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Last Updated: Sunday, 14 January 2007, 22:32 GMT
"Iran and Nicaragua vow close ties"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pledged closer ties with Nicaragua as he continues his Latin America tour.
"We have common interests, common enemies and common goals", he said as he visited shantytowns in Managua with the Nicaraguan leader, Daniel Ortega.
Mr Ahmadinejad arrived in Nicaragua from Venezuela where he signed business agreements with President Hugo Chavez.
The Iranian president's visits are aimed at boosting ties with the region's most vocal critics of the US.
The aim is also to garner further support in the international debate over Iran's nuclear programme and its alleged interference in Iraq."
Egyptian security forces discovered a cache of explosives on Sunday in the Sinai peninsula, where bomb attacks have killed more than 100 people since 2004, security sources said.
The cache consisted of at least 500 kg (1,100 lb) of TNT hidden in two gas containers and large plastic bags and was found in the desert area near al-Arish, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, the sources said. They said the explosives were discovered after a tip-off and no arrests had been made.
"We received information that some elements were concealing large quantities of explosives," one of the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Egypt has blamed the Sinai attacks, the last of which took place in April, on an Islamist militant group called al-Tawhid wal Jihad (One God and Jihad) and says the group is made up of Sinai bedouin with militant views.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/959899
Lanka troops capture three more Tiger bases (Sri Lanka)
14 January 2007
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan police commandos captured three more Tamil Tiger rebel bases in the island’s east, raising to 11 the number seized from the guerrillas, an official said Sunday.
The elite Special Task Force commandos took control of the three bases of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the district of Ampara late Saturday following a weekend offensive, a local official said.
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