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stanley cup was carrying American Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, who joined the three crew currently on board the ISS. The current ISS crew of American Mike Fossum, Japan s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia s Sergei Volkov will return to Earth on November 22 and a new crew will head up from Baikonur on December 21. The Soyuz crew opened the hatch at 1309 IST, NASA said. Its website showed footage of the smiling astronauts floating in through the narrow hatch from the Soyuz to hugs from their colleagues. The men were set to enjoy their first meal together and then the new crew mates were to sleep to reset their body clocks. I m glad finally to get aboard, Burbank said via a video Lium Sydney bomb squad frees teen trapped near device
President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain will demand on Friday that Iran open to international inspectors a secret nuclear facility it has tried to hide from the world for years, a senior White House official said. HT Image The three leaders -- Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- will open the G-20 economic summit with their demand that Tehran allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the facility for producing nuclear fuel, officials told The Associated Press. Iran has kept the facility, 160 kilometers southwest of Tehran, hidden from weapons
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