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Man on a mediation mission: Japan's Abe heads to Iran
Jun 10, 2019 (AFP)
Tehran is locked in a bitter standoff with the US after president Donald Trump withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal last year. Washington has now reimposed san...
IAEA 'worried about increasing tensions' over Iran
Jun 10, 2019 (AFP)
"I... hope that ways can be found to reduce current tensions through dialogue," International Atomic Energy Agency director general Yukiya Amano said in a speec...
Iran warns over 'economic war' waged through US sanctions
Jun 10, 2019 (AFP)
"One cannot expect an economic war to continue against the Iranian people and that those waging this war and those supporting it remain safe," Mohammad Javad Za...
Europe in 'no position' to criticise Iran: Zarif
Jun 09, 2019 (AFP)
Germany's top diplomat is due in Tehran on Monday, against a backdrop of Iranian pressure for Europe to uphold commitments made under a 2015 nuclear deal since ...
Putin says Russia prepared to drop START nuclear arms treaty
Jun 06, 2019 (AFP)
Speaking to heads of international news agencies at an economic forum in the city of Saint Petersburg, Putin said Washington showed no genuine interest in condu...
South Korea approves $8 million in aid for hungry North
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
It will be the first such aid Seoul has provided Pyongyang since 2015 and follows the North's lowest recorded harvest for a decade, according to the United Nati...
Trump approved Saudi nuclear transfers after Khashoggi killing: senator
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
Those two times were part of seven occasions starting in December 2017 in which the administration gave the go-ahead to such transfers, Senator Tim Kaine said. ...
House panel looks to block funds for low-yield nuclear warheads
Jun 04, 2019 (UPI)
On Monday, Democrats on the Armed Services Committee released their version of the annual defense policy bill. The Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forc...
2017 North Korean nuclear test order of magnitude larger than previous tests, new study finds
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
The 2017 test was an order of magnitude larger than the previous five underground tests at North Korea's Punggye-ri test site, according to the new study in AGU...
Iran president rules out talks until US acts 'normal'
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
"The party that has left the negotiating table, the party that has trampled the pact must return to a normal" behaviour, Hassan Rouhani said in a televised spee...
US-S.Korea military exercises not 'necessary': Pentagon chief
Jun 02, 2019 (AFP)
Washington regularly conducted large-scale military manoeuvers with the South Korean army until the first meeting of US President Donald Trump with North Korean...
US says prepared to talk to Iran 'with no preconditions'
Jun 02, 2019 (AFP)
The top US diplomat, who is considered a hawk on the Iran file, appeared to soften the US stance somewhat following weeks of escalating tensions with Tehran. "W...
Japan PM to meet Iran's Khamenei to mediate with US: report
Jun 02, 2019 (AFP)
As tensions intensify between Iran and Japan's key ally the United States, Abe has reportedly proposed serving as a go-between and is said to be weighing up a s...
Purged no more: North Korean official appears at show
Jun 02, 2019 (AFP)
Kim Yong Chol, the North's counterpart to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in nuclear talks, was sent to a labour camp following the collapse of the Kim-Trump sum...
President says Iran will not be 'bullied' into US talks
Jun 01, 2019 (AFP)
"We are men of reason and negotiation ... if one sits at the negotiating table with total respect and in the framework of international law," Rouhani said, quot...
N.Korea 'executed' officials after failed Trump summit: report
May 31, 2019 (AFP)
The Chosun Ilbo said Kim Hyok Chol, who laid the groundwork for the Hanoi meeting and accompanied Kim on his private train, was executed by firing squad for "be...
China will double its nuclear warheads in next 10 years, DIA chief says
May 31, 2019 (UPI)
Speaking to the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley added that assessments indicate Russia violated a 1996 treaty banning nuclear deton...
NORAD completes bomber intercept exercise over Alberta, Canada
May 29, 2019 (UPI)
Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter planes on May 22 worked with B-52 long-range bombers of the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate the current defense capabilitie...
Russia 'probably' violating nuclear test treaty: US general
May 29, 2019 (AFP)
Lieutenant General Robert Ashley, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, part of the US military that provides analysis, voiced alarm at Russia's moderniz...
US says N.Korea program violates UN resolutions, after Trump tweet
May 28, 2019 (AFP)
Choosing words carefully after Trump's latest warm words for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus declined to say if Nor...
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