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'There's a huge disconnect here'! Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez says all Democrats should line up in favor of abortion, and he calls the position “not negotiable,” a clarification for which pro-life groups are exceedingly grateful. The issue arose after Perez publicly backed the pro-life Democratic Party nominee in the race for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. After criticism from pro-choice forces, Perez released a statement insisting he and the party were not straying from their stance on abortion. “Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and her health,”...

IRAN will never negotiate its nuclear program with the United States, its oil minister said in a television interview while in Venezuela for an OPEC meeting. "We are never going to negotiate the nuclear fuel cycle, which we were able to obtain through the efforts of our country's scientists," Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh told Telesur overnight. The Iranian minister downplayed a US offer to join direct talks with Iran if Tehran halts uranium enrichment activities. Mr Vaziri-Hamaneh called Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's announcement, which marks a major US policy shift, "words that US officials always repeat". "To underscore our...