About 1,000 demonstrators gathered in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday to protest a Monday visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A range of gay, Jewish, Christian, anti-racism and other activists joined forces for the protest.
Iran wants a guarantee on timely supplies of foreign nuclear fuel because of a "lack of confidence" in the West. Nuclear negotiators have been pressuring Iran to stop enriching uranium and instead accept foreign fuel supplies.
Iran began five days of war manoeuvres Sunday aimed at repelling a possible attack on the country's nuclear facilities, ostensibly by Israel. A senior aide said Iran would respond to such an attack with missile strikes on Tel Aviv.
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for "radical change" in the world economic order at a summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Istanbul. Afghan leader Hamid Karzai is also present, but Sudan's Omar al-Bashir has opted out.
In this edition: the Iranian opposition pursues its online combat; in Uruguay, the web speculates on the possible outcome of the upcoming second round of presidential elections; and Madonna launches a donation appeal for Malawi.
In this edition: In Iran, the presidential election appears to have shifted the balance of power in favour of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; in Iraq, the fight of the wounded is far from over; and Israeli scientists help West Bank villagers go green.
President Barack Obama said on Friday that Iran act swiftly and constructively following crucial nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers in Geneva, where Iran agreed to free access to its newly-revealed uranium enrichment site.
Speaking after high-level talks in Geneva, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Iran would cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency on inspections of a new facility ahead of a second round of talks in October.
Delegations from Iran (photo) and six world powers, including the US, are meeting in Geneva Thursday for critical nuclear talks amid heightened tensions following Tehran’s revelation of a second uranium enrichment site last week.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he is prepared to buy the necessary enriched uranium from a third party for its Tehran reactor, ahead of talks in Geneva on Thursday with six major world powers.
