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China opposes applying pressure to undermine Iranian nuclear talks
China says it opposes any party in applying confrontation or pressure to undermine the atmosphere of negotiations at the Iranian nuclear talks.
Li Baodong, head of China's delegation to the talks, was speaking in Vienna where Iran and the P5+1 group are trying to negotiate a comprehensive deal connected to Tehran's nuclear drive.
Li, also China's vice foreign minister, says the constructive atmosphere doesn't come easy and all sides should promote the talks positively.
Iran has already made clear a comprehensive nuclear agreement is not likely to be reached this week.
Abass Araghchi is Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister.
"Obviously in our view the agenda is only about the nuclear issue and this is in the framework of the Geneva agreement and no other issue can be part of the agenda."
But Iran also says it's ready to assure the world powers that its nuclear program will never move toward non-peaceful objectives.
Ukrainian president urges opposition to stay away from radicals
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is urging the opposition to distance themselves from what he calls "the radicals" so as to avoid further bloodshed and conflict.
He made the call after renewed clashes between police and protesters in Kiev killed at least 21 people.
Yanukovych said the crisis should be solved through dialogue and negotiation.
Riot police are continuing to storm the main anti-government protest camp at Independence Square, center of three months of demonstrations.
The unrest has spread to at least three cities in the western part of the country, prompting the UN chief to call for restraint.
Thai protesters rally outside PM's office
Protesters seeking to oust Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have rallied outside her temporary office, a day after five people were killed in gun battles in Bangkok.
Tuesday's clashes were some of the worst between protesters and security forces since the campaign to unseat Yingluck began in November.
One police officer was among the dead and over 60 others were injured.
7 assassins of former Indian PM to be freed
The government in India's Tamil Nadu state has decided to free seven people convicted of plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The announcement came after the Supreme Court commuted the death sentences of three convicts, citing delays in deciding their mercy pleas.
The three have been in prison for more than 20 years and on death row since 1998.
The seven to be freed were members of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel group.
Gandhi's murder in May 1991 was seen as a retaliation for his decision to send Indian peacekeepers to Sri Lanka in 1987.
Inquiries promised on PNG camp violence
Australia and Papua New Guinea have pledged to investigate violence at a detention center that left one asylum seeker dead and over 70 injured.
Clashes broke out at Australia's immigration detention center on Manus Island in PNG on Sunday and Monday.
Australia sends asylum seekers arriving by boat for detention and processing in offshore camps in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific territory of Nauru.
Conditions in these camps have been strongly criticised by UN agencies and rights groups.
Qualcomm probed for price-fixing in China
Chinese authorities have confirmed an antitrust investigation into U.S. mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc.
The nation's top economic planning agency says it began making enquiries after receiving complaints that Qualcomm was charging higher prices in China than it does in other countries.
It says the company is suspected of overcharging and abusing its market position.
In 2009, South Korea fined Qualcomm around 252 million U.S. dollars for abusing its market position. It's the harshest punishment of its kind for a single company.
China's Dongfeng confirms Peugeot tie-up
Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor Group has announced a major investment in French automaker Peugeot Citroen.
Under the deal, Dongfeng and the French government will each invest 800-million euros into PSA Peugeot Citroen.
This will give Dongfeng, the French government and the Peugeot family an equal 14-percent stake in the company.
The deal is part of a broader 3-billion-euro fundraising that will end the Peugeot family's control of the 200-year-old French carmaker.
World's oldest man reportedly living in India at 117
The world's oldest man is reportedly living in India.
Premsai Patel from the central state of Chhattisgarh has claimed that he was born in May, 1896, which makes him 117 years and 8 months old.
If true, Patel has broken the record of Japanese national Misao Okawa who is 115.
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