Iran denies secret nuclear site claim

2010-09-10T05:30:08Z

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said Friday it had no covert uranium enrichment facility after a dissident group claimed it had evidence of a new secret underground atomic site in the Islamic state, a news agency reported. The Iranian dissident group said Thursday the information came from a network of sources inside Iran ...

Iran denies building secret uranium enrichment site

2010-09-10T04:15:49Z

Iran on Friday denied claims by opposition groups that it was secretly building a new uranium enrichment site deep in the mountains northwest of the capital. "We have no such installation that enriches uranium and if they (opposition groups) are aware of such a development, they should tell us. We will thank them," the country's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi told the Mehr ...

Kissinger's Prescience

2010-09-10T13:01:02Z

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Israel faces Arab nuclear pressure at IAEA meetings

2010-09-09T10:31:42Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - Arab states backed by Iran are poised to target Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal at U.N. nuclear watchdog meetings this month, despite U.S. warnings this may hamper broader steps to ban such weapons in the...

Opposition claim secret enrichment site in Iran

2010-09-09T09:15:59Z

Iranian oppositional leaders claimed Thursday to have uncovered a secret nuclear enrichment site in the mountains northwest of Tehran run by the Iranian defense ministry. Information obtained by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran has revealed that Iran began building the site...

Nuclear-armed Pakistan expected to chair IAEA board

2010-09-09T08:15:13Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - Pakistan is expected to become the next head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body despite being outside a global anti-nuclear arms pact and home to a nuclear smuggler who supplied Iran and

U.S. seeks to support Iran democratic forces: Clinton

2010-09-08T15:31:38Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States tries to support democratic forces in Iran but in a way that does not undermine or endanger them, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday. Speaking to fore...

UN report underscores concerns about Iran nuclear plans: US

2010-09-07T15:20:41Z

The United States said Tuesday that a new report by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reinforces US concerns about Iran's nuclear program. "The IAEA is documenting that Iran continues to fail t...

Egypt nuclear reactor broke down in April: atomic chief

2010-09-07T10:20:59Z

An Egyptian nuclear reactor broke down in April but there was no radiation leak, the head of the country's atomic agency said on Tuesday. "There had been a mechanical failure of the cooling pump when the reactor was switched on," Mohammed al-Qolali told AFP, saying the reactor was quickly repaired. He said that during the failure there was "absolutely no" leak. Egypt, which launched its nuclear programme in the 1950s, acquired a Russ...

Iran claims right to vet UN nuclear inspectors

2010-09-07T01:20:25Z

Iran said on Tuesday that it was within its rights to vet UN inspectors who monitor its nuclear facilities after the UN watchdog said its work was being hampered by the barring of some of its staff. "We have this right ... to change the inspectors as per their record," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast

Iran hampering nuclear investigation: IAEA

2010-09-06T11:20:34Z

Iran is hampering a long-running investigation into its controversial nuclear drive by vetoing the nomination of certain United Nations inspectors, the UN atomic watchdog said Monday. The International Atomic Energy Agency also said that a number of its seals had be...

Syria still stonewalling in nuclear probe: IAEA

2010-09-06T11:20:35Z

The UN atomic watchdog said Monday it has been unable to make any progress in its two-year investigation into alleged illicit nuclear activities in Syria as Damascus is still refusing to cooperate. In a restricted five-page report obtained by AFP, the Reuters) - Iran's total production of low-enriched uranium has risen by around 15 percent since May to reach 2.8 tonnes, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report said, showing Tehran is pushing ahead with disputed work despite tough...

Ahmadinejad voices doubts about 9/11 attacks

2010-09-06T04:20:18Z

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the accepted narrative of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, saying it was still not clear who was behind them. "Something happened in New York and still nobody knows who the main perpetrators of that act were," Ahmadinejad told diplomats and newspaper e...

Corrected: Attack on Iran would destroy Israel: Ahmadinejad

2010-09-06T01:20:11Z

Changes paragraphs 1-3, correcting quote DOHA (Reuters) - Any attack on Iran would lead to the destruction of the state of Israel as a political entity, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sa...

Some of Our Favourite UNESCO World Heritage Sites

2010-09-10T09:32:21Z

For nearly half a century now UNESCO has been a vital institution for highlighting some of the world's most vital heritage sights. Over the years it has amassed a substantial number of entrants that read like a veritable who's who of world travel.

Now in 2010 the list contains 911 vital spots worth preserving, though the sheer vastness of the list has prompted the New York times to question 'will everywhere be a UNESCO world heritage sight one day?' .

Yet for the places ...

Iran: Israeli attack would mean its own demise

2010-09-05T14:30:09Z

Iran's president says Israeli attack would mean its own destruction

Iran's president said Sunday that any Israeli attack against his nation would mean the destruction of the Jewish state. The two nations have exchanged numerous threats and warnings in the confrontation over Iran's nuclear program, which Israel, the Reuters) - American knowledge of Russia's nuclear capabilities will dwindle if a new nuclear arms treaty with Moscow is not ratified, the chief U.S. negotiator argued as a Senate panel on Friday scheduled a vote on the document. The new US, South Korean envoys meet as China pushes to restart North Korea nuclear weapons talks

South Korea's envoy to stalled North Korean nuclear talks is meeting with senior U.S. officials as China and the North reportedly are pushing for the disarma...

U.N. atom chief invited Israel to mull anti-nuclear arms pact

2010-09-03T06:00:11Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog invited Israel last month to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact but the Jewish state has dismissed the idea as a politically-motivated drive by Arab states. A report from the TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would retaliate by striking Israel's nuclear facility if Israel attacked its nuclear activities, armed forces chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi said on Friday. "Our de...

Japan slaps new financial sanctions on Iran

2010-09-03T01:20:28Z

Japan imposed new sanctions Friday against Iran, including an assets freeze on people and entities linked to its contentious nuclear programme and tighter restrictions on financial transactions. Japan also said it would suspend any new oil and gas investments in Iran, but there are no plans to restrict imports of crude oil from the Islamic republic, the fourth-biggest oil supplier to resource-p...

U.N. atom chief invited Israel to mull joining NPT

2010-09-03T01:10:05Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency's inspections, an IAEA report said on Friday. The Japan's cabinet Friday approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze on figures linked to its nuclear programme and tighter restrictions on financial transactions, media reported. The step comes a month after Tokyo approved punitive measures in line with a June National Economic Council chairman Larry Summers will visit China next week for talks on bilateral relations, China announced Thursday. Summers and Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon will v...

UN agency fails to stage nuke-free Mideast talks

2010-09-01T22:27:33Z

Tensions between Israel, Islamic nations scuttle IAEA plans for talks on nuke-free Mideast

Tensions between Israel and Islamic nations have scuttled plans by the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to convene talks this year on a Mideast free of nuclear weapons, according to a document shared with

US non-committal on resuming NKorea nuclear talks

2010-09-01T22:27:09Z

The United States said Wednesday it planned more consultations with its partners after hearing China's perspective on reviving stalled six-party nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea. The non-committal notes from Washington came as a delegation led by China's top nuclear envoy Jimmy Carter on Tuesday gave a rundown on his visit to North Korea to the current US administration, which insisted that Pyongyang carry out commitments before any negotiations. Carter, who last week brought home an American teacher who was imprisoned in North Ko...

Carter brings American home from North Korea

2010-09-01T12:13:45Z

Former US president Jimmy Carter returned Friday to a hero's welcome as he brought home safely an American national sentenced to eight years hard labor in North Korea. Friends and family gathered excitedly at Boston's Logan International Airport to greet

Ex-USSR awash in radioactive 'dirty bomb' substances

2010-08-27T09:16:05Z

It has been of one of Europe's worst nightmares: traffickers obtaining highly-radioactive materials on the loose in the former Soviet Union with the help of corrupt officials and passing them on to rogue groups looking to make a dirty bomb. The seizure this month of two kilogrammes of uranium in Moldova, an impoverished ex-Soviet nation bordering the <...

NKorea releases American imprisoned since January

2010-09-01T12:12:27Z

Jimmy Carter secures release of American imprisoned in North Korea since January

A smile flickered across Aijalon Gomes' face as he hugged former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and boarded a plane for Boston on Friday, seven months after his arrest in North K...

Carter exits N.Korea with freed US man, nuke vow

2010-09-01T12:13:39Z

Former US president Jimmy Carter flew out of North Korea Friday after securing the release of an American citizen and a pledge from Pyongyang that it wants to resume nuclear disarmament talks. The Nobel peace laureate left the reclusive communist state with Aijalon Mahli Gomes<...

Iran has material for 1-2 atom bombs: ex-IAEA aide

2010-08-26T05:15:19Z

PARIS (Reuters) - Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for 1-2 nuclear arms but it would not make sense for it to cross the bomb-making threshold with only this amount, a former top U.N. nuclear official was quoted as saying. In unusual public remarks about Iran's disputed nuclear programme Israel's top secret nuclear facility in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, according to the broadcaster. Diplomats say Arab nations are urging Washington and other powers to end their support of Israel's nuclear secrecy and...

WWII Forgotten Battle

2010-08-14T10:30:25Z

FILE - These undated file pictures show the city of Nagasaki as a teeming urban area, top, then flattened and desolate, bottom, following the Thursday, Aug. 9, 1945 detonation of an atomic bomb. Circles delineate the thousands of feet from ground zero. In recent years some historians have argued that a Soviet surprise attack on the Japanese army occupying eastern Asia served as effectively as _ or possibly mo...

Japan Hiroshima Anniversary

2010-08-09T10:30:31Z

In this photo provided by the City of Hiroshima, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon carries the wreath to lay down at the cenotaph for the atomic bomb victims, during the 65th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing at the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. ...

Japan Nagasaki Anniversary

2010-08-08T20:00:13Z

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, delivers a speech after laying the wreath in front of the cenotaph for the atomic bomb victims built at the hypocenter in Nagasaki, western Japan, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Ban is in Japan to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where he attends the ceremony commemoratin...

Nuke Free World

2010-08-07T09:46:14Z

FILE - This May 9, 2008 file photo shows a Russian truck-mounted Topol intercontinental ballistic missile displayed at Moscow's Red Square during the annual Victory Day parade. As of early 2010, Russia is believed to deploy almost 1,100 nuclear warheads on 331 ICBMs. A movement is growing worldwide to abolish nuclear weapons, encouraged by

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