Human rights groups have criticized Iran for sentencing minors to death. Iran says it carries out the death penalty only when a prisoner reaches the

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The judge in the case, Hasan Haddad, who is also deputy prosecutor for security issues, called the hunger strike claim a ploy “for propaganda purposes,”

The proposals, exchanged in confidential strategy sessions with European allies, would press Tehran to open up its nuclear program gradually to wide-ranging inspection. But the

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Several ambassadors said they had found Mr. d’Escoto poorly informed at meetings. At the news conference, he denied ever having heard that Mr. Ahmadinejad had

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Two missiles fired from American drone aircraft killed more than 30 people, including Qaeda and Taliban fighters, near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan on Saturday.

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“Based on the confessions of the defendants, they wanted to undermine the government and overthrow the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic,” it added. >>>

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The Treasury Department statement said Saad bin Laden, a Saudi citizen born in 1982, “has been involved in Al Qaeda activities” like helping Osama bin

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“With no doubt Hamas must continue resistance and it will definitely win,” Kazem Moussavi Bojnerdi wrote in Monday’s issue of Etemad Melli, a reformist Iranian

But the tense exchanges also prompted the White House to step up intelligence-sharing with Israel and brief Israeli officials on new American efforts to subtly

Merrill Lynch agreed to pay $1.55 million and improve employee training to settle a lawsuit that claimed discrimination in the firing of an analyst because

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