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Iran Says Building Copy of Captured US Drone

Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 4:40 am (UTC-5)
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A senior Iranian commander says Tehran has reverse-engineered a U.S. spy drone captured by Iran’s armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, was quoted Sunday by Iranian news agencies as saying experts are also recovering data from the […]

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France Holds Round One of Presidential Election

Posted April 22nd, 2012 at 4:05 am (UTC-5)
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Voting began in France Sunday, in the first round of a presidential election that current President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to lose. The latest opinion polls indicate that Mr. Sarkozy is trailing his main rival, Socialist Francois Hollande, by several points. The polls also indicate that Mr. Sarkozy would lose in an expected runoff May […]

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