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Million Sign Petition for Spain PM to Quit

A petition calling for Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign over a corruption scandal has garnered more than a million signatures, an online count showed on Thursday.

The petition at change.org was sparked by the publication of documents purportedly showing that Rajoy and other members of his conservative Popular Party had received undeclared payments.

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Iran TV Airs Video of Captured U.S. Drone

Iranian state television has aired video footage that it says was extracted from a CIA drone it captured inside the Islamic republic's airspace in December 2011.

In a documentary broadcast Wednesday, the elite Revolutionary Guards released the video, the first time it has been seen since the RQ-170 Sentinel was captured after it entered Iranian airspace from its eastern border with Afghanistan.

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Turkey Tells U.S. Envoy to Stop Meddling in its Affairs

Turkey bluntly told the U.S. ambassador on Thursday to stop meddling in its domestic affairs after he fired off a strident attack on the country's justice system, in a row between the NATO allies.

"Ambassadors should mind their own business. They should stay away from assessments that mean interference in Turkey's judiciary and domestic affairs," Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency.

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Spanish King's Son-in-Law Fails to Make Bail Payment

Spanish King Juan Carlos' son-in-law faced having his assets frozen Thursday after he failed to pay bail in a corruption case that has rocked the monarchy.

Inaki Urdangarin and former associate Diego Torres Perez had until the end of Wednesday to jointly pay 8.2 million euros ($11.1 million) as ordered by a court in Palma on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.

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Bomb Kills Four in Afghan North

A remote-controlled bomb ripped through a police pick-up truck in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing a district police chief and his three bodyguards, officials said.

Police are increasingly targeted by Taliban insurgents as Afghan security forces take greater responsibility for security before NATO troops withdraw next year.

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53 Dead in Zambia Bus Crash

Fifty-three people were killed in a high-speed collision between a bus and a truck in Zambia on Thursday, the government said, one of the country's worst-ever traffic accidents.

The bus carrying 73 passengers hurtled into an oncoming truck, leaving bloodied bodies and wreckage on a main road north of Lusaka.

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Ex-Supporter Khan Says Assange has Alienated Allies

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange risks turning from a popular hero into an L. Ron Hubbard figure, tolerating only "blinkered, cultish devotion", said one his former backers Jemima Khan.

Claiming Assange had alienated his supporters, Khan, associate editor of the New Statesman, wrote for the weekly British magazine that Assange's anti-secrecy organization was now "guilty of the same obfuscation and misinformation as those it sought to expose".

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Russia Denies Violation of Japanese Airspace

Russia denied on Thursday that two of its fighter jets had violated Japanese airspace as claimed by Tokyo, in what would be the first incident of its kind for several years.

"Flights by the air force of the Pacific Fleet take place regularly in this region, in strict adherence to the international rules, without violation of state borders," the spokesman of the military command's eastern district Roman Martov said in a statement to Russian news agencies.

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Report: Iran, Senegal Resume Diplomatic Ties

Iran and Senegal have resumed diplomatic ties severed two years ago after Dakar accused Tehran of supplying weapons to its separatist rebels, the ISNA news agency reported on Thursday.

"The declaration for the restart of political ties between Iran and Senegal was signed by the two foreign ministers on the sidelines" of the ongoing Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Cairo, ISNA reported citing an official statement.

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Iran Supreme Leader Rejects U.S. Offer of Talks

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected Thursday a US offer to negotiate one-on-one on Tehran's disputed nuclear program so long as Washington continues to impose sanctions on Iran.

"You (Americans) want to negotiate when you are pointing the gun at Iran. The Iranian nation will not be intimidated by such actions," Khamenei told air force commanders, according to excerpts of his speech posted on his website.

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