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Today's roundup includes China, Turkmenistan, Gabon, Bolivia, Iran, and Kenya. Photo of demonstrators in La Paz, Bolivia, by Flickr user GafferBee.

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It is not only our documentary film maker
Sabiha Sumar who was lucky to attend a Dinner with her President, Pakistan's leader General Musharraf:

Some journalists had the opportunity to have supper alongside Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York last week. Among them was Richard Stengel reporting for Time magazine about his Dinner with Ahmadinejad:

After denying the existance of homosexuality in Iran in his speech at Columbia University in New York, bloggers and analysts around the world discussing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement.

The former President of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani, was elected as the head of a powerful clerical body, which approves Iran's supreme leader. Rafsanjani is said to be more moderate, than the current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This election shows clear tendencies for a moderate movement in the Islamic establishment of Iran, experts say.

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