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Iran has launched an independent TV channel to promote Islam, national media reported on Saturday.
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The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has unveiled China's fastest supercomputer, Xinhua has reported. 
India hopes to win the non-permanent Asian seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a top government official has said.
The Israeli government seems to be retracting its opposition to a UN plan for Western nuclear cooperation with Tehran, Iranian media reports say.
Abdullah Abdullah, the main challenger to President Hamid Karzai, threatened on Saturday to boycott a presidential run-off election planned for November 7.
Lebanon's ambassador to the United Nations has warned there are signs of an imminent Israeli attack on his country, a Lebanese newspaper has reported.
The cargo for space shuttle Atlantis' mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was moved to a launch pad and will be installed into the shuttle's payload bay, NASA has said.
An influential Iranian lawmaker on Saturday criticized a plan that requires the country to send its nuclear fuel abroad for processing due to a lack of guarantees over its return.
A French warship will visit Russia in November, a top Russian Navy official said on Saturday. 
A doctor in ex-Soviet Estonia's capital Tallinn denied medical help to two Russian patients because they could not speak Estonian, Estonian television reported on Saturday.
Ukraine's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, was formally registered on Saturday as a candidate in the presidential election due on January 17.
A roadside bomb killed seven and injured 11 paramilitary soldiers in the tribal Khyber region in Pakistan's northwest on Saturday, regional media reported.
Palestinians will not resume peace talks with Israel until it freezes settlement construction on the West Bank, a Palestinian official said on Saturday ahead of a meeting with the top U.S. diplomat.
Brazil and Venezuela have signed a long-delayed deal on a joint venture to build and run an oil refinery in Brazil, Venezuela's Universal newspaper said on Saturday.
Fifteen people, including a prominent farmworker leader and his three children, were killed at an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, local television said on Saturday.
Thirteen people were killed and 41 injured when a bus plunged into a valley along a mountainous road in China's northern Shanxi province, the official Xinhua agency said on Saturday citing local authorities.
The World Health Organization said that vaccines against swine flu (A/H1N1), that swept worldwide, are safe for people and have no adverse reaction.
Russia has donated Nicaragua two cargo containers with medicine.
Washington positively assesses recent visit of the U.S. president's national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, to Moscow for another round of talks on a new strategic arms reduction treaty.
Washington supports and welcomes South Korea's plans to deploy troops to Afghanistan to protect its nationals working in humanitarian organizations.



