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CAIRO Political uncertainty continued in Egypt with the announcement of results of the presidential elections postponed till early next week after both factions claiming victory approached the election commission amid continuing mystery over the health condition of former president Hosni Mubarak.

Iran is producing enriched uranium at faster speed, and could produce enough fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon within four months, experts have claimed.

WASHINGTON As many as seven US servicemen are to face disciplinary action for their roles in the burning of Korans at a US base in Afghanistan in February, which triggered violent clashes across the country and left many dead.

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has for the first time after winning April elections indicated that she was prepared to lead the people of her country in the right way.

Egypt's Election Commission says it has delayed Thursday's planned announcement of the results of a runoff presidential vote while it continues to review appeals from the two candidates, hiking tension as allegations of fraud mounted.

Opening of Rio+20: (L-R) Secretary-General of Rio+20, Sha Zukang, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Management, Muhammad Shaaban.

Ending weeks of political limbo, Antonis Samaras, the leader of Greece's New Democracy party was sworn in Wednesday as prime minister after agreeing to form a coalition government with the Socialists and a smaller left-wing party, the Democratic Left.

Malian refugees in Mbera camp.

BAGHDAD In another bloody attack in Iraq, a man wearing an explosives belt detonated it amid a group of Shiite mourners at a funeral in Diyala Province on Monday, killing at least 15 people.

Brett McGurk, U.S. President Barack Obama's pick to be the next ambassador to Iraq, withdrew his nomination on Monday amid opposition from Senate Republicans over his extra-marital affair while working at the US Embassy in Baghdad in 2008.