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People watch file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at a railway station in Seoul

Obama warns of sanctions following nuclear test

US President Barack Obama has vowed to push for new international sanctions in retaliation to North Korea's latest nuclear test.

News • 09 Sep 16

Barack Obama - 'We come to ponder the terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past'

Obama lays wreath at Hiroshima memorial

Barack Obama, the first incumbent US president to visit Hiroshima, has laid a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima.

News • 27 May 16

Strike has disrupted fuel supplies in parts of France

French nuclear workers join strike action

Power output in France fell by at least 5 gigawatts after members of the CGT union at utility EDF joined a rolling nationwide strike against planned government reforms, a union official said.

News • 26 May 16

Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian is reportedly among the prisoners to be released

Economic sanctions against Iran to be lifted

Iran has emerged from years of economic isolation after the UN nuclear watchdog ruled the Islamic Republic had curbed its nuclear programme under a deal with world powers, clearing the way for the lifting of crippling sanctions against Tehran.

News • 18 Jan 16

North Korea rules out nuclear talks

North Korea has said it has no interest in following Iran down the path of nuclear dialogue, insisting it was already a nuclear weapons state and therefore beyond any logical comparison with Iran.

News • 21 Jul 15

Analysts say it would take Iran many months to fully ramp up its export capacity following any easing of sanctions

Oil falls as Iran reaches nuclear deal with West

Oil prices fell today after Iran and six global powers reached a landmark nuclear deal that would see an easing of sanctions against Tehran and a gradual increase in its oil exports.

Business • 14 Jul 15

Figures from Iran and six major world powers reached the nuclear deal in Vienna

Obama welcomes agreement in Iran nuclear talks

US President Barack Obama has heralded a nuclear deal with Iran as an opportunity worth seizing and warned Congress he would veto any legislation that prevented its successful implementation.

News • 14 Jul 15

Repairs and upgrades on the Large Hadron Collider were completed in April

Large Hadron Collider begins second phase

The Large Hadron Collider at the European particle physics centre, CERN, has begun smashing particles together today, as it starts its second phase of work.

News • 03 Jun 15

The discovery was made by scientists at CERN using the Large Hadron Collider

Physicists find further proof of Standard Model

After nearly three-decades of searching, scientists have detected a telltale change in a sub-atomic particle, further backing a key theory about the Universe.

News • 13 May 15

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei support the talks but remains distrustful of the US

Khamenei says Iran nuclear weapons are a 'myth'

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the United States had created the "myth" of nuclear weapons to portray Iran as a threat.

News • 19 Apr 15

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said there will not be an agreement unless there is an end to sanctions on Iran

Iran calls for sanctions to be lifted

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said his nation will not accept a comprehensive nuclear deal with major powers if all sanctions imposed on Iran are not lifted, state television reported.

News • 15 Apr 15

Oil prices dip as Iran nuclear deadline nears

Oil fell today as dealers tracked last-ditch efforts between global powers and Iran to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme and ease sanctions imposed on the crude producer.

Business • 31 Mar 15

Western countries said progress had been made but there were still many areas of disagreement

Iranian nuclear talks go past deadline

The United States said that world powers and Iran would keep negotiating over an outline accord on Tehran's nuclear programme beyond a midnight deadline, while warning that it was ready to abandon the talks altogether.

World • 31 Mar 15

First shift in Doomsday Clock in three years

Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight

Rising threats from climate change and nuclear arsenals prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to move it two minutes closer to midnight, its first shift in three years.

News • 22 Jan 15

Mr Biden said the sanctions imposed by the US and allies were working by slowing Iran's economy

US VP says US will still pursue Iran nuclear deal

US Vice President Joe Biden has said that there was a less than even shot of a nuclear deal with Iran but that it was still worth pursuing.

News • 06 Dec 14

Representatives of Iran and the P5+1, along with European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton, at the talks in Vienna

Seven-month extension on Iranian nuclear talks

Iran and six world powers have failed to resolve their 12-year dispute over its nuclear ambitions for a second time this year.

News • 24 Nov 14

The site of the Hinkley plant in Somerset

Govt considering position on UK nuclear plant

The Government will consider its position carefully before deciding on whether to take legal action against plans for a new nuclear power plant in England, Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil.

News • 09 Oct 14

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during Iran's nuclear talks in Vienna last week

IAEA says Iran complying with nuclear deal

Iran has diluted its entire stock of medium-enriched uranium as required under a November deal with world powers, the UN atomic agency said in its latest report.

News • 21 Jul 14

Javad Zarif (left) and John Kerry met to discuss Iran's nuclear programme

'Good talks' on Iran's nuclear programme

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said he had a "good meeting" with his Iranian counterpart and a senior European Union official over Iran's nuclear programme.

News • 14 Jul 14

Iran is in talks in Vienna with the US and other world powers

Wide distance between Iran and US in nuclear talks

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said his country needs to significantly increase its number of centrifuges.

News • 08 Jul 14

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency checks the enrichment process inside a uranium enrichment plant in central Iran

No guarantee of Iran nuclear accord - Ashton

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said there is "no guarantee" that talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear programme will lead to a comprehensive agreement.

News • 09 Mar 14

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is backing the talks despite reservations about US motives

Landmark talks on Iran under way in Vienna

The first round of high-level negotiations on a long-term agreement on Iran's nuclear programme have begun in Vienna.

News • 18 Feb 14

John Kerry met Iran's foreign minister on sidelines of Munich Security Conference

Existing US sanctions against Iran will remain

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif amid ongoing efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.

News • 02 Feb 14

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel last week ordered a high-level review of the US nuclear forces

US nuclear missile cheating scandal widens

A US Air Force investigation into exam cheating by America's nuclear missile officers has widened.

News • 29 Jan 14

Iran has suspended 20% enrichment at its Natanz nuclear plant

Iran implements nuclear deal - IAEA report

Iran has halted its most sensitive nuclear activity under a deal with world powers, according to a confidential UN atomic agency report.

News • 20 Jan 14

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