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Iran has enough uranium for 5 bombs: expert

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VIENNA - Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said.

Iran plays down U.N. nuclear report

DUBAI - Iran has played down a United Nations report that said Iranian nuclear scientists had enriched uranium to a higher-than-expected level, state media reported on Saturday.

United Nations, World 7:57am EDT

Clinton to visit Scandinavia, Caucasus, Turkey

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves next week on an eight-day trip to Scandinavia, the Caucasus and Turkey that will cover security issues such as Iran and Syria as well as the environment and health.

World, Turkey, Syria 25 May 2012

U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran

VIENNA - United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on Friday.

World, United Nations 25 May 2012

Exclusive: U.S. probes China's ZTE over tech sales to Iran

WASHINGTON - The Department of Commerce is investigating Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp for allegedly selling embargoed U.S. computer products to Iran.

World, Cuba 25 May 2012

Iran, big powers agree to hold more nuclear talks in June

BAGHDAD - Iran and world powers agreed to meet again next month to try to ease the long standoff over its nuclear work despite achieving scant progress at talks in Baghdad towards resolving the main sticking points of their dispute.

25 May 2012

IAEA finds higher uranium trace in Iran: sources

VIENNA - U.N. nuclear inspectors have found uranium traces in an Iranian underground site refined to a somewhat higher level than the enrichment work normally carried out there, but still well below potential weapons-grade material, diplomatic sources said on Friday.

25 May 2012

Iran, big powers agree to hold more nuclear talks in June

BAGHDAD - Iran and world powers agreed to meet again in Moscow next month for more talks to try to end the long-running dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme, but there was scant progress to resolve the main sticking points between the two sides. | Video

24 May 2012

U.S. to reaffirm commitment to Israel's security

WASHINGTON - A senior State Department official will travel to Tel Aviv on Friday to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to Israel's security following just-concluded talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program.

World, Israel 24 May 2012

U.S. to reaffirm commitment to Israel's security

WASHINGTON - A senior State Department official will travel to Tel Aviv on Friday to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to Israel's security following just-concluded talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program.

World, Israel 24 May 2012
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U.N. says over 92 killed in Syria, 32 of them children

BEIRUT - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. | Video

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Greek debt – remember the goats

Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.