| November 2009 |
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China has pledged to continue its support of UN peacekeeping operations, while a senior army official said the missions also need major reforms to meet new challenges.
Iran will launch a large-scale air-defense exercise to protect its nuclear plants against any attack, a senior military official said on Saturday.
Palestinian militant groups in Gaza have agreed not to fire rockets into Israel to avoid a possible military backlash, Hamas' interior minister said Saturday.
India has proposed urgent reforms in the operation of the World Trade Organization, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday. 
Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50% for the first time since he took office, according the latest Gallup poll.
At least 42 people have died and 66 remain trapped following a major gas explosion in a coal mine in northwest China's Heilongjiang province, state media said.
The United States will send a group of experts on Korean affairs to North Korea on Saturday for talks on the country's nuclear program, ahead of a visit by Washington's envoy, Yonhap news agency said.
The UN General Assembly's human rights committee has passed a resolution condemning the Iranian government for the crackdown on protests following the June presidential election.
At least 31 people have died and around 90 remain trapped following a major gas explosion in a coal mine in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, state media said.
Fifteen people died and over 100 are trapped after an explosion early on Saturday at a mine in northeastern China.
Political directors, or deputy foreign ministers, from Russia, the U.S., the U.K., China, Germany and France held talks in Brussels Friday urging Iran to agree to a UN-proposed scheme.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is starting his official visit to the United States on Saturday.



