Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exhorted the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to draw "a clear red line" to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
In a theatrical gesture, Netanyahu held up a cartoon-like drawing of a spherical bomb and drew a red line below the fuse, "before Iran completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment to make a bomb," he said.
"It's not a question of whether Iran will get the bomb. The question is at what stage can we stop Iran from getting the bomb," said Netanyahu, who also accused Iran of aggression.
"I ask, given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian aggression with nuclear weapons," the Israeli prime minister said.
"Who among you would feel safe in the Middle East? Who would be safe in Europe? Who would be safe in America? Who would be safe anywhere?"
But Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told CNN that his country won't be influenced by a threat from Israel and a demand from U.S. President Barack Obama to abandon plans to acquire nuclear weapons.
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"When we say we do not take it seriously, we mean that it impacts -- it does not impact our policies in the slightest," Ahmadinejad told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview to be aired Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Eastern.
"Iran is a vast country. It's a great country. Let's assume a few terrorists come and assassinate some of our officials. Will the country be damaged? No. A couple of bombs will be set to explode.
Will the country be destroyed? No.
"We see the Zionist regime at the same level of the bombers and criminals and the terrorists. And even if they do something -- even if they do something, hypothetically, it will not affect us fundamentally," Ahmadinejad said.
The White House highlighted how Obama sided with Israel in his speech before the general assembly this week.
"As the prime minister
said, the United States and Israel share the goal of preventing Iran
from acquiring a nuclear weapon," said spokesman Tommy Vietor of the
National Security Council.
U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton met with Netanyahu for more than an hour later Thursday,
a senior State Department official said.
Clinton and Netanyahu
talked at length about Iran and agreed to continue "close consultation
and cooperation toward achieving" the goal of stopping Iran from getting
atomic weapons, the official said.
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The number of dolphins in India has more than halved from 5000 in 1982 to just 2000 today. Up to 160 die every year because of fishing and pollution.
The Ganges is one of India's most polluted rivers and has become an open sewer, burial ground and chemical dump in several stretches. 
Conservationists said the health and happiness of its dolphins is a key indicator of the level of pollution in its waters. 
Both the Philippines
government and the MILF have “already agreed in principle” to identify
the proposed new autonomous region for Filipino Muslims in the south as
the New Autonomous Political Entity (NPE), and not as Bangsamoro
Juridical Entity (or BJE), the term used during negotiations during the
time of former President Gloria Arroyo, explained Teresita Quinto Deles,
head of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process
(OPAPP).
