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Iran: 'The lion's tail'

TEHRAN — Iran's nuclear program cannot be stopped, and any Western attempt to force a halt to uranium enrichment would be like playing "with the lion's tail," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday.

In Berlin, Germany's foreign minister reported no progress in talks with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator ahead of the Group of Eight summit. And with the U.N. Security Council preparing to debate a third set of sanctions for Tehran's refusal to suspend enrichment, Britain raised the possibility of adding curbs on oil and gas investment to the limited measures against individuals and companies involved in Iran's nuclear and weapons programs.

"We advise them to give up stubbornness and childish games," Ahmadinejad said at a news conference. "Some say Iran is like a lion. It's seated quietly in a corner. We advise them not to play with the lion's tail."

Added Ahmadinejad: "It is too late to stop the progress of Iran."

Kenya: Gunbattles kill 22

NAIROBI — Police stormed a Nairobi slum in search of members of a shadowy religious sect accused in a string of beheadings — killing 22 suspects and arresting 100 during overnight gunbattles, officials said Tuesday.

The action against the suspected members of the Mungiki, an outlawed sect inspired by a 1950s uprising against British rule, came after two police officers were shot dead in the Mathare slum Monday.

Lebanon: 7 guerrillas surrender

TRIPOLI — Seven al-Qaida-inspired guerrillas surrendered Tuesday to a secular Palestinian faction at a besieged refugee camp in northern Lebanon, offering the first tangible sign that moderate Palestinians might be moving against the militants.

But others in the extremist group Fatah Islam continued to fight, and Lebanese government troops battered their hideouts in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp for a fifth straight day. Clouds of smoke billowed over the camp as artillery shells exploded on militant positions.

Pakistan: Pearl investigation

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani officials said they were investigating two people arrested Monday in Kashmor, a remote town in the southeastern province of Sindh, for any links to the killing of the American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

Noor Ahmed Paichuho, the Kashmor police chief, said in a telephone interview that the men, Attaur Rehman and Faisal Bhatti, were being interrogated in Kashmor.