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    United States Senator Marco Rubio of Florida told hissupporters Monday he is running for president in2016. He said that he feels "uniquely qualified" torepresent the Republican Party.

　　Mr. Rubio, 43, is the son of Cuban immigrants. Hemade an official public announcement Monday in Miami. The announcement took place at thesite where officials first registered Cubans fleeing the government of Fidel Castro in the 1960s.

　　Mr. Rubio is a first-term senator. If elected, he would become the United States' first Hispanicleader.

　　He joins Republican Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz in seeking the party's presidentialnomination. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush are alsoexpected to seek the Republican nomination.

　　Iran suspends pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia

　　Iranian officials said Monday they will stop sending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the Islamicpilgrimage, Umra. Iran says Saudi officials mistreated two Iranian pilgrims last month at Jeddahairport.

　　Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati told Iranian TV that Saudi Arabia must punish border guardswho reportedly mistreated the pilgrims last month.

　　Russia lifts ban, may supply Iran with missiles

　　Russian President Vladimir Putin has cancelled a ban on supplying Iran with S-300 surface to airmissiles.

　　The ban was put in place in September 2010. The policy change comes less than a week afterIran and six nations reached a deal on Iran's nuclear program.

　　The United States expressed concern Monday of Russia's possible sale of the missiles to Iran.

　　Nobel-winning German writer dies at 87

　　Günter Grass, the Nobel-winning German writer, has died. A spokesman for his publisherconfirmed that Mr. Grass died on Monday in a hospital in Germany. He was 87 years old.

　　Mr. Grass's books described growing up under the Nazi-led government in Germany. He brieflyserved as a Nazi soldier while a teenager. He was captured by American forces and held in a warcamp.

　　Many have praised his part in reviving German literature after World War II. Mr. Grass alsohelped give voice and support to democracy in Germany after the war.

　　He earned the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999 for his most famous novel, "The Tin Drum,"published in 1959.

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