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TEHRAN: Iran declared on Monday it will not be swayed from its nuclear "path" by sanctions, a week before talks with world powers that are increasingly seen as a last chance for diplomacy in its showdown with the West.

LONDON: A pair of Mahatma Gandhi's round-rimmed glasses, 'charkha' and a pinch of soil and blades of grass from the place where he was assassinated in 1948 are among several rare items to be put up for auction in Shropshire on April 17.

MOSCOW: Thirty-one people were killed on Monday when a Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames while trying to make an emergency landing shortly after take-off near the western Siberian city of Tyumen, officials said.

YANGON: Attempts to disrupt campaigning for Myanmar's historic by-elections on Sunday are "beyond acceptable", the opposition leader, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday, her first public appearance since falling sick last weekend.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's minority Hindu community has protested the prolonged delay in the approval of a law to register their marriages, saying the lack of legislation affected the inheritance rights of women.

PARIS: France has barred a group of Muslim clerics, including one of the most prominent voices in Sunni Islam, from entering the country to attend a conference. 

YANGON, MYANMAR: Myanmar has sent out a surprisingly broad guest list for elections on Sunday, hoping to showcase its democratic credentials to the world.

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan minister has called for joint patrolling by the Indian and Sri Lankan Navies to prevent clashes between their fishermen.

BAGHDAD: The Qatar's Prime Minister, Mr Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani says that his nation is sending Baghdad a “message” with its low-level representation at an Arab summit in the Iraqi capital, criticizing what he says is the marginalisation by the country's Shiite-led government of its Sunni Arab minority.

TRIPOLI: On a tidy campus in his capital of Tripoli, dictator Muammar Gaddafi sponsored one of the world’s leading Muslim missionary networks. It was the smiling face of his Libyan regime, and the world smiled back.