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AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE EDINBURGH: Scottish nationalists launched an official "yes" campaign for independence today ahead of a likely 2014 referendum on severing the more than 300-year-old union with England. First Minister Alex Salmond said the semi-autonomous region should run its own foreign, economic and defence policies, and promised that he would try to get one million Scots to sign a declaration of support.

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 ...

The Associated Press LONDON - Libya's prime minister on Friday placed a wreath at the spot where a London policewoman was killed by gunfire from the Libyan Embassy in 1984. Abdurrahim el-Keib, who placed the wreath of white roses and carnations, has pledged that his country would work closely with the British government in a renewed investigation of the killing.

AFP High wide view of the first 6 radio telescopes that will make up the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. Picture: Charles Brewer Source: Supplied Australia, South Africa to share the SKA Super telescope to "shed light on the universe" In pictures: Visit the site of Australia's SKA AUSTRALIA and South Africa will share the location for the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array's scientific

APA - Harare (Zimbabwe) The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay has urged for sanctions to be lifted on Zimbabwe and members of the government in Harare including President Robert Mugabe. Speaking on Friday during her first visit to Zimbabwe, Pillay said the sanctions introduced by Western nations as a result of Zimbabwe and President Mugabes policies should be dropped. In the course of the week Pillay had met Mr Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai,