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Members of Afghanistan's grand assembly or Loya Jirga have criticized President Hamid Karzai's proposal to postpone the signing of a new bilateral security agreement with the United States.

Among these to speak out,Assembly leader Sibghatullah Mojaddedi.

President Karzai says the deal allowing a continued presence of some U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 should be signed after the Afghan presidential election set for April.

U.S. officials reject such a delay, saying they would not be able to form long-term plans on a troop presence without an agreement in place by the end of this year. U.S.-led international combat forces currently in Afghanistan are set to withdraw by the end of next year.

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In Geneva,there is reportedly some movement on curbing Iran's nuclear programmes.But top diplomats from six countries have not indicated any agreement is imminent.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters Saturday that Iran's demand to continue construction of a reactor near its northern city of Arak remains one of the outstanding issues.

British, German and French negotiators said there is still tough work ahead before a deal can be reached.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joined the meeting Saturday. One report says Kerry met separately with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the meeting.

In Pakistan Saturday, some 10,000 or more people protesting U.S. drone strikes blocked a NATO supply route into Afghanistan.

Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan led the demonstration, threatening to block supply lines through his region indefinitely if the drone attacks do not end.

Khan's political party runs the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan's northwest, bordering Afghanistan.

Saturday's protest comes just two days after a suspected U.S. drone strike on an Islamic seminary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed at least six people.

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In his weekly address Saturday,President Obama urged Americans to look beyond the frustrating political headlines to the "good things happening" in the economy.

"Our businesses have created 7.8 million new jobs in the past 44 months.  Another 200,000 Americans went back to work last month.

The American auto industry has come roaring back with more than 350,000 new jobs – jobs churning out and selling the high-tech, fuel-efficient cars the world wants to buy.  And they’re leading the charge in a manufacturing sector that has added jobs for the first time since the 1990s."

In the Republican address, U.S. Representative Dr. Michael Burgess (of Texas) says the troubled health care law should be scrapped and a new effort started.

Mauritania has held its first general elections since a military coup five years ago, but most opposition parties staged a boycott.

An activist group says Syrian government airstrikes around the northern city of Aleppo have killed at least 29 people.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says warplanes targeted rebel-held areas on Saturday.They again reported 29 people were killed.

VOA News.