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U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration slapped new sanctions on Iran’s state broadcasting agency and Internet-policing agencies Wednesday as economic sanctions enacted last summer also took effect. The actions are part of an effort to force the...
Tags: Iran, Iran's Nuclear Program, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Religion and Belief, Consumer Goods Industries
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Iran to resume talks with six powers on nuclear program
Six world powers and Iran announced they will resume talks on Iran’s disputed nuclear program Feb. 26 in Kazakhstan, after three months of gridlock over arrangements for a new meeting. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday that...
Tags: Iran, Crime, Law and Justice, Iran's Nuclear Program, Civil Rights, Tehran (Iran)
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Hagel defends record, spars with critics in Senate hearing
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON -- Making his first public comments after his nomination to lead the Pentagon, former Sen. Chuck Hagel said Thursday he stood by his record but also urged senators to look beyond controversial votes and statements he has made, which critics...Tags: Wars and Interventions, John Kerry, Israel, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta
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Rethinking our China strategy
Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama's nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators' questions will be focused on the nominees' views on the...
Tags: China, Robert Zoellick, Barack Obama, White House, Iran
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McManus: Confronting Iran -- again
Here's a prediction I don't think I'll have to apologize for at the end of the year: Some time in the coming months, probably this spring, there will be another crisis over Iran's nuclear program. It's become an annual event on the diplomatic calendar:...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Israel, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, Nuclear Weapons
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North Korea still a long way from a reliable weapon, experts say
As news broke of North Korea's successful launch of a long-range rocket on Wednesday, alarm bells went off around the world. The technology used to send a satellite into orbit or fire a missile carrying a warhead are basically the same, raising fears that...
Tags: Nuclear Weapons, Science and Technology, Military Equipment, Japan, Physiology
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Father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program becomes office seeker
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — He’s a hero in Pakistan for founding the country's nuclear weapons program, and a pariah in the West for relaying nuclear secrets to rogue states. On Wednesday, aides to A.Q. Khan announced that the retired scientist...Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Iranian official suggests 'saboteurs' in U.N. nuclear agency
World NowThe Iranian nuclear agency chief said explosive blasts cut off power to an underground nuclear facility in August, publicly making suggesations of sabotage before the country headed into a meeting with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.... -
Panetta lifts ban on New Zealand naval ships
World NowAUCKLAND, New Zealand -- Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Friday that New Zealand naval ships would be allowed to dock at U.S. bases, lifting a 26-year-old ban. The decision, announced by Panetta at a news conference, eases the long-running... -
Iran president blames 'psychological war' for dropping rial
World NowAs the Iranian rial tumbled to new lows on Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the plummeting value of the currency on a “psychological war” waged against his government by the United States and his Iranian critics. The... -
Israeli threats about Iran -- crying wolf or laying groundwork?
World NowGlobal Focus: They're passing out gas masks in Jerusalem and testing a new text-messaging system for alerting Israelis to incoming rockets. The civil defense preparations follow a week of renewed warnings by Israeli officials that air strikes against... -
Iran's isolation lifts for gathering of anachronistic alliance
World NowIn another time and place, next week’s summit of the Nonaligned Movement in Tehran would draw no more attention than deserved for a directionless alliance that has outlived its Cold War-era purpose. But the rotating leadership of the 120-nation...
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