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Eleven delegations, including the United States and Australia, have staged a walkout to protest a fiery speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN General Assembly.

"It is disappointing that Mr Ahmadinejad has once again chosen to espouse hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric," Mark Kornblau, a spokesman to the US mission to the United Nations, said.

Delegations from Argentina, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and New Zealand also left the room as Mr Ahmadinejad began to rail against Israel.

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