The Islamic republic fears a strike, after a new UN report suggests it is out to get the nuclear bomb. But Iran has warned that any attacks will be met with an iron fist. Also, the city of Homs in Syria is reeling after a week of shelling and raids. Hospitals are overwhelmed and food is in short supply. Finally, militias are using guns with silencers in a new wave of assassinations in Iraq.
The UN nuclear watchdog on Thursday voted to report Syria to the Security Council over claims it built an undeclared nuclear reactor, ratcheting up pressure on Damascus as it faces international condemnation for its crackdown on protesters.
A Syrian target bombed by Israel in 2007 was "very likely" a nearly finished, covertly built nuclear reactor, the UN atomic agency said in a report on Tuesday. The claims may lead to Damascus being referred to the UN security council.
Iran has said it will remove nuclear fuel from the reactor at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant in order to carry out safety checks, suggesting it will not meet an April 9 target to start generating electricity.
Is Iran trying to build a nuclear weapon, as Europe, the US and many of Iran's own neighbors fear? Or is the country's nuclear program entirely peaceful? Douglas Herbert puts the question to Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Western diplomats have expressed concern at cooperation between the regimes in Burma and North Korea and the possibility that Pyongyang could be sharing nuclear technology, according to US cables released by WikiLeaks on Friday.
Iran declared Sunday, the day before the international IAEA meetings, that it had produced a first batch of uranium yellowcake despite UN ultimatums and is now “self-sufficient” in the entire nuclear fuel cycle.
US officials have expressed concern over the "weak, ineffectual and corrupt" government of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and doubt that Pakistan will ever withdraw support for Taliban militants, according to memos released by WikiLeaks.
US officials have accused North Korea of flouting UN sanctions and attempting to destabilise the region after an American scientist was shown around a sophisticated new enrichment plant in an apparent show of nuclear triumph.
Nearly two kilos radioactive uranium-238 were seized from a garage in Moldova's capital by police, who have arrested several people, officials said Tuesday.
