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• TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Near Iran's border with Iraq, work crews are putting finishing touches on a petrochemical plant expected to pump out hundreds of tons a year of oil-based products that the country hopes can slip through the net of Western economic sanctions.
• In Tehran's bazaar, merchants must rely on shadowy money transfer networks to make purchases abroad because Iran is blocked from global banking systems. Inflation is so high that prices can jump between breakfast and dinner.
• The two sides of Iran under sanctions have come into sharper relief as the economic pain digs deeper -- and the country's new president seeks ways to roll back the restrictions.
• On one level, government planners are working hard to find workarounds against the embargoes on oil exports and banking, while insisting Iran's "resistance economy" can ride out anything the West can throw in its direction. But there is also the daily struggle and frustration faced by businesses and families as inflation heads toward 40 percent and unemployment, officially 13 percent but likely higher, climbs alongside it.
• The broad challenges posed by sanctions shape President Hasan Rouhani's agenda this week at the U.N. General Assembly. He hopes to win promises to restart talks over Iran's nuclear program and to make the case to the U.S. and its allies that easing sanctions could bring rewards in the form of concessions and greater cooperation from Tehran.
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• CHICAGO (AP) -- Two men have been charged in a mass shooting at a Chicago park that wounded 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy, but neither suspect is believed to have been a triggerman, according to police.
• Byron Champ, 21, and Kewane Gatewood, 20, are charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the shooting Thursday night at Cornell Square Park on Chicago's southwest side, police said late Monday. The suspects' home towns were not revealed.

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