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Iran-eu talks end without uranium accord

By Times Wrires
Published December 1, 2007

BRITAIN

Negotiators for Iran and the European Union held a new round of talks on Iran's uranium enrichment program on Friday in London, but the meeting ended with indications that the Iranians had offered no new concessions to ease Western concerns that Iran plans to develop nuclear weapons. A senior EU envoy, Javier Solana, said he was disappointed and suggested no new meetings were planned. After 18 months of largely unproductive talks between the Europeans and the Iranians, the London meeting was billed as a last-ditch attempt to persuade Iran to compromise before a meeting of a six-nation group, including the United States. The group, which will assemble today in Paris, has threatened to toughen U.N. sanctions against the Iranian government over the nuclear issue.

ARUBA

2 in Holloway case will be released

A judge on Friday ordered the release of two brothers suspected in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, ruling that the evidence wasn't strong enough to continue holding them, a prosecutor said. Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, who were rearrested in the case for a third time last week, were to be released from jail by today. The two brothers and a third suspect who remains in jail, Joran van der Sloot, were the last known people to see Holloway alive before she vanished on May 30, 2005.

Elsewhere

Turkey: A Turkish passenger jet crashed in the mountains of western Turkey early Friday, killing all 57 people on board, including several prominent nuclear physicists on their way to a conference, authorities said.

United Nations: The United States withdrew a Security Council resolution Friday endorsing this week's Annapolis agreement on Middle East peace negotiations, after it became clear that the U.S. ambassador had introduced it without fully consulting Israeli and Palestinian diplomats.

Gaza Strip: An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinian militants early today in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses and officials said.

Canada: The jury in the gruesome case of a pig farmer accused of being Canada's worst serial killer began its deliberations Friday night after hearing final instructions from the judge.

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