Vienna - Bolivian President Evo Morales on Wednesday chewed a coca leaf at a United Nations drug conference in Vienna, underscoring his view that the plant should not be on the UN list of narcotic substances.

Morales was speaking at a conference of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is expected to adopt an action plan Thursday to tackle the global drug problem in the coming decade, against the backdrop of limited progress over the last 10 years.

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Vienna - There was no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced in the past decade, despite increased efforts to help addicts and fight traffickers, according to a study by the European Commission released Tuesday in Vienna.

Although the report did not contain recommendations, it painted a bleak picture of global drug policy, saying it "had no more than a marginal positive influence."

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Vienna  - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei called Monday for Arab countries to help resolve the Iranian nuclear spat, which seems more achievable under the new United States administration.

"The neighbours so far have been sitting on the fence," he said during a speech in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna, hosted by the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and International Relations.

Vienna  - It was case of litterally tracking down a suspect for Austrian police early Monday, when a suspected burglar left marks in the snow leading straight from a break-in in the Upper Austria province across the German border to his garage.

Local police said the 21-year-old suspect was found asleep in his bed in the German hamlet of Messnerschlag, along with cigarettes believed to have been stolen some six kilometres away at a petrol station in Kollerschlag, across the Austrian border.