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AFGHANISTAN
Missing U.S. soldier's body found in river
A U.S. military dive team has discovered the submerged body of one of two American soldiers who disappeared last week in a river in western Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.
The two, who have not been identified, were paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division and were last seen when their unit was searching the river in an effort to recover airdropped supplies. The second soldier has not been found.
A military spokesman, Lt. Col. Todd Vician, said he did not know whether the unit came under any attack that could have led to the disappearance of the two soldiers Nov. 4. Local Afghan officials said the soldiers were probably swept away by the river's current.
-- Joshua Partlow
IRAN
Diplomats cite pause in uranium activity
Iran has effectively stopped expanding active uranium enrichment since September while considering an offer by major powers to fuel an Iranian medical reactor if Tehran turns over enriched material seen as an atomic bomb risk, diplomats said Wednesday.
Although Iran's stock of low-enriched uranium has probably risen since U.N. inspections in August, its centrifuge machines are working at half their capacity, said a senior diplomat in Vienna, where the U.N. nuclear watchdog is based.
Analysts attributed this to a variety of possible reasons, including technical glitches and politically motivated restraint by Iran, to avoid closing the door to diplomacy with world powers and provoking harsher international sanctions over its nuclear program.
Precise figures will come next week in an IAEA report on its inspections in Iran, whose record of atomic secrecy has raised suspicions that it is illicitly pursuing nuclear weaponry and has drawn U.N. sanctions.
