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Kenya investigators find car believed to have been used by mall attackers, official says

• NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A top Kenyan government official says investigators have recovered a vehicle believed to have been used by the terrorists who attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall.
• The official said Friday investigators are tracing the car's ownership after it was retrieved outside the mall. He said there may be other vehicles used by the attackers, but gave no more details.
• The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to reveal such details while the investigation is ongoing.
• Kenyan police have given little information since Saturday's attack that killed more than 67 people.
• FBI agents --along with investigators from Britain, Canada and Germany --have been dispatched to investigate the crime scene. There have been no details on what the international team has found so far in the bullet-scarred, scorched mall.
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World powers see 'window of opportunity' to resolve nuclear standoff with Iran

• UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.S. and its international partners emerged from a meeting with Iran declaring that a "window of opportunity has opened" to peacefully settle their nuclear standoff. But diplomats asked Tehran to come back with a detailed plan of action to reassure the world it is not trying to build an atomic bomb.
• The upbeat, if guarded, tone after the meeting of Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany was seen as a significant step forward after months of stalled talks. It was capped by an unexpected one-on-one meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who shook hands and at one point sat side-by-side in the group talks on Thursday.
• It was the highest-level direct contact between the United States and Iran in six years.
• In another sign of building momentum, both sides agreed to fast-track negotiations and hold a substantive round of talks on Oct. 15-16 in Geneva. Iran, hoping to get relief from punishing international sanctions as fast as possible, said it hoped a

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