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Myanmar frees 56 political prisoners
AFP, Yangon
Myanmar yesterday began freeing dozens of its remaining detained activists, officials said, after the country vowed to release all prisoners of conscience by the end of the year. Many of those released yesterday are believed to be from the country's armed ethnic minority groups in northern Kachin
UK reopens Iran diplomatic channels
BBC Online
The UK will restore some diplomatic relations with Iran by appointing a charge d'affaires to work with the country, William Hague has announced.
Iran will appoint a charge d'affaires to work with London in return. The UK shut its embassy in Tehran in November 2011 after it was attacked by protesters. It then ordered the closure of the Iranian
EU adopts new antismoking bill
AFP, Strasbourg
European lawmakers yesterday approved a long-fought and divisive anti-smoking bill aimed at making cigarettes less attractive to youngsters but threw out a bid to curb sales of increasingly popular e-cigarettes.
The law aims to cut the number of smokers across the 500-million bloc "by two percent in the next five years," the EU’s health com-
Kirchner surgery successful
AFP, Buenos Aires
Surgery to remove a blood clot from the brain of Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was successful, a government spokesman said yesterday.
Kirchner was diagnosed over the weekend with a "chronic subdural hematoma" resulting from a blow to the head sustained in a fall in midAugust. She remains in an
Brazil leader slams Canadian spying' AFP, Brasilia
President Dilma Rousseff on Monday hit out at alleged Canadian spying on Brazil's Mining and Energy Ministry, demanding that the United States and its allies stop such practices.
Canada's Ambassador Jamal Khokhar to Brazil on Monday was summoned to the foreign ministry, where Brasilia's chief diplomat Luiz Alberto Figueiredo delivered a strong protest and