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WASHINGTON, May 24 (Xinhua) - California-based private company SpaceX announced Thursday that its Dragon spacecraft completed key on-orbit tests as part of a historic attempt to be the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. Early Thursday morning, Dragon's thrusters fired, bringing the vehicle 2.4 kilometers below the station.

Baghdad, May 25, IRNA - A member of Iran's negotiation delegation in Baghdad has ruled out the AFP report that Saeed Jalili, the Secretary of Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSCI), had met the US envoy. The Iranian, who wanted not to be named, told IRNA that the SNSCI Secretary and the US delegation have had no meeting and talks.

By SAPA REUTERS (File image) Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger The UN atomic watchdog said Friday that it has detected in Iran traces of higher-grade uranium than Tehran had said it was enriching, but that the Iranians had said it may be down to a technical error. "The results of analysis of environmental samples ...

Luis Suarez Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has reopened the racism row which dogged his - and the clubБ─(tm)s Б─" season by describing his eight-match ban as strange and insisting his Б─°conscience is clearБ─². The Uruguay international was banned after an independent panel appointed by the Football Association found him guilty of racially abusing Manchester UnitedБ─(tm)s Patrice Evra in a match at Anfield last October.

Ukrainian News Agency Prime Minister Mykola Azarov thinks that Ukraine agreed to unprecedented compromises in the process of talks with the European Union on the Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, reads a statement made by the Cabinet of Ministers' press service. "We agreed to numerous compromises in the part of conclusion of the free trade area agreement.