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- Iran ready for nuclear talks with West: state TV
- Former South Korean leader Kim Dae-jung dies
- Japan election campaign opens; voters eye change
- Russian dam rescuers "unlikely" to find 64 missing
- Pakistan needs "months" for Waziristan push: general
- Scottish court lets Libyan drop Lockerbie appeal
- Anger swells over impunity in post-war Sri Lanka
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