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Row over Israel to dominate UN atomic watchdog meetingVienna (AFP) Sept 19, 2010 A bitter row over Israel's assumed nuclear arsenal looks set to dominate the annual general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency which begins Monday. Every year at the week-long conference which brings together all 151 member states of the IAEA, Arab nations table a resolution urging Israel to foreswear atomic weapons and sign up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Because the resolution is non-binding and the Jewish state - believed to be the only Middle East power t ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2010A US scientist and his wife who worked at the leading nuclear research site were arrested Friday and charged with trying to sell secrets to help Venezuela start a nuclear weapons program, US officials said. The pair, both US citizens, "have been indicted on charges of communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person they believed to be a Venezuelan government official and conspiring ... more 
Washington (AFP) Sept 16, 2010Former president Jimmy Carter has appealed for a new drive to engage North Korea, but US officials kept their distance and insisted the regime prove it is ready to give up nuclear weapons. As a US envoy wrapped up a tour of North Korea's neighbors, Carter made his first public remarks on his trip to the reclusive state last month, saying that leaders told him they wanted better relations wit ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Sept 19, 2010North Korea beefed up its military arsenal near its border with the South last year despite a severe economic downturn, a government source in Seoul was quoted as saying Sunday. The communist country deployed some 200 additional units of 240-mm multiple-rocket launchers along the heavily-fortified border, Yonhap news agency reported. The 240-millimetre, which can shoot up to 22 rounds e ... more |
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Iranian leader shrugs off effect of Western sanctionsWashington (AFP) Sept 19, 2010 Iran's economy is feeling no ill effects from the toughest Western sanctions yet and is in fact benefiting from them, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told American television on Sunday. "These sanctions will definitively mark a new level of progress in our economy," Ahmadinejad told ABC News in an interview in New York. "We have turned sanctions around and created opportunities out of this." His assessment couldn't have differed more from that of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ... read more |
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