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Speaking shortly before senior diplomats from six world powers were scheduled to meet in Paris on Tuesday to discuss sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the European Union that any punitive measure would be considered an act of hostility by Tehran. "I am telling you in plain language that from now on, if you try, whether in your propaganda or at international organisations, to take steps against the rights of the Iranian nation, the Iranian nation will consider it an act of hostility," Ahmadinejad said.

French intelligence chiefs yesterday faced embarrassment after it emerged that ?18m from a secret emergency war chest had gone missing and that some of it may have been spent on what one spymaster called ?dancing girls?, writes Matthew Campbell.Judges investigating a separate affair learnt of the missing funds from a note written by General Philippe Rondot, a former intelligence chief, to Mich?le Alliot-Marie, the defence minister, in 2002. It mentions a ?serious breakdown in the management of special funds allotted to the service?. The money was part of a fund established secretly after the second world war. It was maintained...

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