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China rejects linking trade and Iranian nukes (AP)

BEIJING ? A top Chinese diplomat on Monday rejected linking Iran’s nuclear program to trade, adding to tensions with Washington on the eve of a visit by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to seek support for sanctions on Tehran’s oil industry. A deputy foreign minister, Cui Tiankai, said China’s trade with Iran, an important oil [...]

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Iran official denies direct contact with U.S. over alleged plot (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters) ? An official at Iran’s U.N. mission denied on Friday that Tehran had been in direct contact with the United States over allegations it was behind a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. “There has been no direct contact between the two countries,” Alireza [...]

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Obama’s speech stirs, but some say a bit too much (AP)

DURHAM, N.C. ? Wilma Dillard took over her family’s barbecue restaurant in 1997, after her father’s death. But this spring ? with her blue-collar customers cutting back, and the banks unwilling to extend the usual credit ? she was forced close the 58-year-old Durham eatery and lay off her dozen employees. “I could hear my [...]

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