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The home of Iran’s opposition leader, cleric Mehdi Karrubi, has reportedly been attacked by hardliners who tried to enter the house through force. Karrubi’s son, Hossein Karrubi, told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that Karrubi’s security team had to fire shots in the air to disperse the hardliners, who have been protesting outside the house for the past several days.

The Kosovar Parliament held a special session today to honor the Catholic missionary Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian, in honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth.

Georgia’s prime minister today charged Russia with failing to live up to the EU-brokered cease-fire that ended the 2008 war between the two countries, accusing Moscow of beefing up its military forces.

Iran doesn’t seem to be too happy about the Middle East peace talks that have resumed in Washington, D.C.

Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh today marked the 18th anniversary of the disputed enclave’s de facto secession from Azerbaijan and pledged Baku will never resume control of their territory.

Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who defended a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, fled Iran after his wife and her brother and father were arrested to put pressure on him.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened the first direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in two years by pledging the full support of the U.S. to a process expected to be difficult and with long odds of success.

Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has defended a number of political and human rights activists in Iran, is now facing her own day in court. After security forces searched her home and office and took away some of her personal belongings, she was charged with crimes against the state and ordered to face questioning this week.

A European Parliament deputy says she was shocked by the violent police actions against peaceful demonstrators in Moscow on August 31.

Vadim Povzner, the director of the central bakery in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, said today the increase — one of the steeper rises registered in Russia — was necessary due to flour and grain suppliers increasing their prices.