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'With great pride, I announce that as of today, our dear country, Iran, is among the countries of the world that produces the industrial level of nuclear fuel.'
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, claiming that his country had begun operating 3,000 of a planned 50,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges. While skeptical, Western observers worry that if Iran is actually able to produce nuclear material, it could be used to make weapons

'No weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste.'
CHINA'S STATE ADMINISTRATION OF RADIO, FILM AND TELEVISION, in its guidelines for a new Chinese...

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