Topic: Europe
Authorities in the ex-Soviet republic of Moldova are hunting the alleged Russian mastermind of a failed plan to sell weapons-grade uranium on the black market, a new US Senate report said Tuesday.AFP reported in June that Moldova police had arrested six suspects ...
Foreign Secretary William Hague on Wednesday warned his Iranian counterpart that Britain would resist any increase in Iran's nuclear capabilities, during a meeting at the UN in New York.Hague told Ali Akbar Salehi there were "important areas of disagreement" between the two ...
Top North and South Korean envoys will meet in Beijing on Wednesday for a second round of talks aimed at restarting stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations, Seoul's foreign ministry said.The ministry gave no further details Monday of the meeting between the South's ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic agency is seeking information from France about Monday's explosion at a nuclear waste treatment site in the south of the country, its head said.Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the IAEA's ...
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Wednesday that Iran's alleged attempts to build long-range missiles and nuclear weapons could lead unnamed countries to launch a pre-emptive attack."Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive ...
Russia and Iran on Wednesday said a new Russian plan had a real chance of solving the standoff over the Iranian nuclear drive, despite the failure of past initiatives to end a decade of deadlock.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomed his Iranian ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday his country's Russian-built nuclear power plant at Bushehr would be switched on soon after years of delays, but gave no date.Ali Akbar Salehi spoke at the start of talks with Russian Foreign Minister ...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday welcomed Russia's latest proposals for restarting talks on the Islamic republic's controversial atomic programme that were broken off in January."Iran welcomes Russia's step-by-step proposal and is ready to make suggestions to cooperate," he said in a ...
A senior Russian official, National Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, arrived on Monday for talks with Iranian officials on the country's nuclear programme, state news agency IRNA reported.Patrushev is set to hold two meetings with his Iranian counterpart Saeed Jalili and also ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Russia will look to revive nuclear talks between Iran and the world's biggest economic and military powers this week, hoping its special relationship with Tehran can help jolt back to life negotiations that some analysts consider "dead in the ...