photo, two North Korean soldiers patrol on the Yalu river at the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandon. Two American journalists were missing Friday, March 20, 2009, after they reportedly were detained by North Korea for ignoring warnings to stop shooting footage of the reclusive country. Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore's online media outlet Current TV, were seized Tuesday along the Chinese-North Korean border, according to news reports and an activist who had worked with them. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)
    NKorea: 2 US reporters held for crossing border AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea confirmed Saturday that it has detained two American journalists and accused them of illegally entering its territory from China.

Canada

  • Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan Reuters - Sat Mar 21, 3:56 AM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Roadside bombs killed four Canadian soldiers as well as a local interpreter in Afghanistan on Friday, Canadian Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance said.

  • U.S. backs Danish PM as next NATO chief: diplomats Reuters - 59 minutes ago

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States has told NATO allies it will back Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the next head of the alliance, NATO diplomats and a U.S. source said Saturday.

  • Jump in car sales boosts Canada retail sales Reuters - Fri Mar 20, 10:22 AM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - An unusual rise in new car purchases helped spur Canadian retail sales in January to their first increase since September, a greater than expected 1.9 percent, according to Statistics Canada data released on Friday.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • Queensland premier Anna Bligh, seen here in 2007, has helped the Labour party fight off a conservative challenge in an historic state vote won by the country's first elected woman premier.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)
    Australia's ruling party wins historic state vote AFP - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's ruling Labor party on Saturday fought off a conservative challenge in an historic state vote won by the country's first elected woman premier, early results showed.

  • File picture shows an Emirates plane in Dubai. An Emirates flight with 225 passengers on board made an emergency landing in the Australian city of Melbourne after the Airbus A340's tail struck the tarmac during take-off, officials said Saturday.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)
    Emirates jet makes emergency landing: officials AFP - Sat Mar 21, 6:49 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - An Emirates flight with 225 passengers on board made an emergency landing in the Australian city of Melbourne after the Airbus A340's tail struck the tarmac during take-off, officials said Saturday.

  • Emirates jet makes emergency landing in Australia AP - Sat Mar 21, 3:37 AM ET

    MELBOURNE, Australia - An Emirates jetliner carrying more than 225 people slammed its tail into the runway as it took off from Australia, sending smoke into the cabin and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing, officials said Saturday.

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  • Iran's supreme leader dismisses Obama overtures AP - 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader rebuffed President Barack Obama's latest outreach on Saturday, saying Tehran was still waiting to see concrete changes in U.S. policy.

  • In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI kisses a child during his visit in Luanda, Angola, Saturday, March 21, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the Catholics of Angola on Saturday to reach out to and convert believers in witchcraft who feel threatened by ``spirits'' and ``evil powers'' of sorcery. (AP Photo/ L' Osservatore Romano, ho)
    Pope condemns sorcery, urges Angolans to convert AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

    LUANDA, Angola - Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the Catholics of Angola on Saturday to reach out to and convert believers in witchcraft who feel threatened by "spirits" and "evil powers" of sorcery.

  • NKorea: 2 US reporters held for crossing border AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea confirmed Saturday that it has detained two American journalists and accused them of illegally entering its territory from China.