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. | Blaze stokes tensions
Tensions between Germans and Turks were fuelled last week by a fire in a housing block in the German city of Ludwigshafen, killing nine people of Turkish origin. The cause of the fire remains unknown but Turkish media have speculated that it was a racially motivated attack. |
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. | International observers expressed concern about Armenian PM Serzh Sarkisian’s heavy reliance on government levers in the campaign and pledged to investigate a violent incident that nearly disrupted a campaign rally by opposition candidate Levon Ter-Petrossian. |
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. | Iran has reportedly begun to deploy a new generation of machinery to produce nuclear fuel, a development bound to intensify a debate in Washington about whether a recent National Intelligence Estimate accurately portrayed Tehran’s progress toward the ability to build a nuclear weapon. |