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PAKISTAN
Army claims progress on border
The Pakistani army claimed advances in its eight-day-old offensive in a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Sunday, while the militants' chief warned of more terrorist attacks around the country unless the military halts the assault.
The army moved into South Waziristan vowing to crush a militant network it says is behind 80 percent of the suicide bombings that have rocked the country over the last three years. Washington has encouraged the operation because militants there are believed to shelter al-Qaeda leaders and attack Western troops in Afghanistan.
-- Associated Press
IRAN
Inspectors enter nuclear fuel lab
U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran's nuclear program.
The visit Sunday by the four-member International Atomic Energy Agency team, reported by state media, was the first independent look inside the planned nuclear fuel lab, a former ammunition dump burrowed into the treeless hills south of Tehran and only publicly disclosed last month.
The inspectors are expected to study plant blueprints, interview workers and take soil samples before wrapping up the three-day mission.
No results from the inspection are expected until the team leaves the country, but some Iranian officials hailed the visit to the facility, about 20 miles north of the city of Qom, as an example that their nuclear program was in fact open to international scrutiny.
-- Associated Press
