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Uranium enrichment plant revealed
MIDDLE EAST
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Monday gave Mongolia's president a tour of its main uranium enrichment plant, the first time that it has opened the site to a foreign leader.
The visit by President Tskakhia Elbegdorj followed a summit of nonaligned nations in Tehran that Iranian officials hoped would show the failure of Western sanctions to isolate Iran diplomatically.
The West says Iran's nuclear program aims at developing weapons technology, but Iran says it is for peaceful purposes such as power generation and cancer treatment.
Mongolia is said to be building its first nuclear power plant and mining uranium with the help of Russia.
Iran has often said it is willing to transfer its nuclear expertise to
other countries.
"This site is a unique place. Maybe in other countries it is not possible to visit such a sensitive place," he was quoted as saying. "I found out how the enriched uranium is being used for peaceful energy."
The TV broadcast said the Mongolian leader was allowed to visit whatever he wanted in the plant. It suggested that Elbegdorj endorsed the Iranian claim about the peaceful purposes of its nuclear program.
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmednejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz in 2007. Iran's denials that it is trying to develop nuclear weapons carry a distinctly ring among its foes in the U.N.
Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear agency visit the site regularly, and Iran has in the past allowed foreign diplomats and reporters to enter it as well.
Iran said during the meeting that it would open its nuclear sites to participating delegates.
Santos reveals goal to end century-old conflict
SOUTH AMERICA
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Santos announced on Tuesday, Sept. 4, a preliminary accord with Colombia's main leftist rebel group to launch peace talks to end a century-old conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Tuesday a preliminary accord with Colombia's main rebel group to
launch talks aimed at ending a stubborn, century-old conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Santos called the agreement a roadmap to "a definitive peace" and said it was reached after six months of direct talks in Cuba, with that country's government and Norway serving as brokers following a year and a half of preparatory work.
In a nationally televised speech,
The agreement does not include a cease-fire. Nor does it grant a safe haven to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, as occurred during the last peace talks, which lasted three years and ended disastrously in 2002.
FARC leaders held a news conference later Tuesday in Havana.
The talks to end the Western Hemisphere's longest-running conflict will begin in the first half of October in Oslo, Norway, and continue in Havana, Santana said.
"a realistic agenda" that includes the FARC agreeing to eventually lay down its arms and become integrated into the country's political life.
"If there are not advances, we simply won't continue," he said, adding that "military operations will continue with the same or stepped up intensity"
Santos said the talks, the fourth with the peasant-based FARC in three decades, would be different from past talks because they have
Santos, a social progressive who dealt the FARC major blows as defense minister from 2006-2009, said key topics would be agrarian reform, returning stolen land, reducing poverty and compensating victims.
Santos said one major point on the agenda was drug trafficking, which is highly sensitive because it is believed to be the FARC's main funding source.
Santos did not mention a major obstacle to peace: amnesty for rebel leaders. A law his government sponsored that was passed in June sets a framework for amnesties and par-
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Bride-napping trend growing in Bucharest
BUCHAREST, Romania — A white limousine screeches to a halt and a bride, resplendent in frothy gown and veil, is hauled outside by her abductors.
The ransom: a few bottles of whiskey or perhaps something more romantic, like a public declaration of love from the abandoned groom. The kidnappers negotiate by phone,
It's one of Romania's more colorful customs: bride-napping. And the tradition of snatching the bride from under the nose of groom and guests with the wedding party in full swing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the Balkans' undisputed party town.
Every Saturday night, brides from Bucharest and beyond are dragged away in a mock abduction by friends and driven to a top tourist spot where they are "held hostage" — all the while pouting, dancing and striking provocative poses for the cameras.
working out the details of the payoff. It's all harmless theatrics meant to add a whiff of risque fun to the auptials.
Mock abductions of brides are part of marriage ceremonies across the former Soviet Union. In some countries, guests lock up a bride or have her hide in a backroom during celebrations, demanding that the bridegroom delivers a "ransom" — like singing a song, dancing or sitting on rooftop.
In Romania, the custom took off a few years ago when a top football player rented Bucharest's Arch of Triumph, a major monument modeled after its iconic namesake in Paris, and proposed there to his girlfriend. There was no kidnapping involved but the scene stuck in the popular imagination as a symbol of marriage — and soon the monument became a sort of midnight mecca for bride-mapping.
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A Romanian bride poses with mock kidnappers holding toy weapons at the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania on Aug. 26. The arch is a rendezvous place for bridges on the wedding night for the bride-stealing ritual.