Iran Revises Constitution to Allow Privatisations
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Iran Saturday overturned a key plank of the  constitution to allow large-scale privatizations in a bid to  overhaul the lumbering economy, over which many hard-line  parliamentarians have been trying to maintain state dominance.
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BEIJING - Taiwan&#39;s President Chen Shui-bian has verbally changed Taiwan&#39;s Constitution in his National Day speech, taking the island further down the road of independence, according to an analyst here.
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Iran is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown that both Iranians and U.S. analysts compare to a cultural revolution in its attempt to steer the oil-rich theocracy back to the rigid strictures of the 1979 revolution.
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TEHRAN, Iran  -- Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader -- a vote seen as a victory for Iran's moderate conservatives, state media reported.
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President Robert Mugabe's government has amended tough security and media laws that critics say have helped him entrench his rule.
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Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson is one of hundreds of candidates reinstated in Iran's parliamentary election.
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The Kazakhstan Parliament took steps on Wednesday to give the government the right to alter or cancel energy contracts unilaterally.
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Iran's legislative watchdog said on  Saturday women could run in June's presidential election,  clearing up an ambiguous article of the constitution.
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Iran's suspension from international soccer was temporarily lifted by FIFA, and the country will be allowed to defend its Asian Games soccer title.
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IRAN is to start a suspension of its sensitive nuclear activities surrounding the enrichment of uranium in line with an agreement with Britain, France and Germany.
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The Iranian government has decided "at the most senior levels" to rein in the violent Shiite militias it supports in Iraq, a move reflected in a sharp decrease in sophisticated roadside bomb attacks over the past several months, according to the State Department's top official on Iraq.
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VIENNA -- Iran sought yesterday to partially roll back its commitment to freeze all uranium enrichment programs, demanding the right to run some equipment that can be used to produce nuclear arms.
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Iran&#39;s parliament has passed a bill obliging the government to press ahead with efforts to develop a nuclear energy programme.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced her intention to revive the mothballed EU constitution, The Times of London said.Comment
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Monday that it was suspending uranium enrichment and related activities briefly, voluntarily and in hopes of building confidence in the world that its nuclear ambitions are peaceful.
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Iran sought yesterday to partially roll back its commitment to freeze all uranium enrichment programs, demanding the right to run some equipment that can be used to produce nuclear arms.
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Iran closed down two opposition newspapers on Monday, one of which had recently poked fun at hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the way his government has handled nuclear talks with the West.