The New York Times

Amendments include the removal of a provision under which people could be charged with criminal libel for making "outrageous" comments.

Iran has been on an outreach mission since the June election of Hassan Rouhani, who appears to have made getting rid of painful economic sanctions a centerpiece of his policy.

The column of soldiers marched uphill single file, slowly but deliberately making its way to the town of Bunagana, on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Pete Muller trekked alongside them to photograph the moment when Congolese soldiers liberated the town from the control of the M23 rebel group, part of a rapid advance by government forces that pushed the group out of areas it held in its year-and-a-half long insurrection.

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived here Tuesday night for a flurry of meetings aimed at jolting the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to reinvigorate the three-month-old round of talks.