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The United States, Germany and Britain are among western countries who have condemned the latest speech by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Nazi Holocaust was a lie under myth. President Ahmadinejad was speaking at a rally in Tehran. From Washington, Kim Ghattas reports.

The White House described the comments as hateful and ignorant. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also warned Teheran of increased isolation and economic pressure if they did not provide answers soon about its nuclear ambitions. But despite the Holocaust comments by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s disputed election, Washington’s offer to engage diplomatically with Iran is still on the table. Mrs. Clinton did say, though, it was time for Tehran to show it was serious about engagement and nuclear negotiations.
Russia says it's canceled plans to station missiles in its enclave of Kaliningrad between Poland and Lithuania. The move follows the United States’ decision to scrap a planned missile defence system in Eastern Europe. James Read reports.
Russia has always made it clear that its threat to station missiles in Kaliningrad was a direct retaliation to America’s plans for a missile defence system in Eastern Europe. So the announcement that the deployment will not now go ahead is probably the least President Obama could expect in response to his decision to scrap the missile shield. The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, said Russia would now listen more attentively to American concerns. But he said he was not interested in what he called "primitive compromises". This may allude to American hopes for closer cooperation on other issues, for example on addressing Iran’s nuclear ambition.
A senior United Nation’s envoy to Sri Lanka has given a stark warning to the government that it risked putting the country’s future in jeopardy if it didn’t do more to heal the wounds of the country's civil war. The envoy, Lynn Pascoe, said allegations of human rights breaches during the conflict against Tamil Tiger rebels had to be addressed as did the freeing of more than a quarter of a million displaced Tamils in internment camps.
A big British metals company says it’s suspending all purchases of tin ore from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company Amalgamate Metal Cooperation said this followed a negative campaigning from advocacy groups and adverse international media coverage. Many Congolese mines are in rebel hands. Karen Allen reports.
Although it is not illegal, the militarization of mining in the Congo has long been associated with horrific human rights abuses and the minerals are used to prop up a multi-million-dollar global electronics and mobile phone market. In a statement AMC has now confirmed that its subsidiary is suspending all purchases of tin ore from the region. In a statement AMC said it did not take the decision to pull out lightly but said adverse coverage by the international media was undermining the credibility of the process.
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The US Middle East envoy George Mitchell has ended his latest round of shuttle diplomacy between the Israelis and the Palestinians but he’s made no statement on the outcome. The Palestinians said Mr. Mitchell had failed to persuade Israel to stop expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and they wouldn’t return to peace talks unless construction was halted. The US has been hoping to