Groups pull out of nuclear debate
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Green groups pull out of a consultation on whether new power stations should be built, saying it is not a "fair and full debate".
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Tehran recently suggested a readiness to discuss a partial suspension of uranium enrichment, but the U.S. and key allies rejected the overture and Iran pulled back from the idea for starting talks on its nuclear program, diplomats said Wednesday
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Missing nuclear-related equipment in Iraq was removed by specialists working systematically over an extended period, diplomats said yesterday, contradicting
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I ran now has backed off from a demand that had stalled an agreement worked out by France, Britain and Germany to freeze all of Iran&#39;s uranium processing activities.
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Belarussian authorities have dismissed the new critical remarks some Western politicians made on Thursday.
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The United Nations on Monday scrapped a meeting of nations that might contribute troops to help stabilize south Lebanon, a decision that reflected the deep divisions among key nations on how to end the three-week war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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U.S. state and local air pollution control officials said on Tuesday they are pulling out of five-year-old talks to develop a voluntary program for reducing pollution from aircraft engines.
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The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency removed the reactor from a list of projects for which it plans to provide help.
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U.N. inspectors have verified that North Korea has shuttered all facilities at its main nuclear complex beyond its sole working reactor, the chief of the watchdog agency said Wednesday, as envoys gathered for six-nation talks on the next steps toward Pyongyang's disarmament.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 16 -- A hawkish faction of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition pulled out of his government Wednesday following the start of talks this week over how to resolve the most vexing issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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TEHERAN - Iran will pull out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and develop its atomic programme in secret if Western countries threaten or put pressure on Tehran, a senior Iran diplomat was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Iran has formally withdrawn its demand to exempt research and development on uranium enrichment technology from a freeze of its enrichment program aimed at easing fears it wants atomic weapons, a Western diplomat said.
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BEIJING -- Talks aimed at shutting down North Korea's nuclear weapons program ended yesterday with no concrete timeline and a host of difficult questions obscuring the road ahead.
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KEFLAVIK NAVAL AIR STATION, Iceland  - The United States withdrew its last 30 military personnel from Iceland on Saturday as it shut a naval air base that in its Cold War heyday was the sixth largest town in the island nation.
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North Korea confirmed it has shut its nuclear reactor that provides the secretive state with material to make weapons-grade plutonium, China's Xinhua news agency quoted a North Korean official as saying on Sunday.
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North Korea has told the United  States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a  disarmament deal, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday  after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.
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On Monday, Iran agreed to suspend its nuclear-enrichment program. In return, England, France and Germany agreed not to support taking the matter to the United Nations Security Council, as the United States has been seeking.