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Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, who built a small Mississippi telephone company into the second largest U.S. long-distance provider, was convicted Tuesday of leading an $11 billion fraud that triggered the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Friday that the United States would aid in European negotiations with Iran and offer the Islamic Republic modest economic incentives in exchange for an end to its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.