Iran brushes aside UN proposal to curb nuclear program through uranium exports. Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday said his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, brushing aside the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from potentially building nuclear weapons.

Iran rejects UN nuclear deal on sending uranium abroad for processing. Iran will not ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing, its foreign minister said Wednesday, once again rejecting a U.N. plan aimed at thwarting any attempt by Tehran to make nuclear weapons.

Analysis: US approach to Iran is toughening but outlook for harsher anti-nuke sanctions is dim. The Obama administration is shifting the focus of its Iran policy from talk to sanctions, but the prospect of winning early international support for toughened new penalties appears dim.

Diplomats from 6 world powers urge Iran to accept UN nuclear plan. Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.

Iran, world powers agree to meet again on nuclear issues after landmark US-Iran talks. Fresh from a landmark meeting that put Iran nuclear talks back on track, Tehran and six world powers are already quibbling over what was agreed on ahead of follow-up talks later this month.

Fresh from a landmark meeting that put Iran nuclear talks back on track, Tehran and six world powers are already quibbling over what was agreed on ahead of follow-up talks later this month.

Iran, world powers agree to meet again on nuclear issues after landmark US-Iran talks. Fresh from a landmark meeting that put Iran nuclear talks back on track, Tehran and six world powers are already quibbling over what was agreed on ahead of follow-up talks later this month.

Analysis: Despite prospect of talks with US, NKorea seen unlikely to give up nuclear weapons. North Korea's suggestion that it may return to nuclear negotiations could open the way to its first talks with the Obama administration, but there are warning signs that the North has no intention of fully disarming.

$7 billion Chinese mining deal gives boost to Guinea military junta, analysts say. Reviled internationally for gunning down unarmed pro-democracy protesters last month, the military government of Guinea has gained a lifeline ? thanks to a $7 billion mining deal it says it obtained with a Chinese company.

Analysis: Rebuff of Clinton in Moscow exposes US-Russia divide over how to push Iran on nukes. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's failure to win Russian support for tougher talk on Iran exposed a divide between the two powers on how best to push Iran into accepting limits on its nuclear ambitions.

Afghan opposition accuses president of delaying results of election fraud probe. Afghanistan's political opposition accused President Hamid Karzai on Sunday of delaying release of a U.N.-backed investigation into fraud in the August presidential balloting and pressuring election officials to declare him the winner.

The Obama administration expressed mild disappointment Friday that Iran withheld a decision on whether to accept a U.N.-coordinated plan that could ease fears about Iran's potential for making a nuclear weapon.

US disappointed at Iran's delay in responding to uranium plan; cites a `sense of urgency'. The Obama administration expressed mild disappointment Friday that Iran withheld a decision on whether to accept a U.N.-coordinated plan that could ease fears about Iran's potential for making a nuclear weapon.

Analysis: Without conceding nukes, US crafting strategy to deter Iran from using them. The Obama administration is quietly laying the groundwork for long-range strategy that could be used to contain a nuclear-equipped Iran and deter its leaders from using atomic weapons.

Analysis: Clinton talked tougher on her latest trip abroad but has little to show for it. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's tense exchanges with Pakistani civilians and Arab diplomats over a harrowing week of foreign stops exposed the confining limits of her office.

Analysis: Obama stuck between refusing talks with North Korea and a rise in nuclear tensions. After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration ? champion of engaging adversaries ? that does not.

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Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A recipe for haggis was published in an English book almost 200 years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, a historian has claimed.

Analysis: At new crossroad in Afghan war, administration weighs adding troops, war's length. As President Barack Obama weighs thrusting America deeper into the conflict in Afghanistan with perhaps thousands more combat troops, his administration has yet to answer a question at the core of his strategy for turning around the deteriorating war: How long will it last?