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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, welcomes Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has arrived in Russia to attend a regional security summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Russia is hosting leaders of nations from China to Iran in a second day of talks Tuesday, June 16, 2009. The Shanghai grouping includes Russia, China and four ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia. But the two-day summit near the boundary between Europe and Asia also drew the leaders of Iran, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. (AP) |