Diplomat's exodus muddles nuclear deal
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The departure of the State Department's No. 3 official adds uncertainty to a U.S. nuclear deal with India that is already in deep trouble.
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The DP World sale is the final chapter in a contentious deal that some say drove Middle East petrodollars away from the U.S.
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TEHRAN - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, a relative moderate who struggled fiercely against the uncompromising agenda of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has resigned his high-profile post, government officials announced yesterday.
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Envoys to international talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program struggled Friday to find a compromise as differences emerged over a Chinese proposal on how to begin disarmament
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A wide-ranging defense cooperation agreement between Norway and the Netherlands is in danger of unraveling following a decision by Oslo to pull out of the centerpiece of a military equipment swap program.
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Iran's abrupt change of nuclear negotiators spotlights internal power struggles, too.
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South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo-Hyuk left for Beijing to discuss ways to end the apparent deadlock in talks on curbing communist North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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Efforts to drive North Korea back to stalled nuclear talks are in big trouble, the top US negotiator has said after meeting a senior Chinese official to try and forge a breakthrough.
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A shipment of weapons-grade plutonium has left the United States for a nuclear reactor in France, drawing protests from activists who believe the shipment poses both an environmental and terrorist threat.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief left for North Korea on Sunday to broker a return of inspectors to the secretive Stalinist state under a precarious six-party pact to dismantle its atomic bomb program.
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Iran&#39;s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Pirooz Hosseini leaves in a car after a second round of talks with EU negotiators failed to produce an agreement for a total suspension of uranium enrichment in Iran, on Wednesday, Oct.
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The world's major powers are struggling to reach agreement on new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment with the U.S. and Europe pushing for tougher measures than Russia and China will accept, council diplomats said Wednesday.
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THE international effort to end the North Korean nuclear crisis appears at risk of unravelling, despite Foreign Minister Alexander Downer&#39;s high-profile mission to the secretive Stalinist state.
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The normally hushed corridors of diplomacy are about to get a jolt.
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His political survival at stake, a crucial U.S. ally in the war on terrorism is forced to contemplate a deal doomed to fail
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This week&#39;s nuclear deal between Iran and three European countries has triggered a wave of criticism from Israeli and Jewish communal officials, who warn that the pact will fail to halt Tehran&#39;s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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R. Nicholas Burns, the countryâs third-ranking diplomat who has been Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâs right-hand man, is retiring for personal reasons.