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Turkey Police Fire Tear Gas at Ankara Protesters

Turkish riot police on Friday confronted hundreds of university students in Ankara throwing stones and erecting barricades in protest against a project to build a road across part of their campus.

Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at between 200 and 300 protesters who gathered at the entrance of Middle East Technical University (METU), images broadcast on local television showed.

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Obama Moves to Defuse Spying Row with Brazil, Mexico

President Barack Obama moved to defuse a row with Brazil and Mexico over alleged U.S. spying on leaders of the Latin American countries, promising them that the United States would cooperate to address concerns over the claims.

Obama told Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in separate meetings at the G20 summit that he understood their concerns.

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Taliban Deny Killing Indian Author in Afghanistan

The Taliban on Friday denied shooting dead Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee, whose murder Afghan officials blamed on the insurgent militia fighting against the government for 12 years.

The 49-year-old was dragged out of her husband's house by masked gunmen in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province late Wednesday and repeatedly shot.

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Putin Critic Rallies Supporters ahead of Moscow Polls

Russian President Vladimir Putin's top critic Alexei Navalny prepared Friday to rouse supporters at the final rally of his fierce campaign for Moscow mayor before facing a Kremlin-backed incumbent in polls this weekend.

In a warning shot to the authorities, the charismatic leader of the Russian protest movement threatened protests if officials rigged Sunday's vote.

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Several Suspects Freed Pending End of Turkey Coup Trial

An Ankara court has released from jail 10 suspects, including high-ranking officers, pending the outcome of their trial for their alleged role in the 1997 bloodless coup that toppled the Islamist government.

The court on Wednesday released former four-star general Teoman Koman from custody due to ill health. Eight other former officers and a civilian suspect were released on Thursday for medical reasons or on the grounds they did not pose a flight risk.

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U.S. Drone Kills Senior Haqqani Commander

U.S. missiles on Friday killed a commander in the Al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network involved in the abduction of U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, Pakistanis said.

Mullah Sangeen Zadran, blacklisted as a terrorist by the United Nations and United States, was among six fighters killed in a drone strike in Pakistan's tribal district of North Waziristan.

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EU Court Strikes down Iran Nuclear Sanctions

One of the European Union's top courts annulled Friday an EU asset freeze imposed on seven Iranian banks and other companies for their alleged involvement in the country's contested nuclear program.

The European Tribunal, second only to the European Court of Justice, said the EU had variously failed to prove or properly consider the evidence when imposing sanctions.

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Iran Wants to Allay World Concern on Nuclear Issue

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Friday Iran wants to allay concerns over its nuclear program, suspected of hiding efforts to build an atomic bomb, and resolve the impasse with world powers.

Perhaps most significantly, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said separately Tehran could conceivably agree to allowing the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to conduct snap inspections of its facilities.

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EU's Ashton to Meet Iran Nuclear Negotiator

EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton will meet later this month Iran's foreign minister, newly in charge of the dossier on the country's contested nuclear program, an official said Friday.

Ashton called Mohammad Javad Zarif "following the news that the Foreign Ministry will be responsible for the nuclear negotiations," Ashton's spokesman Michael Mann said.

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Dutch State Liable for Muslim Deaths at Srebrenica

The Dutch state is liable for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men who were expelled from a U.N. compound at Srebrenica in 1995 and subsequently murdered, the supreme court ruled Friday.

"The (appeals) court decision is upheld," Judge Floris Bakels said, ruling that it would be "unacceptable" for countries not to be able to judge their peacekeeping troops.

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