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VIENNA (AP) - A senior U.N. nuclear agency official urged Iran on Monday to allow access to sites, people and documents it seeks in its probe of suspicions that Tehran conducted secret research into nuclear weapons development.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - President Serge Sarkisian's party has won a majority of seats in a parliamentary election seen as a test of support ahead of next year's presidential vote.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his Likud Party is going to propose Sept. 4 as the date for early elections.

CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian officials say at least 11 people have been killed and nearly 50 wounded after a group of mostly Islamist protesters were attacked in Cairo today.

CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian security officials say five protesters have been killed by armed attackers near the Defense Ministry building in Cairo.

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan is condemning the U.S. drone strike that killed three suspected Islamist militants in the country's northwest.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Yemeni officials say the country has asked for expanded U.S. counterterrorism aid, including drone strikes and more U.S. military trainers and advisers, to fight a growing threat from al-Qaida.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian semiofficial news agency reports that the country has disconnected its main crude oil terminal from the Internet to avoid being attacked by computer malware.

BASRA, Iraq (AP) - A government official says Iraq has begun loading crude from a new offshore export terminal in the Persian Gulf.

BRUSSELS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling the cease-fire in Syria "very fragile," but says it's essential it hold so "inclusive political dialogue can continue."

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai says he is considering calling presidential elections a year early to lessen the strain on Afghanistan that could be caused by the departure of foreign combat troops at the same time as a national ballot.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The "Quartet" of Mideast peacemakers is appealing to Israel and the Palestinians to take confidence-building steps to improve the atmosphere for negotiations.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's nuclear chief is hinting at a compromise offer from Tehran ahead of negotiations with world powers this week over the country's controversial atomic program.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A prominent Iranian lawmaker says Iran has the knowledge and scientific capability to produce nuclear weapons but will never do so.