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The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia to support American policy on Iran. The US wants Russia to agree to the option of imposing additional sanctions on Iran if it does not suspend its uranium enrichment programme by the end of the year. Richard Galpin reports from Moscow.
As a permanent member of United Nations Security Council, Russia has the power to veto resolutions. And Moscow has always said it does not believe sanctions are an effective way of promoting change. But recently, President Medvedev has indicated his government made ultimate accept that sanctions are inevitable. There are other big issues to be discussed while Mrs. Clinton is in Russia including the plan for Moscow and Washington to sign a new treaty in early December for further cuts in their large arsenals of nuclear weapons.

Angola is struggling to cope for the influx of more than 20,000 of its citizens who were expelled from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Many had been living there for decades after fleeing Angola's long civil war. Martin Plaut reports.
The Angolan media carry heroin stories of families being forced across the border with only the positions they could carry. Homes and businesses many built up over years are abandoned. The churches are being mobilised to try to help and an Angolan delegation has left for Congo to try to resolve the situation. The expulsions were in retaliation for the Angolan government's decision to kick out illegal Congolese diamond miners. This pattern of tit-for-tat expulsion has taken place before tearing apart these border communities.

The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he contacted Indonesian leaders over the weekend to express concern over the grand number of illegal migrants attempting to reach Australia by sea. Intelligence reports had earlier indicated that a ship carrying 260 Sri Lankans was heading for Australia through Indonesian waters. With more here's Nick Bryant.
Australia has long sought help from Indonesia in clamping down on people-smugglers. And this marks a significant acceleration of their diplomatic efforts with the personal plea for assistance from Prime Minister Rudd to his opposite number President Yudhoyono. It appears to have worked for up to the call for Indonesian navy warships intercepted a vessel carrying 260 Sri Lankan asylum" class="hjdict" word="asylum" target=_blank>asylum seekers as the boat slipped through. It would have carried the largest number of asylum seekers into Australian waters since Kevin Rudd came into power in 2007.

China has expressed strong dissatisfaction over the visit of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a disputed Himalayan region along their border. Mr. Singh visited the state of Arunachal Pradesh earlier this month to address rareness to the state assembly elections.