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						Turkey says Syria, Qatar back Iran plan
						 Syria and Qatar back Turkish efforts for a diplomatic solution to the row over Iran's nuclear program, Turkey's foreign minister said after leaders of the three countries met, a report said. 
 
						Maoists have massively mined Chhattisgarh forests: Police
						 A day after 8 CRPF troopers were killed in a landmine blast by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a top police official said the guerrillas have massively mined the state's forested areas and it was difficult to de-mine the vast stretches. 
 
						Energy's New 'Great Game'
						 Countries around the globe are racing to lock down energy supplies to ensure economic security. The geopolitical implications are huge 
 
						Time for a nuclear samba  
						 Brazil has advanced a proposal to unblock the Iranian nuclear dossier that is in fact the common view among the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the emerging geopolitical counter-power to United States hegemony. 
 
						Kyrgyzstan investigating firms that sold fuel supplied to U.S. air base
						 Kyrgyzstan's interim government has begun a criminal investigation of local companies -- allegedly controlled by the son of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev -- that were sources of fuel supplied to a key U.S. air base in the Central Asian country. 
 
						Arabs see opening for nuke-free Mideast
						 The world's five recognized nuclear-weapons powers on Wednesday reaffirmed the goal of a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, a long-dormant Arab idea that's come back to life at this month's nonproliferation treaty conference. 
 
						Turkey, Brazil in contact over nuke row
						 Turkeys Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu spoke late Tuesday with his Brazilian counterpart on the phone regarding the Iranian nuclear issue. 
 
						Black Hole on the Black Sea
						 Last fall, I boarded a ramshackle bus winding through the villages and vineyards on the Georgian side of the demarcation line with the breakaway region of South Ossetia. I was there to see what I could learn about the dangers of nuclear smuggling. 
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