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After 15 months of rising tensions and fears of military confrontation, the foreign policy chief of the European Union sat down for dinner last Friday with the personal representative of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, at the Iranian consulate, not far from Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar.

Steady improvements in credit card defaults and late payment rates have stalled after about 18 months, a sign that card users are returning to more normal payment patterns.

It is one of the West's biggest nuclear proliferation nightmares -- that increasingly isolated Iran and North Korea might covertly trade know-how, material or technology that could be put to developing atomic bombs.

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