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Reuters - Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.

AFP - The Security Council was set to slap new UN sanctions on Iran Saturday over its nuclear defiance with the Iranian foreign minister due to attend the session to defend his country's right to conduct uranium enrichment.

Behind President Reagan's famous challenge to Gorbachev, delivered 20 years ago today, that helped end the Cold War