Topic: Asia
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang ...
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal was at risk of being seized by "extremists" who had probably infiltrated Islamabad's military."My guess is that they have well over 100 nuclear weapons and that the Pakistani military is so penetrated ...
Australia's ruling Labor party voted in favour of lifting its long-standing ban on exporting uranium to India following a passionate debate on nuclear proliferation and environmental fears.The change, proposed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, was on Sunday agreed by delegates at Labor's ...
BRUSSELS/TEHRAN (Reuters) - EU nations agreed on Thursday to examine sanctions on Iran's energy sector over its nuclear program which could include an oil embargo, championed by France and Britain.China, the biggest buyer of Iranian crude, stepped in to warn against "emotionally ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it was moving briskly ahead with the construction of an experimental light-water reactor and uranium enrichment, and that it was willing to prove the peaceful nature of its program through the U.N. nuclear agency.North ...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The White House said on Saturday that Iran is facing an unprecedented degree of isolation, with major world powers united in their opposition to Tehran getting a nuclear weapon."Russia, China and the United States I can tell ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Major powers closed ranks on Thursday to increase pressure on Iran to address fears about its atomic ambitions, and the U.N. nuclear chief said it was his duty to "alert the world" about suspected Iranian efforts to develop atom ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - World powers are making progress in narrowing their differences on how to respond to a U.N. watchdog report that aired intelligence suggesting Iran has worked on designing a nuclear weapon, Western diplomats said on Wednesday.They said officials from the ...
Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved Tuesday to lift Australia's controversial ban on uranium sales to nuclear power India in a bid to strengthen relations with the fast-growing economic powerhouse.While Canberra exports uranium to China, Japan, Taiwan and the United States, India has ...
North Korea will soon start operating a new home-built nuclear reactor, its official news agency said Thursday in a commentary one year after Pyongyang publicly disclosed the plant."The day is near at hand when a light-water reactor entirely based on domestic resources ...
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