World leaders have hailed a "historic" nuclear deal with Iran as a triumph for diplomacy, but Israel's prime minister has harshly condemned it. Iranians meanwhile have welcomed it in the hopes it will ease their economic woes.
ELSEWHERE:
RIGA - Latvians have flocked to cemeteries to honour the dead on All Souls Day as they also mourned the deaths of at least 54 people in the collapse of a supermarket in Riga.
MEDAN - The alert status for one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes has been raised to the highest level after it repeatedly sent hot clouds of gas down its slope following a series of eruptions in recent days.
LONDON - Britain's opposition leader, Ed Miliband, has launched his most explicit attack yet on Australian strategist Lynton Crosby, saying the Tories' spin doctor plans to oversee the dirtiest election campaign in decades.
BANGKOK - About 100,000 anti-government demonstrators have rallied in Thailand's capital, demanding that the prime minister step down amid claims that her government is controlled by her older brother, ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
KIEV - Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched through central Kiev to demand the Ukrainian government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the European Union in defiance of Russia.
KABUL - An Afghan grand assembly has endorsed a crucial security agreement allowing some US troops to stay on after 2014, although President Hamid Karzai set conditions for signing the deal.
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