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Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency said Tuesday that the country has exported 32 tons of heavy water, a key component for one kind of nuclear reactor, to the United States as part of a landmark nuclear agreement.
Heavy water, formed with a hydrogen isotope, has research and medical applications, but can also be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium.
Under the deal with world powers, Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.
Iran is allowed to use heavy water in its modified Arak nuclear reactor, but must sell any excess supply on the international market.
American tourist killed: A Palestinian on a stabbing rampage Tuesday near Tel Aviv killed a graduate student at Vanderbilt University.
The attacks occurred in Jaffa, about 1 mile away from where Vice President Joe Biden was meeting with ex-President Shimon Peres.
Biden is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Tuesday that he is hopeful that missing Flight 370 will still be found as lawmakers observed a moment of silence in Parliament to mark the second anniversary of the plane’s disappearance.
Pakistani officials say security agents have rescued the son of a slain governor, abducted five years ago.
Baluchistan government spokesman Anwarul Haq Kakar said Tuesday that a joint operation near Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, uncovered Shahbaz Taseer in a room.
Taseer, who is now 33, was abducted eight month after his father, secular Gov. Salman Taseer was assassinated in Islamabad by his guard, Mumtaz Qadri, over a campaign to change blasphemy laws and for his support of a jailed Christian woman accused of desecrating the Quran..
Serbia’s Interior Ministry says Slovenia will demand valid European Union visas at its borders as of midnight Tuesday, effectively closing the main Balkan migration route toward Western Europe.
The U.S. Air Force will continue to fly daily missions over the South China Sea despite a buildup of Chinese surface-to-air missiles and fighter jets in the contested region, with both nations’ militaries in discussions to avoid any “miscalculation,” a top U.S. general said Tuesday.
Gen. Lori Robinson, the commander of the Pacific Air Forces, also urged other nations to exercise their freedom to fly and sail in international airspace and waters claimed by China in the South China Sea “or risk losing it throughout the region.”