ALI AKBAR DAREINI
AP News
Nov 18, 2009 15:33 EST
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.
ALI AKBAR DAREINI
AP News
Nov 18, 2009 17:27 EST
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.
ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Nov 20, 2009 03:47 EST
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.
SLOBODAN LEKIC
AP News
Nov 20, 2009 16:46 EST
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.
GEORGE JAHN
AP News
Oct 02, 2009 07:52 EDT
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.
GEORGE JAHN
AP Features
Oct 02, 2009 17:43 EDT
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.
GEORGE JAHN
AP News
Oct 02, 2009 17:43 EDT
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.
ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Oct 06, 2009 19:15 EDT
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.
KRISTA LARSON and ANITA POWELL
AP News
Oct 14, 2009 15:11 EDT
$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.
ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Oct 14, 2009 16:42 EDT
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.
HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID
AP News
Oct 18, 2009 13:42 EDT
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.
JULIE PACE
AP Features
Oct 23, 2009 14:54 EDT
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.
JULIE PACE
AP News
Oct 23, 2009 16:07 EDT
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.
ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Oct 27, 2009 18:18 EDT
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.
ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Nov 04, 2009 19:29 EST
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.
ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Aug 27, 2009 20:49 EDT
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.
EMILY FREDRIX
AP Features
Aug 24, 2009 11:41 EDT
Genteel gem, Edinburgh offers haggis, history, pubs and tea on a royal yacht. Genteel Edinburgh would never want to boast ? but its tea, scones and palatial history is every bit as enthralling as London's ? and can be had for a fraction of the price and at a much more leisurely pace.
BEN McCONVILLE
AP Features
Aug 20, 2009 14:41 EDT
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.
REUTERS
Reuters Life! Online Report
Aug 03, 2009 12:38 EDT
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.
ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Sep 09, 2009 16:23 EDT
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?