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Russia lauds nuclear pact -- but reserves right to withdrawMoscow (AFP) April 6, 2010 The US-Russia nuclear arms treaty to be signed this week enhances trust between the Cold War foes but Moscow may quit the pact if US missile defence plans go too far, a top Russian official said Tuesday. The nuclear arms treaty to be signed by US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday "reflects a new level of trust between Moscow and Washington," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Speaking to journalists in Moscow, Lavrov said the new disarmament treaty, ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) April 6, 2010US President Barack Obama will meet President Hu Jintao of China next week on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, as both sides take steps to tone down weeks of irascible exchanges. Since Obama visited Hu in Beijing in November, the United States and China have sparred at a distance over trade, currency disputes, Taiwan and Tibet, but both sides have taken recent steps to de-emphasiz ... more  
Tehran (AFP) April 6, 2010Iran insisted on Tuesday that nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri had been "kidnapped" by US agents, effectively dismissing reports he had defected to the United States. ABC news in the United States reported last week that Amiri, an Iranian nuclear physicist in his early 30s who disappeared in June 2009 after arriving in Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, had defected and was working with the CIA. ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Apr 6, 2010 The Ukrainian president has dissolved the government's commission working toward NATO membership, a sign that the country's ambitious pro-NATO course is over. Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych per decree dissolved the commission this week, in a move that buries the ambitious pro-NATO policies by his predecessor, Orange Revolution hero Viktor Yushchenko. Yushchenko's stark an ... more |
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China executes Japanese drug smuggler: state mediaBeijing (AFP) April 6, 2010 China executed a convicted Japanese drug smuggler on Tuesday, making him the first Japanese citizen to be put to death in the country since diplomatic ties were re-established in 1972. Mitsunobu Akano, 65, was executed in the northeastern province of Liaoning, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting an announcement from China's top court, the Supreme People's Court. Akano was arrested in September 2006 at an airport in the northeastern city of Dalian while reportedly trying to smuggle 2.5 kilograms ... read more |
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