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Armenian Vote Lacked Competition
International observers say Armenia's presidential vote was an improvement on recent elections but was not genuinely competitive.
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India seeks stake in Turkmenistan’s gas fields
India wants a share in gas fields in Turkmenistan from where the proposed $9-billion transnational gas pipeline will cross terrorist-infested regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to deliver gas across the Punjab border.
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Armenians Vote In Presidential Election
Armenians have been casting their ballots in the country's latest presidential election.
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North Korea uses cash couriers, false names to outwit sanctions
Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day and sent it to Pyongyang as a special gift for then leader Kim Jong-il.
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Ukraine Signs Tentative Natural-Gas Deal With Turkmenistan
Ukraine has reached a tentative agreement with Turkmenistan to resume imports of natural gas from the Central Asian country.
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Supreme Leader says Iran doesn’t want nuclear weapons
Iran does not want nuclear weapons but if it did, no world power could prevent it from obtaining one, local media quoted the country's Supreme Leader as saying on Saturday, Feb 16.
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Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall
A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.
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Risky equilibrium in Iran nuclear crisis
The Iran nuclear crisis has now reached a new and potentially dangerous equilibrium between stiff Western sanctions on the one hand and the rapid progress of Iran's nuclear program on the other.
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